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Born December 29, 1788 • Copenhagen • Denmark
Died May 21, 1865 (aged 76) • Copenhagen • Denmark
Subjects Of Study chronology • prehistoric age

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Richard Lepsius.
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Jacques Boucher de Perthes
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British archaeologist
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Maya bloodletting
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Therkel Mathiassen
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Robert J. Braidwood
American anthropologist
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Richard Leakey
Richard Leakey
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