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 landsca ...

, the study of the human past through material remains.

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* Kamyar Abdi (born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age * Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012) Brazilian; Brazil * Johann Michael Ackner (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 ...

; Roman Dacia * Dinu Adameșteanu (1913–2004) Romanian-Italian; aerial photography and survey of sites * James M. Adovasio (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 (1882–1914) English Egyptologist and archaeologist * Ekrem Akurgal (1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia * Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Roman Portugal * William F. Albright (1891–1971) U.S.; Orientalist * Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain * Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) American; Roman provinces * Miranda Aldhouse-Green (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 mostl ...

and Romano-Celtic * Abbas Alizadeh (born 1951) Iranian; Iran * Jim Allen, (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita, Polynesian * Penelope Allison (born 19??) household and Roman archaeology * Sedat Alp (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 (born 1949) U.S.; eastern North America *

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

(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 (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 an ...

(1946–2013) English; popularizer * Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994) English; England * Val Attenbrow (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 (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 (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 Leic ...

(1821–1889) English; classical archaeology * Paul Bahn (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 (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 ...

(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 (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 d ...

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

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

(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 deat ...

(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 highl ...

(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 rega ...

(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 be ...

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-ton ...

(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 (born 1949); Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant * Erez Ben-Yosef (born 19??); Israeli; archaeometallurgist; * Crystal Bennett (1918–1987) British; Jordan * James Theodore Bent (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 speaking people who inhabited large parts of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in ancient history.. "The Thracians were an Indo-European people who occupied t ...

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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 (born 1965) U.S.; paleo-anthropology * Gerhard Bersu (1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.) * Charles Ernest Beule (1826–1874) French; Greece * Paolo Biagi (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 to ...

(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 Vallée des Merveilles, 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 lif ...

(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 (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 influ ...

(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 (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan)) * Caroline Bird (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 p ...

(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 ...

(1888–1971) U.S.; Troy * Elizabeth Blegen (1888–1966) U.S.; Greece, educator * Frederick Jones Bliss (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 (1931–2019) U.S.; Etruscans * Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture * Ludwig Borchardt(1863-1938) German; Egypt ( Amarna) * François Bordes (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, 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 (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 (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 "f ...

(1814–1874) French; Meso-America * James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) U.S.; Egypt * Adela Breton (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 (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 (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology * Srečko Brodar (1893–1987) Slovene; Upper Paleolithic * Mary Brodrick (c. 1858–1933) English; Egyptology * Alison S. Brooks (born 19??) American; Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa * Myrtle Florence Broome (c. 1888–1978) English; Egyptology, illustrator * Don Brothwell (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 (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 (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 P ...

(1926–2020) British; British megalithic monuments * Les Bursill (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, ...

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 (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 (1893–1971) American; California * Scott Cane (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 Ferdin ...

(1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way) * Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino (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 (born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo * Howard Carter (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 (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 (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 the ...

(1931–2001) Chinese/Taiwanese; China * Doris Emerson Chapman (1903–1990) British; prehistory * Arlen F. Chase (born 1953) American; Mesoamerica * Diane Zaino Chase (born 1953) American; Mesoamerica * George Henry Chase (1874–1952) American; Heraion of Argos * Alfredo Chavero (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 (1935–2018) Chinese; scientific archaeology and radiocarbon dating * 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 ...

(1892–1957) Australian; Europe / neolithic * Choi Mong-lyong (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 (born 1914) Turkish; Sumerology * Jacques Cinq-Mars (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 (1866–1925) American; Assyriology * John Clegg (1935–2015) Australian; rock art * Eric H. Cline (born 1960) American?; Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory * Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West * Bryony Coles (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 Mendips to the Blackdown Hills. The Somerset Levels have an area of about and are bisected by the Polden Hills; the areas to the south a ...

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 (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 (1758–1838) English, England * Margaret Conkey (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 UNESC ...

(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 (1931–2006?) German; India/Nepal/Africa * Peter Coutts (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 (1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology * Roger Cribb (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 (1861–1950) English; prehistoric England (Wiltshire) * Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893) English; "Father of Indian Archaeology" *

Maud Cunnington Maud Edith Cunnington (''née'' Pegge; 24 September 1869 – 28 February 1951) was a Welsh archaeologist, best known for her pioneering work on the some of the most important prehistoric sites of Salisbury Plain. Early life, education, and m ...

(1869–1951) Welsh; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain) * William Cunnington (1754–1810) English; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain) * James Curle (1861?–1944) Scottish; Roman Scotland (Trimontium), Gotland *

Florin Curta Florin Curta (born January 15, 1965) is a Romanian-born American archaeologist and historian who is a Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Florida. Biography Curta works in the field of the Balkan history and is ...

(born 1965) American; Eastern Europe *

Ernst Curtius Ernst Curtius (; 2 September 181411 July 1896) was a German archaeologist, historian and museum director. Biography He was born in Lübeck. On completing his university studies he was chosen by C. A. Brandis to accompany him on a journey to ...

(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 Count Albéric François Philippe d'Auxy de Launois (1836—1914) was a Belgian historian, archaeologist, and art collector. Life Auxy was born in Mons on 29 July 1836, the son of Edouard Eugène d'Auxy. He became an expert on the history and anti ...

(1836–1914) Belgian; Belgium *

Bruno Dagens Bruno Dagens (born 1935) is a French archaeologist, art historian, Sanskritist, and a specialist on Angkor Wat. He is currently a professor emeritus of the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris 3. Career Dagens began to study archaeology in ...

(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 Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900–1976) was a Sri Lankan paleontologist, zoologist, and artist. Early life and education He was born in Colombo, the son of Paul Edward Pieris and Lady Hilda Obeyesekere Pieris. He had two younger brothers ...

(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 Ahmad Hassan Dani (Urdu: احمد حسن دانی) FRAS, SI, HI (20 June 1920 – 26 January 2009) was a Pakistani archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology ...

(1920–2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology *

Glyn Daniel Glyn Edmund Daniel FBA, FRAI (23 April 1914 – 13 December 1986) was a Welsh scientist and archaeologist who taught at Cambridge University, where he specialised in the European Neolithic period. He was appointed Disney Professor of Archa ...

