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'''Édouard Louis Stanislas Piette''' (11 March 1827, [[Aubigny-les-Pothées]] – 5 June 1906, [[Rumigny]]) was a French [[archaeologist]] and [[prehistorian]]. |
'''Édouard Louis Stanislas Piette''' (11 March 1827, [[Aubigny-les-Pothées]] – 5 June 1906, [[Rumigny, Ardennes|Rumigny]]) was a French [[archaeologist]] and [[prehistorian]]. |
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== Biography == |
== Biography == |
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A magistrate by vocation, around the age of 28 he developed an interest in [[geology]]. He studied the [[limestone]] formations of northeastern France and its fossils, and through this interest he subsequently made the acquaintance of paleontologist [[Édouard Lartet]] and other scientists. During a stay at the [[Bagnères-de-Luchon]] spa in the central [[Pyrenees]], he became interested in the [[glacial geology]] of the area and the contents of its caves.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kU-10lGjDYoC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=%C3%89douard+Louis+Stanislas+Piette&source=bl&ots=DQSxWneLgc&sig=fUtLjABZp9OYvSBGcGhzaXjlZdQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFcQ6AEwDGoVChMIs56chKC8yAIVQdFjCh3Wdw2e#v=onepage&q=%C3%89douard%20Louis%20Stanislas%20Piette&f=false Painted Caves: Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western Europe] by Andrew J. Lawson</ref> |
A magistrate by vocation, around the age of 28 he developed an interest in [[geology]]. He studied the [[limestone]] formations of northeastern France and its fossils, and through this interest he subsequently made the acquaintance of paleontologist [[Édouard Lartet]] and other scientists. During a stay at the [[Bagnères-de-Luchon]] spa in the central [[Pyrenees]], he became interested in the [[glacial geology]] of the area and the contents of its caves.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=kU-10lGjDYoC&pg=PA43&lpg=PA43&dq=%C3%89douard+Louis+Stanislas+Piette&source=bl&ots=DQSxWneLgc&sig=fUtLjABZp9OYvSBGcGhzaXjlZdQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFcQ6AEwDGoVChMIs56chKC8yAIVQdFjCh3Wdw2e#v=onepage&q=%C3%89douard%20Louis%20Stanislas%20Piette&f=false Painted Caves: Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western Europe] by Andrew J. Lawson</ref> |
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Édouard Louis Stanislas Piette (11 March 1827, Aubigny-les-Pothées – 5 June 1906, Rumigny) was a French archaeologist and prehistorian.
Biography
A magistrate by vocation, around the age of 28 he developed an interest in geology. He studied the limestone formations of northeastern France and its fossils, and through this interest he subsequently made the acquaintance of paleontologist Édouard Lartet and other scientists. During a stay at the Bagnères-de-Luchon spa in the central Pyrenees, he became interested in the glacial geology of the area and the contents of its caves.[1]
During the 1880s and 1890s he performed excavatory work at various Paleolithic and Mesolithic sites in southwestern France. From an excavation at Mas-d'Azil in 1887, he introduced the "Azilian culture" to bridge the gap between the local Paleolithic and Mesolithic phases. Also, he proposed a subdivision of the French Paleolithic into the Amygdalithic, Niphetic and Glyptic phases, but the idea was not widely accepted by other archaeologists. Piette was among the first to support the authenticity and antiquity of the Altamira cave art.[2]
He served as president of the Société historique de haute-Picardie and was a member of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris and the Société géologique de France.[3]
In the field of paleontology he circumscribed a genus of extinct sea snails he named Cuphosolenus (1876).[4]
Selected works
- Nomenclature des temps anthropiques primitifs, 1879 – Classificication of primitive human epochs.
- L'époque éburnéenne et les races humaines de la période glyptique, 1894 – The Eburnean era and the human race of the Glyptic period.
- Hiatus et lacune. Vestiges de la période de transition dans la grotte du Mas d'Azil, 1894 – Hiatus and gap. Remains from the transition period associated with the Mas-d'Azil cave
- La station de Brassempouy et les statuettes humaines de la période glyptique, 1895 – The Brassempouy site and human statuettes from the Glyptic period.
- Les galets coloriés du Mas d'Azil, 1896 – The colored pebbles of Mas-d'Azil.
- Gravure du Mas d'Azil et statuettes de Menton, 1902 – Engravings from Mas-d'Azil and the statuettes of Menton.
- L'art pendant l'age du Renne. Album de cent planches, 1907 – Art from the Reindeer Age.[3][5]
References
- ^ Painted Caves: Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western Europe by Andrew J. Lawson
- ^ Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology by Timothy Darvill
- ^ a b Piette Édouard, Louis Edouard Stanislas at Sociétés savantes de France
- ^ Cuphosolenus Piette, 1876 GBIF.org
- ^ OCLC Classify published works