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Ernest Chantre

1843 – 1924

French anthropologist, naturalist and archaeologist

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Lived 1843 – 1924 (aged 81). Ernest Chantre was a French anthropologist, archaeologist, university teacher and geologist.

Ernest Chantre (13 January 1843, in Lyon – 24 November 1924, in Écully) was a prominent French archaeologist and anthropologist.

Career From 1878 to 1910 he was an instructor of geology and anthropology classes at the Muséum de Lyon, and concurrently taught courses in anthropology at the Faculté des Sciences in Lyon (1881–1908). From 1873 to 1888, he was editor of the journal Matériaux pour l'Histoire primitive et naturelle de l'Homme.

From 1873 to 1913 he was involved in numerous scientific missions throughout Asia Minor, North Africa, Armenia and the Caucasus region.

Selected works Études paléoethnologiques dans le bassin du Rhône. Âge du bronze; recherches sur l'origine de la métallurgie en France, 1875 – Paleoethnological studies of the Rhône basin. The Bronze Age; research on the origins of metallurgy in France. Études paléontologiques dans le Bassin du Rhône, période quaternaire, 1880 (with Louis Lortet) – Paleoethnological studies of the Rhône basin, Quaternary age. Recherches paléoethnologiques dans la Russie méridionale et spécialement au Caucase et en Crimée, 1881 – Paleoethnological research of meridional Russia, especially the Caucasus and the Crimea. Recherches anthropologiques dans le Caucase (4 volumes) 1885–87 – Anthropological research in the Caucasus. Les Arméniens; esquisse historique et ethnographique, 1896 – The Armenians, historical and ethnographical outline. Recherches archéologiques dans l'Asie occidentale : mission en Cappadoce, 1893-1894, (with Ernest Leroux), 1898 – Archaeological research of western Asia; mission to Cappadocia in 1893–94. Paléontologie humaine : l'homme quaternaire dans le bassin du Rhône : étude géologique et anthropologique : propositions données par la faculté, 1901 – Human paleontology, Quaternary humans of the Rhône basin, etc. Recherches anthropologiques dans l'Afrique Orientale; Egypte, 1904 – Anthropological research in eastern Africa, Egypt. Recherches anthropologiques dans la Berbérie orientale, Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Algérie, (with Lucien Joseph Bertholon), 1913 – Anthropological research in eastern Barbary, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria.

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Important facts

Birth century
Nationality
Positions held
Museum director
Employers
Faculté des Sciences de Lyon
Awards
Knight of the Legion of Honour

Contemporaries

People whose lives overlapped Ernest Chantre's

Frequently asked questions

Who was Ernest Chantre?

French anthropologist, naturalist and archaeologist (1843-1924)

When was Ernest Chantre born?

Ernest Chantre was born on 13 January 1843 in Lyon.

When did Ernest Chantre die?

Ernest Chantre died on 24 November 1924 in Écully.

What was Ernest Chantre's occupation?

Ernest Chantre was an anthropologist, archaeologist, university teacher and geologist.

What nationality was Ernest Chantre?

Ernest Chantre was French.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Ernest Chantre

· Wikidata: Q3056891

· DBpedia: Ernest Chantre

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