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 landsc ...

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

(1783–1862) Transylvanian;

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

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

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

(born 1944) U.S.; New World (esp. Pre-Clovis) and perishable technologies * Anagnostis Agelarakis (born 1956) Greek; archaeological and physical anthropology *

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

(1919–1976) Israeli; Israel Bronze Age *

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

(1882–1914) English Egyptologist and archaeologist *

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

(1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia * Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Roman Portugal * William F. Albright (1891–1971) U.S.; Orientalist *

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

(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 mostly ...

and Romano-Celtic *

Abbas Alizadeh Abbas Alizadeh (born 1951) is an Iranologist and Persian archaeologist. Alizadeh is a senior research associate at the Oriental Institute of The University of Chicago, who works with the Iranian Prehistoric Project. He has supervised foreign teams ...

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

South Pacific The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continen ...

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

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

, Polynesian *

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

(born 19??) household and Roman archaeology *

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

(1913–2006) Turkish; Hittitology *

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

(1915–2005) Israeli; Tel Arad *

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

(born 1943) New Zealand; New Zealand and the Pacific * David G. Anderson (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 Khaled Mohamad al-Asaad ( ar, خالد الأسعد, , January 1932 – 18 August 2015) was a Syrian archaeologist and the head of antiquities at the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. He held this position for over forty ye ...

(1934–2015) Syrian; Palmyra *

Mick Aston Michael Antony Aston (1 July 1946 – 24 June 2013) was an English archaeologist who specialised in Early Medieval landscape archaeology. Over the course of his career, he lectured at both the University of Bristol and University of Oxford 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 Nahman Avigad (Hebrew: נחמן אביגד, September 25, 1905 – January 28, 1992), born in Zawalow, Galicia (then Austria-Hungary, now Zavaliv, Ukraine), was an Israeli archaeologist. Biography Avigad studied architecture in what is n ...

(1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada *

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

(born 1912/13) Bedouin; excavator *

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

(1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology

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

(1821–1889) English; classical archaeology *

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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 Graeme William Walter Barker, (born 23 October 1946) is a British archaeologist, notable for his work on the Italian Bronze Age, the Roman occupation of Libya, and landscape archaeology. Early life and education Barker was born on 23 October 1 ...

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

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

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

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

(1932–2021) American; underwater archaeology * Thomas Bateman (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 Mary Carolyn Beaudry (November 25, 1950 – October 20, 2020)Mary C Beaudry, ...

(1950–2020) American; eastern U.S., Scotland, Caribbean, gastronomy * Sergei Beletzkiy (1953–2022) Russian; Medieval Russia *

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

(born 1949); Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant * Erez Ben-Yosef (born 19??); Israeli; archaeometallurgist; *

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

(1918–1987) British; Jordan *

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

(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 cons ...

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 ...

and

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

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

(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 Vallée is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * André Vallée (1930–2015), Canadian Roman Catholic bishop * Anne Vallée (born 1958), Canadian biologist * Bernard Vallée (born 1945), French fencer * Brigitte Vallée (bor ...

, 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 Fereidoun Biglari ( fa, فریدون بیگلری) () is an Iranian archaeologist and a museum curator. Career Fereidoun Biglari is co-founder and head of the Paleolithic department in National Museum of Iran which established in 2001. He is se ...

(born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic * Lewis Binford (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 Caroline Bird (born 1986) is a British poet, playwright and author. Life Caroline Bird was born in 1986. Daughter of Jude Kelly, she grew up in Leeds, England, and attended the Steiner School in York and the Lady Eleanor Holles School before ...

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

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

(born 19??) Australian; historical archaeology in Australia, Irrawang pottery, Tasmania * Glenn Albert Black (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 Frederick Jones Bliss (22 January 1859-–3 June 1937) was an American archaeologist. Biography He was born in Mount Lebanon, Syria on 22 January 1859. His father, Daniel Bliss, was first a Congregational missionary and later president of ...

