Édouard Harlé (1850,

Toulouse Toulouse (, ; ; ) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Haute-Garonne department and of the Occitania (administrative region), Occitania region. The city is on the banks of the Garonne, River Garonne, from ...

– 1922,

Bordeaux Bordeaux ( ; ; Gascon language, Gascon ; ) is a city on the river Garonne in the Gironde Departments of France, department, southwestern France. A port city, it is the capital of the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region, as well as the Prefectures in F ...

) was a French railway engineer (

Ingénieur des ponts et chaussées The ''Corps des Ingénieurs des Ponts, des Eaux et des Forêts'' (, in English "Corps of the Engineers of Bridges, Waters and Forests") is a technical Grand Corps of the French State ( grand corps de l'État). Its members, called ''ingénieurs des ...

) and

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

. 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 betwe ...

. 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 located in the Busca-Montplaisir neighborhood of the city, houses a collection of more than 2.5 million items, and has some of exhibition space. I ...

. 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) French prehistorians French civil engineers Engineers from Toulouse 1850 births 1922 deaths {{France-archaeologist-stub