Francis Turville-Petre
Deceased Person
1901 – 1941
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Who was Francis Turville-Petre?
Francis Adrian Joseph Turville-Petre was a British archaeologist, famous for the discovery of the Homo heidelbergensis fossil Galilee Man in 1926, and for his work at Mount Carmel, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel. He was a close friend of Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden.
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- Born
- Mar 4, 1901
- Siblings
- Education
- Exeter College, Oxford
- Died
- Aug 16, 1941
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on July 23, 2013
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