ARCHAEOLOGIST

Julio C. Tello

1880 - 1947

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Julio César Tello Rojas (April 11, 1880 – June 3, 1947) was a Peruvian archaeologist. Tello is considered the "father of Peruvian archeology" and was the first indigenous archaeologist in South America. He made the major discoveries of the prehistoric Paracas culture, including nearly 400 textiles associated with mummified burials. He founded a national museum of archeology and served as its first director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Julio C. Tello has received more than 66,500 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Julio C. Tello is the 123rd most popular archaeologist (down from 111th in 2019), the 118th most popular biography from Peru (down from 113th in 2019) and the most popular Peruvian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Julio C. Tello ranks 123 out of 151. Before him are Zakaria Goneim, Grafton Elliot Smith, Klaus Schmidt, Carl Blegen, Stith Thompson, and Karel Absolon. After him are John Beazley, Dorothea Bate, Robert John Braidwood, Boris Piotrovsky, James Quibell, and José Leite de Vasconcelos.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Julio C. Tello ranks 191. Before him are Majit Gafuri, Gorch Fock, Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, Enrique Olaya Herrera, Rudolf Cvetko, and Paul Castanet. After him are Albert Champoudry, Albert W. Hull, Arthur Dove, Lev Shcherba, Pandurang Vaman Kane, and Tom Taylor. Among people deceased in 1947, Julio C. Tello ranks 180. Before him are Miguel Abadía Méndez, Erich Hecke, Carrie Chapman Catt, Simon Janashia, Grantley Goulding, and Charles Frédéric Petit. After him are Marie Belloc Lowndes, Henry Kolker, Petras Cvirka, Vojtěch Bradáč, Annie S. D. Maunder, and Reginald Innes Pocock.

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In Peru

Among people born in Peru, Julio C. Tello ranks 118 out of 287. Before him are José Rufino Echenique (1808), Zenón Noriega Agüero (1900), Ricardo Pérez Godoy (1905), Plácido Galindo (1906), Alfredo Bryce (1939), and Clorinda Matto de Turner (1854). After him are Juan Seminario (1936), Antonio Arenas (1808), Alex Acuña (1944), Mario de las Casas (1905), Alexis Amore (1978), and José Santos Chocano (1875).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Peru

Among archaeologists born in Peru, Julio C. Tello ranks 1. 

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