Gabriel Camps (May 20, 1927 – September 6, 2002)[1] was a French archaeologist and social anthropologist, the founder of the Encyclopédie berbère and is considered a prestigious scholar on the history of the Berber people.

In 1961, he graduated from Algiers University with a PhD thesis about the protohistorical monuments and burial rites of Berber people, called Aux origines de la Berbérie.

After the independence of Algeria, he worked from 1962 to 1969 as director of the Centre de recherches anthropologiques, préhistoriques et ethnologiques (CRAPE) and of the National Ethnographic and Prehistoric Museum of Bardo at Algiers.

[3] Gabriel Camps undertook research and published on the prehistoric and pre-Roman epochs of North Africa, but also on the Berber kingdoms, the Libyan script and the Punic people.

His wife, Henriette Camps-Fabrer (1928-2015) was a French cultural anthropologist and wrote several books about the jewellery of the Berbers in Algeria and the Maghreb between the 1970s and 1990.