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(1810–1865)
Born in London into a wealthy stockbroking Quaker family, Christy became such a successful banker that by 1850 he was able to spend more time pursuing his antiquarian interests and traveling. His trips to Scandinavia in 1852 and 1853 visiting museums provoked his interest in prehistory.
In 1856 his interest in ethnology took him to North America and mexico, where he befriended and traveled with anthropologist edward tylor (1832–1917). Together they visited and studied the ruins of teotihuacán, Xochichalco, and Cholula.
In 1862 Christy began funding and working with French paleontologist édouard lartet (1801–1871) exploring the caves of Vezere in southwestern France. They discovered the sites of Gorge d’Enfer, laugerie haute, la madeleine, le moustier, and les Eyzies, all of which had an enormous impact on contemporary understanding of the French Paleolithic. From evidence at Le Moustier, the Mammoth and Great Cave Bear periods were recognized as contemporaneous. From evidence at La Madeleine, the Reindeer age was better understood. Christy also funded work with Lartet in the Perigord (Dordogne) region that provided evidence for the existence of Paleolithic cave art. Much of the material found became part of the Musée des Antiquites Nationales at Saint Germain-en-Laye. Lartet (one of the giants of the history of prehistoric archaeology) was immensely fortunate in his association with Christy and their partnership made a fundamental contribution of the first rank to our understanding of human prehistory.
Christy was editing a volume of their results when he died. Reliquiae Aquitanicae (1875), a classic in European Paleolithic archaeology, was completed at the expense of Christy’s estate by geologist Thomas Jones.
See also
France; Paleolithic Archaeology
(1907–1995)
Grahame Clark is by general consent the only British prehistorian of the twentieth century whose importance rivaled that of vere gordon childe. His career spanned almost the whole century as well as the emergence of modern archaeology. His first book was published in 1932, and his last appeared in 1992. Clark went
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