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ARCHAEOLOGIST

Phillip V. Tobias

1925 - 2012

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Phillip Vallentine Tobias (14 October 1925 – 7 June 2012) was a South African palaeoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He was best known for his work at South Africa's hominid fossil sites. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phillip V. Tobias has received more than 67,916 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Phillip V. Tobias is the 124th most popular archaeologist (down from 90th in 2019), the 140th most popular biography from South Africa (down from 109th in 2019) and the most popular South African Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 124 out of 104Before him are Colin Groves, Ian Hodder, Mortimer Wheeler, Stith Thompson, Klaus Schmidt, and Paolo Orsi. After him are Alexey Okladnikov, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Miroslav Verner, Arthur Surridge Hunt, J. P. Mallory, and Davidson Black.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 421Before him are Janet Rowley, Ilona Novák, Bruno Pesaola, Yuriy Lituyev, Raja Ramanna, and Shirley Strickland. After him are Ruth First, Lilyan Chauvin, Jacques Grimonpon, Fernand Decanali, Howard Baker, and Nelson Demarco. Among people deceased in 2012, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 371Before him are Dick Clark, Vincenzo Consolo, Tony Martin, Théophile Abega, Luke Askew, and Jacques Barzun. After him are Aldo Maldera, Mitch Lucker, Ruy de Freitas, Charles Colson, Fontella Bass, and Boris Razinsky.

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In South Africa

Among people born in South Africa, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 140 out of 374Before him are David Carstens (1914), Jackie Pretorius (1934), Belle Delphine (1999), Frew McMillan (1942), Elsa Joubert (1922), and Francois Botha (1968). After him are Ruth First (1925), Gavin Hood (1963), Peter de Klerk (1935), Lucky Dube (1910), Helen Zille (1951), and Constand Viljoen (1933).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In South Africa

Among archaeologists born in South Africa, Phillip V. Tobias ranks 1