Hodder Michael Westropp
1820–85
Archaeologist. BA, University of Dublin, 1844. Wrote on prehistoric archaeology, especially phallic symbolism in ancient religions. Published Handbook of archaeology in 1867, the first volume of its kind. Proposed the introduction of the term ‘Mesolithic’ in 1872.
Sources
Alum. Dublin.
CODA
Tort 1996.
Bibliography
Alum. Dublin.: Alumni Dublinenses. A register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593–1860). New edition with supplement. Edited by George Dames Burtchaell and Thomas Ulick Sadleir. Dublin: Alex. Thom & Co. 1935.
CODA: The concise Oxford dictionary of archaeology. 2d edition. Edited by Timothy Darwill. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2008.
Tort, Patrick. 1996. Dictionnaire du Darwinisme et de l’evolution. 3 vols. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.
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