Henry Christy

Henry Christy ( born June 26, 1810 in Kingston upon Thames, † May 4, 1865 ) was a British banker, who has gained in self-funded research also made ​​great contributions as an archaeologist and anthropologist. In close cooperation with Édouard Lartet he founded after the division of the joint excavations Paleolithic ( Old Stone Age ) in Old and Upper Paleolithic. 1861 presented Christy and Lartet together a first chronological system of Stone Age cultures, the two authors were based on the principle of index fossils of paleontology:

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

This paleontological inspired classification was expanded in 1867 by Gabriel de Mortillet who used purely archaeological terms for the first time ( using typical locality ) to the chronological outline. Christy's death in 1865 prevented a significant participation in the volumes of Reliquiae Aquitanicae, an anthology in English, which summarizes all the results of excavations in Aquitaine. The two volumes ( text volume volume of plates ) were published posthumously and edited by Édouard Lartet.

Works

• Édouard Lartet & Henry Christy (1865-1875), Reliquiae Aquitanicae, being Contributions to the Archaeology and Palaeontology of Perigord and the adjoining provinces of Southern France. London.
• 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.

• Man
• Born in 1810
• Died in 1865
• Prehistorians
• Ethnologist