Marcel Otte | |
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 Marcel Otte | |
| Born | 5 October 1948 (age 76) |
| Nationality | Belgian |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | 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]
- ^ Liège: des fouilles archéologiques à la hussarde?
- ^ "Marcel Otte - Préhistorien, paléoanthropologue", Hominidés.com (in French)
- ^ "Marcel Otte – Speaking Australopithecus".
- ^ Alinei, Mario. "The Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm for the origins of Indo-European languages: An Introduction in progress", Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm, May 2012
- ^ Otte, Marcel (1995), "Diffusion des langues modernes en Eurasie préhistorique", C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris 321, série IIa, pp. 1219-1226.