Augustus Pitt Rivers

Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14th April, 1827– 4 May, 1900) was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.

References

• Bowden, M.C., 1984, General Pitt-Rivers: The Father of Scientific Archaeology. Salisbury: Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum.
• Bowden, M.C., 1991, Pitt Rivers : The Life and Archaeological Work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• M. W. Thompson, 1977, General Pitt-Rivers: Evolution and Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century. Moonraker Press.