# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/zelia-nuttall
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:48:02.133Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/zelia-nuttall"
name: "Zelia Nuttall"
slug: "zelia-nuttall"
description: "Zelia Maria Magdalena Nuttall was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialised in pre-Aztec Mexican cultures and pre-Columbian manuscripts. She discovered two forgotten manuscripts of this type in private collections, one of them being the Codex Zouche-Nuttall. She decoded the Aztec calendar stone and was one of the first to identify and recognise artefacts dating back to the pre-Aztec period. Nuttall can also be credited for being first to ever challenge the prevailing theory of a California landing for Francis Drake's circumnavigation in spite of much adversity. She boldly proposed that Drake had sailed further North into the Pacific Northwest. Numerous northern coast researchers reexamined the few available records as a result."
tagline: "American archaeologist and anthropologist (1857-1933)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Zelia_Nuttall.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1857-09-06"
deathDate: "1933-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           48.59
  momentum:             11.08695652173913
  historical:           11.35842533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
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    title: "زيليا نوتال"
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    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
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  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall"
    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall"
    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall"
    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall"
    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
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  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall"
    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall"
    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall"
    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zelia_Nuttall"
    title: "Zelia Nuttall"
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  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%B0%D1%82%D1%82%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BB%2C_%D0%97%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Наттолл, Зелия"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump