Ernest Chantre (13 January 1843, in Lyon – 24 November 1924, in Écully) was a prominent French

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

and

anthropologist An anthropologist is a person engaged in the practice of anthropology. Anthropology is the study of aspects of humans within past and present societies. Social anthropology, cultural anthropology and philosophical anthropology study the norms and ...

. From 1878 to 1910 he was an instructor of geology and anthropology classes at the Muséum de Lyon, and concurrently taught courses in anthropology at the Faculté des Sciences in Lyon (1881–1908). From 1873 to 1888 he was editor of the journal ''Matériaux pour l'Histoire primitive et naturelle de l'Homme''. Ernest Chantre
at Sociétés savantes de France From 1873 to 1913 he was involved in numerous scientific missions throughout Asia Minor, North Africa, Armenia and the Caucasus region. He was a founding member of the Société de géographie de Lyon (1873) and the Société préhistorique française (1904). He was also a member of the Société géologique de France (from 1867) and the Société linnéenne de Lyon (from 1885). In 1882 the African darter subspecies, ''Anhinga rufa chantrei'' was named in his honour by

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

Émile Oustalet.

Selected works

* ''Études paléoethnologiques dans le bassin du Rhône. Âge du bronze; recherches sur l'origine de la métallurgie en France'', 1875 – Paleoethnological studies of the Rhône basin. The Bronze Age; research on the origins of

metallurgy Metallurgy is a domain of materials science and engineering that studies the physical and chemical behavior of metallic elements, their inter-metallic compounds, and their mixtures, which are known as alloys. Metallurgy encompasses both the sc ...

in France. * ''Études paléontologiques dans le Bassin du Rhône, période quaternaire'', 1880 (with Louis Lortet) – Paleoethnological studies of the Rhône basin, Quaternary age. * ''Recherches paléoethnologiques dans la Russie méridionale et spécialement au Caucase et en Crimée'', 1881 – Paleoethnological research of meridional Russia, especially the Caucasus and the Crimea. * ''Recherches anthropologiques dans le Caucase'' (4 volumes) 1885–87 – Anthropological research in the Caucasus. * ''Les Arméniens; esquisse historique et ethnographique'', 1896 – The Armenians, historical and ethnographical outline. * ''Recherches archéologiques dans l'Asie occidentale : mission en Cappadoce, 1893-1894'', (with Ernest Leroux), 1898 – Archaeological research of western Asia; mission to Cappadocia in 1893–94. * ''Paléontologie humaine : l'homme quaternaire dans le bassin du Rhône : étude géologique et anthropologique : propositions données par la faculté'', 1901 – Human paleontology, Quaternary humans of the Rhône basin, etc. * ''Recherches anthropologiques dans l'Afrique Orientale; Egypte'', 1904 – Anthropological research in eastern Africa, Egypt. * ''Recherches anthropologiques dans la Berbérie orientale, Tripolitaine, Tunisie, Algérie'', (with Lucien Joseph Bertholon), 1913 – Anthropological research in eastern Barbary,

Tripolitania Tripolitania ( ar, طرابلس '; ber, Ṭrables, script=Latn; from Vulgar Latin: , from la, Regio Tripolitana, from grc-gre, Τριπολιτάνια), historically known as the Tripoli region, is a historic region and former province o ...

, Tunisia, Algeria.HathiTrust Digital Library
(published works)

References

Encyclopædia Britannica. Ernest Chantre (French archaeologist)

1843 births 1924 deaths French anthropologists Archaeologists from Lyon French ethnographers Academic staff of the University of Lyon Armenian studies scholars {{anthropologist-stub