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

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

(1912–1996) French; Khmer, Southeast Asia * Larissa Bonfante (1931–2019) U.S.; Etruscans * Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture *

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(1863-1938) German; Egypt (

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

) *

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

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

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

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

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

(1788–1868) French; France *

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

, Australian;

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

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

(1897–1986) Italian; Neolithic Sicily * Sandra Bowdler (born 1947) Australian; Australian Indigenous archaeology, pre-neolithic East and Southeast Asia * Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945) American; Greece & Crete; Minoan *

Harry Charles Purvis Bell Harry Charles Purvis Bell, CCS (21 September 1851 – 6 September 1937), more often known as HCP Bell, was a British civil servant and the first Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon. Early life Born in British India in 1851, he was sent to En ...

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

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

(1907–2003) U.S.; Turkey *

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

(1814–1874) French; Meso-America *

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

(1865–1935) U.S.; Egypt *

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

(1849–1923) British; Mexico *

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

(born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology *

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

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

(1933–2016) British; paleopathology * Frank Edward Brown (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 Heather Burke (born 1966) is an Australian historical archaeologist and a Professor in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University. Early life and education Burke attended Mount Cotton State School and Mary ...

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

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

(1926–2020) British; British megalithic monuments *

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

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

(1893–1971) American; California *

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

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

Luigi Canina Luigi Canina (Casale Monferrato, 1795 – Florence, 1856) was an Italian archaeologist and architect. Luigi Canina, Italian architect and archeologist, was born in Casale Monferrato in 1795 and died in Florence in 1856. He was a pupil of 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 Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the ...

(1874–1939) English; Egypt *

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

(1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico *

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

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

Jean-François Champollion Jean-François Champollion (), also known as Champollion ''le jeune'' ('the Younger'; 23 December 17904 March 1832), was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in t ...

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

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

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

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

* 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 Neil Christie is a British archaeologist and historian. He is professor of archaeology at the University of Leicester. Education and career Christie studied archaeology at Newcastle University. After obtaining his doctorate, he held a Ro ...

(born 19??) British; Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages *

Leopoldo Cicognara Count Leopoldo Cicognara (17 November 1767, in Ferrara – 5 March 1834, in Venice) was an Italian artist, art collector, art historian and bibliophile. Early life, education, and political career Cicognara attended the Collegio dei Nobili in ...

(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 Amanda Jacqueline Claridge FSA (1 September 1949 – 5 May 2022) was a British professor of Roman archaeology at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research interests included "Roman archaeology, especially art, marble sculpture and the ma ...

(1949–2022) British; Rome *

John Desmond Clark John Desmond Clark (10 April 1916 – 14 February 2002) was a British archaeologist noted particularly for his work on prehistoric Africa. Early life Clark was born in London, but his childhood was spent in a hamlet in the Chiltern Hills of B ...

(1916–2002) English; Africa * Grahame Clark (1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy * Kate Clark (19??) industrial archaeology and museum * Bob Clarke (Historian) (born 1964) English; Prehistoric and Modern Era * David Clarke (1937–1976) English; theory * Stephen Clarke (born 19??) Welsh; Wales *

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

(1866–1925) American; Assyriology * John Clegg (1935–2015) Australian; rock art * Eric H. Cline (born 1960) American?; Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory *

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

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

(born 1943) American; Upper Paleolithic France *

Robin Coningham Robin Andrew Evelyn Coningham, FSA, FRAS (born 2 December 1965) is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics. He has been Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology since 2005 and 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 Peter John Frazer Coutts was an Australian archaeologist who was first director of the Victoria Archaeological Survey (VAS), the precursor to the Heritage Branch of Aboriginal Affairs Victoria. Early life and education Peter Coutts was educa ...

