ARCHAEOLOGIST

Tatiana Proskouriakoff

1909 - 1985

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff (Russian: Татья́на Авени́ровна Проскуряко́ва, tr. Tatyana Avenirovna Proskuryakova; 23 January [O.S. 10 January] 1909 – 30 August 1985) was a Russian-American Mayanist scholar and archaeologist who contributed significantly to the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs, the writing system of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. Born in Tomsk, Tatiana moved to the US with her parents in 1916. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tatiana Proskouriakoff has received more than 91,661 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Tatiana Proskouriakoff is the 86th most popular archaeologist (up from 90th in 2019), the 1,526th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,512th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Archaeologist.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 86 out of 151. Before her are Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Johann Andreas Wagner, Charles Dawson, Ernesto Schiaparelli, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, and J. P. Mallory. After her are Dorothy Garrod, Ernst Herzfeld, Akurgal, John Evans, Donald Johanson, and Edward Robinson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 230. Before her are Robert Hugo, Duke of Parma, Kató Lomb, Bernabé Ferreyra, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Song Renqiong, and Claude Chevalley. After her are Roberto Battaglia, Theodor Tolsdorff, Shura Cherkassky, Arvo Askola, Gheorghe Albu, and Ciro Alegría. Among people deceased in 1985, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 152. Before her are Aksel Airo, E. B. White, Haruo Remeliik, Yusuf Lule, Vivien Thomas, and Ludo Coeck. After her are Bruno de Finetti, Julian Beck, Karl Zischek, Emerson Spencer, Viorica Ursuleac, and Jules Vandooren.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 1,526 out of 3,761. Before her are Igor Bondarevsky (1913), Pavel Vinogradov (1953), Aleksandr Mostovoi (1968), Tatyana Kuznetsova (1941), Pavel Fedotov (1815), and Yevgeny Polivanov (1891). After her are Olha Bryzhina (1963), Yevgeni Bauer (1865), Esfir Shub (1894), Irina Solovyova (1937), Alexander Chayanov (1888), and Mikhail Devyataev (1917).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Russia

Among archaeologists born in Russia, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 2. Before her are Gustaf Kossinna (1858). After her are Boris Piotrovsky (1908), and Alexey Okladnikov (1908).

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