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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Charles Dawson

1864 - 1916

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Charles Dawson (11 July 1864 – 10 August 1916) was a British amateur archaeologist who claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries that were later exposed as frauds. These forgeries included the Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni), a unique set of bones that he claimed to have found in 1912 in Sussex. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Dawson has received more than 211,058 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Charles Dawson is the 87th most popular archaeologist (down from 41st in 2019), the 3,167th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,031st in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Archaeologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.06

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Charles Dawson ranks 87 out of 104. Before him are Israel Finkelstein, Massimo Pallottino, Henri Frankfort, John Evans, Sven Nilsson, and Paul Rivet. After him are John Marshall, Akurgal, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Zakaria Goneim, and Dorothea Bate.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1864, Charles Dawson ranks 118. Before him are Berta Zuckerkandl, Juhan Liiv, Einar Benediktsson, Kamini Roy, Maud Watson, and Jens Ferdinand Willumsen. After him are Aleksey Shakhmatov, Herman Heijermans, John Walter Gregory, José Pardo y Barreda, Sergei Zubatov, and Ransom E. Olds. Among people deceased in 1916, Charles Dawson ranks 110. Before him are Kazimierz Alchimowicz, Ioannis Frangoudis, Lily Braun, Alfred Cogniaux, Giuseppe Pitrè, and Clements Markham. After him are Germán Riesco, Sámuel Teleki, Antonin Mercié, Aeneas Mackintosh, Maksim Kovalevsky, and Leo Anton Karl de Ball.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Charles Dawson ranks 3,167 out of 7,765. Before him are John Robison (1739), Geoff Bent (1932), Alan Bennett (1934), Gwendoline Christie (1978), Billie Whitelaw (1932), and Michael Mann (1942). After him are Harry Edwin Wood (1881), Mike Parkes (1931), Laura Mulvey (1941), John Marshall (1876), Estelle Winwood (1883), and Michael Wilding (1912).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Charles Dawson ranks 15. Before him are Alan Gardiner (1879), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), and John Evans (1823). After him are John Marshall (1876), Dorothea Bate (1878), Dorothy Garrod (1892), James Prinsep (1799), James Mellaart (1925), and John O. Westwood (1805).

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