Édouard Harlé (1850,

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and from Par ...

– 1922,

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( , ; Gascon oc, Bordèu ; eu, Bordele; it, Bordò; es, Burdeos) is a port city on the river Garonne in the Gironde department, Southwestern France. It is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the prefectur ...

) was a French railway engineer ( Ingénieur des ponts et chaussées) and

prehistorian Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The use of ...

. Édouard Harlé was a Director of the

Chemin de Fer du Midi The Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi (. CF du Midi), also known in English as the Midi or Southern Railway, was an early French railway company which operated a network of routes in the southwest of the country, chiefly in the area between ...

. His collections of prehistoric artefacts are held by Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Bordeaux and

Muséum de Toulouse The Muséum de Toulouse (, MHNT) is a museum of natural history in Toulouse, France. It is in the Busca-Montplaisir, houses a collection of more than 2.5 million items, and has some of exhibition space. Its Index Herbariorum code is TLM. ...

. Lithic core - PRE 2009.0.191.1-IMG 1431-1432-1433-black.jpg, Nucléus Pressignien - Coll. Hallé - MHNT Altamira Littorina littorea Édouard Harlé MHNT.PRE.2012.0.609.jpg, Bigorneaux d' Altamira Fouille de 1881 - MHNT Altamira Patella vulgata Édouard Harlé MHNT.PRE.20120.0.608.jpg, Patelles d' Altamira Fouille de 1881 - MHNT Altamira Ocre MHNT.PRE.2012.0.610.jpg, Boyeur de couleur d' Altamira Fouille de 1881 - MHNT Altamira Ocre MHNT.PRE.2012.0.611.jpg, Pigment d' Altamira Fouille de 1881 - MHNT

References

*Arnaud Hurel, ''L'institutionnalisation de l'archéologie préhistorique en France métropolitaine (1852-1941) et l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine Fondation Albert Ier de Monaco'' (2004) *Marc Groenen, ''Pour une histoire de la préhistoire: le paléolitique '' (1994) Prehistorians French civil engineers Engineers from Toulouse 1850 births 1922 deaths {{France-archaeologist-stub