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Mortimer Wheeler
Sign in to saveAlso known as Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler, R. E. M. Wheeler, Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler, REM Wheeler
British archaeologist (1890-1976)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1890
- Died
- 1976
- Works
- 59
Top works
- Civiltà dell'Indo e del Gange
- Splendors of the East
- Charsada, a metropolis of the North-west Frontier
- Archaeology from the earth
- Roman Africa in color
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
- Massively parallel digital transcriptional profiling of single cells
· 2017 · cited 6,870x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,740x
- Human Papillomavirus and Survival of Patients with Oropharyngeal Cancer
· 2010 · cited 5,769x
- Canagliflozin and Renal Outcomes in Type 2 Diabetes and Nephropathy
· 2019 · cited 5,326x
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Quotes
- “The city, so far from being an unarmed sanctuary of peace, was dominated by the towers and battlements of a lofty man‐made acropolis of defiantly feudal aspect. A few minutes’ observation had radically changed the social character of the Indus civilization and put it at last into an acceptable secular focus.”
- “The anthropologists who have recently described the skeletons from Harappa remark that there, as at Lothal, the population would appear, on the available evidence, to have remained more or less stable to the present day.”
- “For a civilization so widely distributed as that of the Indus no uniform ending need be postulated.”
- “Archaeology is not a science, it’s a vendetta.”
- “One terracotta, from a late level of Mohenjo-daro, seems to represent a horse, reminding us that the jaw-bone of a horse is also recorded from the site, and that the horse was known at a considerably earlier period in northern Baluchistan.”
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- date of birth
- 1890-09-10
- date of death
- 1976-07-22
- Commons category
- Mortimer Wheeler
- P12749
- Andreas Krieger
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1890 births1976 deaths20th-century British archaeologists20th-century Scottish antiquariansAcademics of the UCL Institute of ArchaeologyAlumni of the University of LondonArchaeologists from GlasgowArchaeologists of South AsiaArchaeologists of the Indus Valley civilisationBAFTA winners (people)British Army brigadiers of World War IIBritish Army personnel of World War IBritish expatriates in PakistanBritish television presentersCompanions of the Order of the Indian EmpireDirectors general of the Archaeological Survey of IndiaFellows of the British AcademyFellows of the Royal Society (Statute 12)Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of LondonHarappaIndian institute directorsKnights BachelorMarriage template errorsMembers of the Cambrian Archaeological Association