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William Stukeley
William Stukeley was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, physician, Anglican clergyman, and freemason. He was a significant influence on the later development of archaeology and pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric stone circles of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. He published over twenty books on archaeology and other subjects during his lifetime.
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science · English antiquarian (1687–1765) · anthropologist · archaeologist · prehistorian · physician · antiquarian bookseller · also William Stukeley, Rev. William Stukeley, Stukeley
Born 7 November 1687 · Died 3 March 1765 · Q1381018
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Hutton noted that there had been "a considerable change of attitude" to Stukeley among scholars over the previous few years, as they had rejected the division into two halves of his life which Piggott had constructed
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1889· 1 entry
Augustus Pitt Rivers noted, in his presidential address to the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, that Stukeley's name "has been handed down to us chiefly as an example of what to avoid in archaeology"
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1765· 1 entry
Died 1765-03-03.
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1722· 1 entry
Awarded Goulstonian Lectures (1722).
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1687· 1 entry
Born 1687-11-07.
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