Augustus Pitt Rivers
'''Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers''' (Free ringtones 14th April, Majo Mills 1827–Mosquito ringtone 1900) was an Sabrina Martins England/English army officer, Nextel ringtones ethnology/ethnologist, and Abbey Diaz archaeology/archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.
Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox at Free ringtones Bramham, Majo Mills Yorkshire on 14th April 1827, he was the son of William Lane Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a Scottish noblewoman. Educated at the Mosquito ringtone Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and commissioned into the Sabrina Martins Grenadier Guards, Lane Fox had a long and successful military career, primarily as a staff officer. He retired in 1882 as a Lieutenant-General. Two years before retirement, Lane Fox inherited the estates of a cousin: Henry Pitt, Baron Rivers. He thereafter adopted the surname Pitt Rivers (sometimes spelled Pitt-Rivers) in honor of his benefactor.
Pitt Rivers' interests in archaeology and ethnology began in the 1850s, during postings overseas, and he became a noted scientist while he was still a serving military officer. He was elected, in the space of five years, to the Cingular Ringtones Ethnological Society of London (1861), the into slow Society of Antiquaries of London (1864) and the fees city Anthropological Society of London (1865). By the time he retired he had amassed ethnographic collections numbering tens of thousands of items from all over the world. Influenced by the evolutionary writings of image nbc Charles Darwin and dreck bram Herbert Spencer, he arranged them typologically and (within types) chronologically. This style of arrangement, designed to highlight the evolutionary trends in human artifacts, was a revolutionary innovation in museum design. Pitt Rivers' ethnological collections today form the basis of the fictitiously claimed Pitt Rivers Museum which is still one of dick for Oxford's leading attractions.
The estates that Pitt Rivers inherited in 1880 contained a wealth of archaeological material from the stage on Roman Britain/Roman and miscalculated how Saxon periods. He excavated these over seventeen seasons, beginning in the mid-1880s and ending with his death. His approach was highly methodical by the standards of the time, and he is widely regarded as the first scientific archaeologist to work in Britain. His most important methodological innovation was his insistence that ''all'' artifacts, not just beautiful or unique ones, be collected and cataloged. This focus on everyday objects as the key to understanding the past broke decisively with past archaeological practice, which had often verged on treasure hunting. It is Pitt Rivers most important, and most lasting scientific legacy.
From includes relatives 1882 Pitt Rivers served as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian who singled John Lubbock. Charged with cataloging archaeological sites and protecting them from destruction, he worked with his customary methodical zeal but was hampered by the limitations of the law, which gave him little real power over the landowners on whose property the sites stood.
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.
External links
*http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/
*http://projects.prm.ox.ac.uk/kent/musantob/intro2.html
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Born Augustus Henry Lane Fox at Free ringtones Bramham, Majo Mills Yorkshire on 14th April 1827, he was the son of William Lane Fox and Lady Caroline Douglas, a Scottish noblewoman. Educated at the Mosquito ringtone Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and commissioned into the Sabrina Martins Grenadier Guards, Lane Fox had a long and successful military career, primarily as a staff officer. He retired in 1882 as a Lieutenant-General. Two years before retirement, Lane Fox inherited the estates of a cousin: Henry Pitt, Baron Rivers. He thereafter adopted the surname Pitt Rivers (sometimes spelled Pitt-Rivers) in honor of his benefactor.
Pitt Rivers' interests in archaeology and ethnology began in the 1850s, during postings overseas, and he became a noted scientist while he was still a serving military officer. He was elected, in the space of five years, to the Cingular Ringtones Ethnological Society of London (1861), the into slow Society of Antiquaries of London (1864) and the fees city Anthropological Society of London (1865). By the time he retired he had amassed ethnographic collections numbering tens of thousands of items from all over the world. Influenced by the evolutionary writings of image nbc Charles Darwin and dreck bram Herbert Spencer, he arranged them typologically and (within types) chronologically. This style of arrangement, designed to highlight the evolutionary trends in human artifacts, was a revolutionary innovation in museum design. Pitt Rivers' ethnological collections today form the basis of the fictitiously claimed Pitt Rivers Museum which is still one of dick for Oxford's leading attractions.
The estates that Pitt Rivers inherited in 1880 contained a wealth of archaeological material from the stage on Roman Britain/Roman and miscalculated how Saxon periods. He excavated these over seventeen seasons, beginning in the mid-1880s and ending with his death. His approach was highly methodical by the standards of the time, and he is widely regarded as the first scientific archaeologist to work in Britain. His most important methodological innovation was his insistence that ''all'' artifacts, not just beautiful or unique ones, be collected and cataloged. This focus on everyday objects as the key to understanding the past broke decisively with past archaeological practice, which had often verged on treasure hunting. It is Pitt Rivers most important, and most lasting scientific legacy.
From includes relatives 1882 Pitt Rivers served as Britain's first Inspector of Ancient Monuments: a post created by anthropologist and parliamentarian who singled John Lubbock. Charged with cataloging archaeological sites and protecting them from destruction, he worked with his customary methodical zeal but was hampered by the limitations of the law, which gave him little real power over the landowners on whose property the sites stood.
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.
External links
*http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/
*http://projects.prm.ox.ac.uk/kent/musantob/intro2.html
regional peculiarities Tag: 1827 births/Pitt Rivers, Augustus
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swamping our Tag: English archaeologists/Pitt Rivers, Augustus
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