J. Eric S. Thompson

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Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson KBE (31 December 1898 – 9 September 1975^[1]) was a leading English Mesoamerican archaeologist, ethnohistorian, and epigrapher. While working in the United States, he dominated Maya studies and particularly the study of the Maya script until well into the 1960s.