Marcel Otte Explained

Marcel Otte
Birth Place:Belgium
Nationality:Belgian
Field:Prehistorian

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

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.[4] He first advocated that theory in work published in 1995.[5]

Written works

He has published a number of works, including:

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_liege-des-fouilles-archeologiques-a-la-hussarde?id=5312283 Liège: des fouilles archéologiques à la hussarde?
  2. http://www.hominides.com/html/biographies/marcel-otte.php "Marcel Otte - Préhistorien, paléoanthropologue"
  3. Web site: Marcel Otte – Speaking Australopithecus.
  4. [Mario Alinei|Alinei, Mario]
  5. Otte, Marcel (1995), "Diffusion des langues modernes en Eurasie préhistorique", C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris 321, série IIa, pp. 1219-1226.