# Marcel Otte
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{{Short description|Belgian prehistorian}}
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'''Marcel Otte''' (born 5 October 1948) is a professor of [Prehistory](/source/Prehistory) at the [Université de Liège](/source/Universit%C3%A9_de_Li%C3%A8ge), [Belgium](/source/Belgium).[[http://www.rtbf.be/info/regions/detail_liege-des-fouilles-archeologiques-a-la-hussarde?id=5312283 "Liège: des fouilles archéologiques à la hussarde?"]] He is a specialist in [Religion](/source/Religion), [Arts](/source/Arts), [Sociobiology](/source/Sociobiology), and the [Upper Palaeolithic](/source/Upper_Palaeolithic) times of [Europe](/source/Europe) and [Central Asia](/source/Central_Asia).[[http://www.hominides.com/html/biographies/marcel-otte.php "Marcel Otte – Préhistorien, paléoanthropologue"], Hominidés.com {{in lang|fr}}] In the book ''Speaking Australopithecus'' (written together with the philologist [Francesco Benozzo](/source/Francesco_Benozzo))[{{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}}][{{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}}] he argues from the archaeological point of view Benozzo's hypothesis that [human language](/source/human_language) appeared with [Australopithecus](/source/Australopithecus), between 4 and 3 million years ago.[{{Cite web|url=http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/Marcel_Otte/home/ouvrages/speaking-australopithecus/|title = Marcel Otte – Speaking Australopithecus}}]
Otte is one of the only advocates of the [Paleolithic continuity theory](/source/Paleolithic_continuity_theory), which states that [Indo-European languages](/source/Indo-European_languages) originated in [Europe](/source/Europe) and have existed there since [Paleolithic](/source/Paleolithic) times.[[Alinei, Mario](/source/Mario_Alinei). [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] He first advocated that theory in work published in 1995.[Otte, Marcel (1995), "Diffusion des langues modernes en Eurasie préhistorique", ''C. R. Acad. Sc. Paris'', 321, série IIa, pp. 1219–1226.]
== 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](/source/Christiane_Elu%C3%A8re) 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}}
== See also ==
* [Indo-European migrations](/source/Indo-European_migrations)
* [Paleolithic continuity theory](/source/Paleolithic_continuity_theory)
* [Proto-Indo-European homeland](/source/Proto-Indo-European_homeland)
== References ==
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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}}
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