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

(1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds and Australian Aborigines * Ion Horaţiu Crişan (1928–1994)Romanian; Geto-Dacians and Celts * William (Bill) Culican (1928–1984) Australian; Middle East, Australian historical archaeology *

Joseph George Cumming Joseph George Cumming, MA Cantab., (15 February 1812 – 21 December 1868) was an English geologist and archaeologist. His major works concerned the geology and history of the Isle of Man. Biography Born at Matlock in Derbyshire where his moth ...

(1812–1868) English; Isle of Man *

Barry Cunliffe Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, (born 10 December 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, is a British archaeologist and academic. He was Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford from 1972 to 2007. Since 2007, he has been an Emeri ...

(born 1939) British; Iron Age Europe, Celts * Ben Cunnington (1861–1950) English; prehistoric England (Wiltshire) *

Alexander Cunningham Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham (23 January 1814 – 28 November 1893) was a British Army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861, he was appointed to the newl ...

(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 h ...

(born 1935) French; Khmer and India *

Constantin Daicoviciu Constantin Daicoviciu (; March 1, 1898 – May 27, 1973) was a Romanian historian and Archaeology, archaeologist, professor at the Babeș-Bolyai University, University of Cluj, and titular member of the Romanian Academy. He was born in Constant ...

(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 Fellow of the British Academy, FBA, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, FRAI (23 April 1914 – 13 December 1986) was a Wales, Welsh scientist and archaeologist who taught at Cambridge University, ...

(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 Raymond Arthur Dart (4 February 1893 – 22 November 1988) was an Australian anatomist and anthropologist, best known for his involvement in the 1924 discovery of the first fossil ever found of ''Australopithecus africanus'', an extinct homi ...

(1893–1988) Australian; paleoanthropology:

Australopithecus africanus ''Australopithecus africanus'' is an extinct species of australopithecine which lived between about 3.3 and 2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene of South Africa. The species has been recovered from Taung, Sterkfonte ...

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 Janet Marjorie Davidson (born 1941) is a New Zealand archaeologist who has carried out extensive field work in the Pacific Islands throughout Polynesia, Micronesia and Melanesia. Career Davidson carried out field work in the Society Islands ...

(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, Manc ...

(1837–1929) British; antiquity of man *

Touraj Daryaee Touraj Daryaee ( fa, تورج دریایی; born 1967) is an Iranian Iranologist and historian. He currently works as the Maseeh Chair in Persian Studies and Culture and the director of the Dr. Samuel M. Jordan Center for Persian Studies at the U ...

(born 1967) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran) *

Janette Deacon Janette Deacon (née Buckland, born 25 November 1939) is a South African archaeologist specialising in heritage management and rock art conservation. She has studied the changes in stone tools from sites in the southern Cape in relation to climat ...

(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 James Deetz (February 8, 1930 – November 25, 2000) was an American anthropologist, often known as one of the fathers of historical archaeology. His work focused on culture change and the cultural aspects inherent in the historic and archae ...

(1930–2000) American; Historical Archaeology * Warren DeBoer (died May 24, 2020) American; North and South America, ethnoarchaeology; ceramics *

James P. Delgado James Preston Delgado (born January 11, 1958) is a maritime archaeologist, historian, maritime preservation expert, author, television host, and explorer. Delgado is a maritime archaeologist who has spent over four decades in underwater explora ...

(born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist *

Robin Dennell Robin W. Dennell (born 1947) is a British prehistoric archaeologist specialising in early hominin expansions out of Africa and the Palaeolithic of Pakistan and China. He is Professor Emeritus of Human Origins of the University of Sheffield, and ...

(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 Rúaidhrí de Valera (3 November 1916 – 28 October 1978) was an Irish archaeologist most known for his work on the megalithic tombs of his country. He was the son of Éamon de Valera and Sinéad de Valera. Early studies De Valera took a ...

(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 Dong Zuobin or Tung Tso-pin (1895–1963) was a Chinese archaeologist. He was a leading authority on the oracle bone and turtle shell inscriptions of the Shang dynasty (1600-1046 BC). In 1928, Dong supervised the first archaeological dig of An ...