(1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology *

Ken Dark Ken Dark (born in Brixton, London in 1961) is a British archaeologist who works on the 1st millennium AD in Europe (including Roman and immediately post-Roman Britain) and the Roman and Byzantine Middle East, on the archaeology of religion ( ...

(born 1961) British; Roman Europe * Raymond Dart (1893–1988) Australian; paleoanthropology: Australopithecus africanus *

Siran Upendra Deraniyagala Siran Upendra Deraniyagala (1 March 1942 – 5 October 2021) was a 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. He also served as the ...

(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 Sir William Boyd Dawkins (26 December 183715 January 1929) was a British geologist and archaeologist. He was a member of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, Curator of the Manchester Museum and Professor of Geology at Owens College, Man ...

(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 Hilary John Deacon (10 January 1936 – 25 May 2010) was a South African archaeologist and academic. He was professor of archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His research focused on the emergence of modern ...

(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 Dragotin is a village in Croatia , image_flag = Flag of Croatia.svg , image_coat = Coat of arms of Croatia.svg , anthem = "Lijepa naša domovino"("Our Beautiful Homeland") , image_map = , ...

(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 (1931–2012) British; Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Army * Dong Zuobin (1895–1963) Chinese/Taiwanese;

oracle bones Oracle bones () are pieces of ox scapula and turtle plastron, which were used for pyromancy – a form of divination – in ancient China, mainly during the late Shang dynasty. ''Scapulimancy'' is the correct term if ox scapulae were used for th ...

Yinxu Yinxu (modern ; ) is the site of one of the ancient and major historical capitals of China. It is the source of the archeological discovery of oracle bones and oracle bone script, which resulted in the identification of the earliest known Chine ...

* Gertrud Dorka (1893–1976), German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director *

Wilhelm Dörpfeld Wilhelm Dörpfeld (26 December 1853 – 25 April 1940) was a German architect and archaeologist, a pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects. He is famous for his work on Bronze Age site ...

(1853–1940) German; Greece *

Trude Dothan Trude Dothan ( he, טרודה דותן‎; 12 October 1922 – 28 January 2016) was an Israeli archaeologist who focused on the Late Bronze and Iron Ages in the region, in particular in Philistine culture. Biography Trude Krakauer (later Dotha ...

(1922–2016) Austrian; Israel *

Hans Dragendorff Hans Dragendorff (15 October 1870 in Dorpat (Tartu), Estonia – 29 January 1941 in Freiburg, Germany) was a Baltic German scholar who introduced the first classification system for the type of Ancient Roman pottery known as Samian ware ...

(1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics *

Penelope Dransart Penelope Dransart is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian specialising in South American anthropology and the study of castles. Until 2016 she was a Reader at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is Honorary Reader at the U ...

(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 Hillary du Cros is an Australian archaeologist and cultural tourism teacher in Hong Kong and Macau. She is currently Associate Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Education, teaching in the area of Cultural Tourism in the Department of Cultura ...

(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 (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 Campbell Cowan Edgar (26 December 1870–10 May 1938) was a Scottish Egyptologist, classical archaeologist and papyrologist. He is especially noted for his work with A. S. Hunt on translating the Zenon Papyri. Between 1925 and 1927 he served as t ...

(1870–1938) British; Cyclades and Hellenistic Egypt, papyrology specialist *

Amelia Edwards Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards (7 June 1831 – 15 April 1892), also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story "The Phantom Coach" (1864), the novel ...

(1831–1892) British; Egypt * Ricardo Eichmann (born 1955) German; Near Eastern archaeology *

George Eogan George Eogan, MRIA (14 September 1930 – 18 November 2021) was an Irish archaeologist. He was born in Nobber, County Meath, and studied at University College Dublin (UCD) and then Trinity College Dublin. In 1965, he was appointed to a lectu ...

(1930–2021) Irish; Knowth (Ireland) * Kenan Erim (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia * Ufuk Esin (1933–2008) Turkish; prehistoric Anatolia, archaeometry * Roland Étienne (born 1944) French; ancient Greece and Hellenistic period *Sir

Arthur Evans Sir Arthur John Evans (8 July 1851 – 11 July 1941) was a British archaeologist and pioneer in the study of Aegean civilization in the Bronze Age. He is most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete. Based on ...

(1851–1941) British; Aegean archaeology (Minoan studies, Knossos, Linear A and B) *Sir John Evans (1823–1908) English; British archaeology

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Georg Fabricius Georg Fabricius (23 April 1516 – 17 July 1571), born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist who wrote in Latin during the German Renaissance. Life Fabricius was born in Chemnitz in Saxony and educate ...

(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 Fan Jinshi (; born July 1938) is a Chinese archaeologist and heritage specialist who served as director of the Dunhuang Research Academy between 1998 and 2014. She spends most of her life in Mogao Caves, Dunhuang, currently working as an honorary ...

(born 1938) Chinese; Dunhuang * William Fash (born 1954) American; Maya * Charles H. Faulkner (1937–2022) American; Tennessee, historic archaeology * Neil Faulkner (1958-2022) British; Norfolk, Jordan *Rev. Bryan Faussett (1720–1776) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England) *

Carlo Fea Carlo Fea (4 June 1753 - 18 March 1836) was an Italian archaeologist. Biography Born at Pigna, in Liguria, Fea studied law in Rome, receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of La Sapienza, but archaeology gradually attrac ...

(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 Jesse Walter Fewkes (November 14, 1850 – May 31, 1930) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, writer, and naturalist. Biography Fewkes was born in Newton, Massachusetts on November 14, 1850, and initially trained as a zoologist at ...

(1850–1930) American; south-west USA (Hohokam; Pueblo, pottery)* *

Irving Finkel Irving Leonard Finkel (born 1951) is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is the Assistant Keeper of Ancient Mesopotamian script, languages and cultures in the Department of the Middle East in the British Museum, where he specialises in c ...

(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 Kent Vaughn Flannery (born 1934) is a North American archaeologist who has conducted and published extensive research on the pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, and in particular those of central and southern Mexico. He has a ...

(born 1934) American; Mesoamerica * Josephine Flood (born 1938) Australian; Aboriginal prehistory of the Australia Cloggs Cave *

Robert Bruce Foote Robert Bruce Foote (22 September 1834 – 29 December 1912) was a British geologist and archaeologist who conducted geological surveys of prehistoric locations in India for the Geological Survey of India. For his contributions to Indian archaeolog ...

