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No one really knows who the first archaeologist was because humans have always dug for treasure and for knowledge. It is believed that Thomas Jefferson might have been the first person to conduct an excavation that was scientific.
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∙ 11y agoThomas Jefferson is generally regarded as the first American archaeologist for his research into an prehistoric Native American burial mound before the American Revolution, which he references in his book, Notes on the State of Virginia, published in 1781.
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∙ 12y agoCiriaco de' Pizzicolli, or Cyriacus of Ancona, is generally referred to as the Father of Archaeology. He wrote a famous six-volume archaeology day-book called Commentaria.
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∙ 13y agoThomas Jefferson
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∙ 12y agoHeinrich Schliemann
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