(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 the ...

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 Gender archaeology is a method of studying past societies through their material culture by closely examining the social construction of gender identities and relations. Gender archaeologists examine the relative positions in society of men, w ...

, 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 Duan Qingbo (; February 1964 – 13 October 2019) was a Chinese archaeologist. He served as the chief archaeologist of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor and Dean of the School of Cultural Heritage of Northwest University in Xi'an. He discov ...

(1964–2019) Chinese;

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor () is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin dynasty. It is located in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province of China. It was constructed over 38 years, from 246 to 208 BCE, and is ...

Roger Duff Roger Shepherd Duff (11 July 1912 – 30 October 1978) was a New Zealand ethnologist and museum director. Biography Duff was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1912. He is the son of Oliver Duff founding editor of the New Zealand Listener, and ...

(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 Elisabeth Christina Louisa During Caspers (1 September 1934 – 31 January 1996), known familiarly as Inez During Caspers, was a Dutch archaeologist. Education and career During Caspers was born in Amsterdam in 1934. She studied both Mesopotami ...

(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 * Elizabeth Sara Eames (24 June 1918 – 20 September 2008) was a British archaeologist and scholar who specialised in the study of medieval tiles. Her expertise grew out of a job at the British Museum which involved cataloguing and conserving ...

(1918–2008) British; specialist in English medieval tiles *

Hella Eckardt Hella Eckardt is an archaeologist who specialises in Roman archaeology and material culture and a professor at the University of Reading. Since 2018 she has been the Editor of the journal ''Britannia (journal), Britannia''. Career Eckardt studi ...

(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 ...

(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 Ricardo Francisco Eichmann (born November 1, 1955) is an Argentine-born German archaeologist. He was the director of the Orient Department of the German Archaeological Institute between 1996 and 2020 and previously a professor of Near Eastern arc ...

(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 Knowth (; ga, Cnóbha) is a Neolithic passage grave and an ancient monument of the World Heritage Site of Brú na Bóinne located 8.4 km west of Drogheda in Ireland's valley of the River Boyne. It is the largest passage grave of the Brú ...

(Ireland) *

Kenan Erim Kenan Tevfik Erim (13 February 1929 in İstanbul – 3 November 1990 in Ankara) was a Turkish archaeologist who excavated from 1961 until his death at the site of Aphrodisias in Turkey. Life His father, Tevfik Erim, was a diplomat who was a member ...

(1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia *

Ufuk Esin Ufuk Esin (11 October 1933 – 19 January 2008) was a Turkish archaeologist known for pioneering archaeological science in Turkey and for her excavations at Aşıklı Höyük. She was a professor at Istanbul University from 1966 until her retire ...

(1933–2008) Turkish; prehistoric Anatolia, archaeometry *

Roland Étienne Roland (; frk, *Hrōþiland; lat-med, Hruodlandus or ''Rotholandus''; it, Orlando or ''Rolando''; died 15 August 778) was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as the ...

(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 t ...

(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 educated at ...

(1516–1571) German; Roman epigraphy *

Brian M. Fagan Brian Murray Fagan (born 1 August 1936) is a prolific British author of popular archaeology books and a professor emeritus of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Biography Fagan was born in England where he received hi ...

(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 Dunhuang () is a county-level city in Northwestern Gansu Province, Western China. According to the 2010 Chinese census, the city has a population of 186,027, though 2019 estimates put the city's population at about 191,800. Dunhuang was a major ...

William Fash William L. Fash, Jr. (born 1954) is one of the founders of The Copan Association, which he describes as "charged with research on and preservation of the Copan Archaeological Site, and other archaeological, cultural and natural resources of Hondura ...

(born 1954) American; Maya * Charles H. Faulkner (1937–2022) American; Tennessee, historic archaeology * Neil Faulkner (1958-2022) British; Norfolk, Jordan *Rev.

