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Also Known As Gustav Oscar Augustin Montelius
Born September 9, 1843 • Stockholm • Sweden
Died November 4, 1921 (aged 78) • Stockholm • Sweden
Subjects Of Study Bronze Age • chronology • prehistoric age
Gabriel de Mortillet
French archaeologist
Christian Thomsen, oil painting by an unknown artist
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
Danish archaeologist
Schliemann, Heinrich
Heinrich Schliemann
German archaeologist
Carl Blegen
American archaeologist
Édouard Lartet
French geologist and archaeologist
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist
Henri Breuil.
Henri Breuil
French archaeologist
Ferdinand Keller
Swiss archaeologist and prehistorian
Richard Lepsius.
Richard Lepsius
German Egyptologist
Boucher de Perthes, Jacques
Jacques Boucher de Perthes
French archaeologist
Worsaae
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
Danish archaeologist
Gertrude Caton-Thompson
British archaeologist
Robert Bruce Foote
British geologist and archaeologist
Maya bloodletting
Claude-Joseph-Désiré Charnay
French archaeologist
Nordenskiöld, Erland
Erland Nordenskiöld
Swedish anthropologist
Andersson, Johan Gunnar
Johan Gunnar Andersson
Swedish archaeologist and geologist
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
British archaeologist
Winckelmann, Johann
Johann Winckelmann
German art historian
Zahi Hawass and Barack Obama
Zahi Hawass
Egyptian archaeologist and official