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)