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Édouard Lartet

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83: 530: 344: 42: 198:. Here he revealed the results of his discoveries in the Aurignac cave, demonstrating the contemporaneous existence of man and extinct mammals. While these first results were met with some incredulity, a fellow geologist helpfully pointed Lartet towards the Vézère valley in the 174:
in 1836, although the name would be adopted as a permanent genus name in later studies by other palaeontologists. For the next decade and a half, he continued to explore the geography and palaeontology of the Pyrenees, uncovering ancestral apes close to the hominid line at
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provided type-sites for archaic stone-age cultures, which (from the associated fauna) Lartet linked to an early 'mammoth' phase and a late 'reindeer' phase. Lartet and Christy were also able to establish and document the presence of
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encouraged Lartet in excavations which led in 1834 to his first discovery of fossil remains in the neighborhood of Auch. Additionally, he described a fossil carnivoran that had some anatomical relations to
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Their conjoint work was immediately to open new horizons, and served to establish a basic stratified typology of Paleolithic man which still holds good today. The important discoveries in the
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in early stratified layers, further transforming the common and professional perception of early man. Such 'home' art, involving bone patternings and carvings, were associated with both the
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Osteographie, ou, Description iconographique comparee du squelette et du systeme dentaire des mammiferes recents et fossiles pour servir de base a la zoologie et a la geologie
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Lartet, Édouard (1836). "Nomenclature des mammifères et des coquilles qu'il a trouvés dans un terrain d'eau douce près de Simorre et de Sansan (Gers)".
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New Researches on the Coexistence of Man and of the Great Fossil Mammifers characteristic of the Last Geological Period
82: 190:, he turned his attention most fruitfully to the cave systems of the Dordogne. His first publication on the subject, 444: 87: 268:; and in 1848 he had had the offer of a political post. In 1857 he had been elected a foreign member of the 265: 534: 95: 529: 144:, France, where his family had lived for more than five hundred years. He was educated for the law at 558: 553: 210: 272:, and a few weeks before his death he had been made professor of palaeontology at the museum of the 129: 299: 273: 448: 120:, making it one of the earliest-described fossil carnivorans in the palaeontological record. 349:
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
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district, where in 1863 he began to dig backed by the financial and personal help of
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The account of their joint researches appeared in a paper descriptive of the
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The most modest and one of the most illustrious of the founders of modern
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archaeology. He is also known for coining the prehistoric taxon
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In 1860, hearing of the discovery of human bones at a cave at
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such as canids, provisionally naming the fossil taxon
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Index

Edouard Lartet


Pierced rod
Magdalenian
Muséum de Toulouse
paleontologist
Paleolithic
Amphicyon
Castelnau-Barbarens
Gers
Auch
Toulouse
Georges Cuvier
fossil
Mammalia
caniforms
Amphicyon
Sansan
Aurignac
William Pengelly
Périgord
Henry Christy
Abri de la Madeleine
Le Moustier
mobiliary art
Aurignacian
Magdalenean
Dordogne
Toulouse

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