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Marcel Jérôme Rigollot

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Dr Marcel-Jérôme Rigollot (30 September 1786 – 29 December 1854) was a nineteenth-century French doctor and antiquarian famous for his role in the identification of evidence of some of Europe's earliest inhabitants. [1]

14 relations: Abbeville, Amiens, Antiquarian, Artifact (archaeology), Europe, France, Gravel, Hugh Falconer, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Joseph Prestwich, Lower Paleolithic, Paleontology, Saint-Acheul, Somme (river).

Abbeville

Abbeville is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France.

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Amiens

Amiens is a city and commune in northern France, north of Paris and south-west of Lille.

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Antiquarian

An antiquarian or antiquary (from the Latin: antiquarius, meaning pertaining to ancient times) is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past.

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Artifact (archaeology)

An artifact, or artefact (see American and British English spelling differences), is something made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest.

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Europe

Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Gravel

Gravel is a loose aggregation of rock fragments.

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Hugh Falconer

Hugh Falconer MD FRS (29 February 1808 – 31 January 1865) was a Scottish geologist, botanist, palaeontologist, and paleoanthropologist.

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Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of the Somme valley.

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Joseph Prestwich

Sir Joseph Prestwich, FRS (12 March 1812 – 23 June 1896) was a British geologist and businessman, known as an expert on the Tertiary Period and for having confirmed the findings of Boucher de Perthes of ancient flint tools in the Somme valley gravel beds.

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Lower Paleolithic

The Lower Paleolithic (or Lower Palaeolithic) is the earliest subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age.

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Paleontology

Paleontology or palaeontology is the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present).

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Saint-Acheul

Saint-Acheul is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France.

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Somme (river)

The Somme is a river in Picardy, northern France.

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Jean Paul Rigollot, Jean-Paul Rigollot, Marcel Jerome Rigollot.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Jérôme_Rigollot

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