Author: Rutot, A. [Rutot, Aimé-Louis (1847-1933)]
Title: Sur les gisements paléolithiques de loess éolien de l'Autriche-Hongrie
Description: Bruxelles, Hayez, 1904. orig. wrappers. 25x16cmn, 36 pp. Name on cover. Some pencilled underlinings to text. Pages foxed and yellowed. Spine heavily chipped.. Corners rubbed & bumped. Cover spotted & soiled. Fair condition. ¶ [ "Although he died in obscurity, the Belgian museum conservator Aimé Rutot was one of the most famous European archaeologists between 1900 and 1920. The focus of his scientific interest was stone flints, which he claimed to be the oldest known human tools, so-called eoliths, Skeptics maintained that the flints showed no marks of human workmanship, but Rutot nevertheless managed to spread his 'Eolithic theory' in an important part of the scienfific community..." - Raf de Bont in 'The Creation of Prehistoric Man: Aimé Rutot and the Eolith Controversy, ´1900-1920' in ' Isis', Vol. 94, No. 4, December 2003].

Keywords: History of Science, Old Stone Age, Palaeolithic Tools, Paleolithic, Archaeology, Archeology, , ,