Jacques Boucher de Crèvec?ur de Perthes

Jacques Boucher de Crèvec?ur de Perthes (10 September, 1788 – 5 August1868), also referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was the customhouse director at Abbeville in Picardy, France from 1825 to 1868. He developed a deep interest in certain stones in the gravels of the Somme valley, that had to have been shaped by mankind, yet their location in the stratified layers of sand and gravel indicated that these stones, today known as hand axe,had to be very old. In 1838, Jacques Boucher explained to a gathering of local scientists and intellectuals that the stones could only have been made by man and that they must have been some kind of flint tools.

References

• http://abob.libs.uga.edu/bobk/whiteg02.html
• http://www.human-nature.com/reason/white/chap7.html