Francis Turville-Petre, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Francis Turville-Petre

British archaeologist

Date of Birth: 04-Mar-1901

Date of Death: 16-Aug-1942

Profession: archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Francis Adrian Joseph Turville-Petre (4 March 1901 – 16 August 1942) 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.