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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.
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.
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 ...
Édouard Lartet (15 April 1801 – 28 January 1871) was a French geologist and paleontologist, and a pioneer of Paleolithic archaeology. He is also known for coining the prehistoric taxon Amphicyon , making it one of the earliest-described fossil carnivorans in the palaeontological record.
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Lartet is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Notable people with the surname include: Édouard Lartet (1801–1871), French geologist and paleontologist
The Mousterian tool culture is named after Le Moustier, which was first excavated from 1863 by the Englishman Henry Christy and the Frenchman Édouard Lartet. In 1979, Le Moustier was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List along with other nearby archeological sites as part of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley .