This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

, the study of the human past through material remains.

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Kamyar Abdi Kamyar Abdi ( fa, کامیار عبدی; born 1969) is an Iranian archaeologist. He is the editor of the Iranian ''Journal of Archaeology and History'', a research associate at the Iranian Center for Research on Humanities and Cultural Studies, a ...

(born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age * Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012) Brazilian; Brazil *

Johann Michael Ackner Johann Michael Ackner (January 25, 1782 – August 12, 1862) was a Transylvanian archaeologist and nature researcher. Biography A Saxon born in Schäßburg (Sighişoara), a town in the Habsburg province of Transylvania (now Romania), Johann A ...

(1783–1862)

Transylvanian Transylvania ( ro, Ardeal or ; hu, Erdély; german: Siebenbürgen) is a historical and cultural region in Central Europe, encompassing central Romania. To the east and south its natural border is the Carpathian Mountains, and to the west the A ...

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Roman Dacia Roman Dacia ( ; also known as Dacia Traiana, ; or Dacia Felix, 'Fertile/Happy Dacia') was a province of the Roman Empire from 106 to 271–275 AD. Its territory consisted of what are now the regions of Oltenia, Transylvania and Banat (today ...

Dinu Adameșteanu Dinu Adameșteanu (Toporu, 25 March 1913 – Policoro, 2 January 2004) was a Romanian-Italian archaeologist, a pioneer and promoter of the use of aerial photography and aerial survey in archaeology. From 1958 to 1964, he was director of ''Aerofoto ...

(1913–2004) Romanian-Italian; aerial photography and survey of sites *

James M. Adovasio James M. Adovasio (born 1944) is an American archaeologist and one of the foremost experts in perishable artifacts (such as basketry and textiles). He was formerly the Provost, Dean of the Zurn School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, and Di ...

(born 1944) U.S.; New World (esp. Pre-Clovis) and perishable technologies *

Anagnostis Agelarakis Anagnostis P. Agelarakis ( el, Αναγνώστης Π. Αγελαράκης; born 1 January 1956) is a professor of Anthropological Archaeology and Physical Anthropology at Adelphi University. He received a B.A. from Lund University in 1977, in Cl ...

(born 1956) Greek; archaeological and physical anthropology *

Yohanan Aharoni Yohanan Aharoni (Hebrew:יוחנן אהרוני)(7 June 1919 – 9 February 1976) was an Israeli archaeologist and historical geographer, chairman of the Department of Near East Studies and chairman of the Institute of Archaeology at Tel-Aviv Unive ...

(1919–1976) Israeli; Israel Bronze Age *

Edward R. Ayrton Edward Russell Ayrton (17 December 1882 – 18 May 1914) was an English Egyptologist and archaeologist. Early life Ayrton was the son of William Scrope Ayrton (1849-1904), a British consular official in China, and his wife Ellen Louisa McClat ...

(1882–1914) English Egyptologist and archaeologist *

Ekrem Akurgal Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 – November 1, 2002) was a Turkish archaeologist. During a career that spanned more than fifty years, he conducted definitive research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia (Foça), ...

(1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia * Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Roman Portugal *

William F. Albright William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891– September 19, 1971) was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics. He is considered "one of the twentieth century's most influential American biblical scholars." ...

(1891–1971) U.S.; Orientalist *

Leslie Alcock Leslie Alcock (24 April 1925 – 6 June 2006) was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Medieval Britain. His major excavations included Dinas Powys hill fort in Wales, Cadbury Ca ...

(1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain * Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) American; Roman provinces *

Miranda Aldhouse-Green Miranda Jane Aldhouse-Green, (''née'' Aldhouse; born 24 July 1947) is a British archaeologist and academic, known for her research on the Iron Age and the Celts. She was Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University from 2006 to 2013. Until ...

(born 1947) British;

British British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, ...

Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age (Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age (Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostly appl ...

and Romano-Celtic *

Abbas Alizadeh Abbas Alizadeh (born 1951) is an Iranologist and Persian archaeologist. Alizadeh is a senior research associate at the Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private ...

(born 1951) Iranian; Iran * Jim Allen, (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Pacific,

Port Essington Port Essington is an inlet and historic site located on the Cobourg Peninsula in the Garig Gunak Barlu National Park in Australia's Northern Territory. It was the site of an early attempt at British settlement, but now exists only as a remote ...

Lapita The Lapita culture is the name given to a Neolithic Austronesian people and their material culture, who settled Island Melanesia via a seaborne migration at around 1600 to 500 BCE. They are believed to have originated from the northern Philipp ...

, Polynesian *

Penelope Allison Penelope 'Pim' Allison academic archaeologist specialising the Roman Empire and since 2015 has been professor of archaeology at the University of Leicester. She is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and an Honorary Fellow of the Australi ...

(born 19??) household and Roman archaeology *

Sedat Alp Prof. Ord. Sedat Alp (January 1, 1913 in Veroia – October 9, 2006 in Ankara) was the first Turkish archaeologist, historian and academic with a specialization in Hittitology, and was among the foremost names in the field. He was the president ...

(1913–2006) Turkish; Hittitology *

Ruth Amiran Ruth Amiran ( he, רות עמירן; 1914 – December 14, 2005), née Brandstetter, was an Israeli archaeologist whose book ''Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land: From Its Beginnings in the Neolithic Period to the End of the Iron Age'' which was p ...

(1915–2005) Israeli; Tel Arad *

Atholl Anderson Atholl John Anderson (born 1943) is a New Zealand archaeologist who has worked extensively in New Zealand and the Pacific. His work is notable for its syntheses of history, biology, ethnography and archaeological evidence. He made a major contr ...

(born 1943) New Zealand; New Zealand and the Pacific *

David G. Anderson David G. Anderson (born 1949) is an archaeologist in the department of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who specializes in Southeastern archaeology. His professional interests include climate change and human response, explo ...

(born 1949) U.S.; eastern North America *

Johan Gunnar Andersson Johan Gunnar Andersson (3 July 1874 – 29 October 1960)"Andersson, Johan Gunnar" in ''Encyclopædia Britannica, The New Encyclopædia Britannica''. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 15th edn., 1992, Vol. 1, p. 385. was a Sweden, Swedish arc ...

(1874–1960) Swedish; China * E. Wyllys Andrews IV (1916–1971) American; Maya * E. Wyllys Andrews V (born 194?) American; Maya * Manolis Andronicos (1919–1992) Greek; Greece * Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972) Russian/Soviet; Khazar (Central Asia) *

Khaled al-Asaad Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad ( ar, خالد الأسعد, , January 1932 – 18 August 2015) was a Syrian archaeologist and the head of antiquities at the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He held this position for over forty ye ...

(1934–2015) Syrian; Palmyra *

Mick Aston Michael Antony Aston (1 July 1946 – 24 June 2013) was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford and ...

(1946–2013) English; popularizer *

Richard J. C. Atkinson :''Alternative meaning: Richard Atkinson (educator)'' Richard John Copland Atkinson CBE (22 January 1920 – 10 October 1994) was a British prehistorian and archaeologist. Biography Atkinson was born in Evershot, Dorset, and went to Sher ...

(1920–1994) English; England *

Val Attenbrow Valerie Attenbrow is principal research scientist in the Anthropology Research Section of the Australian Museum, a position she has held since 1989. Education and career Attenbrow commenced her archaeological studies in the Department of Anthr ...

(born 1942) Australian; Aboriginal stone tools, archaeology of aboriginal Sydney * Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 1957) French; Black Death/bubonic plague *

Anthony Aveni Anthony Francis Aveni (born 1938) is an American academic anthropologist, astronomer, and author, noted in particular for his extensive publications and contributions to the field of archaeoastronomy. With an academic career spanning over four deca ...

(born 1938) U.S.; archaeoastronomy *

Nahman Avigad Nahman Avigad (Hebrew: נחמן אביגד, September 25, 1905 – January 28, 1992), born in Zawalow, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now Zavaliv, Ukraine), was an Israeli archaeologist. Biography Avigad studied architecture in what is n ...

(1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada *

Hasan Awad Hasan ʿAwad al-Qatshan (born 1912–13) was a Bedouin archaeologist associated with the Jordanian Department of Antiquities. Working with his partner Gerald Lankester Harding and other western archaeologists, he played a role in a number of major ...

(born 1912/13) Bedouin; excavator *

Massoud Azarnoush Massoud Azarnoush (25 March 1945 – 27 November 2008) was an Iranian archaeologist. He was born in Kermanshah. He received his MA from the department of archaeology at University of Tehran in 1972 and his PhD from the University of California, Lo ...

(1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology

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Churchill Babington Churchill Babington (; 11 March 182112 January 1889) was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist. He served as Rector of Cockfield, Suffolk. He was a cousin of Cardale Babington. Life He was born at Rothley Temple, in Lei ...

(1821–1889) English; classical archaeology *

Paul Bahn Paul G. Bahn, (born 29 July 1953)'Bahn, Paul (1953-)'
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(born 1953) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island * Geoff Bailey (born 19??) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece *

Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840March 18, 1914) was a Swiss-born American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States wit ...

(1840–1914) American; American South-West, Mexico *

Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay Rakhal Das Banerji, also Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (12 April 1885 – 23 May 1930), was an Indian archaeologist and an officer of the Archeological Survey of India (ASI). In 1919, he became the second ASI officer deputed to survey the site of M ...

(1885–1930) Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture *

Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (19 February 1900 – 17 January 1975) was an Italian archaeologist and art historian. Biography Bianchi Bandinelli was born in Siena to Mario Bianchi Bandinelli (1859–1930) and Margherita Ottilie "Lily" von Korn ...

(1900–1975) Italian; Etruscans & art * Edward B. Banning (born 19??) Canadian; Near Eastern archaeology, archaeological survey *

Luisa Banti Luisa Banti (1894 – 1978) was an Italian archaeologist, art historian, and educator specializing in the Etruscan and Minoan civilizations. Her best known work is ''Il mondo degli Etruschi'' (The World of the Etruscans). First published in 1960 a ...

(1894–1978) Italian; Etruscology *

Taha Baqir Taha Baqir ( ar, طه باقر ') (born 1912 in Babylon, Ottoman Iraq – 28 February 1984) was an Iraqi Assyriologist, author, cuneiformist, linguist, historian, and former curator of the National Museum of Iraq. Baqir is considered one of Iraq' ...

(1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites *

Pessah Bar-Adon Pessah Bar-Adon (Hebrew: פסח בר-אדון; b. 1907, d. 1985) was a Polish-born Israeli archaeologist and writer. Early life Born Pessah Panitsch in Kolno, Poland, to a Zionist, Haredi family, he was educated in a Jewish orthodox school and i ...

