ARCHAEOLOGIST

Paul Rivet

1876 - 1959

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Paul Rivet (French pronunciation: [pɔl ʁivɛ]; 7 May 1876 – 21 March 1958) was a French ethnologist known for founding the Musée de l'Homme in 1937. In his professional work, Rivet is known for his theory that South America was originally populated in part by migrants who sailed there from Australia and Melanesia. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Rivet has received more than 58,296 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Rivet is the 102nd most popular archaeologist (down from 86th in 2019), the 4,377th most popular biography from France (down from 3,865th in 2019) and the 16th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Paul Rivet ranks 102 out of 151. Before him are Zsófia Torma, John O. Westwood, James Mellaart, E. A. Wallis Budge, Henri Frankfort, and Blaga Aleksova. After him are James Prinsep, Désiré Charnay, Hugo Winckler, Colin Groves, Leon Kozłowski, and Rudolf Wagner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Paul Rivet ranks 156. Before him are Nikolay Burdenko, Gwen John, Harriet Brooks, Stan Rowley, Alexandros Papanastasiou, and Thomas Madsen-Mygdal. After him are Alexandre Tuffère, Pyotr Konchalovsky, G. M. Trevelyan, Albert Bruce Jackson, Virginia Bolten, and Jacoba van Heemskerck. Among people deceased in 1959, Paul Rivet ranks 153. Before him are Walter Bathe, Stanley Spencer, Preston Sturges, Ruben Lagus, Roald Larsen, and Abdulla Shaig. After him are Lyda Borelli, Kay Kendall, Jan Černý, Una O'Connor, Ivan Perestiani, and Balthasar van der Pol.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Rivet ranks 4,377 out of 6,770. Before him are Betsy Jolas (1926), Sylvain Lévi (1863), Jean-Louis Bruguès (1943), Jérémy Mathieu (1983), Sébastien Haller (1994), and André Comte-Sponville (1952). After him are Jacques Labillardière (1755), Raymond Abellio (1907), Lucien Clergue (1934), Sebastian Roché (1964), Julie Dreyfus (1966), and Fernand Courty (1862).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Paul Rivet ranks 16. Before him are Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), André Parrot (1901), Pierre Montet (1885), François Bordes (1919), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), and Jean-François Séguier (1703). After him are Désiré Charnay (1828).

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