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ARCHAEOLOGIST

James Mellaart

1925 - 2012

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James Mellaart FBA (14 November 1925 – 29 July 2012) was an English 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 165,382 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). James Mellaart is the 97th most popular archaeologist (down from 89th in 2019), the 3,433rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,492nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, James Mellaart ranks 97 out of 104. Before him are Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Zakaria Goneim, Dorothea Bate, Dorothy Garrod, Sylvanus Morley, and James Prinsep. After him are Lewis Binford, Michael D. Coe, Carl Blegen, Ekrem Akurgal, John O. Westwood, and Robert John Braidwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, James Mellaart ranks 318. Before him are Irina Arkhipova, Ritwik Ghatak, Gunther Schuller, Joan Mitchell, Frank Pierson, and Raimondo D'Inzeo. After him are Iwao Takamoto, Juan Francisco Lombardo, Francesco Colasuonno, Arne Åhman, José Parra Martínez, and Alain Peyrefitte. Among people deceased in 2012, James Mellaart ranks 261. Before him are Anna Schwartz, Otto Stich, Sancho Gracia, Bob Welch, Frank Pierson, and Malcolm Browne. After him are Alketas Panagoulias, Juan Francisco Lombardo, Gunnar Sønsteby, Susanne Lothar, Florence Green, and François Migault.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Mellaart ranks 3,433 out of 7,765. Before him are Brian Lumley (1937), Al Pease (1921), Frederick Sandys (1829), Lucy Walter (1630), Oliver Sykes (1986), and Spencer Davis (1939). After him are Eddie Colman (1936), Eanflæd (626), Phyllis Logan (1956), Joe Fry (1915), Eleanor Farjeon (1881), and Hugh Dancy (1975).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, James Mellaart ranks 20. Before him are John Evans (1823), Charles Dawson (1864), John Marshall (1876), Dorothea Bate (1878), Dorothy Garrod (1892), and James Prinsep (1799). After him are John O. Westwood (1805), James Quibell (1867), John M. Allegro (1923), Meave Leakey (1942), Colin Groves (1942), and Ian Hodder (1948).

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