Edoardo Brizio (March 3, 1846, Turin – May 5, 1907, Bologna) was an Italian archaeologist. He was a student of Giuseppe Fiorelli’s school of archaeology in Pompeii.Dyson, S. L. (2006). In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Yale University Press. p. 49. Brizio became a professor of archaeology at the University of Bologna in 1876,Archaeological News. American Journal of Archaeology. 1907. 11: 341-342. and later director of the Museo Civico of Bologna.Peer, T.E. (September 1908). "Obituary". Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology. Institute of Archaeology. 1(1-2):48. 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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