The Most Famous

ARCHAEOLOGISTS from South Africa

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This page contains a list of the greatest South African Archaeologists. The pantheon dataset contains 151 Archaeologists, 1 of which were born in South Africa. This makes South Africa the birth place of the 31st most number of Archaeologists behind Peru, and Turkey.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary South African Archaeologists of all time. This list of famous South African Archaeologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Phillip V. Tobias (1925 - 2012)

With an HPI of 41.79, Phillip V. Tobias is the most famous South African Archaeologist.  His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.

Phillip Vallentine Tobias (14 October 1925 – 7 June 2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. He was also an activist for the eradication of apartheid and gave numerous anti-apartheid speeches at protest rallies and also to academic audiences.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as South African archaeologists born between 1925 and 1925. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased South African archaeologists include Phillip V. Tobias.

Deceased South African Archaeologists

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