ARCHAEOLOGIST

Grafton Elliot Smith

1871 - 1937

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Sir Grafton Elliot Smith (15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937) was an Australian-British anatomist, Egyptologist and a proponent of the hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory. He believed in the idea that cultural innovations occur only once and that they spread geographically. Based on this, he traced the origins of many cultural and traditional practices across the world, including the New World, to ideas that he believed came from Egypt and in some instances from Asia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grafton Elliot Smith has received more than 125,506 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Grafton Elliot Smith is the 118th most popular archaeologist (down from 116th in 2019), the 230th most popular biography from Australia (up from 234th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Australian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Grafton Elliot Smith ranks 118 out of 151. Before him are Spyridon Marinatos, Franz Weidenreich, Meave Leakey, Ekrem Akurgal, Robert T. Bakker, and Zakaria Goneim. After him are Klaus Schmidt, Carl Blegen, Stith Thompson, Karel Absolon, Julio C. Tello, and John Beazley.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1871, Grafton Elliot Smith ranks 135. Before him are Manuel Franco, Stijn Streuvels, Louis Perrée, Emmanuel Foulon, Sakai Toshihiko, and Theodor Pallady. After him are Sevasti Qiriazi, Joe Roberts, Boris Galerkin, Oliver Campbell, Bodil Katharine Biørn, and Anna Ostroumova-Lebedeva. Among people deceased in 1937, Grafton Elliot Smith ranks 152. Before him are Wilhelm Weinberg, F. C. S. Schiller, Dashdorjiin Natsagdorj, Juan Artola, Nygmet Nurmakov, and Marguerite Audoux. After him are Colin Clive, Noel Rosa, Enrique Olaya Herrera, Ndre Mjeda, Frank Morley, and Anastasios Metaxas.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Grafton Elliot Smith ranks 230 out of 1,143. Before him are George Parker (1896), Rolf Harris (1930), Jack Thompson (1940), Ken Kavanagh (1923), Peta Wilson (1970), and Harry Cobby (1894). After him are Helen Quinn (1943), Dannii Minogue (1971), Tim Cahill (1979), Marjorie Jackson-Nelson (1931), Gregory Mathews (1876), and Beryl Penrose (1930).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Australia

Among archaeologists born in Australia, Grafton Elliot Smith ranks 2. Before him are V. Gordon Childe (1892).

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