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Henri Breuil. Henri Édouard Prosper Breuil (28 February 1877 – 14 August 1961), often referred to as Abbé Breuil (French pronunciation: [abe bʁœj]), was a French Catholic priest, archaeologist, anthropologist, ethnologist and geologist. He is noted for his studies of cave art in the Somme and Dordogne valleys as well as in Spain, Portugal ...
National Archaeological Museum, France. The National Archaeological Museum (French: Musée d'Archéologie nationale) is a major French archaeology museum, covering pre-historic times to the Merovingian period (450–750). It is housed in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in the département of Yvelines, about 19 kilometres (12 mi) west of ...
An archaeologist who specialises in the analysis of a particular type of find, e.g. medieval pottery or prehistoric worked flint. flotation. Method of separating very small objects from excavated sediments using water. It is particularly important for the recovery of botanical remains and animal bones.
Alexandre Lenoir. Marie Alexandre Lenoir (French pronunciation: [maʁi alɛksɑ̃dʁ lənwaʁ]; 27 December 1761 – 11 June 1839) was a French archaeologist. Self-taught, he devoted himself to saving France's historic monuments, sculptures and tombs from the ravages of the French Revolution, notably those of Saint-Denis and Sainte-Geneviève.
Paul Faure (archaeologist) Paul Faure (French: [pɔl fɔʁ]; 1 January 1916 in Paris – 13 July 2007) was a distinguished French archaeologist and philologist. He worked extensively on the history and linguistics of the Mediterranean, and especially of Crete and of the Minoan civilization.
Louis Finot (archaeologist) Eugène Flandin. Louis Nicolas Philippe Auguste de Forbin. Jules Formigé. Paul Foucart. Gustave Fougères. Henri-Paul Francfort. French Archaeological Delegation in Afghanistan.
Biography. Clermont-Ganneau was born in Paris, the son of Simon Ganneau, a sculptor and mystic who died in 1851 when Clermont-Ganneau was five, after which Théophile Gautier took him under his wing. [2][3] After an education at the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales, he entered the diplomatic service as dragoman to the ...
Lenormant's father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egyptologist, was anxious that his son should follow in his steps.He made him begin Greek at the age of six, and the child responded so well to this precocious scheme of instruction, that when he was only fourteen an essay of his, on the Greek tablets found at Memphis, appeared in the Revue Archéologique.