Henry de Lumley

Henry de Lumley-Woodyear or Henry de Lumley (born the August 14th 1934 with Marseilles -) is a Préhistorien French. Its professional trajectory of more than 40 years is marked out by important discoveries and the construction of scientific equipment intended to better do to know the prehistory and always related to research programs and archaeological excavations and paleontological.

Biography

After his constant science doctorate with Paris, Henry de Lumley continued his research with Marseilles of 1955 with 1980 within CNRS, where it becomes Research director. It trained a research team with the Université of Provence devoted to the study of the Géologie of the Quaternaire and to that of the Préhistoire and Hominides fossil.

It directed many archaeological excavations (Caune of Arago, Terra Amata, Lazaret, Baume Good with Quinson, etc) and taken share to the construction of several museums of Prehistory in France: to Terra Amata, to Tautavel, Chin, Tends, in Quinson.

It also took part in the study of rupestral engravings protohistoric of the Vallée of the Wonders.

In 1980, he becomes professor with the national Muséum of natural history of directing Paris then of the laboratory of Prehistory of the Musée of the Man and the Institut of human paleontology of Paris. It contributed to the renewal of the museography of the section of Prehistory of the Musée of the Man.

Of 1994 with 1999, he was director of the national Natural history museum of natural history.

Currently, he is professor emeritus with the national Natural history museum of natural history and director of the Institute of human paleontology. He is also member of the Institut of France (Academy of Science and Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities).

He continues his activity and takes part in international projects of excavations in Central Asia, China and Ethiopia. One of its current projects is the study of the site of Kada Gona in Ethiopia, which delivered a lithic Industrie among oldest known to date (2,7 million years). He also contributes to the construction of a Museum of the human evolution with Addis-Abeba.

Publications

the Paleolithic inferior and means of the Mediterranean South within its geological framework , Ve supplement in Gallia prehistory, 1969.
a hut acheuléenne in the Cave of the Lazaret , Memories of the French Prehistoric Company, volume 7,1969.
the Mount Bégo , HMSO, 1992.
imposing and crowned the , Edisud, 1995.
the Man first , Odile Jacob, 1998.
ground of occupation acheuléen of archeostratigraphic unit UA 25 of the cave of the Lazaret, Nice, the Alpes-Maritimes , Edisud, 2004.

External bond

Extracts audio from a discussion with H. of Lumley, questioned by Jacques Chancel for Radioscopie at the time of the congress of the UISPP of Nice in 1976.

a great discussion with Henry de Lumley published in the Nouvel Observateur in November 2007 is on line, in its integral version, on the site BibliObs. One can listen to also there part of the maintenance of 1976 with Jacques Chancel.

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