Alternate Spellings:
Edouard Armand Isidore Hippolyte Lartet
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Definition:
French paleontologist Eduard Lartet spent a long time searching for conclusive evidence that humans and extinct mammals co-existed, and in 1868, at La Madelaine in the Dordogne valley, he succeeded, finding a carved elephant ivory in situ.
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• In situ
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Eduard Lartet [1801-1871]
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