(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 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 Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egypt ...

(1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology *

David Frankel David Frankel (born April 2, 1959) is an American filmmaker. Most known as the director of 2006 film, '' The Devil Wears Prada'', he is an executive producer and the director of the first and fourth episodes of the Netflix miniseries ''Inventing ...

(born 19??) Australian; Cyprus, Syria,

Koongine Cave Koongine Cave is located in the Limestone Coast of South Australia. The cave is situated in a limestone ridge approximately from the coastline. It was occupied approximately 10,000 years ago for a period of approximately 1,500 years leaving up to ...

(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 Mycenae ( ; grc, Μυκῆναι or , ''Mykē̂nai'' or ''Mykḗnē'') is an archaeological site near Mykines in Argolis, north-eastern Peloponnese, Greece. It is located about south-west of Athens; north of Argos; and south of Corinth. ...

, and Mycenaean terracottas * 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 (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 Thomas William Francis Gann (13 May 1867 – 24 February 1938) was a medical doctor by profession, but is best remembered for his work as an amateur archaeologist exploring ruins of the Maya civilization. Personal history Thomas Gann was ...

(1867–1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya * Sandor (Alexander) Gallus (1907–1996) Australian; Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation

Koonalda Cave Koonalda Cave is a cave in the Australian state of South Australia, on the Nullarbor Plain in the locality of Nullarbor. It is notable as an archeological site.

South Australia Dry Creek archaeological site Keilor * Jean-Claude Gardin (1925–2013) French; Bactria, theory in archaeology, computing in archaeology * Andrew Gardner (born 19??) Roman archaeology *

Percy Gardner Percy Gardner, (24 November 184617 July 1937) was an English classical archaeologist and numismatist. He was Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1879 to 1887. He was Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and ...

(1846–1937) English; classical archaeology *

Dorothy Garrod Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA (5 May 1892 – 18 December 1968) was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period. She held the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1 ...

(1892–1968) British; paleolithic *

Yosef Garfinkel Yosef Garfinkel (hebrew: יוסף גרפינקל; born 1956) is an Israeli archaeologist and academic. He is Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and of Archaeology of the Biblical Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Biography Yosef (Yo ...

(born 1956) Israeli; Israel * Peter Garlake (1934–2011) Zimbabwean; Zimbabwe *

John Garstang John Garstang (5 May 1876 – 12 September 1956) was a British archaeologist of the Ancient Near East, especially Egypt, Sudan, Anatolia and the southern Levant. He was the younger brother of Professor Walter Garstang, FRS, a marine bi ...

(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 Marija Gimbutas ( lt, Marija Gimbutienė, ; January 23, 1921 – February 2, 1994) was a Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of " Old Europe" and for her Kurgan hypothesis ...

(1921–1994) Lithuanian-American; Neolithic & Bronze Age *

Pere Bosch-Gimpera Pere Bosch-Gimpera (1891 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain – 1974 in Mexico) was a Spanish-born Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist. He went into exile in Mexico, with many other intellectuals, after the Spanish Civil War. He became a Mexica ...

(1891–1974) Spanish-Mexican; prehistoric Spain *

Einar Gjerstad Einar Nilson Gjerstad (Örebro, 30 October 1897 – 8 January 1988) was a Swedish archaeologist. He was most noted for his research of the ancient Mediterranean, particularly known for his work on Cyprus, as well as his studies of early Rome. B ...

(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 Albert E. Glock (September 14, 1925 – January 19, 1992) was an American archaeologist working in Palestine, where he was murdered. Glock was born in Gifford, Idaho. His parents were deeply religious Lutherans of German ancestry living in Illin ...

(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 Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa; sm, Sāmoa, and until 1997 known as Western Samoa, is a Polynesian island country consisting of two main islands ( Savai'i and Upolu); two smaller, inhabited islands ( Manono and Apolima); ...

* Albert Goodyear (born 19??) American; Paleo-Indians *

Alice Gorman Alice Gorman (born 1964) FSA is an Australian archaeologist, heritage consultant, and lecturer, who is best known for pioneering work in the field of space archaeology and her Space Age Archaeology blog. Based at Flinders University, she is an ...

(born 1964) Australian;

Space archaeology In archaeology, space archaeology is the research-based study of various human-made items found in space, their interpretation as clues to the adventures humanity has experienced in space, and their preservation as cultural heritage. It includes ...

contemporary archaeology Contemporary archaeology is a field of archaeological research that focuses on the most recent (20th and 21st century) past, and also increasingly explores the application of archaeological thinking to the contemporary world. It has also been ref ...

, 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 Boris Nikolayevich Grakov (russian: Борис Николаевич Граков) ( in Onega — September 14, 1970 in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian archaeologist, who specialized in Scythian and Sarmatian archeology, classical philology, a ...

(1899–1970) Soviet/Russian; Scythians and Sarmatians * Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887) Italy; Etruscans * Roger Green (1932–2009) American; New Zealand, Pacific Islands * Kevin Greene (born 19??) British; classical archaeology * J. Patrick Greene (born 19??) British; Medieval England *Canon

William Greenwell Canon William Greenwell, (23 March 1820 – 27 January 1918) was an English archaeologist and Church of England priest. Early life William Greenwell was born 23 March 1820 at the estate known as Greenwell Ford near Lanchester, County Durham, E ...

(1820–1918) British; Neolithic England * Alan Greaves (born 1969) British; Turkey *

James Bennett Griffin James Bennett Griffin or Jimmy Griffin (January 12, 1905 – May 31, 1997) was an American archaeologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential archaeologists in North America in the 20th century. Personal life Born in Atchison, Kan ...

(1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America * W. F. Grimes (1905–1988) Welsh; London * Klaus Grote (born 1947) German; Lower Saxony (Germany) *

Nikolai Grube Nikolai Grube is a German epigrapher. He was born in Bonn in 1962.Houston et al 2001, p.486. Grube entered the University of Hamburg in 1982 and graduated in 1985. His doctoral thesis was published at the same university in 1990. After he received ...

