Camille Arambourg

Camille Arambourg (1885–1969) was a French vertebrate paleontologist. He conducted extensive field work in North Africa. In the 1950s he argued against the prevailing model of Neanderthals as brutish and simian.

During World War I he was in Military service. After that he was a professor of Geology at the Institut Agricole d'Alger, and after that a professor of Paleontology at Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, where he succeeded his teacher Marcellin Boule.[1]

Publications

References

  1. Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries, 2001, Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/abcarch/arambourg_camille
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