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undertook a review of Lhote's publications and concluded that "many of the claims of the expedition's leader, Henri Lhote, were misleading, a number of the paintings were faked, and the copying process was fraught with errors." Keenan also found that the political context of French colonization of
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African rock art." He alleged that the expedition's methods caused damage to the rock art and "sterilized the archaeological landscape".
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The Search for the
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Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011).
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Henri Lhote, The amazing adventure of the Peuls (1959)
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Ita, J.M., 'Frobenius, Lhote and Saharan Studies', in
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The "Ouan Lhote Area" and the "Henri Lhote Arch" in
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