Patrick Hunt

Patrick Hunt ( born 1951 in California) is an American archaeologist.

Research

Hunt leads since 1994, the Alpine Archaeology Project at Stanford University. In 1996, he was on pass Fenêtre de Ferret the quarry for the Temple of Jupiter on the Great St. Bernard. In 2003 he found a hoard of Roman silver coins in the Swiss Alps.

As part of the Hannibal Expedition 2007-2008, which is financially supported by the National Geographic Society, Hunt was looking for the remains of Hannibal crossing the Alps in 218 BC with his army and 37 elephants during the Second Punic War. Hunt examined so far 25 Alpine passes and favored among them the Col de Clapier.

So far, Hunt broke in several alpine accidents 30 bones; including a fracture of the leg in 2002 during investigations lichenologischer above Bourg -Saint -Pierre in the Valais Alps and since then some hand and foot bones. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society since 1989. In recent publication he worked among others with Rembrandt van Rijn and Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.

Selections

• Provenance, Weathering and Technology of Selected Archaeological basalts and andesites. Ph.D. Dissertation, Institute of Archaeology, UCL, University of London, 1991.
• Carravaggio (Life & Times). 2004, ISBN 978-1904341734
• Rembrandt: His Life in Art Ariel Books, New York, 2006, ISBN 0976316285
• Alpine Archaeology. 2007, ISBN 978-1934269008
• Ten Discoveries That rewrote history. 2007, ISBN 978-0452288775