Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (31 December 1898 – 9 September 1975) was an English Mesoamerican archeologist, ethnohistorian, and epigrapher. His contributions to the understanding of Maya hieroglyphs lead him to be one of the foremost mid-20th century anthropological scholars. He was generally known as J. Eric S. Thompson in print and Eric Thompson to his colleagues.
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“They smote and fell, who set the bars
Against the progress of the stars,
And stayed the march of Motherland!”
—Will Henry Thompson (1848–1918)