Édouard Piette
Édouard Louis Stanislas Piette (11 March 1827,
Biography
A magistrate by vocation, at around the age of 28 he developed an interest in
During the 1880s and 1890s he performed archaeological work at various
From his excavations in southwestern France, he found numerous objects of prehistoric art. Among his discoveries at the cavern of Mas-d'Azil was a statuette of a female carved from the tooth of an equine. At Grotte du Pape near
He served as president of the Société historique de haute-Picardie and was a member of the
In the field of
Selected works
- Le lias inférieur de l'est de la France comprenant la Meurthe, la Moselle, le grand-duché de Luxembourg, la Belgique et la Meuse (with
- Nomenclature des temps anthropiques primitifs, 1879 – Classification of primitive human epochs.
- Les subdivisions de l'époque magdalénienne et de l'époque néolithique, 1889 – Subdivisions of the Magdalenian and Neolithic epochs.
- L'époque éburnéenne et les races humaines de la période glyptique, 1894 – The Eburnean era and the human race of the Glyptic period.
- Une station sulistrienne à Gourdan, 1894.
- Les fouilles de Brassempouy en 1894 – Excavations at Brassempouy in 1894.
- 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.
- Notions complémentaires sur l'Azilien, 1904 – Additional ideas regarding the Azilian culture.
- L'art pendant l'age du Renne. Album de cent planches, 1907 – Art from the
With epigraphist Julien Sacaze, he was co-author of La Montagne d'Espiaup (1877) and Les monuments de la montagne d'Espiaup (Pyrénées) (1878).[9]
References
- ^ Painted Caves: Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western Europe by Andrew J. Lawson
- ^ a b Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology by Timothy Darvill
- ^ An introduction to the study of prehistoric art by Ernest Albert Parkyn
- ^ Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U.S. National Museum by United States National Museum
- ^ a b Piette, Louis Edouard Stanislas at Sociétés savantes de France
- ^ Cuphosolenus Piette, 1876 GBIF.org
- ^ Catalogue of the Astor Library, Volume 4 by Astor Library
- ^ OCLC Classify published works
- ^ Google Search (published works)
External links
Matthew R. Goodrum, "Edouard Piette." Biographical Dictionary of the History of Paleoanthropology. Edited by Matthew R. Goodrum (2019) available at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xBACqUtpEuevFEqcCcl_Yjh_W41PwS-I/view