A key date was the 1859 re-evaluation of archaeological evidence that had been published 12 years earlier by Boucher de Perthes. It was then widely accepted, as validating the suggestion that man was much older than had previously been believed, for example than the 6,000 years implied by some traditional chronologies. Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes ( pronúncia em francês: [ʒak buʃe d (ə) kʁɛvkœʁ də pɛʁt]; 10 de setembro de 1788 - 5 de agosto de 1868), às vezes referido como Boucher de Perthes, era um arqueólogo e antiquário francês notável pela sua descoberta, em 1830, de ferramentas de pedra nos cascalhos do vale do Somme .It was in response to a request by Cordier in a letter dated July 12, 1840 that Boucher de Perthes made his first discovery of an "antediluvian" stone tool, a biface Paleolithic axe found in 1840 in the Menchecourt quarry outside of Abbeville. The layer of sand in which the stone axe was found also contained the bones of extinct mammalian |usg| bth| cqi| hgv| cec| evg| ejx| peo| ccu| lvq| azm| mmq| qlb| bgv| wdw| xvm| pup| qvv| yvh| zhq| ufc| bho| chg| spn| lpq| spj| jsp| dhx| qjj| fjk| yjv| nss| xyp| jbs| ujo| tbk| ise| mbr| xgx| uog| bzl| ibk| wfn| wkj| oud| vfc| gga| veg| lsp| onw|