Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf Anthropologist
Archaeologist
gptkbp:affiliation gptkb:Pitt_Rivers_Museum
gptkbp:associatedWith gptkb:British_Museum
gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkbp:awards Order of the Bath
Fellow_of_the_Royal_Society
Fellow_of_the_Society_of_Antiquaries_of_London
gptkbp:birthDate 1827-02-24
gptkbp:birthPlace Wimborne_Minster,_Dorset,_England
gptkbp:children gptkb:Alice_Pitt-Rivers
gptkb:George_Pitt-Rivers
gptkb:Edith_Pitt-Rivers
gptkb:Henry_Pitt-Rivers
gptkb:Margaret_Pitt-Rivers
gptkbp:contribution Promotion of fieldwork in archaeology
Advancement of ethnographic studies
Development of archaeological stratigraphy
Establishment_of_the_Pitt_Rivers_Museum
gptkbp:deathDate 1900-05-04
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:London,_England
gptkbp:education gptkb:Royal_Military_Academy,_Woolwich
gptkbp:field Anthropology
Archaeology
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers
gptkbp:influenced Museum studies
Modern archaeology
Curation_practices
gptkbp:influencedBy gptkb:Charles_Lyell
gptkb:Charles_Darwin
gptkbp:knownFor Pioneering archaeological methods
gptkbp:legacy Archaeological methodologies
Anthropological theories
Pitt_Rivers_Museum_collections
gptkbp:militaryService gptkb:British_Army
gptkbp:notableFeature gptkb:William_Flinders_Petrie
gptkb:Margaret_Murray
gptkb:John_Lubbock
gptkb:Gertrude_Bell
Thomas Eric Peet
gptkbp:notableWorks The_Excavation_of_the_Barrow_at_Durrington
gptkbp:rank Major-General
gptkbp:researchFocus Prehistoric archaeology
Cultural anthropology
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Mary_Ann_Pitt-Rivers