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Born March 14, 1821 • Vejle • Denmark • (Born on this day)
Died August 15, 1885 (aged 64) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Subjects Of Study prehistoric age

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French geologist and archaeologist
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist
Henri Breuil.
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Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Robert Bruce Foote
British geologist and archaeologist
Gabriel de Mortillet
French archaeologist
Maya bloodletting
Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay
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Oscar Montelius
Swedish archaeologist
Frans Ferdinand Blom
Danish archaeologist
Therkel Mathiassen
Danish archaeologist and ethnographer
Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Sir Flinders Petrie, detail of an oil painting by George Frederic Watts, 1900; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Sir Flinders Petrie
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Winckelmann, Johann
Johann Winckelmann
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Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist