Karel Absolon (June 16, 1877, Boskovice - October 6, 1960, Brno) was Czech archaeologist, geographer, paleontologist and speleologist. June 16 is the 167th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (168th in leap years), with 198 days remaining. ... 1877 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Boskovice is a town in the Czech Republic. ... October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). ... 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Brno  listen? (German: Brünn) is the second-largest city of the Czech Republic, located in the southeast of the country, at the confluence of the Svitava and Svratka rivers. ... Archaeology or sometimes in American English archeology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains, including architecture, artefacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ... A geographer is a scientist whose area of study is geography, the study of the physical environment and human habitat. ... A paleontologist carefully chips rock from a column of dinosaur vertebrae. ... Speleology is the scientific study of caves and other karst features, their make-up, structure, physical properties, history, life forms, and the processes by which they form. ...

Absolon was grandchild of paleontologist Jindřich Wankel. During studies at university in Prague he started with speleological research in caves of Moravský kras (Moravian Karst) in the South Moravian Region. In 1907 he become custodian of Moravian museum in Brno. Since 1926 he was professor of paleoanthropology at the Charles University in Prague. Jindřich Wankel (1821 - 1897) was Bohemian paleontologist and archaeologist. ... South Moravian Region (Czech: Jihomoravský kraj) is an administrative unit (Czech: kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the south-western part of its historical region of Moravia. ... Paeloanthropology is the branch of physical anthropology that focuses on the study of human evolution. ... The Charles University of Prague (also simply University of Prague; Czech: Univerzita Karlova; Latin: Universitas Carolina) is the oldest and most prestigious Czech university and among the oldest universities in Europe, being founded in 1340s (for the exact year, see below). ...

His most known work are paleoanthropologic discoveries at Dolní Věstonice which include Venus figurine. He worked on systemic mapping of Moravský kras, including abyss Macocha and caves Pekárna, Punkevní and Kateřinská. He also explored karstic caves in the Balkans, France and England. . Dolní Věstonice is small village in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. ... Categories: Archaeology stubs | Sculptures ...

Curiosities

• Absolon was very skilled in promoting himself and in popularizing his discoveries as way to lure sponsors [1] (http://www.speleo.cz/soubory/speleo/sp11/absolon.htm).
• In 1961 a cave on the foot of Mt. Maggiore in the Italian Apuan Alps was discovered and named after Absolon [2] (http://www.frystak.cz/anglhist.htm).

External link

• Absolon biography (in Czech) (http://www.mzm.cz/mzm/osobnosti/karel_absolon.html)