Giovanni Lilliu

Giovanni Lilliu (13 March 1914 in Barumini, Italy – 19 February 2012 in Cagliari), was an archeologist, academician, publicist, politician and an expert of the Nuragic civilization.

Graduated in Classics, he was a student of Ugo Rellini at the "National School of Archaeology" in Rome, where he obtained his specialization.

He considered himself, together with Ernesto de Martino and Alberto Mario Cirese, one of the founders of the Anthropological School of Cagliari, both as professor of Paleethnology, and as founder and then for a long time President of the Higher Regional Ethnographic Institute (ISRE) of Nuoro, and especially for his broad transdisciplinary interests in the study of Prehistory.

[2] He was affiliate with numerous Italian and foreign scientific institutes and since 1990 a member of the Accademia dei Lincei of Rome.

[3] In 2007 he received the "Sardus Pater" honor[4] from the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, established in that year as a recognition to be given to Italian and foreign citizens who have distinguished themselves for particular merits of cultural, social or moral value and have given prestige to Sardinia.