Farewell to the archaeologist Enrico Atzeni , who died at the age of 96, a point of reference for studies on the most ancient Sardinia. A long cursus honorum. Born in Cagliari, he was a professor of Paleethnology and Sardinian Antiquities, he taught for over forty years, first at the "Foiso Fois" Art School, then in the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, covering several times - in the footsteps of Giovanni Lilliu (of whom was a voluntary assistant at the University) – the role of director of the Department of Archaeological and Historical-Artistic Sciences and of the School of Specialization in Sardinian Studies.

He was part of the Société Préhistorique Française and of the Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory. He has offered an essential contribution, with his research activity, to the recovery and valorisation of the millennia-old Proto-Sardinian civilisation . It has been a beacon for generations of scholars.

And his students, in 2017, dedicated the international conference “Investigating the past” to him in Cagliari. Prehistory and Protohistory study days in honor of Enrico Atzeni", organized, among others, by Carlo Luglié, who tragically passed away last August. «His investigations are countless», underline the archaeologists who have collected his legacy, «as well as his excavations and publications regarding sites and themes of extraordinary value, which have become pillars in the definition of our thousand-year history ».

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