Marcel Otte
Marcel Otte | |
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 Marcel Otte | |
| Born | 5 October 1948 (age 76) |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Prehistorian |
Marcel Otte (born 5 October 1948) is a professor of Prehistory at the Université de Liège, Belgium.[1] He is a specialist in Religion, Arts, Sociobiology, and the Upper Palaeolithic times of Europe and Central Asia.[2] In the book Speaking Australopithecus (written together with the philologist Francesco Benozzo)[3][4] he argues from the archaeological point of view Benozzo's hypothesis that human language appeared with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago.[5]
Otte is one of the only advocates of the Paleolithic continuity theory, which states that Indo-European languages originated in Europe and have existed there since Paleolithic times.[6] He first advocated that theory in work published in 1995.[7]
Written works
[edit]He has published a number of works, including:
- Étude Archéologique et Historique sur le Château Médièval de Saive, Centre belge d'histoire rurale, Liège, 1973
- Les Pointes à Retouches Plates du Paléolithique Supérieur Initial de Belgique, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Archéologiques, Liège, 1974
- La préhistoire à Travers les Collections du Musée Curtius de Liège, Wahle, Liège, 1978, ISBN 2-87011-009-X
- Le Paléolithique Supérieur Ancien en Belgique, Musées Royaux d'art et d'histoire, Brussels, 1979
- Le Gravettien en Europe Centrale, De Tempel, Brugge, 1981
- Sondages à Marche-les-Dames : Grotte de la Princesse, 1976, with J.M. Degbomont, University of Liège, 1981
- Les Fouilles de la place Saint-Lambert à Liège, Le Centre, Liège, 1983
- Préhistoire des Religions, Masson, Paris, 1993 2-225-84068-7
- Le Paléolithique Inférieur et Moyen en Europe, A. Colin, Paris, 1996, ISBN 2-200-01389-2
- La Grotte du Bois Laiterie : Recolonisation Magdalénienne de la Belgique, with Lawrence Straus, University of Liège, 1997
- La Préhistoire, with Denis Vialou and Patrick Plumet, De Boeck Université, Paris, 1999, ISBN 2-8041-2837-7
- Approches du Comportement au Mousterien, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, 2000, ISBN 1-84171-126-8
- Les Origines de la Pensée, éditions Mardaga, Sprimont, 2001, ISBN 2-87009-723-9
- La Protohistoire, with Mireille David-Elbiali, Christiane Eluère and Jean-Pierre Mohen, De Boeck Université, Brussels, 2002, ISBN 2-8041-3297-8
- Recherches sur le Paléolithique Supérieur, J. and E. Hedges, Oxford, 2003, ISBN 1-84171-324-4
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Liège: des fouilles archéologiques à la hussarde?"
- ^ "Marcel Otte – Préhistorien, paléoanthropologue", Hominidés.com (in French)
- ^ Ballester, Xaverio (2017-05-01). "Benozzo & Otte: Speaking Australopithecus". Liburna. 10: 245–253. ISSN 1889-1128.
- ^ Benozzo, Francesco; Otte, Marcel (2017). Speaking Australopithecus. A New Theory on the Origins of Human Language (in Italian). ITA. p. 1–64. Retrieved 2025-07-13.
- ^ "Marcel Otte – Speaking Australopithecus".
- ^ Alinei, Mario. "The Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm for the origins of Indo-European languages: An Introduction in progress", Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm, May 2012
- ^ Otte, Marcel (1995), "Diffusion des langues modernes en Eurasie préhistorique", C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris, 321, série IIa, pp. 1219–1226.
External links
[edit]- Marcel Otte, Préhistorien, Paléoanthropologue, personal site (in French)
- Works at ResearchGate (in English and French) (registration needed)
- Works at Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm website (in English and Spanish)
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