(born 1962) German; Mayan epigraphy * Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852) Italian; Classical * Prishantha Gunawardena (born 1968) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka *

Guo Moruo Guo Moruo (; November 16, 1892 – June 12, 1978), courtesy name Dingtang (), was a Chinese author, poet, historian, archaeologist, and government official. Biography Family history Guo Moruo, originally named Guo Kaizhen, was born on November ...

(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 Hall (1927–2012) American; U.S. Mid-West * Abdulameer al-Hamdani (1967–2022) Iraqi; Iraq, digital database, artifact rescue *

Osman Hamdi Bey Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842, in Istanbul 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is regarded as th ...

(1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon * Robert Hamilton (1905–1995) British; Near Eastern archaeology *

Norman Hammond Norman Hammond (born 10 July 1944) is a British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar, noted for his publications and research on the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. Career Hammond was educated at Peterhouse, Cambridge. He held ac ...

(born 1944) British; Afghanistan, Maya * Richard D. Hansen (born 19??) American; Meso-America * Alexander Hardcastle (1872–1933) English;

Agrigento Agrigento (; scn, Girgenti or ; grc, Ἀκράγας, translit=Akrágas; la, Agrigentum or ; ar, كركنت, Kirkant, or ''Jirjant'') is a city on the southern coast of Sicily, Italy and capital of the province of Agrigento. It was one o ...

, Sicily * Anthony Harding (born 1946) British; Bronze Age Europe * Phil Harding (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping * James Penrose Harland (1891–1973) American; Aegean * J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology *

Emil Haury Emil Walter "Doc" Haury (May 2, 1904 in Newton, Kansas – December 5, 1992 in Tucson, Arizona) was an influential archaeologist who specialized in the archaeology of the American Southwest. He is most famous for his work at Snaketown, a Hohokam ...

(1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States *

Zahi Hawass Zahi Abass Hawass ( ar, زاهي حواس; born May 28, 1947) is an Egyptian archaeologist, Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs, serving twice. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Wes ...

(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 Robert Fleming Heizer (July 13, 1915 – July 18, 1979) was an archaeologist who conducted extensive fieldwork and reporting in California, the Southwestern United States, and the Great Basin. Background Robert Fleming Heizer was born July 13, 1 ...

(1915–1979) American; California * Hans Helbæk (1907–1981) Danish; palaeobotany * John Basil Hennessy (1925-2013) Australian; Near East *

Edgar Lee Hewett Edgar Lee Hewett (November 23, 1865 – December 31, 1946) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist whose focus was the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States. He is best known for his role in ...

(1865–1946) American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law *

Christian Gottlob Heyne Christian Gottlob Heyne (; 25 September 1729 – 14 July 1812) was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library. He was a member of the Göttingen School of History. ...

(1729–1812) Saxon-German; classics * Eric Higgs (1908–1976) English; economic archaeology * Charles Higham (born 1939) British; South East Asia * 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 Frederick Webb Hodge (October 28, 1864 – September 28, 1956) was an American editor, anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian. Born in England, he immigrated at the age of seven with his family to Washington, DC. He was educated at America ...

(1864–1956) American; North American Indians * Richard Hodges (born 1952) British; Middle Ages *

Birgitta Hoffmann Birgitta Hoffmann (born 18 May 1969) is an archaeologist and adult education teacher. Her research covers the Roman military, especially the Roman frontiers and ancient glass and beads of the first millennium AD. Education and career Hoffmann s ...

(born 1969);

Gask Ridge The Gask Ridge is the modern name given to an early series of fortifications, built by the Romans in Scotland, close to the Highland Line. Modern excavation and interpretation has been pioneered by the Roman Gask Project, with Birgitta Hoffmann ...

Michael A. Hoffman Michael Allen Hoffman (October 14, 1944– April 23, 1990) was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and author. Life Michael A. Hoffman was born in Washington D.C. on October 14, 1944 and was raised in Virginia although he spent a lot of vacati ...

(1944–1990) American; Egyptology *

Alexander Hubert Arthur Hogg Alexander Hubert Arthur Hogg (1908–1989) was a British archaeologist best known for his work on hillforts. His gazetteer ''British Hill Forts: an index'' was published in 1979. Education Hogg was educated at Highgate School in London and Sidne ...

(1908–1989) British; hillforts *

Frank Hole Frank Hole (born 1931) is an American Near Eastern archaeologist known for his work on the prehistory of Iran, the origins of food production, and the archaeology of pastoral nomadism. He is C. J. MacCurdy Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at ...

(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 (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain *

Youssef Hourany Youssef Hourany (1931 – 19 October 2019) was a Lebanese writer, archeologist and historian. Hourany received his diploma in philosophy, from the Lebanese University, and his PhD on the ancient philosophy of history from The Université Saint- ...

(1931–2019) Lebanese; Middle East * Huang Wenbi (1893–1966) Chinese; China *

Huang Zhanyue Huang Zhanyue (; August 1926 – 22 April 2019) was a Chinese archaeologist. He was a professor at the Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and an honorary academician of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. His research ...

(1926–2019) Chinese; China from the

Han dynasty The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) and a warr ...

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Tang dynasty The Tang dynasty (, ; zh, t= ), or Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907 AD, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdom ...

* 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 Cynthia Irwin-Williams (April 14, 1936 – June 15, 1990) was an archaeologist of the prehistoric American Southwest. She received a B.A. in Anthropology from Radcliffe College in 1957; the next year she received a M.A. in the same field. In 196 ...

(1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology *

Glynn Isaac Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (19 November 1937 – 5 October 1985) was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa, and was one of twin sons born to botanists William Edwyn Isaac and Frances Margaret Leighton ...

(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 Otto Jahn (; 16 June 1813, in Kiel – 9 September 1869, in Göttingen), was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music. Biography After the completion of his university studies at Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, ...

(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 Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 1801 to 1809. He was previously the natio ...

(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 Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist. He is known for discovering, with Yves Coppens and Maurice Taieb, the fossil of a female hominin australopithecine known as "Lucy" in the Afar Triangle region of Hada ...

(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 (born 19??) British; Roman Britain * Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941–2001) Welsh/Australian; Tasmania * Martha Joukowsky (1936-2022) American; Middle East ( Petra), field methods * 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 * 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 The (Latin for ''Germanic frontier'') is the name given in modern times to a line of frontier () fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, dividing the Roman Empire and the unsubd ...

