John Frere Discovers Prehistoric Tools in England
Overview
John Frere (1740-1807) was an English landowner with a modest political career and enough of an interest in archaeology to join the London-ba...
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John Frere
1740-1807
British landowner and archaeologist whose 1797 description of stone tools found near Hoxne, Suffolk, laid the conceptual foundations of prehistoric archaeology. Frere, a member of...
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John Frere Discovers Prehistoric Tools in England