ARCHAEOLOGIST

Paul Rivet

1876 - 1959

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Paul Rivet (French pronunciation: [pɔl ʁivɛ]; 7 May 1876 – 21 March 1958) was a French ethnologist known for founding the Musée de l'Homme in 1937. In his professional work, Rivet is known for his theory that South America was originally populated in part by migrants who sailed there from Australia and Melanesia. He married Mercedes Andrade Chiriboga, who was from Cuenca, Ecuador. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Rivet is the 96th most popular archaeologist (up from 102nd in 2019), the 4,284th most popular biography from France (up from 4,377th in 2019) and the 15th most popular French Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Paul Rivet ranks 96 out of 151. Before him are Anne Stine Ingstad, Ernesto Schiaparelli, Sven Nilsson, Rudolf Wagner, Christiane Desroches Noblecourt, and Zsófia Torma. After him are Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, Massimo Pallottino, Dorothea Bate, Robert T. Bakker, Grafton Elliot Smith, and John Marshall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1876, Paul Rivet ranks 160. Before him are Alaiza Pashkevich, Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, Albert Bruce Jackson, Ameen Rihani, Alexandros Papanastasiou, and Henri Hérouin. After him are H. B. Warner, Max O. Lorenz, Nikolay Burdenko, Havergal Brian, John Marshall, and Pingali Venkayya. Among people deceased in 1959, Paul Rivet ranks 154. Before him are Nazik al-Abid, Akaki Chkhenkeli, Antonio Campolo, Preston Sturges, Francis de Miomandre, and Ruben Lagus. After him are Balthasar van der Pol, Andrés Martínez Trueba, Max O. Lorenz, Jacob Epstein, Maxwell Anderson, and Jan Černý.

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In France

Among people born in France, Paul Rivet ranks 4,284 out of 6,770. Before him are Henri Tauzin (1879), Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799), Albert Auguste Perdonnet (1801), Noël Roquevert (1892), Géo André (1889), and Henri Hérouin (1876). After him are Joël Bats (1957), Gilles Berolatti (1944), Jean-Richard Bloch (1884), Hippolyte Girardot (1955), Roger Marche (1924), and Bruno Coulais (1954).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In France

Among archaeologists born in France, Paul Rivet ranks 15. Before him are Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet (1821), François Bordes (1919), Victor Loret (1859), Jean-François Séguier (1703), Pierre Montet (1885), and Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913). After him are Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac (1778), and Désiré Charnay (1828).

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