ARCHAEOLOGIST

Augustus Pitt Rivers

1827 - 1900

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Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 1827 – 4 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Augustus Pitt Rivers has received more than 241,432 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Augustus Pitt Rivers is the 147th most popular archaeologist (down from 134th in 2019), the 6,126th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,759th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Archaeologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 147 out of 151. Before him are John Garstang, Jale İnan, Churchill Babington, Salima Ikram, Phillip V. Tobias, and Nancy Dupree. After him are Jacquetta Hawkes, William G. Dever, Barry Cunliffe, and Leonardo López Luján.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1827, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 71. Before him are John Owen, Richard Morris Hunt, Mary Ward, Afzal-ud-Daulah, William Windom, and Henry Warner Slocum. After him are Hiram Rhodes Revels, and Milton Latham. Among people deceased in 1900, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 98. Before him are Raimundo Andueza Palacio, Jasper Francis Cropsey, George Grove, George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, Ali Shah Durrani, and R. D. Blackmore.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 6,126 out of 8,785. Before him are Tony Crook (1920), Martin Clunes (1961), Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800), Anna Howard Shaw (1847), Charlie Heaton (1994), and Alan Rollinson (1943). After him are Philippa Fawcett (1868), Nick Faldo (1957), Camilla Luddington (1983), Scott McTominay (1996), Nicholas Monsarrat (1910), and Elizabeth Carter (1717).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Augustus Pitt Rivers ranks 33. Before him are Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), John M. Allegro (1923), Grahame Clark (1907), Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), John Garstang (1876), and Churchill Babington (1821). After him are Jacquetta Hawkes (1910).

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