Bryan Faussett Bryan Faussett (30 October 1720 – 20 February 1776) was an English antiquary. Faussett formed a collection that was rich in Anglo-Saxon objects of personal adornment, such as pendants, brooches, beads and buckles. He discovered the Kingston ...

(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 attracte ...

(1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law * Gary M. Feinman (born 1951) American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca *Sir

Charles Fellows Sir Charles Fellows (31 August 1799 – 8 November 1860) was a British archaeologist and explorer, known for his numerous expeditions in what is present-day Turkey. Biography Charles Fellows was born at High Pavement, Nottingham on 31 August ...

(1799–1860) British; Asia Minor *

Karl Ludwig Fernow Karl Ludwig Fernow (19 November 1763 – 4 December 1808) was a German art critic and archaeologist. Early life Fernow was born in Pomerania, the son of a servant in the household of the lord of Blumenhagen. At the age of twelve he became cle ...

(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 Israel Finkelstein ( he, ישראל פינקלשטיין, born March 29, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Fin ...

(born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel) *

George R. Fischer George Robert Fischer (May 4, 1937 – May 29, 2016) was an American underwater archaeologist, considered the founding father of the field in the National Park Service. A native Californian, he did undergraduate and graduate work at Stanford Uni ...

(1937–2016) American; underwater archaeology * Peter M. Fischer (born 19??) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East *

Cleo Rickman Fitch Cleo Rickman Fitch (June 16, 1910 – January 15, 1995) was an American archaeological researcher who specialized in Roman lamps. Early life and education Cleo Rickman Fitch was born on June 16, 1910, in Carlsbad, Texas. Her father was a do ...

(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 Josephine Mary Flood, (née Scarr, born 25 July 1936) is an English-born Australian archaeologist, mountaineer, and author. Early life and education Josephine Flood was born Josephine Scarr in Yorkshire, England. She took a BA in Classics ...

(born 1938) Australian; Aboriginal prehistory of the Australia

Cloggs Cave Cloggs Cave is a limestone cave and rockshelter with significant Aboriginal archaeological deposits, located on a cliff along the Snowy River gorge near the town of Buchan, Victoria. The cave was within the country of the Krowathunkooloong (K ...

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 Sally M. Foster is a Scottish archaeologist and senior lecturer at the University of Stirling. She specialises in the archaeology of Scotland, particularly the Picts and their neighbours in the early medieval period. Education and career Fos ...

(born 19??) Scottish; Medieval Scotland *

Alfred Foucher Alfred Charles Auguste Foucher (1865–1952), was a French scholar, who argued that the Buddha image has Greek origins. He has been called the "father of Gandhara studies", and is a much-cited scholar on ancient Buddhism in northwest Indian subcont ...

(1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art) & southern Africa *

Aileen Fox Aileen Mary Fox, Lady Fox, ( Henderson; 29 July 1907 – 21 November 2005) was an English archaeologist, who specialised in the archaeology of south-west England. She notably excavated the Roman legionary fortress in Exeter, Devon, after the S ...

(1907–2005) British; South West England *

Cyril Fox Sir Cyril Fred Fox (16 December 1882 – 15 January 1967) was an English archaeologist and museum director. Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales, and subsequently served as director from 1926 to 1948. His most ...

(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 Elizabeth Bayard French, FSA ( Wace; 19 January 1931 – 10 June 2021), also known as Lisa French, was a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in Mycenaean Greece, especially pottery and terracotta figurines and the site of Mycenae. ...

(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. Th ...

, 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 Honor Frost (28 October 1917 – 12 September 2010) was a pioneer in the field of underwater archaeology, who led many Mediterranean archaeological investigations, especially in Lebanon, and was noted for her typology of stone anchors and skills ...

(1924–2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors * Dorian Fuller (born 19??) American; archaeobotany, domestication

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Charles Godakumbura Doctor Charles Edmund Godakumbura (5 December 1907 – 7 February 1977) was the Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1967. Early life He was born on 5 December 1907 in Chilaw in the North Western province of the cou ...

(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 Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (, 8 March 1938 – 18 January 2019) was an Iraqi Assyriologist specialising in ancient Mesopotamian antiquities. Al-Gailani was born in Baghdad and completed her education in Iraq and the United Kingdom. Her doctoral stud ...

(1938–2019) Iraqi; Mesopotamian archaeology *

Antoine Galland Antoine Galland (; 4 April 1646 – 17 February 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of '' One Thousand and One Nights'', which he called ''Les mille et une nuits''. His version of the t ...

(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 Sandor (Alexander) Gallus (15 November 1907 – 29 December 1996) was a Melbourne archaeologist, most famous for his investigations of Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation at Koonalda Cave in South Australia and the Dry Creek archaeological site in ...

(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 Jean-Claude Gardin (3 April 1925 - 8 April 2013) was a French archaeologist who is recognized as being one of the founders of archaeological computing. Gardin worked with the organizations UNESCO and the European Atomic Energy Community in the 195 ...

(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 A ...

(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 193 ...

(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 Peter Storr Garlake (11 January 1934 - 2 December 2011) was a Zimbabwean archaeologist and art historian, who made influential contributions to the study of Great Zimbabwe and Ife, Nigeria. Life Garlake began his career in African art and arc ...

(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 biol ...

(1876–1954) British; Anatolia, Southern Levant *

Kathleen O'Neal Gear Kathleen O'Neal Gear (born 1954) is an American archaeologist and writer. She has won numerous awards for her work, including the Spur Award for best historical novel of the west, and two Special Achievement Awards from the U.S. Dept. of the Int ...

(born 1954) American; US West; archaeological fiction *

William Gell Sir William Gell FRS (29 March 17774 February 1836) was a British classical archaeologist and illustrator. He published topographical illustrations of Troy and the surrounding area in 1804. He also published illustrations showing the results ...

(1777–1836) English; Classical archaeology * Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867) German; Rome * Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (born 19??) zooarchaeology *

John Wesley Gilbert John Wesley Gilbert (July 6, 1863 – November 18, 1923) was an American archaeologist, educator, and Methodist missionary to the Congo. Gilbert was the first graduate of Paine College, its first African-American professor, and the first African ...

(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 John Mann Goggin (May 27, 1916, Chicago – May 4, 1963, Gainesville) was a cultural anthropologist in the southwest, southeast, Mexico, and Caribbean, primarily focusing on the ethnology, cultural history, and typology of artifacts from archaeolog ...

(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 Illi ...

(1925–1992) American; Palestinian archaeology *

Franck Goddio Franck Goddio (born 1947 in Casablanca, Morocco) is a French underwater archaeologist who, in 2000, discovered the city of Thonis-Heracleion 7 km off the Egyptian shore in Aboukir Bay. He led the excavation of the submerged site of Canopus a ...

(born 1947) French; underwater archaeology, Heracleion (Egypt) * Lynne Goldstein (born 1953) American; prehistoric eastern North America, mortuary *

Jack Golson Jack Golson (born 1926) is an archaeologist who has done extensive field work in Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. He was born in Rochdale, England. Golson studied history and archaeology at University of Cambridge, Cambridge University. In ...

(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 Island, Manono an ...

Albert Goodyear Albert C. Goodyear III is an American archaeology, archaeologist who is founder and director of the ''Allendale PaleoIndian Expedition'' in South Carolina, where he has unearthed controversial evidence that may greatly move back the date of occupa ...

(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 Carlos Joaquín Gradin (20 May 1918 – 31 March 2002), also known as Carlos Gradín, was an Argentine surveyor and archaeologist. He carried out numerous studies in the Patagonian region, and is known for his extensive studies of Cueva de las ...

(1918–2002) Argentine; Patagonian Paleo-Indians *

Ian Graham Ian James Alastair Graham OBE (12 November 1923 – 1 August 2017) was a British Mayanist whose explorations of Maya ruins in the jungles of Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize helped establish the ''Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions'' publi ...

