Jacques Boucher de Crèvecoeur de Perthes (Jacques Boucher de Perthes)
1788–1868
French customs official and archaeologist. Director of customs, Abbeville, France, from 1825. President, Société d’Emulation, Abbeville. Published on prehistoric archaeology and palaeontology. Discovered controversial evidence of early humans in the Somme River valley gravels.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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