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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 84,668 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Tatiana Proskouriakoff is the 90th most popular archaeologist (down from 78th in 2019), the 1,516th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,423rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 90 out of 104Before her are John Evans, Sven Nilsson, Paul Rivet, Charles Dawson, John Marshall, and Akurgal. After her are Dragutin Gorjanović-Kramberger, Zakaria Goneim, Dorothea Bate, Dorothy Garrod, Sylvanus Morley, and James Prinsep.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 232Before her are Adalbert Deșu, Claude Chevalley, Ciro Alegría, David Murray, Abdulrahman Fawzi, and Luiz Luz. After her are Beb Bakhuys, Zellig Harris, Carlo Agostoni, Karl Gruber, Peter Scott, and Hilde Domin. Among people deceased in 1985, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 156Before her are Haruo Remeliik, Israel Regardie, Enrique Fernández Viola, Jan de Quay, Roger Sessions, and Masten Gregory. After her are Givi Javakhishvili, Benjamin Markarian, Bodil Joensen, Julie Vlasto, Josef Čtyřoký, and Efrem Zimbalist.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Tatiana Proskouriakoff ranks 1,516 out of 3,262Before her are Mark Zakharov (1933), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Nikolay Burdenko (1876), Ivan Polzunov (1728), Aleksei Losev (1893), and Vladimir Yermoshin (1942). After her are Natalia Kuchinskaya (1949), Nikolai Kryuchkov (1911), Alexander Maltsev (1949), Nikolay Drozdov (1937), Edwin Klebs (1834), and Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov (1879).

Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In Russia

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