Louis Laurent GabrieldeMortillet (29. srpna 1821, Meylan, Isère, Francie - 25. září 1898, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Francie) byl francouzský geolog, paleontolog a archeolog.
Louis-Laurent GabrieldeMortillet, a French archaeologist, was born Aug. 29, 1821. In the 1860s, archaeologists and geologists, especially in France, first came to understand that humans have been living on earth for a very long time…
Mortillet was educated at the Jesuit college of Chambéry and at the Paris Conservatoire. Becoming in 1847 proprietor of La Revue indépendante, he was implicated in the Revolution of 1848 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.
GabrieldeMortillet was a French archaeologist who formulated the first chronological classification of the epochs of man’s prehistoric cultural development. His ordering of the Paleolithic (Stone Age) epochs into Chellean, Acheulian…
Dorothy Garrod is considered a pioneer of the development of early prehistoric archaeology. She was an advocate of prehistory on a global scale, excavating over a wide geographical area and making connections between continents to achieve…
He came from an exceptionally gifted family, in which cultivation of humane learning was combined with scientific rigor. It seems clear that he was less interested in Elamite history than in the overall prehistory of the East.