Henry de Lumley (born 14 August 1934 in Marseille, France) is a French archeologist, geologist and prehistorian. He is director of the Institute of Human Paleontology in Paris, and Professor Emeritus at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He is also a corresponding member of the Academy of Humanities of the Institute of France and former director of the French National Museum of Natural History.[1] He is best known for his work on archeological sites in France and Spain, notably Arago cave in Tautavel, Southern France, Terra Amata in Nice and Grotte du Lazaret near Nice, and Baume Bonne at Quinson, where some of the earliest evidence of man in Europe were found.
Publications (in French)
1957 - "Les industrie à micro-lithes géométriques" with Max Escalon de Fonton, in: Bull S.P.F.LIV n°3-4.
1969 - "Le Paléolithique inférieur et moyen du Midi méditerranéen dans son cadre géologique", Ve supplément à Gallia préhistoire.
1969 - "Une cabane acheuléenne dans la Grotte du Lazaret", Mémoires de la Société préhistorique française, volume 7.
1972 - "La grotte moustérienne de l'Hortus (Valflaunès, Hérault)", Université de Provence, Études quaternaires, mémoire n° 1.
1976 - "La Préhistoire française. [Les] Civilisations paléolithiques et mésolithiques de la France ", Éditions du C.N.R.S.