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- ↑ Thompson, M. W. (1977). General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century . Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-239-00162-1.
- ↑ "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes . Retrieved 2017-11-23.
- ↑ "Pitt Rivers Museum". www.culture24.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
- ↑ "Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: report on the papers of archaeologists and anthropologists". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ↑ "Roy Chapman Andrews". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
- ↑ Who Was Who 1941–1950. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 1980. ISBN 0-7136-2131-1.
- ↑ "Davidson Black - Canadian anthropologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-05-31.