Marcellin Boule (Montsalvy, January 1, 1861 - 4 July 1942) was a French palaeontologist, paleoanthropologist and geologist.
Boule has become famous for its reconstruction of the old man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints, whose remains were excavated in 1908 as one of the first complete skeletons found of a Neanderthal Swiss archaeologist Otto Hauser also in the Dordogne the remains of the young man of Le Moustier). As a result, science gained a better understanding of how this human species should have been seen. Earlier found remains of Neanderthalers were not so complete, which could only be guessed for a long time after its supposed appearance. The first reconstruction by Boule, however, for a long time has determined the popular but incorrect image that exists of this prehistoric human being, as a kind of primitive desert, although according to current insights it should have looked more like modern man than its reconstruction at the time showed. Main publications Literature
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