Marcellin Boule
Overview
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
palaeontologist.
He studied and published the first analysis of a complete Homo neanderthalensis. The fossil discovered in La Chapelle-aux-Saints
La Chapelle-aux-Saints
La Chapelle-aux-Saints is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-First discovery of a Neanderthal tomb:The La Chapelle-aux-Saints cave, bordering the Sourdoire valley, revealed many archeological artifacts belonging to the late Mousterian culture, including the first ever...
was an old man, and Boule characterized it as brutish, bent kneed and not a fully erect biped . In an illustration he commissioned, the Neanderthal was characterized as a hairy gorilla-like figure with opposable toes, according to a skeleton which was already distorted with arthritis.
