Thompson, John Eric Sidney, 1898-
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nv10Ethnology of the Mayas of southern and central British Honduras
Ethnology of the Mayas of southern and central British HondurasBook 1930
- Summary
- Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson was a leading English Mesoamerican archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and epigrapher. While working in the United States, he dominated Maya studies and particularly the study of the Maya script until well into the 1960s. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4]
- Born
- 1898-12-31 [2][4]
- Birth Place
- London [2][4]
- Died
- 1975-09-09 [2][4]
- Death Place
- Cambridge [2][4]
- Country
- Great Britain [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [4]
- archaeologist [4]
- mesoamericanist [4]
- mayanist [4]
- Employer
- Field Museum of Natural History [4]
- Carnegie Institution for Science [4]
- Educated at
- Fitzwilliam College [4]
- Winchester College [4]
- Country of Education
- United Kingdom [4]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [4]
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography (requires subscription) [4]
- Yale LUX
- Entity [4]
- Oxford Reference
- Overview [4]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Wikidata
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