Edoardo Brizio (March 3, 1846,

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– May 5, 1907,

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) was an Italian archaeologist. He was a student of Giuseppe Fiorelli’s school of archaeology in

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. Brizio became a professor of archaeology at the

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in 1876, and later director of the Museo Civico of Bologna. He is notable for advancing the theory that the Terramare population had been the original Ligurians.Mitchell, John Malcolm (1911). "Terramara". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. 26 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 658–659.

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19th-century Italian archaeologists Academic staff of the University of Bologna 1846 births 1907 deaths University of Turin alumni {{Archaeologist-stub