(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, an ...

(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 Kevin Darwin Greene (July 31, 1962December 21, 2020) was an American professional football player who was a defensive end and linebacker for the Los Angeles Rams, Pittsburgh Steelers, Carolina Panthers, and San Francisco 49ers of the Nation ...

(born 19??) British; classical archaeology *

J. Patrick Greene J. Patrick Greene is a British archaeologist and museum director. He served as Director of the Science and Industry Museum, in Manchester, England from 1983 to 2002, and then CEO of Museums Victoria in Australia from 2002 to 2017. Biography Green ...

(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 Alan Greaves (born 1969, Otley, West Yorkshire) is a lecturer at the University of Liverpool, UK, who specialises in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Anatolia Anatolia, tr, Anadolu Yarımadası), and the Anatolian plateau, also known as Asia ...

(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, Kansa ...

(1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America *

W. F. Grimes William Francis Grimes (known as Peter; 31 October 1905 – 25 December 1988) was a Welsh archaeologist. He devoted his career to the archaeology of London and the prehistory of Wales. He was appointed a CBE in 1955. Early life Grimes was bo ...

(1905–1988) Welsh; London *

Klaus Grote Klaus Grote (born 12 September 1947) is a German archaeologist and was director of the archaeological section of the Landkreis Göttingen until his retirement in 2012. Grote studied archaeology re- and proto-historyat Göttingen University, writi ...

(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 Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852) was an Italian archaeologist, epigrapher, poet, college president, and teacher. He was born on May 12, 1765, in Mirabella Eclano, in the province of Avellino, Campania, Italy, the second of three sons born to upper ...

(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 Gustav, Gustaf or Gustave may refer to: * Gustav (name), a male given name of Old Swedish origin Art, entertainment, and media * ''Primeval'' (film), a 2007 American horror film * ''Gustav'' (film series), a Hungarian series of animated short car ...

(1882–1973) Swedish; Classical

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Joseph Hackin Joseph Hackin (8 November 1886, Boevange-sur-Attert – 24 February 1941) was a French archaeologist and Resistance member. He was a curator at the Musée Guimet and explored Afghanistan in 1923 with Alfred Foucher and Andre Godard. Biography B ...

(1886–1941) French; Afghanistan *

Marie Hackin Marie may refer to: People Name * Marie (given name) * Marie (Japanese given name) * Marie (murder victim), girl who was killed in Florida after being pushed in front of a moving vehicle in 1973 * Marie (died 1759), an enslaved Cree person in Tr ...

(1905–1941) French; Afghanistan * Robert Hall (1927–2012) American; U.S. Mid-West *

Abdulameer al-Hamdani Abdulameer M. Al-Dafar Al-Hamdani (1 May 1967 – 29 April 2022) was an archaeologist and politician who served as the minister of culture of Iraq between 2018 and 2020. Early life and education Hamdani was born in Nasiriyah in 1967. His father ...

(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 Richard D. Hansen is an American archaeologist who is an adjunct professor of anthropology at the University of Utah. Career Hansen is a specialist on the ancient Maya civilization and directs the Mirador Basin Project, which investigates a circ ...

(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 of ...

