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Louis Lartet was born in Castelnau-Magnoac, in Seissan in the département of Gers. His father, Édouard Lartet was a prominent geologist and prehistorian who played a key role in the 1860s and 1870s in finding evidence that humans had lived during the Quaternary period and Louis continued his father's researches into human prehistory.
Cro-Magnon 1 (Musée de l'Homme, Paris) Two views of Cro-Magnon 2 (1875) [7]In 1868, workmen found animal bones, flint tools, and human skulls in the rock shelter. French geologist Louis Lartet was called for excavations, and found the partial skeletons of four prehistoric adults and one infant, along with perforated shells used as ornaments, an object made from ivory, and worked reindeer antler.
Édouard Lartet (France, 1801-1871) Louis Lartet (France, 1840-1899) Gustav Karl Laube (Germany / Czech Republic, 1839-1923) Charles Léopold Laurillard (France, 1783-1853) Michel Laurin (Canada) René Lavocat (France) Louise Leakey (Kenya, 1972- ) Richard Leakey (Kenya, 1944–2022) Alfred Nicholson Leeds (England, 1847-1917) Serge Legendre ...
The name "Cro-Magnon" comes from the five skeletons discovered by French palaeontologist Louis Lartet in 1868 at the Cro-Magnon rock shelter, Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France, after the area was accidentally discovered while a road was constructed for a railway station.
Lartet, one of the first scholars to ever produce some form of prehistoric timeline in his documentation, developed his system primarily along the faunal fossil sequence. A method, that proved to be not popular and Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet 's more serviceable system of Paleolithic chronology based on the evolution of human tool sets ...
In March 1868, the geologist Louis Lartet, financed by Henry Christy, discovered the first five skeletons of Cro-Magnons, the earliest known examples of Homo sapiens sapiens, in the Cro-Magnon rock shelter at Les Eyzies-de-Tayac.
Lartet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Édouard Lartet (1801–1871), French geologist and paleontologist; Louis Lartet (1840–1899), French geologist and paleontologist, son of Édouard
Paradoxically, despite the length of time when the site was in use, the Solutrean era was the only period in the Upper Paleolithic from which there are no human remains. Ultimately, one year after the first excavations carried out at the rock, remains of Cro-magnon man were discovered at Eyzies by Louis Lartet. The Cro-magnons were ...