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Born March 29, 1869 • Czech Republic
Died September 5, 1943 (aged 74) • Washington, D.C. • United States
Subjects Of Study Indigenous American peoples • Neanderthal
The Grand Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap, illustration by William Henry Holmes from Clarence E. Dutton's Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District, 1882.
William Henry Holmes
American archaeologist
Franz Boas
Franz Boas
German-American anthropologist
Edward W. Gifford
American anthropologist
Kevin Young
Kevin Young
American poet, essayist, and editor
Lonnie G. Bunch III
Lonnie G. Bunch III
American museum director
Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
American anthropologist
Kathy Reichs
American author and forensic anthropologist
Frederic Ward Putnam.
Frederic Ward Putnam
American anthropologist
Earnest A. Hooton
American anthropologist
Goode, G. Brown
G. Brown Goode
American zoologist
Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
Kenyan anthropologist, government official, and paleontologist
Louis S.B. Leakey
Louis Leakey
Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist
Raymond A. Dart
South African anthropologist
Franz Weidenreich
German anthropologist
Bastian
Adolf Bastian
German ethnologist
Broca, Paul
Paul Broca
French anthropologist and pathologist
Marcellin Boule
Marcellin Boule
French geologist
Blumenbach, detail of a lithograph, 1892
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach
German anthropologist
Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
Ely S. Parker
United States government official