April 30
Posted in White History on Apr 30th, 2012
1834 English banker, politician, naturalist and archaeologist John Lubbock was born. He coined the terms Neolithic and Paleolithic, and was a personal friend of Charles Darwin. He discovered the first fossil remains of musk-ox in England, and undertook archaeological work identifying prehistoric cultures. As a naturalist, he studied insect vision and colour sense and published [...]