* 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 Robert Laurens Kelly (born March 16, 1957) is an American anthropologist who is a professor at the University of Wyoming. As a professor, he has taught introductory Archaeology as well as upper-level courses focused in Hunter-Gathers, North Americ ...

(born 1957) American; Western USA *

Francis Kelsey Francis Willey Kelsey (May 23, 1858 – May 14, 1927) was a classics scholar, professor, and archaeologist that would go on to lead the first expedition to the Near-East done by the University of Michigan (U of M). His papyrus findings and the col ...

(1858–1927) American; Middle East, papyrology * David L. Kennedy (born 1948) British and Australian; Roman Near East *

Jonathan Mark Kenoyer Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (born 28 May 1952, in Shillong, India) is an American archaeologist and ''George F. Dales Jr. & Barbara A. Dales'' Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He earned his Bachelor of Arts, Master's ...

(born 1952) American; Indus Valley Civilization *

Kathleen Kenyon Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called ...

(1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho) * Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica * T. R. Kidder (born 1960) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States * Keith Kintigh (born 19??) American; quantitative archaeology, Southwestern archaeology * Kristian Kristiansen (born 1948) Danish; Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies, archaeological theory * Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea *

Athanasius Kircher Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works, most notably in the fields of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fe ...

(1602–1680) German; Egyptian hieroglyphics ("the father of Egyptology") * Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe) *

Amos Kloner Amos Kloner (February 26, 1940 – March 16, 2019) was an Israeli archaeologist and professor emeritus. Academic career Amos Kloner taught in the Martin Szusz Department of the Land of Israel Studies at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan. His field ...

(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 Robert Johann Koldewey (10 September 1855 – 4 February 1925) was a German archaeologist, famous for his in-depth excavation of the ancient city of Babylon in modern-day Iraq. He was born in Blankenburg am Harz in Germany, the duchy of Brunswick, ...

(1855–1925) German; Near East (Babylon) *

Manfred Korfmann Manfred Osman Korfmann (April 26, 1942 – August 11, 2005) was a German archeologist. He excavated Hisarlik, the present site of Troy situated in modern-day Turkey. He continued his research in Turkey, excavating from 1982 to 1987 at Besik ...

(1942–2005) German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia (Troy) * Paul Kosok (1896–1959) American; Nazca geoglyphs *

Gustaf Kossinna Gustaf Kossinna (28 September 1858 – 20 December 1931) was a German philologist and archaeologist who was Professor of German Archaeology at the University of Berlin. Along with Carl Schuchhardt he was the most influential German prehisto ...

(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) Macedonian;

Ohrid Ohrid ( mk, Охрид ) is a city in North Macedonia and is the seat of the Ohrid Municipality. It is the largest city on Lake Ohrid and the List of cities in North Macedonia, eighth-largest city in the country, with the municipality recording ...

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* Robert Laffineur Belgian; Mycenaeanologist *

B. B. Lal Braj Basi Lal (2 May 1921 – 10 September 2022) was an Indian writer and archaeologist. He was the Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) from 1968 to 1972 and has served as Director of the Indian Institute of Advanced ...

(1921-2022) Indian; India * Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967) British; classical archaeology *

Luigi Lanzi Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he died he was buried in the church of the Santa Croce at Florence by the side of Michelangelo. Biography Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated as ...

(1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans *

Nancy Lapp Nancy L. Lapp (née Renn, 1930) is an American archaeologist and biblical scholar who has worked on a number of sites in Jordan and Palestine, alongside her husband, Paul Lapp. After her husband's untimely death in 1970, she dedicated herself ...

(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 Jean-Philippe Lauer (7 May 1902 – 15 May 2001), was a French architect and Egyptologist. He was considered to be the foremost expert on pyramid construction techniques and methods. Biography Arrival in Egypt He was born in the 8th arrondi ...

(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 skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii * Foss Leach (born 1942) New Zealand; New Zealand * Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa *

Mary Leakey Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised ''Proconsul'' skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ancestral to humans. She also disc ...

(1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa *

Richard Leakey Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (19 December 1944 – 2 January 2022) was a Kenyan paleoanthropologist, conservationist and politician. Leakey held a number of official positions in Kenya, mostly in institutions of archaeology and wildlife conse ...

(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 François Lenormant (17 January 1837 – 9 December 1883) was a 19th-century French Hellenist, Assyriologist and archaeologist. Biography Early life Lenormant's father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egypt ...

(1837–1883) French; Assyriologist * Mark P. Leone (born 1940) American; theory, historical archaeology * Dana Lepofsky (born 1958) Canadian; paleoethnobotany, Northwest Coast *

André Leroi-Gourhan André Leroi-Gourhan (; ; 25 August 1911 – 19 February 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection. ...

(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 (born 19??) British; bioarchaeologist *

David Lewis-Williams James David Lewis-Williams (born 1934) is a South African archaeologist. He is best known for his research on southern African San (Bushmen) rock art, of which it can be said that he found a 'Rosetta Stone'. He is the founder and previous direct ...

(born 1934) South African;cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art *

Edward Lhuyd Edward Lhuyd FRS (; occasionally written Llwyd in line with modern Welsh orthography, 1660 – 30 June 1709) was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary. He is also named in a Latinate form as Eduardus Luidius. Life ...

(1660–1709) Welsh; Britain * Li Feng (born 1962) Chinese/American; early China * Li Ji (Li Chi, 1896–1979) Chinese;

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Yangshao culture The Yangshao culture (仰韶文化, pinyin: Yǎngsháo wénhuà) was a Neolithic culture that existed extensively along the middle reaches of the Yellow River in China from around 5000 BC to 3000 BC. The culture is named after the Yangsh ...

Li Xueqin Li Xueqin (, 28 March 1933 – 24 February 2019) was a Chinese historian, archaeologist, and palaeographer. He served as Director of the Institute of History of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor of the Institute of Sinology of T ...

(1933–2019) Chinese; early China * Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history * 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 Victor Clement Georges Philippe Loret (1 September 1859 – 3 February 1946) was a French Egyptologist. Biography His father, Clément Loret, was a professional organist and composer, of Belgian origin, who had been living in Paris since ...

(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 (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist *Rev.