(1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (

Bet Shearim Beit She'arim ( he, בֵּית שְׁעָרִים, "House of Gates") is the currently used name for the ancient Jewish town of Beit She'arim (Roman-era Jewish village), Bet She'arayim (, "House of Two Gates") or ''Kfar She'arayim'' (, "Villa ...

Tel Bet Yerah Khirbet Kerak ( ar, خربة الكرك , "the ruin of the fortress") or Beth Yerah ( he, בית ירח , "House of the Moon (god)") is a tell (archaeological mound) located on the southern shore of the Sea of Galilee in modern-day Israel. The te ...

Nahal Mishmar hoard The Nahal Mishmar hoard is the hoard of archaeological artifacts found by a 1961 expedition led by Pessah Bar-Adon in a cave by Nahal Mishmar in the Judaean Desert near the Dead Sea, Israel. The collection wrapped in a straw mat found under deb ...

) * John C. Barrett (born 19??) British; archaeological theory and European prehistory *

Diane Barwick Diane Elizabeth McEachern Barwick (29 April 1938 – 4 April 1986) was a Canadian-born anthropologist, historian, and Aboriginal-rights activist. She was also a renowned researcher and teacher in the field of Australian Aboriginal culture and s ...

(1938–1986) Australian; Aboriginal culture and society *

Gabriel Barkay Gabriel Barkay (Hebrew: גבריאל ברקאי; sometimes transcribed from the Hebrew Gavriel Barkai) is an Israeli archaeologist. Early life and studies Born in 1944 in the Budapest Ghetto, Hungary, he immigrated to Israel in 1950. Barkay stu ...

(born 1944) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy, glyptics in the Iron Age, Ketef Hinnom) *

Graeme Barker Graeme William Walter Barker, (born 23 October 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology. Early life and education Barker was born on 23 October ...

(born 1946) British; Italian Bronze Age, Roman Libya, landscape archaeology * Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England *

Ofer Bar-Yosef Ofer Bar-Yosef ( he, עופר בר-יוסף; 29 August 1937 – 14 March 2020) was an Israeli archaeologist and anthropologist whose main field of study was the Palaeolithic period. From 1967 Bar-Yosef was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at ...

(1937–2020) Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites *

George Bass George Bass (; 30 January 1771 – after 5 February 1803) was a British naval surgeon and explorer of Australia. Early years Bass was born on 30 January 1771 at Aswarby, a hamlet near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, the son of a tenant farmer, George ...

(1932–2021) American; underwater archaeology *

Thomas Bateman Thomas Bateman (8 November 1821 (baptised) – 28 August 1861) was an English antiquary and barrow-digger. Biography Thomas Bateman was born in Rowsley, Derbyshire, England, the son of the amateur archaeologist William Bateman. After the death ...

(1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire) *

Leopoldo Batres Leopoldo Batres (1852 in Ciudad de Mexico – 1926) was a pioneer of the archaeology of Mexico. He worked as an anthropologist and archaeologist for the Museo Nacional de Antropología between 1884 and 1888, beginning his excavations at Teotihuacan ...

(1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco) *

Gertrude Bell Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist. She spent much of her life exploring and mapping the Middle East, and became highly ...

(1868–1926) English; adventurer and Middle Eastern archaeologist, formed the Baghdad Archaeological Museum (now Iraqi Museum) *

Peter Bellwood Peter Stafford Bellwood (born Leicester, England, 1943) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. He is well known for his Out of Taiwan model regar ...

(born 1943) Australian; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide), interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biologyProfessor Peter Bellwood
, School of Archaeology and

Anthropology Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including past human species. Social anthropology studies patterns of behavi ...

of the Australian National University. *

Giovanni Battista Belzoni Giovanni Battista Belzoni (; 5 November 1778 – 3 December 1823), sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities. He is known for his removal to England of the seven-tonn ...

(1778–1823) Italian/Venetian; Egypt * Mary Beaudry (1950–2020) American; eastern U.S., Scotland, Caribbean, gastronomy * Sergei Beletzkiy (1953–2022) Russian; Medieval Russia *

Anna Belfer-Cohen Anna Belfer-Cohen ( he, אנה בלפר-כהן; born November 3, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist and paleoanthropologist and Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Belfer-Cohen excavated and studi ...

(born 1949); Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant *

Erez Ben-Yosef Erez Ben-Yosef is an Israeli archaeologist best known for leading 21st century digs at the ancient copper mines in the Timna Valley, Sinai peninsula. He is Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University. Ben-Yosef earned the B.A., B.Sc., and M.Sc ...

(born 19??); Israeli; archaeometallurgist; *

Crystal Bennett Crystal-Margaret Bennett, (20 August 1918 – 12 August 1987) was a British archaeologist. A student of Kathleen Kenyon, Bennett was a pioneer of archaeological research in Jordan and founded the British Institute at Amman for Archaeology and ...

(1918–1987) British; Jordan *

James Theodore Bent James Theodore Bent (30 March 1852 – 5 May 1897) was an English explorer, archaeologist, and author. Biography James Theodore Bent was born in Liverpool on 30 March 1852, the son of James (1807-1876) and Eleanor (née Lambert, c.1811-1873) ...

(1852–1897) British; eastern Med, Africa, and Arabia. *

Dumitru Berciu Dumitru Berciu (27 January 1907, Bobaița, Mehedinți – 1 July 1998, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist, honorary member of the Romanian Academy. He conducted research in South-Eastern and Central Europe, focusing on Geto ...

(1907–1998) Romanian; South-Eastern and Central Europe,

Geto-Dacians The Dacians (; la, Daci ; grc-gre, Δάκοι, Δάοι, Δάκαι) were the ancient Indo-European inhabitants of the cultural region of Dacia, located in the area near the Carpathian Mountains and west of the Black Sea. They are often consi ...

Thracians The Thracians (; grc, Θρᾷκες ''Thrāikes''; la, Thraci) were an Indo-European languages, Indo-European speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. ...

and

Celts The Celts (, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples () are. "CELTS location: Greater Europe time period: Second millennium B.C.E. to present ancestry: Celtic a collection of Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancien ...

Lee Berger Lee Rogers Berger (born December 22, 1965) is an American-born South African paleoanthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence. He is best known for his discovery of the '' Australopithecus sediba'' type site, Malapa; his leade ...

(born 1965) U.S.; paleo-anthropology *

Gerhard Bersu Gerhard Bersu (26 September 1889 – 19 November 1964) was a German archaeologist who excavated widely across Europe. He was forced into exile from Germany in 1937 due to anti-Semitic laws in pre-war Nazi Germany. He was interned on the Isle ...

(1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.) * Charles Ernest Beule (1826–1874) French; Greece *

Paolo Biagi Paolo Biagi (born 1948) is an Italian archaeologist specialising in the prehistory of Southeast Europe, Russia and the Caucasus, and Western Asia, Southwest Asia. He is currently a professor at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. Education and ...

(born 1948) Italian; Eurasian Mesolithic and Neolithic, Pakistan prehistory *

Geoffrey Bibby Thomas Geoffrey Bibby (14 October 1917 – 6 February 2001, Aarhus) was an English-born archaeologist. He is best known for discovering the ancient state of Dilmun, referred to in Mesopotamian mythology as a paradise. He is often considered t ...

(1917–2001) British; Arabia * Penny Bickle (born 19??) British; bioarchaeology, Neolithic *

Clarence Bicknell Clarence Bicknell (27 August 1842 – 17 July 1918) was a British vicar, amateur archaeologist, botanist, artist, Esperantist, author and philanthropist. He founded the Bicknell Museum in Bordighera, Italy. Also named after him is a street in Bor ...

(1842–1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at

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, France *

Martin Biddle Martin Biddle, (born 4 June 1937) is a British archaeologist and academic. He is an emeritus fellow of Hertford College, Oxford. His work was important in the development of medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain. Early life ...

(born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain *

Manfred Bietak Manfred Bietak (born in Vienna, 6 October 1940) is an Austrian archaeologist.Fereidoun Biglari Fereidoun Biglari ( fa, فریدون بیگلری) () is an Iranian archaeologist and a museum curator. Career Fereidoun Biglari is co-founder and head of the Paleolithic department in National Museum of Iran which established in 2001. He is ...

(born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic *

Lewis Binford Lewis Roberts Binford (November 21, 1931 – April 11, 2011) was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period. He is widely considered among the most influe ...

(1930–2011) American; U.S., France, theory * Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) U.S.; discovered Machu Picchu *

Flavio Biondo Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus) (1392 – June 4, 1463) was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was one of the first historians to use a three-period division of history (Ancient, Medieval, Modern) and is known as one of the f ...

(1392–1463) Italian; Rome *

Avraham Biran Avraham Biran ( he, אברהם בירן, born 23 October 1909 – 16 September 2008) was an Israeli archaeologist, best known for heading excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel. He headed the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in ...

(1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan)) *

Caroline Bird Caroline Bird (born 1986) is a British poet, playwright and author. Life Caroline Bird was born in 1986. Daughter of Jude Kelly, she grew up in Leeds, England, and attended the Steiner School in York and the Lady Eleanor Holles School before ...

(born 19??) Australia; heritage and indigenous studies research *

Judy Birmingham Jean (Judy) Birmingham is a prominent English historical archaeologist, who has been based in Sydney, Australia, for most of her career. Biography Birmingham received her MA in Classics from the University of St Andrews in 1953 and latter at ...

(born 19??) Australian; historical archaeology in Australia, Irrawang pottery, Tasmania *

Glenn Albert Black Glenn Albert Black (August 18, 1900 –September 2, 1964) was an American archaeologist, author, and part-time university lecturer who was among the first professional archaeologists to study prehistoric sites in Indiana continuously. Black, a pi ...

(1900–1964) U.S.; US Mid-West *

Carl Blegen Carl William Blegen (January 27, 1887 – August 24, 1971) was an American archaeologist who worked at the site of Pylos in Greece and Troy in modern-day Turkey. He directed the University of Cincinnati excavations of the mound of Hisarlik, the ...

(1888–1971) U.S.; Troy * Elizabeth Blegen (1888–1966) U.S.; Greece, educator *

Frederick Jones Bliss Frederick Jones Bliss (22 January 1859-–3 June 1937) was an American archaeologist. Biography He was born in Mount Lebanon, Syria on 22 January 1859. His father, Daniel Bliss, was first a Congregational missionary and later president of ...

(1857–1939) U.S.; Palestine * Bayar Dovdoi (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia * John Boardman (born 1927) British; Classical archaeology, especially Greek architecture * Nicole Boivin (born 19??) Canadian; migration out of Africa, long-distance maritime trade *

Jean Boisselier Jean Boisselier (26 August 1912 – 26 February 1996) was a French archaeologist, ethnologist, and art historian. He was a specialist on Khmers and a researcher focused on Buddhist thought and iconography. As a member of the École frança ...

(1912–1996) French; Khmer, Southeast Asia *

Larissa Bonfante Larissa Bonfante (March 27, 1931, Naples, Italy – August 23, 2019, New York City, New York) was an Italian-American classicist, Professor of Classics ''emerita'' at New York University and an authority on Etruscan language and culture. Biogra ...

(1931–2019) U.S.; Etruscans * Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture *

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(1863-1938) German; Egypt (

Amarna Amarna (; ar, العمارنة, al-ʿamārnah) is an extensive Egyptian archaeological site containing the remains of what was the capital city of the late Eighteenth Dynasty. The city was established in 1346 BC, built at the direction of the Ph ...

) *

François Bordes François Bordes (December 30, 1919 – April 30, 1981), also known by the pen name of Francis Carsac, was a French scientist, geologist, archaeologist, and science fiction writer. Biography He was a professor of prehistory and quaternary g ...

(1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping *

Barbara Borg Barbara Elisabeth Borg (born 26 December 1960) is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Exeter. She is known in particular for her work on Roman tombs, the language of classical art, and geoarchaeology. Career Borg studied ...

(born 1960) German; Classical archaeology * Stephen Borhegyi (1921–1969) American; Meso-America *

Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (; 10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes ( ), was a French archaeologist and antiquary notable for his discovery, in about 1830, of flint tools in the gravels of ...

(1788–1868) French; France *

Stephen Bourke Stephen Bourke is an Australian archaeologist of the ancient Near East. He obtained his Ph.D. from University College London in 1992, and is an Honorary Fellow of the Council for British Research in the Levant. Bourke has led the ongoing Univers ...

, Australian;

Pella Pella ( el, Πέλλα) is an ancient city located in Central Macedonia, Greece. It is best-known for serving as the capital city of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, and was the birthplace of Alexander the Great. On site of the ancient cit ...

Jole Bovio Marconi Jole Bovio Marconi () (January 21, 1897 in Rome – April 14, 1986 in Palermo) was an Italian archaeologist who graduated with a degree in the topography of ancient Rome from the Sapienza University of Rome and specialized at the Italian School ...

(1897–1986) Italian; Neolithic Sicily * Sandra Bowdler (born 1947) Australian; Australian Indigenous archaeology, pre-neolithic East and Southeast Asia *

Harriet Boyd Hawes Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes (October 11, 1871 – March 31, 1945) was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse, relief worker, and professor. She is best known as the discoverer and first director of Gournia, one of the first archaeological excavatio ...

(1871–1945) American; Greece & Crete; Minoan * Harry Charles Purvis Bell (1851–1937) British civil servant; first Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon ; * Richard Bradley (born 1946) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain) * Linda Schreiber Braidwood (1909–2003) U.S.; Near East * Senake Bandaranayake (1938 –2015) Sri Lanka; archeologist, Emeritus professor and vice chancellor at University of Kelaniya *

Robert John Braidwood Robert John Braidwood (29 July 1907 – 15 January 2003) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, one of the founders of scientific archaeology, and a leader in the field of Near Eastern Prehistory. Life Braidwood was born July 29 ...

(1907–2003) U.S.; Turkey *

Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was " ...

(1814–1874) French; Meso-America *

James Henry Breasted James Henry Breasted (; August 27, 1865 – December 2, 1935) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he ...

(1865–1935) U.S.; Egypt *

Adela Breton Adela Catherine Breton (31 December 1849 – June 1923) was an English archaeological artist and explorer. She made watercolour copies of the wall paintings of Mexican temples, notably those of the Upper Temple of Jaguars at Chichen Itza. Bi ...

(1849–1923) British; Mexico *

Eric Breuer Eric Breuer is a Swiss archaeologist and historian. He studied archaeology and history at the Universities of Munich, Vienna, Fribourg and Basel. He discovered the Roman vicus of Eriskirch (Lake Constance), and conducted widespread research on ear ...

(born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology *

Jacques Breuer Jacques Breuer (born October 20, 1956) is an Austrian screen and voice actor and film director living in Germany. His grandfather was the popular Austrian actor Siegfried Breuer and both his father, Siegfried Breuer jr., and his ten years younger ...

(born 1956) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium *

Robert Brier Robert Brier (; born December 13, 1943) is an American Egyptologist specializing in paleopathology. A senior research fellow at Long Island University/ LIU Post, he has researched and published on mummies and the mummification process and has appea ...

(born 1943) U.S.; Egypt paleopathology *

Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans was born 28 November 1970 in Hasselt, Belgium to Albert and Elly Bringmans-Jans. He is a Belgian archaeologist and paleoanthropologist whose main field of study has been the Palaeolithic period. Education Bringmans enroll ...

(born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology *

Srečko Brodar Srečko Brodar (May 6, 1893 – April 27, 1987) was a Slovene archaeologist, internationally best known for excavation of Potok Cave ( sl, Potočka zijalka), an Upper Palaeolithic cave site in northern Slovenia. Life Brodar studied at the Univ ...

(1893–1987) Slovene; Upper Paleolithic *

Mary Brodrick Mary (May) Brodrick (5 April 1858 – 13 July 1933) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who was one of the first female excavators in Egypt. She persisted in her studies despite the initial opposition of her tutors and fellow students ...

(c. 1858–1933) English; Egyptology *

Alison S. Brooks Alison S. Brooks is an American paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work focuses on the Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa. She is one of the most prominent figures in the debate over where ''Homo sapiens'' evolv ...

(born 19??) American; Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa * Myrtle Florence Broome (c. 1888–1978) English; Egyptology, illustrator *

Don Brothwell Donald Reginald Brothwell, (1933 – 26 September 2016) was a British archaeologist, anthropologist and academic, who specialised in human palaeoecology and environmental archaeology. He had worked at the University of Cambridge, the British Mus ...

(1933–2016) British; paleopathology *

Frank Edward Brown Frank Edward Brown (b. LaGrange, Illinois, USA, May 24, 1908; d. Marco Island, Florida, February 28, 1988) was a preeminent Mediterranean archaeologist. Education Educated at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, (B.A. 1929), Brown went on t ...

(1908–1988) American; Mediterranean * Elizabeth Brumfiel (1945–2012) U.S.; Mesoamerica *

Caitlin E. Buck Caitlin E. Buck (born 1964) is a British archaeologist and statistician specialising the application of Bayesian statistics to archaeology, and known for her work in radiocarbon dating. She is a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Stat ...

(born 1964) British; statistics, radiocarbon dating. * Sue Bulmer (1933–2016) American; New Zealand, Papua New Guinea * Hallie Buckley (born 19??) New Zealand; bioarchaeology *

Heather Burke Heather Burke (born 1966) is an Australian historical archaeologist and a Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University. Early life and education Burke attended Mount Cotton State School and Mary ...

(born 19??) Australian; historical archaeology, field methods *

Aubrey Burl Harry Aubrey Woodruff Burl HonFSA Scot (24 September 1926 – 8 April 2020) was a British archaeologist best known for his studies into megalithic monuments and the nature of prehistoric rituals associated with them. Before retirement he was Pr ...

(1926–2020) British; British megalithic monuments *

Les Bursill Leslie William Bursill (OAM) (4 February 1945 – 16 February 2019) was a Dharawal (Aboriginal Australian) historian, archaeologist, anthropologist, and publisher, born in Hurstville, New South Wales, in February 1945. His father, Wallace Richa ...

(1945–2019) Australian;

Dharawal The Dharawal people, also spelt Tharawal and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people, identified by the Dharawal language. Traditionally, they lived as hunter–fisher–gatherers in family groups or clans with ties of kinship, s ...

people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra *

Karl Butzer Karl W. Butzer (August 19, 1934 – May 4, 2016) was a German-born American geographer, ecologist, and archaeologist. He received two degrees at McGill University, Montreal: the B.Sc. (hons) in Mathematics in 1954 and later his master's degree in ...

(1934–2016) U.S.; environmental archaeology

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Errett Callahan Errett Callahan (December 17, 1937 – May 29, 2019) was an American archaeologist, flintknapper, and pioneer in the fields of experimental archaeology and lithic replication studies. Early life Errett Callahan was born in Lynchburg, Virginia ...

(1937–2019) American; experimental archaeology *

Frank Calvert Frank Calvert (1828–1908) was an English expatriate who was a consular official in the eastern Mediterranean region and an amateur archaeologist. He began exploratory excavations on the mound at Hisarlik (the site of the ancient city of Troy) ...

(1828–1908) English; Troy * Raissa Calza (1894–1979) Ukrainian; Italy (Ostia) *

Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell Elizabeth Campbell (1893–1971) was an American archeologist, notable for proposing a much earlier date for the presence of man in the desert Southwest than was generally accepted. She worked with her husband William (Bill) Campbell and first pr ...

(1893–1971) American; California *

Scott Cane Scott Cane is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist. He has lived long periods of time with the desert people of Australia, including some of the last hunter-gatherers. He is the author of ''Pila Nguru: The Spinifex People''. He appeared ...

(born 1954) Australian; Australia, desert people of Australia *

Luigi Canina Luigi Canina ( Casale Monferrato, 1795 – Florence, 1856) was an Italian archaeologist and architect. Luigi Canina, Italian architect and archeologist, was born in Casale Monferrato in 1795 and died in Florence in 1856. He was a pupil of Ferd ...

(1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way) *

Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino (born 1937, Bucharest-2019) was a Romanian historian and archeologist. Education Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino studied at the Sfântul Sava High School, graduating in 1954. Thereafter he attended the courses of the Faculty ...

(1937–2019) Romanian; Romania *

Bob Carr Robert John Carr (born 28 September 1947) is an Australian retired politician and journalist who served as the 39th Premier of New South Wales from 1995 to 2005, as the leader of the NSW Branch of the Australian Labor Party (ALP). He later en ...

(born 1947) American; Florida historic Indians * Maureen Carroll (born 1953) British; Roman archaeology *

Martin Carver Martin Oswald Hugh Carver, FSA, Hon FSA Scot, (born 8 July 1941) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project and a leading exponent of new methods in excavation and surve ...

(born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo *

Howard Carter Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the K ...

(1874–1939) English; Egypt *

Alfonso Caso Alfonso Caso y Andrade (February 1, 1896 in Mexico City – November 30, 1970 in Mexico City) was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico. Caso believed that the systematic study of ancient M ...

