Édouard Piette

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Édouard Piette

Édouard Louis Stanislas Piette (11 March 1827,

prehistorian
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Biography

A magistrate by vocation, at around the age of 28 he developed an interest in

glacial geology of the area and the contents of its numerous caves.[1]

During the 1880s and 1890s he performed archaeological work at various

Mas-d'Azil in 1887, he introduced the "Azilian culture" to bridge the space 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.[2]

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

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

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