The Most Famous
ARCHAEOLOGISTS from Lithuania
This page contains a list of the greatest Lithuanian Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 151 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in Lithuania. This makes Lithuania the birth place of the 13th most number of Archaeologists behind Iraq, and Czechia.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lithuanian Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous Lithuanian Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Marija Gimbutas (1921 - 1994)
With an HPI of 63.97, Marija Gimbutas is the most famous Lithuanian Archaeologist. Her biography has been translated into 56 different languages on wikipedia.
Marija Gimbutas (Lithuanian: Marija Birutė Alseikaitė-Gimbutienė, pronounced ['ɡɪmbutas]; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis, which located the Proto-Indo-European homeland in the Pontic Steppe.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Lithuanian archaeologists born between 1921 and 1921. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lithuanian archaeologists include Marija Gimbutas.
