# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-l-carneiro
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:42:39.821Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-l-carneiro"
name: "Robert L. Carneiro"
slug: "robert-l-carneiro"
description: "Robert Leonard Carneiro was an American anthropologist and curator of the American Museum of Natural History who is widely held to be one of the prominent sociocultural evolutionists. He is mostly known for his Circumscription theory which explains how early political states may have formed as a result of interactions between environmental constraints, population pressures, and warfare."
tagline: "American anthropologist (1927-2020)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bob-carneiro-in-the-field.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1927-06-04"
deathDate: "2020-06-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.879122666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8281dc24-b7ae-4e01-aa59-080581f60ff7"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84._%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "روبيرت ال. كارنيرو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Robert L. Carneiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Carneiro"
    title: "Robert L. Carneiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Carneiro"
    title: "Robert L. Carneiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Carneiro"
    title: "Robert L. Carneiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Carneiro"
    title: "Robert L. Carneiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Carneiro"
    title: "Robert L. Carneiro"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%B9%D1%80%D0%BE%2C_%D0%A0%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%82"
    title: "Карнейро, Роберт"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump