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Gustaf Kossinna

German archaeologist

Died when: 73 years 83 days (878 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Gustaf Kossinna

Gustaf Kossinna (28 September 1858 – 20 December 1931) was a German philologist and archaeologist who was Professor of German Archaeology at the University of Berlin.

Along with Carl Schuchhardt he was the most influential German prehistorian of his day, and was creator of the techniques of settlement archaeology (German: Siedlungsarchaeologie).

His nationalistic theories about the origins of the Germanic peoples and Indo-Europeans influenced aspects of National Socialist ideology.Though politically discredited after World War II, Kossinna's methodological approach has greatly influenced archaeology up to the present day.

In the years following World War II, Kossinna's theories of settlement archaeology were widely dismissed as pseudoscience.Recent discoveries in archaeogenetics have prompted a renewed discussion of Kossinna's legacy and the significance of migration in prehistory.


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