Marcel Otte
Template:Short description Template:Infobox scientist Marcel Otte (born 5 October 1948) is a professor of Prehistory at the Université de Liège, Belgium.<ref>"Liège: des fouilles archéologiques à la hussarde?"</ref> He is a specialist in Religion, Arts, Sociobiology, and the Upper Palaeolithic times of Europe and Central Asia.<ref>"Marcel Otte – Préhistorien, paléoanthropologue", Hominidés.com Template:In lang</ref> In the book Speaking Australopithecus (written together with the philologist Francesco Benozzo)<ref name="Ballester2017">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="Benozzo_Otte_2017">Template:Cite book</ref> he argues from the archaeological point of view Benozzo's hypothesis that human language appeared with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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.<ref>Alinei, Mario. "The Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm for the origins of Indo-European languages: An Introduction in progress", Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm, May 2012</ref> He first advocated that theory in work published in 1995.<ref>Otte, Marcel (1995), "Diffusion des langues modernes en Eurasie préhistorique", C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris, 321, série IIa, pp. 1219–1226.</ref>
Written works
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, Template:ISBN
- 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, Template:ISBN
- 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, Template:ISBN
- Approches du Comportement au Mousterien, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, 2000, Template:ISBN
- Les Origines de la Pensée, éditions Mardaga, Sprimont, 2001, Template:ISBN
- La Protohistoire, with Mireille David-Elbiali, Christiane Eluère and Jean-Pierre Mohen, De Boeck Université, Brussels, 2002, Template:ISBN
- Recherches sur le Paléolithique Supérieur, J. and E. Hedges, Oxford, 2003, Template:ISBN
See also
References
External links
- Marcel Otte, Préhistorien, Paléoanthropologue, personal site Template:In lang
- Works at ResearchGate Template:In lang (registration needed)
- Works at Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm website Template:In lang