ARCHAEOLOGIST

James Mellaart

1925 - 2012

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James Mellaart FBA (14 November 1925 – 29 July 2012) was a British and Dutch archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvement with the antiquities black market. He was also involved in a string of controversies, including the so-called mother goddess controversy in Anatolia, which eventually led to his being banned from excavations in Turkey in the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Mellaart has received more than 175,501 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. James Mellaart is the 98th most popular archaeologist (down from 97th in 2019), the 3,457th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,425th in 2019) and the 18th most popular British Archaeologist.

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  • 48.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, James Mellaart ranks 98 out of 151. Before him are Edward Robinson, John Marshall, Jean-François Séguier, Massimo Pallottino, Zsófia Torma, and John O. Westwood. After him are E. A. Wallis Budge, Henri Frankfort, Blaga Aleksova, Paul Rivet, James Prinsep, and Désiré Charnay.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, James Mellaart ranks 337. Before him are Jean Cau, John Baptist Wu, Pyotr Todorovsky, James Salter, Iwao Takamoto, and Armand Razafindratandra. After him are Medgar Evers, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, Wolfgang Unzicker, Klara Luchko, Antonio Puchades, and Gunther Schuller. Among people deceased in 2012, James Mellaart ranks 285. Before him are Richard D. Zanuck, Boris Parygin, Ian Abercrombie, Ċensu Tabone, Homai Vyarawalla, and Mike Kelley. After him are Alketas Panagoulias, Tibor Csernai, Cordelia Edvardson, Zig Ziglar, Anna Schwartz, and István Rózsavölgyi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Mellaart ranks 3,457 out of 8,785. Before him are Eddie Chapman (1914), Maureen Starkey Tigrett (1946), Edward James (1907), Milo Yiannopoulos (1984), William de Wiveleslie Abney (1843), and Keir Starmer (1962). After him are Cherie Blair (1954), Nora Stanton Barney (1883), Princess Maud, Countess of Southesk (1893), Frederick William Beechey (1796), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), and Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne (1845).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, James Mellaart ranks 18. Before him are Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Charles Dawson (1864), Dorothy Garrod (1892), John Evans (1823), John Marshall (1876), and John O. Westwood (1805). After him are E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), James Prinsep (1799), Colin Groves (1942), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), Meave Leakey (1942), and John Beazley (1885).

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