(1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico *

C. W. Ceram upright=.85, Original German cover of ''Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology'' (1949)C. W. Ceram (20 January 1915 – 12 April 1972) was the pseudonym of German journalist, editor at Rowohlt Verlag, and author Kurt Wilhelm Marek ...

(1915–1972) German; popularizer * Dilip Chakrabarti (born 1941) Indian; South Asia (Ganges Plain) * John Leland Champe (1895–1978) American?; archaeology of the Great Plains *

Jean-François Champollion Jean-François Champollion (), also known as Champollion ''le jeune'' ('the Younger'; 23 December 17904 March 1832), was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in th ...

(1790–1832) French; Egypt *

Kwang-chih Chang Kwang-chih Chang (15 April, 1931 – January 3, 2001), commonly known as K. C. Chang, was a Chinese / Taiwanese-American archaeologist and sinologist. He was the John E. Hudson Professor of archaeology at Harvard University, Vice-President of th ...

(1931–2001) Chinese/Taiwanese; China * Doris Emerson Chapman (1903–1990) British; prehistory *

Arlen F. Chase Arlen F. Chase (born 1953) is a Mesoamerican archaeologist and a faculty member in the anthropology department at Pomona College, Claremont CA. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and served a variety of adminis ...

(born 1953) American; Mesoamerica *

Diane Zaino Chase Diane Zaino Chase (born 1953) is an American anthropologist and archaeologist who specializes in the study of the Ancient Maya. Career Chase attended the University of Pennsylvania, graduating with a BA in anthropology in 1975. She completed her ...

(born 1953) American; Mesoamerica * George Henry Chase (1874–1952) American; Heraion of Argos *

Alfredo Chavero Alfredo Chavero (1841–1906) was a Mexican archaeologist, politician, poet, and dramatist. According to Howard F. Cline, "Chavero's most enduring claim to remembrance rests...on iscompletion and extension of Ramírez's plans to republish maj ...

(1841–1906) Mexican; Mexico *

Chen Mengjia Chen Mengjia (; 20 April 1911, in Nanjing – 3 September 1966, in Beijing) was a Chinese scholar, poet, paleographer and archaeologist. He was considered the foremost authority on oracle bones and was Professor of Chinese at Tsinghua University ...

(1911–1966) Chinese; China *

Chen Tiemei Chen Tiemei (; 30 June 1935 – 25 October 2018) was a Chinese physicist and archaeologist, considered a pioneer in scientific archaeology and a founder of quantitative archaeology in China. He was a professor and Director of the Scientific Archae ...

(1935–2018) Chinese; scientific archaeology and

radiocarbon dating Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was dev ...

* Chen Xingcan(born 1964) Chinese; China, history of Chinese archaeology *

John F. Cherry John F. Cherry is a British-American prehistorian and archaeologist, specialising in Aegean prehistory and Survey (archaeology), survey archaeology. He is Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Classics at the Joukowsky Institut ...

(born 19??) Welsh; Aegean prehistory *

Vere Gordon Childe Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 189219 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and th ...

(1892–1957) Australian; Europe / neolithic *

Choi Mong-lyong Choi Mong-lyong (born 1946) is an archaeologist and professor in the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. Choi was born in Seoul and received his PhD degree in anthropology in 1984 from Harv ...

(born 1946) Korean; Korea (Mumin pottery period) * Neil Christie (born 19??) British; Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages * Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834) Italian; Italy *

Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 20 June 1914) is a Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist who specializes in the study of Sumerian civilization. She stirred controversy in the Muslim world and received world-wide media coverage in 2006 with her ass ...

(born 1914) Turkish; Sumerology *

Jacques Cinq-Mars Jacques Cinq-Mars Born: 1941/42 (died 27 November 2021, aged 79) was a Canadian archaeologist specializing in Canada, especially Yukon. Cinq-Mars excavated the Bluefish Caves site in the Old Crow area from 1977 to 1987. His careful research showed ...

(died 2021) Canadian; Yukon, early man in North America * Amanda Claridge (1949–2022) British; Rome * John Desmond Clark (1916–2002) English; Africa *

Grahame Clark Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark (28 July 1907 – 12 September 1995), who often published as J. G. D. Clark, was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of Mesolithic Europe and palaeoeconomics. He spent most of his career working at ...

(1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy * Kate Clark (19??) industrial archaeology and museum * Bob Clarke (Historian) (born 1964) English; Prehistoric and Modern Era * David Clarke (1937–1976) English; theory * Stephen Clarke (born 19??) Welsh; Wales *

Albert Tobias Clay Albert Tobias Clay (December 4, 1866 – September 14, 1925) was an American professor, historian and Semitic linguist. He was professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale University and served as founding curator of the Yale Bab ...

(1866–1925) American; Assyriology * John Clegg (1935–2015) Australian; rock art *

Eric H. Cline Eric H. Cline (born September 1, 1960) is an author, historian, archaeologist, and professor of ancient history and archaeology at The George Washington University (GWU) in Washington, D.C., where he is Professor of Classics and Anthropology a ...

(born 1960) American?; Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory *

Fay-Cooper Cole Fay-Cooper Cole (8 August 1881 – 3 September 1961) was a professor of anthropology and founder of the anthropology department at the University of Chicago; he was a student of Franz Boas. Most famously, he was a witness for the defense for John ...

(1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West *

Bryony Coles Bryony Jean Coles, (born 12 August 1946) is a prehistoric archaeologist and academic. She is best known for her work studying Doggerland, an area of land now submerged beneath the North Sea. Early life and education Coles was born on 12 Aug ...

(born 1946) British; prehistoric archaeology, wetland archaeology,

Somerset Levels The Somerset Levels are a coastal plain and wetland area of Somerset, England, running south from the Mendip Hills, Mendips to the Blackdown Hills. The Somerset Levels have an area of about and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to ...

Doggerland Doggerland was an area of land, now submerged beneath the North Sea, that connected Britain to continental Europe. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6500–6200 BCE. The flooded land is known as the Dogger Littoral. Geological sur ...

John Coles John Coles may refer to: *John David Coles, film and television director *John Coles (historian) (1930–2020), British archaeologist * John Coles (diplomat) (born 1937), former British High Commissioner to Australia * John Coles (businessman) (183 ...

(1930–2020) British; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age, experimental archaeology *

Donald Collier Donald Collier (May 1, 1911 – January 23, 1995) was an archaeologist, ethnologist, and museologist. He was known primarily for his work in Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology and spent most of his career at the Field Museum of Natural History. Fa ...

(1911–1995) American; Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology *

John Collis John Collis, (born 1944 in Winchester) is a British prehistorian. His first dig was in Longbridge Deverill with Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes. He studied in Prague (with E. Soudská), Tübingen (with W. Kimmig) and Cambridge, where he stud ...

(born 1944) English; Iron Age Europe *

Dominique Collon Dominique Petronella Margaret Collon, (born 18 May 1940) is a Belgian-born academic, author, archaeologist and former curator at the British Museum in London who has worked and travelled extensively in the Near East in Syria, Turkey and Iraq. She ...

(born 1940) Belgian; cylinder seals of the Near East *Sir

Richard Colt Hoare Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet Fellow of the Royal Society, FRS (9 December 1758 – 19 May 1838) was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study ...

(1758–1838) English, England *

Margaret Conkey Margaret W. Conkey (born 1943) is an American archaeologist and academic,Haviland, William; Walrath, Dana & Prins, Harald (2007) ''Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge'', Wadsworth, , p. 210 who specializes in the Magdalenian period of the ...

(born 1943) American; Upper Paleolithic France *

Robin Coningham Robin Andrew Evelyn Coningham, FSA, FRAS (born 2 December 1965) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics. He has been Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology since 2005 and UNESCO ...

(born 1965) British; South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics * Diane Atnally Conlin (born 1963) American; Roman art and architecture * Niculae Conovici (1948–2005) Romanian; Romania, amphorae *

Graham Connah Graham Edward Connah (born 11 August 1934) is a British-born archaeologist who has worked extensively in Britain, West Africa and Australia. Connah was born in Cheshire, UK on 11 August 1934, and educated at Wirral Grammar School, and Cambridge ...

(born 1934) South Africa; historical archaeology *

Gudrun Corvinus Gudrun Corvinus (1932–2006) was a German geologist, paleontologist and archaeologist. Her contributions through her field work, academic monologues and archeological excavation discoveries are vast and have contributed to continued scientific dis ...

(1931–2006?) German; India/Nepal/Africa *

Peter Coutts Peter John Frazer Coutts was an Australian archaeologist who was first director of the Victoria Archaeological Survey (VAS), the precursor to the Heritage Branch of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. Early life and education Peter Coutts was educat ...

(born 1934) Australian; historical archaeology *

George Cowgill George L. Cowgill (; December 19, 1929 – July 31, 2018) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist. He was a professor of anthropology at Arizona State University from 1990-2005, and research professor emeritus from 2005 until his death. ...

(1929–2018) American; Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan) *

O.G.S. Crawford Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (28 October 1886 – 28 November 1957) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the archaeology of prehistoric Britain and Sudan. A keen proponent of aerial archaeology, he spent most of his career as th ...

(1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology *

Roger Cribb Roger Llewellyn Dunmore Cribb (6 January 1948 – 24 August 2007) was an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist who specialised in documenting and modelling spatial patterns and social organisation of nomadic peoples. He is noted for co ...

