ARCHAEOLOGIST

Colin Groves

1942 - 2017

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Colin Peter Groves (24 June 1942 – 30 November 2017) was a British-Australian biologist and anthropologist. Groves was professor of biological anthropology at the Australian National University in Canberra, Australia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Colin Groves is the 59th most popular archaeologist (up from 106th in 2019), the 2,494th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,586th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Colin Groves ranks 59 out of 151. Before him are Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Spyridon Marinatos, Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes, Hormuzd Rassam, Neferkare Tereru, and Meritites I. After him are Alan Gardiner, Giuseppe Fiorelli, Adolf Furtwängler, André Parrot, Heinrich Karl Brugsch, and Donald Johanson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Colin Groves ranks 271. Before him are Björn Nordqvist, Graham Nash, Montserrat Figueras, Phil Esposito, Gunilla Bergström, and Gijs van Lennep. After him are Radu Vasile, David Stern, Gregorio Rosa Chávez, Günter Wallraff, B. J. Thomas, and Clarence Clemons. Among people deceased in 2017, Colin Groves ranks 209. Before him are Allan Holdsworth, Miriam Rodríguez Martínez, Bernard Francis Law, Željko Perušić, Seijun Suzuki, and A. R. Penck. After him are Sonny Landham, William Baumol, Bengt Gustavsson, Gretel Bergmann, Gustavo Rojo, and Katalin Szőke.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Colin Groves ranks 2,495 out of 8,785. Before him are Dion Fortune (1890), Geraldine James (1950), Benedict Biscop (628), Frederick Holman (1885), Jane Asher (1946), and Roger Bannister (1929). After him are Sadiq Khan (1970), Alfred Ewing (1855), Robert Brown (1921), Ernest William Brown (1866), Charlotte Smith (1749), and Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji (1892).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Colin Groves ranks 12. Before him are Flinders Petrie (1853), John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834), Leonard Woolley (1880), John O. Westwood (1805), Max Mallowan (1904), and Robert Broom (1866). After him are Alan Gardiner (1879), James Quibell (1867), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Dorothea Bate (1878), and John Marshall (1876).

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