Marcel Otte

{{Short description|Belgian prehistorian}} {{Infobox scientist |name = Marcel Otte |image = Marcel OTTE.jpg |caption = Marcel Otte |birth_date = {{b-da|5 October 1948}} |birth_place = Belgium |death_date = |death_place = |residence = |citizenship = |ethnicity = |field = Prehistorian |work_institutions = |alma_mater = |doctoral_advisor = |doctoral_students = |known_for = |author_abbrev_bot = |author_abbrev_zoo = |influences = |influenced = |prizes = |religion = |footnotes = |signature = }} '''Marcel Otte''' (born 5 October 1948) is a professor of Prehistory at the Université de Liège, Belgium.<ref>[http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_liege-des-fouilles-archeologiques-a-la-hussarde?id=5312283 "Liège: des fouilles archéologiques à la hussarde?"]</ref> He is a specialist in Religion, Arts, Sociobiology, and the Upper Palaeolithic times of Europe and Central Asia.<ref>[http://www.hominides.com/html/biographies/marcel-otte.php "Marcel Otte – Préhistorien, paléoanthropologue"], Hominidés.com {{in lang|fr}}</ref> In the book ''Speaking Australopithecus'' (written together with the philologist Francesco Benozzo)<ref name="Ballester2017">{{Cite journal |last1=Ballester |first1=Xaverio |date=2017-05-01|title=Benozzo & Otte: Speaking Australopithecus |journal=Liburna |volume=10 |pages=245–253 |issn=1889-1128 |url=https://www.academia.edu/33904372}}</ref><ref name="Benozzo_Otte_2017">{{cite book |last1=Benozzo |first1=Francesco |last2=Otte |first2=Marcel |title=Speaking Australopithecus. A New Theory on the Origins of Human Language |publisher=ITA |date=2017 |url=https://cris.unibo.it/handle/11585/574943 |language=it |access-date=2025-07-13 |page=1–64}}</ref> he argues from the archaeological point of view Benozzo's hypothesis that human language appeared with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/Marcel_Otte/home/ouvrages/speaking-australopithecus/|title = Marcel Otte – Speaking Australopithecus}}</ref>

Otte is one of the only advocates of the Paleolithic continuity theory, which states that Indo-European languages originated in Europe and have existed there since Paleolithic times.<ref>Alinei, Mario. [http://www.continuitas.org/intro.html "The Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm for the origins of Indo-European languages: An Introduction in progress"], ''Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm'', May 2012</ref> He first advocated that theory in work published in 1995.<ref>Otte, Marcel (1995), "Diffusion des langues modernes en Eurasie préhistorique", ''C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris'', 321, série IIa, pp. 1219–1226.</ref>

== Written works == He has published a number of works, including: * ''Étude Archéologique et Historique sur le Château Médièval de Saive'', Centre belge d'histoire rurale, Liège, 1973 * ''Les Pointes à Retouches Plates du Paléolithique Supérieur Initial de Belgique'', Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Archéologiques, Liège, 1974 * ''La préhistoire à Travers les Collections du Musée Curtius de Liège'', Wahle, Liège, 1978, {{ISBN|2-87011-009-X}} * ''Le Paléolithique Supérieur Ancien en Belgique'', Musées Royaux d'art et d'histoire, Brussels, 1979 * ''Le Gravettien en Europe Centrale'', De Tempel, Brugge, 1981 * ''Sondages à Marche-les-Dames : Grotte de la Princesse, 1976'', with J.M. Degbomont, University of Liège, 1981 * ''Les Fouilles de la place Saint-Lambert à Liège'', Le Centre, Liège, 1983 * ''Préhistoire des Religions'', Masson, Paris, 1993 2-225-84068-7 * ''Le Paléolithique Inférieur et Moyen en Europe'', A. Colin, Paris, 1996, {{ISBN|2-200-01389-2}} * ''La Grotte du Bois Laiterie : Recolonisation Magdalénienne de la Belgique'', with Lawrence Straus, University of Liège, 1997 * ''La Préhistoire'', with Denis Vialou and Patrick Plumet, De Boeck Université, Paris, 1999, {{ISBN|2-8041-2837-7}} * ''Approches du Comportement au Mousterien'', British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, 2000, {{ISBN|1-84171-126-8}} * ''Les Origines de la Pensée'', éditions Mardaga, Sprimont, 2001, {{ISBN|2-87009-723-9}} * ''La Protohistoire'', with Mireille David-Elbiali, Christiane Eluère and Jean-Pierre Mohen, De Boeck Université, Brussels, 2002, {{ISBN|2-8041-3297-8}} * ''Recherches sur le Paléolithique Supérieur'', J. and E. Hedges, Oxford, 2003, {{ISBN|1-84171-324-4}}

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== External links == * [https://sites.google.com/site/otteprehistoire/ Marcel Otte, Préhistorien, Paléoanthropologue], personal site {{in lang|fr}} * [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marcel_Otte/publications/ Works at ResearchGate] {{in lang|en|fr}} (registration needed) * [http://www.continuitas.org/textsauthor.html#otte Works at Paleolithic Continuity Paradigm website] {{in lang|en|es}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Otte, Marcel}} Category:1948 births Category:Living people Category:Walloon people Category:Prehistorians Category:Belgian archaeologists