, 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 (1915–1979) American; California *Hans Helbæk (1907–1981) Danish; palaeobotany *John Basil Hennessy (1925-2013) Australian; Near East *Edgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946) American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law *Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) Saxon-German; classics *Eric Sidney Higgs, Eric Higgs (1908–1976) English; economic archaeology *Charles Higham (archaeologist), Charles Higham (born 1939) British; South East Asia *Thomas Higham (archaeologist), Thomas Higham (born 19??) New Zealand; radiocarbon dating *Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology *Ida Hill (1875–1958) American; classical archaeology *Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology *Gordon Hillman (1943–2018) British; archaeobotany *Peter Hinton (born 19??) British; England *Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran) *Peter Hiscock (born 1957) Australian; ancient technology *Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory, Catalhoyuk *Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956) American; North American Indians *Richard Hodges (archaeologist), Richard Hodges (born 1952) British; Middle Ages *Birgitta Hoffmann (born 1969); Gask Ridge *Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990) American; Egyptology *Alexander Hubert Arthur Hogg (1908–1989) British; hillforts *Frank Hole (born 1931) American; Near East *Vance T. Holliday (born 1950) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology *Mads Kähler Holst (born 1973) Danish; Bronze Age and Iron Age wetland sites in Denmark *Sinclar Hood (1917–2021) British; Knossos *Jeannette Hope, Australian; Western New Sohttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/07/juliet-clutton-brockuth Wales *John Horsley (archaeologist), John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain *Youssef Hourany (1931–2019) Lebanese; Middle East *Huang Wenbi (1893–1966) Chinese; China *Huang Zhanyue (1926–2019) Chinese; China from the Han dynasty to the Tang dynasty *John Hurst (archaeologist), John Hurst (1927–2003) British; English medieval archaeology *Elinor Mullett Husselman (1900–1996) American; Coptic historian, papyrologist *Juliet Hutton-Brock (1933–2015) British; archaeozoology

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

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

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*Robert Laffineur Belgian; Mycenaeanologist * B. B. Lal (1921-2022) Indian; India *Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967) British; classical archaeology *Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans *Nancy Lapp (born 1930) American; Near Eastern archaeology, biblical archaeology *Pierre Henri Larcher (1726–1812) French; classical archaeology *Donald Lathrap (1927–1990) American; South America, U.S. Mid-West *Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902–2001) French; Egypt *Bo Lawergren (born 19??) American?; music archaeology; Mesopotamia *T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East *Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud) *Estelle Lazer (born 19??) Australian; human skeleton, skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii *Foss Leach (born 1942) New Zealand; New Zealand *Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa *Mary Leakey (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa *Richard Leakey (1944–2022) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa *Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955) British; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 19281945 *Charles Lenormant (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East *François Lenormant (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist *Mark P. Leone (born 1940) American; theory, historical archaeology *Dana Lepofsky (born 1958) Canadian; paleoethnobotany, Northwest Coast *André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986) French; theory, art, Paleolithic *Jean Antoine Letronne (1787–1848) French; Greece, Rome, Egypt *Gerson Levi-Lazzaris (born 1979) Brazilian; ethnoarchaeology *Carenza Lewis (born 1963) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain *Jodie Lewis (born 19??) British; prehistoric archaeology *Madeline Kneberg Lewis (1901–1996) American; typologist, Illustrator. *Mary Lewis (archaeologist), Mary Lewis (born 19??) British; bioarchaeologist *David Lewis-Williams (born 1934) South African;cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art *Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain *Li Feng (sinologist), Li Feng (born 1962) Chinese/American; early China *Li Ji (archeologist), Li Ji (Li Chi, 1896–1979) Chinese;

and Yangshao culture *Li Xueqin (1933–2019) Chinese; early China *Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history *Li Liu (archaeologist), Li Liu (born 1953) Chinese/American; neolithic and Bronze Age China, "the father of Chinese archaeology" *Gary Lock (born 19??) British; computational archaeology, European prehistory *Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery *Helen Loney (born 19??) prehistoric archaeology and pottery studies *Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892–1965) American; Central and South America and the Caribbean *Victor Loret (1859–1946) French; Egypt & Southern Africa *William A. Longacre (1937–2015) American; southwestern USA, "New Archaeology *Harry Lourandos (born 1945) Australian; hunter-gatherer intensification *Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist *Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France *Cajsa S. Lund (:sv:Cajsa S. Lund, sv) (born 1940) Swedish; music archaeology *Frances Lynch (born 19??) Welsh; Wales *Albert Lythgoe (1868–1934) American; Egyptologist and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

T

*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

U

*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

V

*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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*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

External links

ABC GNT History, Australian Archaeologists

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