Aime Rutot
| Dr Aime Rutot | |||||||||
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| Born | 1847 | ||||||||
| Died | 1933 | ||||||||
| Residence | Musee Royal d'Histoire Naturelle, Bruxelles; 189 Rue de la Loi, Bruxelles | ||||||||
| Occupation | archaeologist | ||||||||
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death noted in Report of the Council 1932-1933
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Aimé Louis Rutot , born 1847 in Mons , Hainaut , died in 1933 , was a Belgian archaeologist .
Aime Rutot was born in Mons on August 6th, 1847. At the age of twenty-two, he obtained his diploma of mining engineer at the University of Liège , a profession he held for two years, since he worked for later as a traction engineer at the railroad. Parallel to this activity, he was passionate about geology.
In 1888, he was commissioned by Édouard-François Dupont for the creation of the geological map of Belgium at 1 / 20000th scale. In the same year he became curator and worked at the Royal Institute of Natural Sciences , a post he retained until his retirement on June 19, 1919.
He was a corresponding member (June 2, 1906), then effective (December 15, 1911) of Royal Academy of Sciences, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium ; in 1926 he became the director of the Science Class. The Royal Belgian Society of Anthropology and Prehistory , the Higher Council of Hygiene and the Geological Council also appointed him a member [1] .
Six times he gave a prehistory course for a wider non-university audience at the Extension of the Free University of Brussels [2]
He died in Brussels on April 3rd, 1933.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Aimé Rutot's research on the Boncelles site in the Ardennes enabled him to uncover "primitive" stone tools, the olfactory rocks, in the Oligocene formations (between 25 and 38 million years ago). ). These discoveries were internationally renowned and translated into multiple articles and participations in scientific congresses. Aimé Rutot became one of the main representatives of the aeolites as first tools developed by the man. He argued that the transition with a simple natural stone was done in an unconscious way. However, Rutot's theories were rejected in the 1930s as scientific research showed that these stones were the result of natural erosion. [3]
He has tried to demonstrate through several articles how the Neanderthal man and his ancestors were hunted by modern man, eaten or enslaved. This vision of the prehistoric man was translated into exhibitions within the museum in order to transmit them to the general public. The general idea behind this conception was also that species with a progressive or "evolutionary" way of thinking, by definition, supplanted groups characterized by a stagnant spirit [4] .
Aimé Rutot was therefore interested in archaeological discoveries. In 1898 he worked as a geologist on earthworks for the Baudouin Canal and its associated port facilities in Zeebrugge, as well as on the works at Fort Lapin in Bruges. He also made many archaeological discoveries, mostly from pre-Roman or Roman times. Associated with Charles Gillès de Pelichy, he was the inventor of the Roman ship and the establishment of Fort Lapin. Rutot and Baron Alfred de Loë dated the ship in the second half of the 11th century. Some time later, it appeared that the boat was to be attributed to the Roman era [5] . He also disseminated this concept of prehistory through summaries published for the Society "The Belgian Naturalists" and for the Touring Club [6]
His contribution to the understanding of Maastrichtian, Senonian, and Montian was also important [7] . His contribution to the geological sciences did not stop there since he wrote in 1897 a study on the origin of the Quaternary and a comparative study with other regions of France, Central Europe and England [8] .
Between 1901 and 1903, he worked with Jules Cornet on the production of six cards on the Santonian (or Senonian), the Tertiary and the Quaternary, cards accompanied by detailed notices written by Rutot.
Questions of hydrology were also part of his reflections since he was interested in the water supply of Lower Belgium, and more particularly of Kempen - subject on which he wrote between 1910 and 1915 [
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The older Stone Age (Paleolithic time) in Project Runeberg
The Creation of Prehistoric Man: Aimé Rutot and the Eolith Controversy, 1900-1920 by Raf De Bont
The way we thought we were: Dusted-off busts from 1915 expo reveal early views of man's ancestors by Scott LaFee
The Discoveries of Belgian Geologist Aimé Louis Rutot at Boncelles, Belgium: An Unresolved Archeological Controversy from the Early Twentieth Century by Michael A. Cremo