(1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds and Australian Aborigines *Ion Horaţiu Crişan (1928–1994)Romanian; Geto-Dacians and Celts *William (Bill) Culican (1928–1984) Australian; Middle East, Australian historical archaeology *Joseph George Cumming (1812–1868) English; Isle of Man *Barry Cunliffe (born 1939) British; Iron Age Europe, Celts *Ben Cunnington (archaeologist), Ben Cunnington (1861–1950) English; prehistoric England (Wiltshire) *Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893) English; "Father of Indian Archaeology" *Maud Cunnington (1869–1951) Welsh; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain) *William Cunnington (1754–1810) English; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain) *James Curle (archaeologist), James Curle (1861?–1944) Scottish; Roman Scotland (Trimontium), Gotland *Florin Curta (born 1965) American; Eastern Europe *Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) German; Greece *Clive Eric Cussler (1931–2020) American; underwater archaeology

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*Gaetano d'Ancora (1751–1816) Italy *Albéric d'Auxy (1836–1914) Belgian; Belgium *Bruno Dagens (born 1935) French; Khmer and India *Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973) Romanian; Romania *Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe (1865–1937) An epigraphist and archaeologist ; Sri Lanka *Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900–1976) Sri Lankan paleontologist, zoologist; director of the National Museum of Ceylon from 1961 to 1964 *George F. Dales (1927–1992) American; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations *Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology *Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology *Ken Dark (born 1961) British; Roman Europe *Raymond Dart (1893–1988) Australian; paleoanthropology: Australopithecus africanus *Siran Upendra Deraniyagala (1942 –2021) Sri Lankan archaeologist and historian, who served as the Director-General of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2001. *Janet Davidson (born 19?) New Zealand; New Zealand, Pacific Islands *Theodore M. Davis (1837–1915) American; Egypt *William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man *Touraj Daryaee (born 1967) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran) *Janette Deacon (born 1939) South African; rock art, heritage management *Hilary Deacon (1936–2010) South African; African; antiquity of man *Corinne Debaine-Francfort (born 19??) French; Eastern Central Asian and protohistoric China *James Deetz (1930–2000) American; Historical Archaeology *Warren DeBoer (died May 24, 2020) American; North and South America, ethnoarchaeology; ceramics *James P. Delgado (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist *Robin Dennell (born 1947) British; prehistoric archaeologist *Donald Brian Doe (1920–2005) British; Arabia *Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880) French; Holy Land *Jules Desnoyers (1800–1887) French; antiquity of man *Rúaidhrí de Valera (1916–1978) Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland *Dragotin Dežman (1821–1889) Slovenian; Ljubljana Marsh, Iron Age in Lower Carniola *Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1806–1867) French; Medievalist, Christian iconography *Tom D. Dillehay (born 19??) American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas *Kelly Dixon (born 19??) American; historical archaeology of the American West *Brian Dobson (archaeologist), Brian Dobson (1931–2012) British; Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Army *Dong Zuobin (1895–1963) Chinese/Taiwanese; oracle bones, Yinxu *Gertrud Dorka (1893–1976), German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director *Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) German; Greece *Trude Dothan (1922–2016) Austrian; Israel *Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics *Penelope Dransart (born 19??) British?; South American anthropology *Carol van Driel-Murray (born 1950) British; gender archaeology, Roman archaeology, and leather *Angela von den Driesch (1934–2012) German; osteoarchaeology *Hilary du Cros (born 19??) Australian; history of Australian archaeology *Duan Qingbo (1964–2019) Chinese; Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor *Roger Duff (1912–1978) New Zealander; New Zealand *Katherine Dunbabin (born 19??) British?; classical archaeology; Roman art *Robert Dunnell (1947–2010) American; theory, U.S. Mid-West *Louis Dupree (professor), Louis Dupree (1925–1989) American; Afghanistan *E. C. L. During Caspers (1934–1996) Dutch; Prehistoric Mesopotamia, South Asian, and Persian Gulf *Robert H. Dyson (1927–2020) American; Near Eastern archaeology

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*Elizabeth Eames (1918–2008) British; specialist in English medieval tiles *Hella Eckardt (born 19??) Roman archaeology; material culture *Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938) British; Cyclades and Hellenistic Egypt, papyrology specialist *Amelia Edwards (1831–1892) British; Egypt *Ricardo Eichmann (born 1955) German; Near Eastern archaeology *George Eogan (1930–2021) Irish; Knowth (Ireland) *Kenan Erim (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia *Ufuk Esin (1933–2008) Turkish; prehistoric Anatolia, archaeometry *Roland Étienne (archaeologist), Roland Étienne (born 1944) French; ancient Greece and Hellenistic period *Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) British; Aegean archaeology (Minoan studies, Knossos, Linear A and B) *Sir John Evans (archaeologist), John Evans (1823–1908) English; British archaeology

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*Georg Fabricius (1516–1571) German; Roman epigraphy *Brian M. Fagan (born 1936) British; generalist, popularist, history of archaeology *Panagiotis Faklaris (born 1950) Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina *Fan Jinshi (born 1938) Chinese; Dunhuang *William Fash (born 1954) American; Maya *Charles H. Faulkner (1937–2022) American; Tennessee, historic archaeology *Neil Faulkner (archaeologist), Neil Faulkner (1958-2022) British; Norfolk, Jordan *Rev. Bryan Faussett (1720–1776) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England) *Carlo Fea (1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law *Gary M. Feinman (born 1951) American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca *Sir Charles Fellows (1799–1860) British; Asia Minor *Karl Ludwig Fernow (1763–1808) German; Roman archaeology *J. Walter Fewkes (1850–1930) American; south-west USA (Hohokam; Pueblo, pottery)* *Irving Finkel (born 1951) British; cuneiform tablets *Israel Finkelstein (born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel) *George R. Fischer (1937–2016) American; underwater archaeology *Peter M. Fischer (born 19??) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East *Cleo Rickman Fitch (1910–1995) American; Roman archaeology *William W. Fitzhugh (born 1943) American; circumpolar archaeology *Kent Flannery (born 1934) American; Mesoamerica *Josephine Flood (born 1938) Australian; Aboriginal prehistory of the Australia Cloggs Cave *Robert Bruce Foote (1834 – 1912) British; India: "the father of Indian prehistory" *Adam Ford (born 19??) Australian; host of documentary series ''Who's Been Sleeping in My House?'' *James A. Ford (1911–1968) American; Southeastern United States *Sally Foster (born 19??) Scottish; Medieval Scotland *Alfred A. Foucher, Alfred Foucher (1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art) & southern Africa *Aileen Fox (1907–2005) British; South West England *Cyril Fox (1882–1967) English; Wales *William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology *David Frankel (archaeologist), David Frankel (born 19??) Australian; Cyprus, Syria, Koongine Cave (Australia) *Barry L. Frankhauser (1943–2014) Australian; archaeometry, residue analysis, Maori earth ovens, sourcing Australian ochres *Elizabeth French (1931–2021) British; Mycenaean Greece, especially the site of Mycenae, and Mycenaean terracottas *George Carr Frison, George Frison (1924–2020) American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools, pale-oarchaeology *Gayle J. Fritz (born 19??) American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America *Honor Frost (1924–2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors *Dorian Fuller (born 19??) American; archaeobotany, domestication

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*Charles Godakumbura (1907–1977 ) Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1967.; *Christopher Gaffney (archaeologist), Christopher Gaffney (born 1962) British; geophysics *Vincent Gaffney (born 1958) British; landscape archaeology *Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (1938–2019) Iraqi; Mesopotamian archaeology *Antoine Galland (1646–1715) French; numismatics, Middle East *Thomas Gann (1867–1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya *Sandor (Alexander) Gallus (1907–1996) Australian; Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation Koonalda Cave South Australia Keilor archaeological site, Dry Creek archaeological site Keilor *Jean-Claude Gardin (1925–2013) French; Bactria, theory in archaeology, computing in archaeology *Andrew Gardner (archaeologist), Andrew Gardner (born 19??) Roman archaeology *Percy Gardner (1846–1937) English; classical archaeology *Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) British; paleolithic *Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956) Israeli; Israel *Peter Garlake (1934–2011) Zimbabwean; Zimbabwe *John Garstang (1876–1954) British; Anatolia, Southern Levant *Kathleen O'Neal Gear (born 1954) American; US West; archaeological fiction *William Gell (1777–1836) English; Classical archaeology *Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867) German; Rome *Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (born 19??) zooarchaeology *John Wesley Gilbert (1864–1923) first African-American archaeologist; Classical *Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994) Lithuanian-American; Neolithic & Bronze Age *Pere Bosch-Gimpera (1891–1974) Spanish-Mexican; prehistoric Spain *Einar Gjerstad (1897–1988) Swedish; Cyprus and Rome *Kathryn Gleason (born 1957) American; Specialist in the archaeology of landscape architecture *John Mann Goggin (1916–1963) American; typology, colonial Caribbean *Albert Glock (1925–1992) American; Palestinian archaeology *Franck Goddio (born 1947) French; underwater archaeology, Heracleion (Egypt) *Lynne Goldstein (born 1953) American; prehistoric eastern North America, mortuary *Jack Golson (born 1926) Australian; Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia Savai'i island, Samoa *Albert Goodyear (born 19??) American; Paleo-Indians *Alice Gorman (born 1964) Australian; Space archaeology, contemporary archaeology, Indigenous Australian archaeology, stone tools, orbital debris, space as a cultural landscape * Carlos J. Gradin (1918–2002) Argentine; Patagonian Paleo-Indians *Ian Graham (1923–2017) British; Mayans *Boris Grakov (1899–1970) Soviet/Russian; Scythians and Sarmatians *Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887) Italy; Etruscans *Roger Curtis Green, Roger Green (1932–2009) American; New Zealand, Pacific Islands *Kevin Greene (archaeologist), Kevin Greene (born 19??) British; classical archaeology *J. Patrick Greene (born 19??) British; Medieval England *Canon William Greenwell (1820–1918) British; Neolithic England *Alan Greaves (born 1969) British; Turkey *James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America *W. F. Grimes (1905–1988) Welsh; London *Klaus Grote (born 1947) German; Lower Saxony (Germany) *Nikolai Grube (born 1962) German; Mayan epigraphy *Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852) Italian; Classical *Prishantha Gunawardena (born 1968) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka *Guo Moruo (1892–1978) Chinese; China *Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882–1973) Swedish; Classical

