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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Paul Rivet

1876 - 1959

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Paul Rivet (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 53,567 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Rivet is the 86th most popular archaeologist (down from 62nd in 2019), the 3,881st most popular biography from France (down from 3,321st in 2019) and the 13th most popular French Archaeologist.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Paul Rivet ranks 86 out of 104. Before him are Joseph Orbeli, Israel Finkelstein, Massimo Pallottino, Henri Frankfort, John Evans, and Sven Nilsson. After him are Charles Dawson, John Marshall, Akurgal, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, and Zakaria Goneim.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Paul Rivet ranks 133. Before him are William Wain Prior, Walter Tewksbury, Robert Yerkes, Max O. Lorenz, Stylianos Gonatas, and Pantelis Karasevdas. After him are Willem Hendrik Keesom, Nikolay Burdenko, Olav Duun, John Marshall, Elmer Drew Merrill, and Marvin Hart. Among people deceased in 1959, Paul Rivet ranks 129. Before him are Albert Namatjira, Edith Clarke, Heleno de Freitas, Max O. Lorenz, Roald Larsen, and Nicholas Charnetsky. After him are Friedrich Waismann, Jacob Epstein, Guillermo Riveros, Zakaria Goneim, Jean Grémillon, and Hans Henny Jahnn.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Rivet ranks 3,881 out of 6,011. Before him are Augustin Saint-Hilaire (1779), Samuel ibn Tibbon (1150), Claude Nougaro (1929), Francis Blanche (1921), Guy Patin (1601), and Maurice Boitel (1919). After him are Jean Cavaillès (1903), Édouard Colonne (1838), Noël Martin Joseph de Necker (1730), Kingsley Coman (1996), Henri Oreiller (1925), and André Schwarz-Bart (1928).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Paul Rivet ranks 13. Before him are Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788), Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913), Victor Loret (1859), François Bordes (1919), and André Parrot (1901).

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