Édouard Lartet

Édouard Armand Lartet ( born April 15, 1801 in Saint- Guiraud, † January 28, 1871 in Seissan ), was a French jurist and paleontologist. He became famous with the 1837 and 1851 discovered at Sansan published fossil of Pliopithecus, a primate from the Miocene.

From 1860, he led, together with his patron Henry Christy archaeological excavations in the cave of Aurignacian (northern Pyrenees) by, then in the Périgord. In 1861 he presented a first chronological system of Stone Age cultures, where he was based on the principle of index fossils of paleontology:

  • " Period of the great cave bear " ( = Neanderthal period, Middle Palaeolithic )
  • " Period of the mammoth " ( = older Upper Paleolithic )
  • "Period of the rentier " ( = Magdalenian )
  • " Period of the aurochs and the polished ax " ( = New Stone Age).

1864 published a report on excavations in Laugerie -Haute ( at Les Eyzies ). Lartet further discovered, the archaeological sites La Madeleine and Le Moustier.

Works (selection)

  • Édouard Lartet & Henry Christy: Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being Contributions to the Archaeology and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern France. London, 1865-1875
  • Édouard Lartet & Henry Christy: Sur des figures d' animaux et autres produits sculptées Gravees ou d' art et d' Industries rapport ables aux temps de la période primordiaux humaine. Archaeological Review IX, 1864.
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