Henry de Lumley (born 1934 in

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) is a French

archeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes ...

, geologist and prehistorian. He is director of the Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris, and Professor Emeritus at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. He is also a corresponding member of the Academy of Humanities of the

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and former director of the French National Museum of Natural History. He is best known for his work on archeological sites in France and Spain, notably

Arago cave Arago cave is a prehistoric site in the community of Tautavel, in the department of Pyrénées-Orientales. It is a large cavity overlooking a perennial stream called the . Human remains attributed to the Tautavel Man and the lithic remnants of ...

in Tautavel, Southern France, Terra Amata in Nice and

Grotte du Lazaret The Grotte du Lazaret (English: ''Cave of Le Lazaret'') is an archaeological cave site of prehistoric human occupation study, situated in the eastern suburbs of the French town of Nice, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. Results of excavations h ...

near

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, and Baume Bonne at

Quinson Quinson (; oc, Quinçon) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. History Prehistory In the nearby Gorges du Verdon, there are a number of caves (known as "baumes"), which were occupied intermittently for ...

, where some of the earliest evidence of man in Europe were found.

Publications (in French)

* 1957 - "''Les industrie à micro-lithes géométriques''" with Max Escalon de Fonton, in: ''Bull S.P.F.LIV n°3-4. * 1969 - "''Le Paléolithique inférieur et moyen du Midi méditerranéen dans son cadre géologique''", V^e supplément à Gallia préhistoire. * 1969 - "''Une cabane acheuléenne dans la Grotte du Lazaret''", Mémoires de la Société préhistorique française, volume 7. * 1972 - "''La grotte moustérienne de l'Hortus (Valflaunès, Hérault)''", Université de Provence, Études quaternaires, mémoire n° 1. * 1976 - "''La Préhistoire française. esCivilisations paléolithiques et mésolithiques de la France'' ", Éditions du C.N.R.S. * 1992 - "''Le Mont Bégo''", Imprimerie nationale. * 1995 - "''Le grandiose et le sacré''", Edisud. * 1998 - " '' L'Homme premier''", Éditions Odile Jacob, rééd. 2009. * 1999 - "''Trésors méconnus du Musée de l'homme. Dans le secret des objets et des mondes''", Éd. Le Cherche-midi, Paris. * 2004 - "''La Géorgie, berceau des Européens''", éd. Musée de la préhistoire des Gorges du Verdon. * 2004 - "''Le sol d'occupation acheuléen de l'unité archéostratigraphique UA 25 de la grotte du Lazaret, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes'', Edisud. * 2005 - "''La Grotte du Lazaret, un campement de chasseurs il y a 160 000 ans''", Edisud. * 2006 - "''Il y a 400 000 ans : le feu, un formidable facteur d’hominisation''", Comptes rendus Palevol. * 2009 - "''La grande histoire des premiers hommes européens''", Odile Jacob. () * 2010 - "''Terra Amata''", CNRS Editions.

Honours

* : Grand officer of the

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(2006) * : Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit (2011) * : Grand officer of the

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References

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