# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/william-rathje
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:10:47.871Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/william-rathje"
name: "William Rathje"
slug: "william-rathje"
description: "William Laurens Rathje was an American archaeologist. He was professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and was consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University. He was the longtime director of the Tucson Garbage Project, which studied trends in discards by field research in Tucson, Arizona, and in landfills elsewhere, pioneering the field now known as garbology. His work included behavioural archaeology."
tagline: "American archaeologist (1945-2012)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-07-01"
deathDate: "2012-05-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "وليام راثجي"
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    title: "وليام راثجى"
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    title: "William Rathje"
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    title: "William Rathje"
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    title: "Ուիլյամ Ռաթյե"
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    title: "William Rathje"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump