The Most Famous
ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Canada
This page contains a list of the greatest Canadian Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 151 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in Canada. This makes Canada the birth place of the 32nd most number of Archaeologists behind Turkey, and South Africa.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Canadian Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous Canadian Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Davidson Black (1884 - 1934)
With an HPI of 44.81, Davidson Black is the most famous Canadian Archaeologist. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Davidson Black, FRS (July 25, 1884 – March 15, 1934) was a Canadian paleoanthropologist, best known for his naming of Sinanthropus pekinensis (now Homo erectus pekinensis). He was Chairman of the Geological Survey of China and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He was known as 步達生 (pinyin: Bù Dáshēng) in China.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Canadian archaeologists born between 1884 and 1884. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Canadian archaeologists include Davidson Black.
