ARCHAEOLOGIST

John Garstang

1876 - 1956

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John Garstang (5 May 1876 – 12 September 1956) was a British archaeologist of the Ancient Near East, especially Egypt, Sudan, Anatolia and the southern Levant. He was the younger brother of Professor Walter Garstang, FRS, a marine biologist and zoologist. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Garstang has received more than 62,943 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. John Garstang is the 141st most popular archaeologist, the 5,061st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 31st most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, John Garstang ranks 141 out of 151. Before him are Grahame Clark, Miroslav Verner, Alexey Okladnikov, Muhibbe Darga, Paolo Orsi, and Bernard Pyne Grenfell. After him are Jale İnan, Churchill Babington, Salima Ikram, Phillip V. Tobias, Nancy Dupree, and Augustus Pitt Rivers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, John Garstang ranks 193. Before him are Pietro Speciale, Marcel Lambert, Lionel Tertis, Ralph Barton Perry, James Scullin, and Claude Buckenham. After him are George Cloutier, Jānis Akuraters, James Larkin, John August Anderson, John Mulcahy, and Susan Glaspell. Among people deceased in 1956, John Garstang ranks 210. Before him are Henry Stephenson, Katherine MacDonald, William Thompson, Hugh Trenchard, 1st Viscount Trenchard, Benno von Arent, and Vlastimil Lada-Sázavský. After him are Charley Grapewin, Christian Gitsham, Sam Langford, René Fernández, Francis Tyler, and Michael Arlen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Garstang ranks 5,061 out of 8,785. Before him are Aaron Taylor-Johnson (1990), Henry Bathurst, 3rd Earl Bathurst (1762), Pat Crerand (1939), Stuart Pearce (1962), William Adam (1689), and John Connelly (1938). After him are Thomas Brisbane (1773), Richard Tandy (1948), Albert Oldman (1883), George Butterworth (1885), Darren Shan (1972), and Dannie Abse (1923).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, John Garstang ranks 31. Before him are Dorothea Bate (1878), James Quibell (1867), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), John M. Allegro (1923), Grahame Clark (1907), and Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869). After him are Churchill Babington (1821), Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827), and Jacquetta Hawkes (1910).

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