Talk:John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury

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Untitled[edit]

Every instance of a year was linked on this page, making it quite difficult to read. Following the guidance on Wikipedia:Make only links relevant to the context, I deleted links other than Lubbock's birth and death. I know that is still a disputed guideline, but this article was really hard to read. Rossami 17:47, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Fairy nuff. Sorry. Penfold 18:29, 17 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Bibliography[edit]

- Pleasures of Life

- The Scenery of Switzerland and the Causes to Which it is Due

- Tact

- Ants Bees and Wasps —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nebbishybookish (talk • contribs) 20:28, 22 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Establishing archaeology?[edit]

The article contains the passage, "During this period he worked with John Evans, the other key figure in the establishment of the discipline of archaeology.[1]" This is a rather anglocentric view; the "discipline of archaeology" was not established by any two individuals, nor was it established in one country. Classical Mediterranean archaeology has been said by some to have been established by J. J. Winckelmann in the 18th century and by Napoleon's savants in Egypt in 1798, but "scientific" archaeology in Europe -- and particularly northern Europe -- is often considered to have been founded by Dane Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, who developed the method of relative dating using "closed finds" (e.g., graves) and established the validity of the Three Age System (Stone, Bronze, Iron) in the 1820s and published it in 1836. Several other continental archaeologists made important contributions to the "discipline" in the earlier part of the 19th century, including Boucher de Perthes' work on the Paleolithic, J.J.S. Steenstrup's work on the prehistoric human environment and Sven Nilsson's attempts to use ethnographic information to understand prehistoric life. The first chair of archaeology was established at Leiden, Netherlands, already in 1818; the first in Britain was the Disney Professorship at Cambridge, established in 1851. The passage should be corrected to "...in the establishment of the discipline of archaeology IN BRITAIN."--Death Bredon (talk) 12:33, 10 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Good point. Martinlc (talk) 17:42, 11 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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Omission of important facts?[edit]

Lubbock is famous for the influential list of one hundred books deemed ‘best worth reading’ by Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913)first made in 1887, He was also Principal of the Working-Men’s College in London from 1883 to 1899. https://www.classicsandclass.info/product/163/ Szczels (talk) 15:15, 31 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]