William Collings Lukis Rev. William Collings Lukis MA. FSA (8 April 1817 in Guernsey – 7 December 1892 in Wath, North Riding of Yorkshire) was a British antiquarian, archeologist and polymath. William Collings Lukis was the third son of Frederick Corbin Luk ...

(1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France * 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 The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...

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Ma Chengyuan Ma Chengyuan (; 3 November 1927 – 25 September 2004) was a Chinese archaeologist, epigrapher, and president of the Shanghai Museum. He was credited with saving priceless artifacts from destruction during the Cultural Revolution, and was instru ...

(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 Aren Maeir (born 1958) is an American-born Israeli archaeologist and professor at Bar Ilan University. He is director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project. Biography Aren Maeir was born in Rochester, New York, United States. He immig ...

(born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines * Mai Yinghao (1929–2016) Chinese; archaeology of the

Nanyue Nanyue (), was an ancient kingdom ruled by Chinese monarchs of the Zhao family that covered the modern Chinese subdivisions of Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Hong Kong, Macau, southern Fujian and central to northern Vietnam. Nanyue was establis ...

kingdom in

Guangzhou Guangzhou (, ; ; or ; ), also known as Canton () and alternatively romanized as Kwongchow or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of Guangdong province in southern China. Located on the Pearl River about north-northwest of Hong Kon ...

(born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines * Yousef Majidzadeh (born 1938) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran) *

Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi ( fa, صادق ملک شهميرزادی) (24 April 1940 - 12 October 2020) was an Iranian archaeologist and anthropologist. Career Shahmirzadi is the author of over 60 research articles and books. Shahmirzadi's book, ...

(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 John Paul Manley (born January 5, 1950) is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and politician who served as the eighth deputy prime minister of Canada from 2002 to 2003. He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Ottawa South from 1988 to ...

(born 1952) British; Roman Britain *

Joyce Marcus Joyce Marcus is a Latin American archaeologist and professor in the Department of Anthropology, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She also holds the position of Curator of Latin American Archaeo ...

(born 19??) American; Latin America * Auguste-Édouard Mariette (1821–1881) French; Egypt *

Spyridon Marinatos Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos ( el, Σπυρίδων Νικολάου Μαρινάτος; November 4, 1901 – October 1, 1974) was a Greek archaeologist, best known for leading excavations at Akrotiri on Santorini (1967–74), where he died and i ...

(1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans *

Alexander Marshack Alexander Marshack (April 4, 1918 – December 20, 2004) was an American independent scholar and Paleolithic archaeologist. He was born in The Bronx and earned a bachelor's degree in journalism from City College of New York, and worked for many y ...

(1918–2004) American; Paleolithic era * Fiona Marshall (born 19??) American;zooarchaeology and ethnoarchaeology *James A. Marshall (died 2006) American; eastern North American earthworks * John Hubert Marshall (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila, Crete * 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 Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist known for popularizing the term "Sea Peoples" in an 1881 paper. Maspero's son, Henri Maspero, became a notable sinologist and scholar of East Asia. ...

(1846–1916) French; Egypt * Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967) Danish; Arctic region * 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 Amihai "Ami" Mazar ( he, עמיחי מזר; born November 19, 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel (then the British Mandate of Palestine), he has been since 1994 a professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew Univ ...

(born 1942) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology * Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology *

Eilat Mazar Eilat Mazar ( he, אילת מזר; 10 September 195625 May 2021) was an Israeli archaeologist. She specialized in Jerusalem and Phoenician archaeology. She was also a key person in Biblical archaeology noted for her discovery of the Large Ston ...

(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 Isabel McBryde (born 16 July 1934) AO is an Australian archaeologist and professor emerita at the Australian National University (ANU) and School Fellow, in the School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Arts. McBryde is credited with training "at ...

(born 1934) Australian; "Mother of Australian Archaeology," axe sourcing studies * Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art *

Anna Marguerite McCann Anna Marguerite McCann (May 11, 1933 – February 12, 2017) was an American art historian and archaeologist. She is known for being an early influencer—and the first American woman—in the field of underwater archaeology, beginning in the ...

(1933 – 2017) American; Underwater Archaeology * Fred McCarthy (1905–1997) Australian; Australia's Aborigines * Aleksandra McClain (born 19??) medieval and church archaeology * Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic *

Betty Meehan Betty Francis Meehan (born 1933) is an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist who has worked extensively with Aboriginal people in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. Early life and education Meehan was born and grew up in Bourke, New South W ...

(born 1933) Australian;

Maningrida Maningrida, also known as Manayingkarírra and Manawukan, is an Aboriginal community in the heart of the Arnhem Land region of Australia's Northern Territory. Maningrida is east of Darwin, and north east of Jabiru. It is on the North Central ...

, 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 James Mellaart FBA (14 November 1925 – 29 July 2012) was an English archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey. He was expelled from Turkey when he was suspected of involvem ...

(1925–2012) British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük * Paul Mellars (1939–2022) British?; Neanderthals, European mesolithic * Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian orn in Rome lithics * Roger Mercer (1944–2018) British; Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles *

Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and a ...

(1803–1870) French; French monuments *

Kazimierz Michałowski Kazimierz Józef Marian Michałowski (born December 14, 1901 in Tarnopol – January 1, 1981 in Warsaw) was a Polish archaeologist and Egyptologist, art historian, member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, professor ordinarius of the Univer ...

(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 Gustav Oscar August Montelius, known as Oscar Montelius (9September 18434November 1921) was a Swedish archaeologist who refined the concept of seriation, a relative chronological dating method. Biography Oscar Montelius refined the concept ...

(1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia) *

Pierre Montet Jean Pierre Marie Montet (27 June 1885 – 19 June 1966) was a French Egyptologist. Biography Montet was born in Villefranche-sur-Saône, Rhône, and began his studies under Victor Loret at the University of Lyon. He excavated at Byblos ...

(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 Clarence Bloomfield Moore (January 14, 1852 – March 24, 1936), more commonly known as C.B. Moore, was an American archaeologist and writer. He studied and excavated Native American sites in the Southeastern United States. Early life The ...

(1852–1936) American; southern United States *

Warren K. Moorehead Warren King Moorehead was known in his time as the 'Dean of American archaeology'; born in Siena, Italy to missionary parents on March 10, 1866, he died on January 5, 1939 at the age of 72, and is buried in his hometown of Xenia, Ohio. Moorehead ...

