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Núñez Jiménez, Antonio

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Núñez Jiménez was born in the town of Alquizar in the present-day province of Artemisa, Cuba, on April 20, 1923. He was awarded a Bachelor Degree in Science and Literature at the Secondary School in Havana. He had deep concern for nature, and in 1940 (Álvarez 1956), he founded the Speleological Society of Cuba, together with several young friends, including Omar Sanchez, Osvaldo Aguirre, and Arturo Díaz. This enterprise was devoted to serious investigation of the national geography of Cuba, particularly its underground landscapes.

Through public examination, Núñez Jiménez obtained the position of Geography and History teacher at the Institute of Secondary Education of Vedado in Havana. A year later he began the same task at the Central University of Las Villas “Marta Abreu.” By 1956, he was accepted as a member of the National Board of Archaeology and Ethnology, the Ethnographic Society of Cuba, and the National Speleological Society in the USA.

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  • Álvarez, José. 1956. Arqueología indocubana. La Habana: Junta Nacional de Arqueología y Etnología.

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  • Fernández Ortega, Racso, and Anderson Calzada Escalona. 2012. Relación de los investigadores cubanos con la arqueología peruana (1953–2008). In Historia de la Arqueología en el Perú, ed. Henry Tantaleán and César Astuhuamán. Lima: Fondo Editorial del Instituto Francés de Estudios Andinos.

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  • Martín, Lissette. 2008. Programa de recordación al natalicio del Doctor Antonio Núñez Jiménez. Digital version of La Habana’s Tribuna newspaper. http://www.tribuna.co.cu/etiquetas/2008/abril/18/programa-antonio.html

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  1. Departamento Disciplinas Básicas y Especialidad, Facultad de Gestión y Preservación del Patrimonio. Colegio Universitario San Gerónimo de La Habana, Grupo Cubano de Investigaciones del Arte Rupestre, La Habana, Cuba

    Racso Fernández Ortega

  2. Disciplina Arqueología, Universidad de La Habana, La Habana, Cuba

    Racso Fernández Ortega

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  1. Departament de Prehistòria, Història Antiga i Arqueologia, ICREA/Universitat de Barcelona/SERP, Barcelona, Spain

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  2. "CONICET - AIA - UBA Asociación de Investigaciones Antropológicas", Buenos Aires, Argentina

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Ortega, R.F. (2018). Núñez Jiménez, Antonio. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2562-1

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