Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes, Jacques

1788 - Boucher de Crevecoeur de Perthes was born.

         - He was the first to provide evidence that humans had existed in the Pleistocene epoch, thereby disputing the theory of diluvial catastrophism.

         - He collected flint artifacts near Abbeville, France, and demonstrated that these manufactured objects came from the same stratum as Ice Age fauna.

1868 - Jacques Boucher de Perthes died.