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His chief work "Pre-Historical Times" (1865) ran through several editions until 1913 and was the major English language introductory text to prehistoric archaeology of its time. In it he coined the terms Palaeolithic and Neolithic.
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, 4th Baronet, PC, DL, FRS, FRAI (30 April 1834 – 28 May 1913), known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet, from 1865 until 1900, was an English banker, Liberal politician, philanthropist, scientist and polymath.
Jako archeolog interesował się szczególnie prehistorią Europy, a jako entomolog – społecznym życiem owadów. Był autorem prac: Prehistoric Times (1865); Ants, Bees, and Wasps (1882) i The Pleasures of Life (1887 – 1889).
Does the collection of archaeological and ethnographic material created by Sir John Lubbock shed light on the nature of late 19th-century English society, and Lubbock's role within it?
30 kwi 2021 · The findings are now in the collection of the British Museum. Lubbock also spoke in support of the evolutionist Thomas Henry Huxley at the famous 1860 Oxford evolution debate. During the 1860s, he published many articles in which he used archaeological evidence to support Darwin’s theory.
27 lis 2013 · We show how Lubbock contributed to this emergence of a professional Palaeolithic archaeology, and what he did and did not achieve in the critical decades of the 1850s and 1860s before his interests moved elsewhere.
27 lis 2013 · When Sir John Lubbock died in May 1913, his estate included a seemingly eclectic assortment of prehistoric stone tools and ethnographic artefacts displayed on the walls of his home at High Elms and hidden away in storage.
