Henri Victor Vallois (11 April 1889 – 27 August 1981) was a French

anthropologist An anthropologist is a scientist engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropologists study aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms, values ...

and

paleontologist Paleontology, also spelled as palaeontology or palæontology, is the scientific study of the life of the past, mainly but not exclusively through the study of fossils. Paleontologists use fossils as a means to classify organisms, measure geolo ...

. He was one of the editors in chief of the ''Revue d'Anthropologie'' from 1932 to 1970, and became director of the

Musée de l'Homme The Musée de l'Homme (; literally "Museum of Mankind" or "Museum of Humanity") is an anthropology museum in Paris, France. It was established in 1937 by Paul Rivet for the 1937 ''Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moder ...

in 1950.

Bibliography

* ''Les hommes fossiles, éléments de paléontologie humaine'', 1920 * ''Anthropologie de la population française'', 1943 * ''Les races humaines'', PUF, collection Que sais-je ?, 1944

See

Interview d'Henri Victor Vallois
(pdf) por Jean-Pierre Bocquet-Appel (director de investigaciones de CNRS) 15 de febrero de 1981. 1889 births 1981 deaths French anthropologists 20th-century French anthropologists {{France-academic-bio-stub