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*Joseph Hackin (1886–1941) French; Afghanistan *Marie Hackin (1905–1941) French; Afghanistan *Robert L. Hall, Robert Hall (1927–2012) American; U.S. Mid-West *Abdulameer al-Hamdani (1967–2022) Iraqi; Iraq, digital database, artifact rescue *Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon *Robert Hamilton (archaeologist), Robert Hamilton (1905–1995) British; Near Eastern archaeology *Norman Hammond (born 1944) British; Afghanistan, Maya *Richard D. Hansen (born 19??) American; Meso-America *Alexander Hardcastle (1872–1933) English; Agrigento, Sicily *Anthony Harding (archaeologist), Anthony Harding (born 1946) British; Bronze Age Europe *Phil Harding (archaeologist), Phil Harding (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping *James Penrose Harland (1891–1973) American; Aegean *J.C. Harrington, J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology *Emil Haury (1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States *Zahi Hawass (born 1947) Egyptian; Egypt *Christopher Hawkes (1905–1992) English; European archaeology *Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–1996) English; prehistory of England, Europe, Minoa *Lotte Hedeager (born 1948) Danish; Iron Age Scandinavia *Jakob Heierli (1853–1912) Swiss; prehistoric Switzerland *Robert Heizer (1915–1979) American; California *Hans Helbæk (1907–1981) Danish; palaeobotany *John Basil Hennessy (1925-2013) Australian; Near East *Edgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946) American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law *Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) Saxon-German; classics *Eric Sidney Higgs, Eric Higgs (1908–1976) English; economic archaeology *Charles Higham (archaeologist), Charles Higham (born 1939) British; South East Asia *Thomas Higham (archaeologist), Thomas Higham (born 19??) New Zealand; radiocarbon dating *Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology *Ida Hill (1875–1958) American; classical archaeology *Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology *Gordon Hillman (1943–2018) British; archaeobotany *Peter Hinton (born 19??) British; England *Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran) *Peter Hiscock (born 1957) Australian; ancient technology *Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory, Catalhoyuk *Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956) American; North American Indians *Richard Hodges (archaeologist), Richard Hodges (born 1952) British; Middle Ages *Birgitta Hoffmann (born 1969); Gask Ridge *Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990) American; Egyptology *Alexander Hubert Arthur Hogg (1908–1989) British; hillforts *Frank Hole (born 1931) American; Near East *Vance T. Holliday (born 1950) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology *Mads Kähler Holst (born 1973) Danish; Bronze Age and Iron Age wetland sites in Denmark *Sinclar Hood (1917–2021) British; Knossos *Jeannette Hope, Australian; Western New Sohttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/07/juliet-clutton-brockuth Wales *John Horsley (archaeologist), John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain *Youssef Hourany (1931–2019) Lebanese; Middle East *Huang Wenbi (1893–1966) Chinese; China *Huang Zhanyue (1926–2019) Chinese; China from the Han dynasty to the Tang dynasty *John Hurst (archaeologist), John Hurst (1927–2003) British; English medieval archaeology *Elinor Mullett Husselman (1900–1996) American; Coptic historian, papyrologist *Juliet Hutton-Brock (1933–2015) British; archaeozoology

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*Richard Indreko (1900–1961) Estonian; Estonia *Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology *Glynn Isaac (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology *Hideshi Ishikawa (born 1954) Japanese; Japanese and Korean archaeology *Fumiko Ikawa-Smith (born 1930) Japanese-Canadian; East Asian and Japanese archaeology

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*Roger Jacobi (1947–2009) British; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Britain *Otto Jahn (1813–1869) German; classical world (art) *Jean-François Jarrige (1940–2014) French; South Asia *Jacques Jaubert (born 1957) French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology *Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) U.S. President; Virginia prehistory *Arthur J. Jelinek (1928–2022) American; Eurasian Paleolithic *Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) American; New World *Llewellyn Jewitt (1816–1886) English; British antiquities *Donald Johanson (born 1943) American; paleoanthropology, Ethiopia *Jotham Johnson (1905–1967) American; Minturno (Italy), past president of the Archaeological Institute of America *Margaret Ursula Jones (1916–2001) British; Mucking, England *Rebecca Jones (archaeologist), Rebecca Jones (born 19??) British; Roman Britain *Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941–2001) Welsh/Australian; Tasmania *Martha Sharp Joukowsky, Martha Joukowsky (1936-2022) American; Middle East (Petra), field methods *Chris Judge (archaeologist), Chris Judge (born 19??) American; eastern U.S. (Woodland, Mississippian) *Elsie Jury (1910–1993) Canadian; historical archaeology of Ontario

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*Lili Kaelas (1919–2007) Swedish; Stone and Bronze Age *Gilbert Kaenel (1949–2020) Swiss; Iron Age, La Tène culture *Seifollah Kambakhshfard (1929–2010) Iranian; Iron Age Temple of Anahita, Kangavar, Temple of Anahita *Johan Kamminga (born 19??); University of Sydney; use-wear and residues *Simon Keay (1954-2021) English; Roman Portus, surveys of Roman Spain and Italy *Phoebe Keef (1898–1978) British; prehistoric archaeology, Sussex *Bennie Carlton Keel (born 1934) American; Southeastern archaeology, Public Archaeology, Cherokee archaeology *Alice Beck Kehoe (born 1934) American; North America: early contact *Eduard von Kallee (1818–1888) German; Germany: found 4 Roman castra on the Limes Germanicus *Richard Kallee (1854–1933) German; studied 102 Alemannic tombs *J. Charles Kelley (1913–1997) American; north-west Mexico *Arthur Randolph Kelly (1900–1979) American; Southeastern USA *Robert Laurens Kelly (born 1957) American; Western USA * Francis Kelsey (1858–1927) American; Middle East, papyrology *David L. Kennedy (born 1948) British and Australian; Roman Near East *Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (born 1952) American; Indus Valley Civilization *Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho) *Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica *Tristram Randolph Kidder, T. R. Kidder (born 1960) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States *Keith Kintigh (born 19??) American; quantitative archaeology, Southwestern archaeology *Kristian Kristiansen (archaeologist), Kristian Kristiansen (born 1948) Danish; Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies, archaeological theory *Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea *Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) German; Egyptian hieroglyphics ("the father of Egyptology") *Richard Klein (paleoanthropologist), Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe) *Amos Kloner (1940–2019) Israeli; Talpiot Tomb (Israel), Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology *Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet (1886–1953) English; anthropology and prehistory *Alice Kober (1906–1950) American; Linear B *Robert Koldewey (1855–1925) German; Near East (Babylon) *Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia (Troy) * Paul Kosok (1896–1959) American; Nazca geoglyphs *Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931) German; Germany (Neolithic, Aryan concept) *Hamit Zübeyir Koşay (1897–1984) Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia *Raiko Krauss (born 1973) German; prehistory *Pasko Kuzman (born 1947) North Macedonia, Macedonian; Ohrid, North Macedonia

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*Robert Laffineur Belgian; Mycenaeanologist * B. B. Lal (1921-2022) Indian; India *Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967) British; classical archaeology *Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans *Nancy Lapp (born 1930) American; Near Eastern archaeology, biblical archaeology *Pierre Henri Larcher (1726–1812) French; classical archaeology *Donald Lathrap (1927–1990) American; South America, U.S. Mid-West *Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902–2001) French; Egypt *Bo Lawergren (born 19??) American?; music archaeology; Mesopotamia *T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East *Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud) *Estelle Lazer (born 19??) Australian; human skeleton, skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii *Foss Leach (born 1942) New Zealand; New Zealand *Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa *Mary Leakey (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa *Richard Leakey (1944–2022) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa *Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955) British; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 19281945 *Charles Lenormant (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East *François Lenormant (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist *Mark P. Leone (born 1940) American; theory, historical archaeology *Dana Lepofsky (born 1958) Canadian; paleoethnobotany, Northwest Coast *André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986) French; theory, art, Paleolithic *Jean Antoine Letronne (1787–1848) French; Greece, Rome, Egypt *Gerson Levi-Lazzaris (born 1979) Brazilian; ethnoarchaeology *Carenza Lewis (born 1963) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain *Jodie Lewis (born 19??) British; prehistoric archaeology *Madeline Kneberg Lewis (1901–1996) American; typologist, Illustrator. *Mary Lewis (archaeologist), Mary Lewis (born 19??) British; bioarchaeologist *David Lewis-Williams (born 1934) South African;cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art *Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain *Li Feng (sinologist), Li Feng (born 1962) Chinese/American; early China *Li Ji (archeologist), Li Ji (Li Chi, 1896–1979) Chinese; Yinxu and Yangshao culture *Li Xueqin (1933–2019) Chinese; early China *Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history *Li Liu (archaeologist), Li Liu (born 1953) Chinese/American; neolithic and Bronze Age China, "the father of Chinese archaeology" *Gary Lock (born 19??) British; computational archaeology, European prehistory *Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery *Helen Loney (born 19??) prehistoric archaeology and pottery studies *Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892–1965) American; Central and South America and the Caribbean *Victor Loret (1859–1946) French; Egypt & Southern Africa *William A. Longacre (1937–2015) American; southwestern USA, "New Archaeology *Harry Lourandos (born 1945) Australian; hunter-gatherer intensification *Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist *Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France *Cajsa S. Lund (:sv:Cajsa S. Lund, sv) (born 1940) Swedish; music archaeology *Frances Lynch (born 19??) Welsh; Wales *Albert Lythgoe (1868–1934) American; Egyptologist and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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*Ma Chengyuan (1927–2004) Chinese; authority on ancient Chinese bronzes *Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology *Burton MacDonald (born 1939) Canadian; biblical archaeology *Eve MacDonald (born 19??) classical archaeologist *John MacEnery (1797–1841) Irish; Paleolithic *Richard MacNeish (1918–2001) American; Canada, Iroquois (U.S./Canada), Meso-America, discovered origins of maize *Aren Maeir (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines *Mai Yinghao (1929–2016) Chinese; archaeology of the Nanyue kingdom in Guangzhou *Aren Maeir (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines *Yousef Majidzadeh (born 1938) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran) *Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (1940–2020) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran) *Alexis Mallon (1875–1934) French; Levantine prehistory *James Patrick Mallory (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture *Max Mallowan (1904–1978) British; Middle East *John Manley (archaeologist), John Manley (born 1952) British; Roman Britain *Joyce Marcus (born 19??) American; Latin America *Auguste-Édouard Mariette (1821–1881) French; Egypt *Spyridon Marinatos (1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans *Alexander Marshack (1918–2004) American; Paleolithic era *Fiona Marshall (born 19??) American;zooarchaeology and ethnoarchaeology *James A. Marshall (died 2006) American; eastern North American earthworks *John Marshall (archaeologist), John Hubert Marshall (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila, Crete *Pamela Marshall (archaeologist), Pamela Marshall (born 19??) buildings archaeologist and castellologist *Marjan Mashkour (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology of Europe and Middle East *J. Alden Mason (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology *Ronald J. Mason (born 1929) Upper Great Lakes *Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) French; Egypt *Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967) Danish; Arctic region *Peter Mathews (archaeologist), Peter Mathews (born 1951) Australian; Maya hieroglyphs *Galina Ivanovna Matveeva (1933–2008) Russian; Central Russia/Volga region *Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931) British; Mayans *Valerie Maxfield (born 19??) Roman archaeology *Sally Kate May (born 19??) Australian; indigenous rock art *Amihai Mazar (born 1942) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology *Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology *Eilat Mazar (1956–2021) Israeli; Jerusalem, Phoenicians *Gaby Mazor (born 1944) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli) *August Mau (1840–1909) German; Pompeii *Sally McBrearty (born 19??) American; Palaeolithic archaeology *Isabel McBryde (born 1934) Australian; "Mother of Australian Archaeology," axe sourcing studies *Charles McBurney (archaeologist), Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art * Anna Marguerite McCann (1933 – 2017) American; Underwater Archaeology *Fred McCarthy (archaeologist), Fred McCarthy (1905–1997) Australian; Australia's Aborigines *Aleksandra McClain (born 19??) medieval and church archaeology *Robert McGhee (archaeologist), Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic *Betty Meehan (born 1933) Australian; Maningrida, Australia *Vincent Megaw (born 1934) Australian; Early Celtic Art in Britain ''Early Celtic Art in Britain''
Ruth and Vincent Megaw, p. 29, accessed 16 August 2010 *Betty Meggers (1921–2012) American; South America *James Mellaart (1925–2012) British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük *Paul Mellars (1939–2022) British?; Neanderthals, European mesolithic *Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian [born in Rome]; lithics *Roger Mercer (1944–2018) British; Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles *Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) French; French monuments *Kazimierz Michałowski (1901-1981) Polish; Mediterranean archaeology *Jerald T. Milanich (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida) *Walter Minchinton (1921–1996) British; industrial archaeology *Sir Ellis Minns (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe *Keneiloe Molopyane (1987- ) South African *Oscar Montelius (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia) *Pierre Montet (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis) *Harri Moora (1900–1968) Estonian; Iron Age Baltics *Andrew M.T. Moore (born 19??) English; neolithic, Middle East *Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852–1936) American; southern United States *Warren K. Moorehead (1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States *Robert Morkot (born 1957) Egyptology *Mike Morwood (1950–2013) Australian; Homo floresiensis *Sylvanus G. Morley (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya *Ann Axtell Morris (1900–1945) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico *Earl H. Morris (1889-1956) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico *Dan Morse (archaeologist), Dan Morse (born 1935) American; Central Mississippi River, Mississippi Valley *Phyllis Morse (Anderson) (born 1934) American; Central Mississippi Valley *John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) English; England (barrows) *Sabatino Moscati (1922–1997) Italian; Phoenicians *Amini Aza Mturi Tanzanian; Palaeolithic archaeology *Keith Muckelroy (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology *David Mullin (b. 19??) prehistoric archaeology *John Mulvaney (1925–2016) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology" *Ken Mulvaney (born 19??) Australian; Aboriginal engagement, Burrup Peninsula rock art *Stephen Munro (born 19??) Australian; engraved fossil shell from Java *Margaret Murray (1863–1963) Anglo-Indian; Egyptologist *Tim Murray (archaeologist), Tim Murray (born 1955) Australian; history of archaeology *Oscar White Muscarella (1931 – 2022) American; Persia, Anatolia

