Émile Cartailhac
Émile Cartailhac (born February 15, 1845 in Marseille , † November 26, 1921 in Geneva ) was a French prehistorian. His work on the Altamira Cave ( La caverne d'Altamira à Santillane près Santander (Espagne) ), which he wrote together with Henri Breuil , is famous . In 1885 he also reported on the unpublished excavations of Carlos Ribeiro (1813–1882), who had excavated the first rock-dome tombs (Quinta do anjo or Casal do Pardo, near Palmeda) in Portugal, but then died. The Geological Society of London honored Émile Cartailhac with the Prestwich Medal in 1915 . He was a co-founder of the Toulouse Museum . Together with Ernest-Théodore Hamy (1842–1908) and Paul Topinard (1830–1911) he was the first editor of the journal L'Anthropologie .
Fonts
- Monuments primitifs des Iles Baléares. 2 volumes (Textbd. Tafelbd.). Librairie Édouard Privat, Toulouse 1892, ( digitized ).
- Les cavernes ornées de dessins. La grotte d'Altamira, Espagne. "Mea culpa" d'un skeptique. In: L'Anthropologie. Vol. 13, 1902, ISSN 0003-5521 , pp. 348-354 .
- Émile Cartailhac and Henri Breuil : "Les peintures préhistoriques de la grotte d'Altamira à Santillane (Espagne)." Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres 46, 1903, 256–264 digitized
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cartailhac, Émile |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French prehistorian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 15, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marseille |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 26, 1921 |
| Place of death | Geneva |