Marcel Otte

Marcel Otte (born October 5, 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) he confirms from the archaeological point of view Benozzo's hypothesis that human language appeared with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago.[3]

Marcel Otte
Marcel Otte
BornOctober 5, 1948 (1948-10-05)
Belgium
NationalityBelgian
Scientific career
FieldsPrehistorian

Otte is one of the leading advocates of the Paleolithic Continuity Theory, which states that Indo-European languages originated in Europe and have existed there since Paleolithic times.[4] He first advocated that theory in work published in 1995.[5]

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 Liege 1973
  • Les Pointes à Retouches Plates du Paléolithique Supérieur Initial de Belgique Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Archéologiques Liege 1974
  • La préhistoire à Travers les Collections du Musée Curtius de Liège Wahle Liege 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 Liege 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 Liege 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 Sprimont Mardaga 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
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See also

References
  1. Liège: des fouilles archéologiques à la hussarde?
  2. "Marcel Otte - Préhistorien, paléoanthropologue", Hominidés.com (in French)
  3. http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/Marcel_Otte/home/ouvrages/speaking-australopithecus/
  4. Alinei, Mario. "The Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm for the origins of Indo-European languages: An Introduction in progress", Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm, May 2012
  5. Otte, Marcel (1995), "Diffusion des langues modernes en Eurasie préhistorique", C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris 321, série IIa, pp. 1219-1226.


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