Juan Luis Epifanio Montané y Dardé, Cuban physician, physical antropologist and archaeologist (La Habana 07 April 1849 – Chatou, France 28 November 1936)

From French father and Catalonian mother

Collected a number of archaeological and anthropological artifacts

ARCHAEOLOGY

Los moundbuilders em Cuba (1892)

El idolo de la Gran Tierra de Maya (1906)

El mound de Guayabo Blanco (1915)

PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Performed studies on comparative anthropology with craneometry and osteometry

El craneo desde le punto de vista antropológico (1877)

Un craneo guanche. Estudio craneologico (1885)

Un craneo caribe. Estudio craneologico (1885)

Established the concept of semi-microcephaly

Etude anatomique du crane chez les microcéphales (1874)

Found the first non-deformed crane of pré-hispanic Cuban man (1913) with Fernando Ortiz

The first teeth of a fossil primate in Caribbean

Les dents d’un singe pré-historique, Montaneia anthropomorpha, de Cuba. Bull. Mem. Soc. Anthrop. Paris (1923)

Others

L’homme fossile cubain. Proceed. 2nd P.R. Congr. Washington (1916)

L’homme de Sancti Spiritus, Ile de Cuba (1906)

Les hommes préhistoriques de Cuba (1921)

OFFICES

President, Societé d’Anthropologie de Paris (1922)