(1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States *

Robert Morkot Robert George Morkot, FSA (born 1957) is an archaeologist and academic, specialising in Ancient Egypt. He is a Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Exeter. His current research is focused on the external relations of Ancient Eg ...

(born 1957) Egyptology * Mike Morwood (1950–2013) Australian;

Homo floresiensis ''Homo floresiensis'' also known as "Flores Man"; nicknamed "Hobbit") is an extinct species of small archaic human that inhabited the island of Flores, Indonesia, until the arrival of modern humans about 50,000 years ago. The remains of an in ...

Sylvanus G. Morley Sylvanus Griswold Morley (June 7, 1883September 2, 1948) was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who studied the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in the early 20th century. Morley led extensive excavations of the Maya site of Chichen Itza ...

(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 (born 1935) American; Central

Mississippi Valley The Mississippi River is the second-longest river and chief river of the second-largest drainage system in North America, second only to the Hudson Bay drainage system. From its traditional source of Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota, it ...

* 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 Keith Muckelroy (1951-1980) was a pioneer of maritime archaeology. Instead of the traditional particularist or historiographic approach used by maritime archaeologists, Muckelroy's ideas were new to the field, influenced by the prehistoric and analy ...

(1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology * David Mullin (b. 19??) prehistoric archaeology *

John Mulvaney Derek John Mulvaney (26 October 1925 – 21 September 2016), known as John Mulvaney and D. J. Mulvaney, was an Australian archaeologist. He was the first qualified archaeologist to focus his work on Australia. Life Mulvaney was born in Ya ...

(1925–2016) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology" *Ken Mulvaney (born 19??) Australian; Aboriginal engagement,

Burrup Peninsula Murujuga, formerly known as Dampier Island and today usually known as the Burrup Peninsula, is in the Dampier Archipelago, in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, containing the town of Dampier. The Dampier Rock Art Precinct, which covers ...

rock art *Stephen Munro (born 19??) Australian; engraved fossil shell from Java *

Margaret Murray Margaret Alice Murray (13 July 1863 – 13 November 1963) was an Anglo-Indian Egyptologist, archaeologist, anthropologist, historian, and folklorist. The first woman to be appointed as a lecturer in archaeology in the United Kingdom, she work ...

(1863–1963) Anglo-Indian; Egyptologist *

Tim Murray Timothy Patrick Murray (born June 7, 1968) is an American lawyer and member of the Democratic Party who served as the 71st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 2007 to 2013, when he resigned to become the head of the Worcester Chamber of Co ...

(born 1955) Australian; history of archaeology *

Oscar White Muscarella Oscar White Muscarella (March 26, 1931 – November 27, 2022) was an American archaeologist and former Senior Research Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where he worked for over 40 years before retiring in 2009. He specialized in the art an ...

(1931 – 2022) American; Persia, Anatolia

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* 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 Ion Nestor (25 August 1905, Focșani – 29 November 1974, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist. In 1955, he became a corresponding member of the Romanian Academy. Biography After attending Unirea High School in Focșani, he purs ...

(1905–1974) Romanian; Balkans (

Sirmium Sirmium was a city in the Roman province of Pannonia, located on the Sava river, on the site of modern Sremska Mitrovica in the Vojvodina autonomous provice of Serbia. First mentioned in the 4th century BC and originally inhabited by Illyrian ...

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Ehud Netzer Ehud Netzer ( he, אהוד נצר 13 May 1934 – 28 October 2010) was an Israeli architect, archaeologist and educator, known for his extensive excavations at Herodium, where in 2007 he found the tomb of Herod the Great; and the discovery of a ...

(1934–2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture) *

René Neuville René Neuville (30 October 1899, Gibraltar – 23 June 1952, Jerusalem) was a French prehistorian and diplomat posted to the French consulate in Jerusalem. Diplomatic career Neuville's father was the consul general of France in Gibraltar. He ...

(1899–1952) French; prehistory of the Southern Levant *

Lisa Nevett Lisa C. Nevett is a Professor of Classical Archaeology in the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, and Director of the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology. Prior to joining Michigan she was a Lectur ...

(born 19??) British; Greece * Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) British; Classical archaeology * Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor (1900–1968) Romania; Romanian prehistory *

Christiane Desroches Noblecourt Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (; 17 November 1913 – 23 June 2011) was a French Egyptologist. She was the author of many books on Egyptian art and history and was also known for her role in the International Campaign to Save the Monument ...

(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 Hugh O'Neill Hencken (January 8, 1902 – August 31, 1981) was an American archaeologist who specialized in Iron Age Europe. He was curator of European archaeology at the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, from 1932 to 1972. Career O'Neill H ...

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Kenneth Oakley Kenneth Page Oakley (7 April 1911 – 2 November 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, palaeontologist and geologist. Oakley, known for his work in the Fluorine absorption dating of fossils by fluorine content, was instrumental in th ...

(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 Neil Oliver (born 21 February 1967) is a British television presenter, archaeologist, historian and author. He has presented several documentary series on archaeology and history, including ''A History of Scotland'', ''Vikings'', and ''Coast'' ...

(born 1967) Scottish; popularizer and television presenter: northern Europe * Akinwumi Ogundiran (born 1966); Nigerian-American archaeologist;

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African studies African studies is the study of Africa, especially the continent's cultures and societies (as opposed to its geology, geography, zoology, etc.). The field includes the study of Africa's history (pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial), demography ...

* 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 (1931–2022) Greek Cypriot; Cyprus * Bertha Parker (1907–1978) Abenaki, Seneca; Southwest US archaeology and ethnology * André Parrot (1901–1980) French; ancient Near East *

Timothy Pauketat Timothy R. Pauketat is an American archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is best known for his investigations at Cahokia, the major center of ancient Mississippian culture in the America ...

(born 19??) American; Mississippian culture *

Vasile Pârvan Vasile Pârvan (; 28 September 1882, Perchiu, Huruiești, Bacău County – 26 June 1927, Bucharest) was a Romanian historian and archaeologist. Biography Vasile Pârvan came from a modest family, being the first child of the teacher Andrei P ...

