Researching Marcel Otte
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 15 people with the Otte surname? In that year Otte was ranked number 3564 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Marcel means "Form of MARC. Warlike" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Marcel Otte on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Marcel Otte and the Otte Genealogy
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Marcel Otte
Marcel Otte (born October 5, 1948) is a professor of Prehistory at the Université de Liège, Belgium. He is a specialist in Religion, Arts, Sociobiology, and the Upper Palaeolithic times of Europe and Central Asia. In the book Speaking Australopithecus (written together with the philologist Francesco Benozzo) he argues from the archaeological point of view Benozzo's hypothesis that human language appeared with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago.
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. He first advocated that theory in work published in 1995.
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