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John Lubbock was a wealthy English gentlemen of the 19th century who dabbled in archaeology, among lots of other things. Despite his broad range of interests, Lubbock did make great strides in the science. He is probably best known for his books On the Origins of Civilisation and Prehistoric Times, in which he coined the terms paleolithic and neolithic. Lubbock was also an early proponent of ethnoarchaeology; studying modern primitive peoples to understand prehistoric ones.
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John Lubbock [1834-1913]
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