# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/marcel-otte
# Generated: 2026-08-13T01:50:44.070Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/marcel-otte"
name: "Marcel Otte"
slug: "marcel-otte"
description: "Marcel Otte is a professor of Prehistory at the Université de Liège, Belgium. He is a specialist in Religion, Arts, Sociobiology, and the Upper Palaeolithic times of Europe and Central Asia. In the book Speaking Australopithecus he argues from the archaeological point of view Benozzo's hypothesis that human language appeared with Australopithecus, between 4 and 3 million years ago."
tagline: "Belgian prehistorian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Marcel_OTTE.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1948-10-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.14
  momentum:             1.81770005299417
  historical:           6.138949333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://web.philo.ulg.ac.be/Marcel_Otte/"
sources:
  - url: "https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB_%D0%9E%D1%82"
    title: "Марсел От"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Otte"
    title: "Marcel Otte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Otte"
    title: "Marcel Otte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Otte"
    title: "Marcel Otte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Otte"
    title: "Marcel Otte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Otte"
    title: "Marcel Otte"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%82%D1%82%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8C"
    title: "Отт, Марсель"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3289273"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump