ARCHAEOLOGIST

John Evans

1823 - 1908

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Sir John Evans (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of prehistoric archaeology. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming a founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909. The John Evans collection, housed at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, comprises more than 12,000 objects, including a large proportion of British Palaeolithic stone tools. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Evans is the 105th most popular archaeologist (down from 90th in 2019), the 3,819th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,234th in 2019) and the 19th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, John Evans ranks 105 out of 151. Before him are Dorothea Bate, Robert T. Bakker, Grafton Elliot Smith, John Marshall, Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac, and Henri Frankfort. After him are Leon Kozłowski, E. A. Wallis Budge, Akurgal, Mortimer Wheeler, Phillip V. Tobias, and Stith Thompson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, John Evans ranks 68. Before him are Simon Bolivar Buckner, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, Oscar Dickson, Gonçalves Dias, Daniel Harrwitz, and Ernest Reyer. After him are Dmitry Tolstoy, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Emilio Arrieta, William M. Tweed, Guillermo Tell Villegas, and Manolache Costache Epureanu. Among people deceased in 1908, John Evans ranks 90. Before him are Simo Matavulj, Nozu Michitsura, Hashimoto Gahō, Lorenz Frølich, Svatopluk Čech, and Frederick Stanley, 16th Earl of Derby. After him are Walter Leistikow, Henry Clifton Sorby, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, Marco Aurelio Soto, Charles Augustus Young, and José Manuel Marroquín.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Evans ranks 3,820 out of 8,785. Before him are Cenwalh of Wessex (601), Jeremy Wade (1956), Robert Stephens (1931), Peter Grant (1935), Sheena Easton (1959), and Francis Godwin (1562). After him are Kenneth Cranham (1944), Rhona Mitra (1976), Dorothy Holman (1883), Gordon Haskell (1946), Ronald Knox (1888), and Patrick Moore (1923).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, John Evans ranks 19. Before him are Alan Gardiner (1879), James Quibell (1867), Dorothy Garrod (1892), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Dorothea Bate (1878), and John Marshall (1876). After him are E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), Mortimer Wheeler (1890), James Mellaart (1925), Charles Dawson (1864), John Beazley (1885), and Grahame Clark (1907).

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