(1882–1927) Romanian; classical archaeology (Hitria) * Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths) *

Mike Parker Pearson Michael Parker Pearson, (born 26 June 1957) is an English archaeologist specialising in the study of the Neolithic British Isles, Madagascar and the archaeology of death and burial. A professor at the UCL Institute of Archaeology, he previousl ...

(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 Francis Cranmer Penrose FRS (29 October 1817 – 15 February 1903) was an English architect, archaeologist, astronomer and sportsman rower. He served as Surveyor of the Fabric of St Paul's Cathedral, and as President of the Royal Institute of ...

(1817–1903), British; classical * Peter N. Peregrine (born 1963) American; Mississippian culture,

cross-cultural studies Cross-cultural studies, sometimes called holocultural studies or comparative studies, is a specialization in anthropology and sister sciences such as sociology, psychology, economics, political science that uses field data from many societies th ...

* Gregory Perino (1914–2005) American;

Woodland A woodland () is, in the broad sense, land covered with trees, or in a narrow sense, synonymous with wood (or in the U.S., the ''plurale tantum'' woods), a low-density forest forming open habitats with plenty of sunlight and limited shade (se ...

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Hilda Petrie Hilda Mary Isabel, Lady Petrie (née Urlin; 1871–1957), was an Irish-born British Egyptologist and wife of Sir Flinders Petrie,Margaret S. Drower, 'Petrie' Sir (William Matthew) Flinders (1853–1942)', Oxford Dictionary of national Biograph ...

(1871–1957) British; Egyptology *

William Matthew Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie ( – ), commonly known as simply Flinders Petrie, was a British Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and the preservation of artefacts. He held the first chair of Egypt ...

(1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology *

Stewart Perowne Stewart Henry Perowne OBE, KStJ, FSA, FRSA (17 June 1901 – 10 May 1989) was a British diplomat, archaeologist, explorer and historian who wrote books on the history and antiquities of the Mediterranean. Despite his homosexuality, in 1947 he ...

(1901–1989) British; Imadia and Beihan * Alejandro Peschard Fernández (born 19??) Mexican; Meso-America * Philip Phillips (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States * Alexandre Piankoff (1897–1966) Russian; Egypt *

Stuart Piggott Stuart Ernest Piggott, (28 May 1910 – 23 September 1996) was a British archaeologist, best known for his work on prehistoric Wessex. Early life Piggott was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, the son of G. H. O. Piggott, and was educated t ...

(1910–1996) British; neolithic, Europe (especially Britain) *

John Pinkerton John Pinkerton (17 February 1758 – 10 March 1826) was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory. He was born in Edinburgh, as one of three sons to ...

(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 Nikolaos Platon (Greek , Anglicised ''Nicolas Platon''; – ) was a renowned Greek archaeologist. He discovered the Minoan palace of Zakros on Crete. He put forward one of the two systems of relative Minoan chronology used by archaeologists f ...

(1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete *

Augustus Le Plongeon Augustus Henry Julian Le Plongeon (4 May 1825 – 13 December 1908) was a British-American archeologist and photographer who studied the pre-Columbian ruins of America, particularly those of the Maya civilization on the northern Yucatán Penins ...

(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 Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 18328 February 1895), known as Stuart Poole, was an English archaeologist, numismatist and Orientalist. Poole was from a famous Orientalist family as his mother Sophia Lane Poole, his uncle Edward William Lane an ...

(1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics) *

Gregory Possehl Gregory Louis Possehl (July 21, 1941 – October 8, 2011) was a professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the Asian Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ...

(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 (1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy *Sir

William Mitchell Ramsay Sir William Mitchell Ramsay, FBA (15 March 185120 April 1939) was a Scottish archaeologist and New Testament scholar. By his death in 1939 he had become the foremost authority of his day on the history of Asia Minor and a leading scholar in th ...

(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 Ronny Reich (born 1947) is an Israeli archaeologist, excavator and scholar of the ancient remains of Jerusalem. Education Reich studied archaeology and geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His MA thesis (supervised by Prof. Yigael Ya ...

(born 1947) Israeli; Jerusalem * Colin Renfrew (born 1937) English; history of language, archaeogenetics *

Caspar Reuvens Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens (22 January 1793 – 26 July 1835) was a Dutch historian and archaeologist. He was the founding director of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden (Dutch National Museum of Antiquities) in Leiden, the world's first ever prof ...

(1793–1835) Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands * Andrew Reynolds (born 19??) English; Medieval archaeology * Julian C. Richards (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer *

Julian D. Richards Julian Daryl Richards is a British archaeologist and academic. He works at the University of York, and is co-director of the Archaeology Data Service (ADS), and ''Internet Archaeology''. He is also the director of the Centre for Digital Heritage ...

(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 Wil Roebroeks (born 5 May 1955) is the professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is widely considered to be the pre-eminent Dutch archaeologist. In 2001 he became a member of the influential Royal Netherla ...

(born 1955) Dutch; The Netherlands * Malcolm J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California * John Romer (born 1941) British; Egypt, popularizer *

Michael Rostovtzeff Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev (russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Росто́вцев; – October 20, 1952), was a Russian historian whose career straddled the 19th and 20th centuries and who produced important works ...

(1870–1952) Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia * Irving Rouse (1913–2006) American; Caribbean and migration *

Katherine Routledge Katherine Maria Routledge (), née Pease (11 August 1866 – 13 December 1935), was an English archaeologist and anthropologist who, in 1914, initiated and carried out much of the first true survey of Easter Island. She was the second child o ...

(1866–1935) British; Easter Island *

John Howland Rowe John Howland Rowe (June 10, 1918 – May 1, 2004) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist known for his extensive research on Peru, especially on the Inca civilization. Rowe studied classical archaeology at Brown University (1935–1939) ...

(1918–2004) American; Peru * Valentine Roux (born 1956) French; ceramic production in the Levant * Peter Rowley-Conwy (born 1951) British; environmental archaeology *

Martin Rundkvist Martin Rundkvist (born 4 April 1972) is a Swedish archaeologist and associate professor at the University of Łódź in Poland. His research focuses on the Bronze, Iron, and Middle Ages of Scandinavia, including significant excavations in the p ...

(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 in Cluj-Napoca * Simon Rutar (1851–1903) Slovenian; Slovenia *

Alberto Ruz Lhuillier Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906 – 25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist. He specialized in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeology and is well known for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) excavations at ...

(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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