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* R. Nagaswamy, Ramachandran Nagaswamy (1930–2022) Indian; south-Indian statues *Maysoon al-Nahar (born 19??) Jordanian; Palaeoarchaeology of the Southern Levant *Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975) American; Greece *Alma Mekondjo Nankela (born 19??) Namibian; Namibia, rock art *Ezzat Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran *Sarah Milledge Nelson (1931–2020) American; Korea, Hongshan (China), gender *Ion Nestor (1905–1974) Romanian; Balkans (Sirmium) *Ehud Netzer (1934–2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture) *René Neuville (1899–1952) French; prehistory of the Southern Levant *Lisa Nevett (born 19??) British; Greece *Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) British; Classical archaeology *Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor (1900–1968) Romania; Romanian prehistory *Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913–2011) French; Egypt (Nubian temples) *Francisco Nocete (born 1961) Spanish; Spain *Ivor Noël Hume (1927–2017) British; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology

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*Hugh O'Neill Hencken (1902–1981) American; Iron Age Europe *Kenneth Oakley (1911–1981) English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax *Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806) Alsatian; Biblical archaeology, philology *Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895) Romanian; history of archaeology *Neil Oliver (born 1967) Scottish; popularizer and television presenter: northern Europe *Akinwumi Ogundiran (born 1966); Nigerian-American archaeologist; Yoruba people; African studies *Katsuhiko Ohnuma (born 1944) Japanese, Lithic expert, flintknapper, prehistorian, (Syria, Iraq, Iran) *Bjørnar Olsen (born 1958) Norwegian; theory, material culture, Arctic *John W. Olsen (born 1955) American; prehistory, Paleolithic, Central Asia *Stanley John Olsen (1919–2003) American; historical archaeology and zooarchaeology *Jocelyn Orchard (1936–2019) British Trinidadian; Near Eastern archaeology, Oman *Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) Turkish; Assyria

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*Athanasios Papageorgiou (archaeologist) , Athanasios Papageorgiou (1931–2022) Greek Cypriot; Cyprus *Bertha Parker Pallan, Bertha Parker (1907–1978) Abenaki, Seneca; Southwest US archaeology and ethnology *André Parrot (1901–1980) French; ancient Near East *Timothy Pauketat (born 19??) American; Mississippian culture *Vasile Pârvan (1882–1927) Romanian; classical archaeology (Hitria) *Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths) *Mike Parker Pearson (born 1957) English; Neolithic British Isles, archaeology of death and burial *Richard J. Pearson (born 1938) Canadian; Pacific *William Pengelly (1812–1894) British; England, paleolithic *Francis Penrose (1817–1903), British; classical *Peter N. Peregrine (born 1963) American; Mississippian culture, cross-cultural studies *Gregory Perino (1914–2005) American; Woodland period, Woodland, and Mississippian cultures in Illinois and Oklahoma *Hilda Petrie (1871–1957) British; Egyptology *William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology *Stewart Perowne (1901–1989) British; Imadia and Beihan *Alejandro Peschard Fernández (born 19??) Mexican; Meso-America *Philip Phillips (archaeologist), Philip Phillips (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States *Alexandre Piankoff (1897–1966) Russian; Egypt *Stuart Piggott (1910–1996) British; neolithic, Europe (especially Britain) *John Pinkerton (1758–1826) Scottish; theory of Gothic superiority, Scottish proto-history *Dolores Piperno (born 1949) American; archaeobotany, maize, Panama *Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900) British; Britain (especially Dorset), method *Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete *Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908) British-American; photographer and antiquarian specializing in Pre-Columbian high cultures *Aleks Pluskowski (born 19??) environmental archaeology; medieval Europe *Natalia Polosmak (born 1956) Russian; Siberia: Altay: Pazyryk culture *Cristian Popa (born 19??) Romanian; Coţofeni culture *Rachel Pope (born 19??) British; Iron Age Europe *Reginald Stuart Poole (1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics) *Gregory Possehl (1941–2011) American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization *Timothy W. Potter (1944–2000), British; Classical archaeology *Timothy Potts (born 1958) Australian; Middle East and Mediterranean *Gary Presland (born 19??) Australian; Aboriginal landscapes in Victoria *Francis Pryor (born 1945) British; Bronze (Flag Fen, England) and Iron Ages *Senarath Paranavithana (1896–1972) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka

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*Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat (1814–1882) French; ancient Europe

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*Wulf Raeck (born 1950) German; classical archaeology, Pergamon, Greek barbarian portrayals *Philip Rahtz (1921–2011) British; United Kingdom *José Ramos Muñoz (born 19??) Spanish; Europe, northern Africa *Sir Andrew Ramsay (geologist), Andrew Ramsay (1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy *Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) Scottish; Asia Minor and New Testament *Don Ranson (born 19??) Australian; Tasmanian prehistory Kutikina Cave *Claude Rapin (born 19??) French?; Central Asia *Charles Rau (1826-1887) American; curator at the Smithsonian *Katharina C. Rebay (born 1977) Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender *William Rathje (1945–2012) American; early civilizations, modern material culture studies, Mesoamerica *Desire Raoul Rochette (1790–1854) French; Greece *Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813–1900) French; Classical sculpture *Marion Rawson (1899–1980) American; classical archaeology *Shahrokh Razmjou (born 19??) Iranian; Achaemenid Archaeology *Nicholas Reeves (born 1956) British; Egypt *Ronny Reich (born 1947) Israeli; Jerusalem *Colin Renfrew (born 1937) English; history of language, archaeogenetics *Caspar Reuvens (1793–1835) Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands *Andrew Reynolds (archaeologist), Andrew Reynolds (born 19??) English; Medieval archaeology *Julian C. Richards (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer *Julian D. Richards (born 19??), British; Anglo-Saxons, Viking Age *Emil Ritterling (1861–1928) German; archaeology *Anne Strachan Robertson (1910–1997) Scottish; Numismatics *Derek Roe (1937–2014) British; paleolithic *Wil Roebroeks (born 1955) Dutch; The Netherlands *Malcolm Jennings Rogers, Malcolm J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California *John Romer (Egyptologist), John Romer (born 1941) British; Egypt, popularizer *Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952) Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia *Irving Rouse (1913–2006) American; Caribbean and migration *Katherine Routledge (1866–1935) British; Easter Island *John Howland Rowe (1918–2004) American; Peru *Valentine Roux (born 1956) French; ceramic production in the Levant *Peter Rowley-Conwy (born 1951) British; environmental archaeology *Martin Rundkvist (born 1972) Swedish; Bronze, Iron, and Middle Ages of Scandinavia. *Adrian Andrei Rusu (born 1951) Romanian; Medieval archaeology, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Art History, Cluj-Napoca, Institute of Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca *Simon Rutar (1851–1903) Slovenian; Slovenia *Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (1906–1979) Mexican; Pre-Columbian Meso-America *Donald P. Ryan (born 1957) American; Egypt (Valley of the Kings)

