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André Leroi-Gourhan (/ l ə ˈ r w ɑː ɡ uː ˈ r ɑː n /; French: [ləʁwa guʁɑ̃]; 25 August 1911 – 19 February 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection.
André Leroi-Gourhan – who became a professor at the College de France in 1969 – assigned an important place to Lascaux in his studies of Palaeolithic art, which he considered "the most complex of all the sanctuaries."
Oct 26, 2020 · André Leroi-Gourhan was one of the greatest prehistorians of the twentieth century. He is well known for his significant contributions to archaeological method and theory and to the study of rock art.
Aug 30, 2011 · The ethnologist and prehistorian André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986) was the leading figure in the discipline of prehistory in postwar France, whose wide-ranging work also exercised a pervasive influence beyond his own field of specialization. 1 His major text, the two-volume Le Geste et la parole (1964–65), 2 was a cardinal ...
With the publication of two volumes on technology— L'Homme et la matière and Milieu et technique in 1943–45, and Le geste et la parole (translated into English in 1993 as Gesture and Speech )—-Leroi-Gourhan asserted himself as a major social anthropologist, prehistorian, and the founder of the French schools of the ethnology of technique ...
We publish, in this issue, two essays by Andre Leroi-Gourhan, whose death in February of this year took from us the greatest of modern prehistorians. A student of Granet and of Mauss, he was of that lineage which, in its trans-
Dec 19, 2020 · Guided by anthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986), the Hall of Arts and Techniques was the centerpiece of the Musée de l’Homme, first planned in 1937 and finally opened after the long delays imposed by World War II.
