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Museum of the Origins of Man

A TRIBUTE TO JACQUES BOUCHER DE PERTHES
(1788-1868)

FIG.1) JACQUES BOUCHER DE PERTHES (1788-1868) was known in France as the "Father of Prehistory". We recognize his commitment to the study of "antediluvian" lithic sculptures, which were known as pierres figures, or "figure stones". Other important researchers of the 19th and 20th centuries were: E. Harroy, A. Thieullen, W.M. Newton, J. Dharvent, Ph. Helena, A. Juritzky, W. Matthes. Some of their finds from the Lower and Middle Paleolithic are published here.

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