Hallam L. Movius

Hallam Leonard Movius (1907 – 1987) was an American archaeologist most famous for his work on the palaeolithic period.

He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and became a professor of archaeology at Harvard University in 1930. Later he was also a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

In 1948 he proposed the existence of a Movius Line dividing the Acheulean tool users of Europe, Africa and western Asia from the chopping tool industries of East Asia.

He also studied the Perigordian and Aurignacian cultures of Palaeolithic France, excavating at the rock shelter of Les Eyzies in the Dordogne from 1958 to 1973.

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Hallam Leonard Movius (1907 – 1987) was an American archaeologist most famous for his work on the Upper Palaeolithic period.

He was born in Newton, Massachusetts and became a professor of archaeology at Harvard University in 1950. He was also a curator at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology.

In 1938 he proposed the existence of a Movius Line dividing the Acheulean tool users of Europe, Africa and western Asia from the chopping tool industries of East Asia.

He also studied the Perigordian and Aurignacian cultures of Palaeolithic France, excavating at the rock shelter of the Abri Pataud in Les Eyzies (Dordogne) from 1953 to 1964.

Bibliography

• Scarre, C (ed), The Human Past, Thames and Hudson, London, 2005 ISBN 0-500-28531-4