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*Sadeq, Moain (Mohammedmoin) (born 1955) Palestinian; Palestine and the Gulf region *Saad Abbas Ismail (born 1980) Kurdish; International archaeologist, Syria *Antonio Sagona (1956–2017); Australian; Near East, Caucasus *Sharada Srinivasan (born 1966) Indian; archaeometallurgy, India *Roderick Salisbury (born 1967) American; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe (Neolithic) *Viktor Sarianidi (1929–2013) Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia *Otto Schaden (1937–2015) American; Egypt *Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) French; Ugarit *Michael Brian Schiffer (born 1947) American (born in Canada); behavioural archaeology, method and theory *Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn *Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790–1836) Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man *Klaus Schmidt (archaeologist), Klaus Schmidt (1953–2014) German; Göbekli Tepe, Turkey *Alain Schnapp (born 1946) French; Classical archaeology: iconography of Greek vases *Carmel Schrire (born 1941) Australian; Australia, South Africa *Francesco Scipone (1675–1755) Italian; Etruscans *Mercy Seiradaki (1910–1993) English; Knossos *Ovid R. Sellers (1884–1975) American; Biblical Old Testament *Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt (1730–1814) French; ancient monumental art *Veronica Seton-Williams (1910–1992) Australian; Egyptology and prehistory, Near East *Thomas Sever (born 19??) American?; NASA’s only archaeologist, Maya, South America *Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (1942–2006) Iranian; Iran *Michael Shanks (archaeologist), Michael Shanks (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory *Thurstan Shaw (1914–2013) English; Africa (especially Nigeria) *Anna Shepard (1903–1971) American; ceramic analysis *Alison Sheridan (19??) British; Bronze and Neolithic ages *Andrew Sherratt (1946–2006) English; prehistory *Susan Sherratt (born 1949) U.K. citizenship; Mediterranean archaeology *Yoko Shindo (1960–2018), Japanese; Islamic glass *Sim Bong-geun, Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea *Elizabeth Simpson (archaeologist), Elizabeth Simpson (born 1947) American; Ancient Near East, Anatolia *Frederic Slater (c. 1880–1947) Australian; Aboriginal place names *Claire Smith (archaeologist), Claire Smith (born 1957) Australian; Indigenous archaeology, rock art *Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937) Australian; (anatomist) Hyperdiffusionism in archaeology, hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory *William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar *Stanley South (1928–2016) American; historical archaeology *Janet D. Spector (1944–2011) American; North America *Sarah Speight (born 19??) British; castle studies and medieval archaeology *E. Lee Spence (born 1947) American; marine archaeology *Dirk HR Spennemann (born 19??) Australian; futures studies *Victor Spinei (born 1943) Romanian; medieval cult objects *Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842–1915) English; prehistoric England, Egypt *Frederick Spurrell (1824–1902) Rev. English; English archaeology (Essex and Sussex) *Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) British; Ashkelon *Julie K. Stein, (born 19??) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites *Eunice Stebbens (1893–1992) American; Roman coins *Louise Steel (archaeologist), Louise Steel (born 19??) British; prehistoric Cyprus *Paulette Steeves (born 19??) Canadian, Cree, Métis; decolonizing archaeology, Paleo-Indians *Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) Hungarian; Central Asia *Hans-Georg Stephan (born 1950) German; Medievalist, post-Medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, oven tiles *Marion Stirling Pugh (1911–2001) American; Mesopotamian archaeology *James B. Stoltman (1935–2019) American; ceramic analysis, Great Lakes (North America) *James Stewart (archaeologist), James R. Stewart (1913–1962) Australian; Cyprus and the Ancient Near East *Joseph Stevens (archaeologist) (1818–1899) British; first curator of Reading Museum *Eugene Stockton (born 1934) Australian; Middle East, Australia *David Stuart (Mayanist), David Stuart (born 1965) American; Mayan epigraphy *George E. Stuart III (1935–2014) American; Mayan archaeology *William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics *Su Bai (1922–2018) Chinese; Chinese Buddhism, grottoes *Su Bingqi (1909–1997) Chinese; ancient China *Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953) Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls *Sharon Sullivan, Australian heritage conservation *Pál Sümegi (born 1960) Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary *Glenn Summerhayes (born 195?) Australian; East Asia and Pacific archaeology, trade and exchange, development of social complexity, archaeometry *Rachel Swallow (born 19??) British?; medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, and castle studies *Naomi Sykes (born 19??) British?; zooarchaeology *Jadwiga Szeptycka (1883–1939) Polish; Roman-period Poland *Senarath Paranavithana (1896 –1972) Sri Lankan, Archeological Commissioner in 1940

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*Takaku Kenji (born 19??) Japanese; Korea *Zemaryalai Tarzi (born 1939) Afghan; Afghanistan *Joan du Plat Taylor (1906–1983) Scottish; maritime archaeology, Cyprus *Joan J. Taylor (1940–2019) American; British prehistory *Walter Taylor (archaeologist), Walter Willard Taylor, Jr. (1913–1997) American; theory, Coahuila (Mexico) *Julio C. Tello (1880–1947) Peruvian; Peru *Alexander Thom (1894–1985) Scottish; engineer, Stonehenge *Charles Thomas (historian), Charles Thomas (1928–2016) Cornish studies *David Hurst Thomas (born 1945), American; Spanish Borderlands, repatriation *Julian Thomas (born 1959) British; north-west European Neolithic and Bronze Age *J. A. Thompson, John Arthur Thompson (1913–2002) Australian; Old Testament scholar and Biblical archaeology, biblical archaeologist *J. Eric S. Thompson (1898–1975) English; Maya *Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865) Danish; originator of the Three-Age System *Alan Thorne (1939–2012) Australian; Aboriginal Australian origins and the human genome Lake Mungo, Kow Swamp *Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963) Swedish; Viking Age, Nordic Middle Ages *Christopher Tilley (born 19??) British; theory, Britain *Norman Tindale (1900–1993) Australian; mapping Australian tribes *Tong Enzheng (1935–1997) Chinese; China *Malcolm Todd (1939–2013) British; classical archaeology *Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877–1954) American; Mesoamerica (Maya) *Arthur Dale Trendall (1909–1995) Australian; Greek ceramics at Apulia *John C. Trever (1916–2006) American; Biblical archaeologist *Bruce Trigger (1937–2006) Canadian; archaeological theory, comparative civilizations, Huronia, Nubia, Egyptology *Olena Vasylivna Tsvek (1931–2020) Ukrainian; Trypillia culture *James Tuck (archaeologist), James Tuck (1940-2019) American; eastern Canadian historical archaeology *Ronald F. Tylecote (1916–1990) British; founder of archaeometallurgy *Grigore Tocilescu (1850–1909) Romanian; Dacia *Henrieta Todorova (1933–2015) Bulgarian; Neolithic Bulgaria, excavations at Durankulak *Vassilios Tzaferis (1936–2015) Greek–Israeli; biblical archaeology, Byzantine monasticism

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*Peter Ucko (1938–2007) British; Paleolithic art; archaeological politics *Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936) Italian; Albania *Gary Urton (born 1948) American; Andes *David Ussishkin (born 1935) Israeli; Lachish, Jezreel Valley and Tel Megiddo, Megiddo

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*Laima Vaitkunskienė (born 1936) Lithuanian; Medieval Lithuania *Heiki Valk (born 1959) Estonian; Medieval Estonia *Ron Vanderwal (1938–2021), Australian; Torres Strait, New Guinea *Parviz Varjavand (1934–2007) Iranian; ancient Iran (Persia) *W. J. Varley, William Jones Varley (died 1976) British; English Iron Age hill forts *Roland de Vaux (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls *Marius Vazeilles (1881–1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology *Bruce Veitch (1957–2005) Australian; Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia; Bruce Veitch Award *Alan Vince (1952–2009) British; British ceramics *Zdenko Vinski (1913–1996) Croatian; Croatia *Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art *Alexandru Vulpe (1931–2016)

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*Marc Waelkens (1948–2021) Belgian; Turkish archaeology *Tony Waldron (died 2021) British; palaeopathologist and palaeoepidemiologist *Alice Leslie Walker (1885–1954) American, classical archaeologist *Lynley A. Wallis (born 19??) Australian; Indigenous and historical archaeology *Wang Zhongshu (1925–2015) Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology *Graeme K. Ward (born 1943) Australian; Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art *John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912–1981) British; architectural history *Charles Warren (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist *Helen Waterhouse (1913–1999), British; classical archaeology *William Thompson Watkin (1836–1888), British; Roman Britain *Trevor Watkins (born 19??) British; Near Eastern archaeology *Patty Jo Watson (born 1932) American; North American archaeology *Clarence Hungerford Webb, Clarence H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory *Robert Wauchope (archaeologist), Robert Wauchope (1909–1979) American; Maya, south-eastern U.S. *Mildred Mott Wedel (1912–1995) American; Great Plains prehistory *Waldo Wedel (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory *Josef W. Wegner (born 1967) American; Egyptology *Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece *Fred Wendorf (1924–2015) American; archaeology and cultural development of arid environments *David Wengrow (born 1972) English; comparative archaeology *Boyd Wettlaufer (1914–2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology *Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) British; method, South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England) *Tessa Wheeler, Tessa Verney Wheeler (1893–1936) British; method, British archaeology, co-founder of UCL Institute of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology *Joyce White (born 19??) American; prehistoric Southeast Asia *Theodore E. White (1905-1977) American; archaeozoology *Elizabeth Augustus Whitehead (1928–1983) American; classical archaeology *John C. Whittaker (born 1953) American; experimental archaeology, Palaeolithic *Alasdair Whittle (born 1949) European Neolithic *Caroline Wickham-Jones (1955–2022) British; Orkney, mesolithic, submerged sites *Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography *Malcolm H. Wiener (born 1935) American; Aegeanist, Prehistorian, President of INSTAP *Louise van Wijngaarden-Bakker (1940–2021) Dutch; archaeozoology *Gordon Willey (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory *Stephen Williams (archeologist), Stephen Williams (1926-2017) American; North America *Hugh Willmott (archaeologist), Hugh Willmott (born 1972) British; Middle Ages and monastic archaeology *Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world *Bryant G. Wood (born 1936) American; Palestine *Peter Woodman (1943–2017), Irish; Irish Mesolithic *Leonard Woolley (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia *Hannah Marie Wormington, Hannah Wormington (1914–1994) American; American Southwest and Paleo-Indians *Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system *George Roy Haslam (Mick) Wright (1924–2014) Australian; Middle East *Wolfgang W. Wurster (1937–2003) German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador *Alison Wylie (born 1954) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology *John Wymer (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic

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*Xia Nai (1910–1985) Chinese; China *Xu Xusheng (1888–1976) Chinese; discoverer of the Erlitou culture

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*Yigael Yadin (1917–1984) Israeli; Masada, Hazor *Yang Jianhua (born 1955) Chinese; Mesopotamia, eastern Eurasia *Yusra (archaeologist), Yusra (20th century) Palestinian; Tabun Cave, Tabun, Neanderthals

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*Inger Zachrisson (born 1936); Swedish; Sami people since the Iron Age *Louise Zarmati (born 1958) Australian; Archaeology in school curricula; women in archaeology; Australia, Crete, Cyprus *Robert N. Zeitlin (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies *Zhao Kangmin (1936–2018) Chinese; discoverer of the Terracotta Army *Zheng Zhenduo (1898–1958) Chinese; China *Zheng Zhenxiang (born 1929) Chinese; discoverer of the Tomb of Fu Hao *Irit Ziffer (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art *Andreas Zimmermann (archaeologist), Andreas Zimmermann (born 1951) German; Neolithic (LBK) *Ezra B. W. Zubrow (born 1945) American; theory, GIS, demography, ecology, Circumpolar *R. Tom Zuidema (1927–2016) Dutch or American?; Incas *Vladas Žulkus (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology) *Marek Zvelebil (1952–2011) Czech; European Stone Age

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