List of archaeologists
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A list of eminent archaeologists.
A
- Kamyar Abdi (born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age
- Aziz Ab'Saber (1924-2012) Brazilian; Brazil
- James M. Adovasio (born 1944) USA; New World (esp. Pre-Clovis) and perishable technologies
- Yohanan Aharoni (1919–1976) Israeli; Israel Bronze Age
- Ekrem Akurgal (1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia
- Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Roman Portugal[1]
- William F. Albright (1891–1971) U.S.A.; Orientalist
- Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain
- Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) American; Roman provinces
- Miranda Aldhouse-Green (born 19??) British; British Iron Age and Romano-Celtic
- Jim Allen (born 19??) Australian; Oceania
- Sedat Alp (1913–2006) Turkish; Hittitology
- Ruth Amiran (1915–2005) Israeli; Tel Arad
- David G. Anderson (born 1949) American?; eastern North America
- Manolis Andronicos (1919–1992) Greek; Greece
- Remzi Oğuz Arık (1899–1954) Turkish; early Bronze Age Anatolia[2]
- Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972) Russian/Soviet; Khazar (Central Asia)
- Khaled al-Asaad (1834-2015) Syrian; Palmyra
- Mick Aston (1946–2013) English; popularizer
- Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994) English; England
- Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 1957) French
- Anthony Aveni (born 1938) American; archaeoastronomy
- Nahman Avigad (1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada
- Massoud Azarnoush (1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology
B
- Churchill Babington (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology
- Paul Bahn (born 19??) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island
- Geoff Bailey (born 19??) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
- Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914) American; American South-West
- Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885–1930) Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture
- Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) Italian; Estruscans & art
- Pessah Bar-Adon (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (Bet Shearim, Tel Bet Yerah, Nahal Mishmar hoard)
- Gabriel Barkay (born 1944) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy, glyptics in the Iron Age, Ketef Hinnom)
- Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England
- Ofer Bar-Yosef (born 1937) Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites
- Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire)
- Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco)
- Bayar Dovdoi (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia
- Gertrude Bell (1868–1926) English; adventurer and Middle Eastern archaeologist, formed the Baghdad Archaeological Museum (now Iraqi Museum)
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian /?Dutch; Egypt
- Taha Baqir (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
- Lee Berger (born 1965) American; 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
- Clarence Bicknell (1842–1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles, France
- Martin Biddle (born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain
- Manfred Bietak (born 1940) Austrian; Egypt
- Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
- Lewis Binford (1930–2011) American; theory
- Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) American; discovered Machu Picchu
- Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) Italian; Rome
- Avraham Biran (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan))
- Glenn Albert Black (1900–1964) American; US Mid-West
- Carl Blegen (1887–1971) American; Troy
- Frederick Jones Bliss (1857–1939) American; Palestine
- Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture
- François Bordes (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
- Stephen Borhegyi (1921–1969) American; Meso-America[3]
- Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868) French; France
- Jole Bovio Marconi (1897–1986) Italian; Neolithic Sicily
- Richard Bradley (born 1946) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain)
- Linda Schreiber Braidwood (1909–2003) American; Near East
- Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) French; Meso-America
- James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) American; Egypt
- Eric Breuer (born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
- Jacques Breuer (born ????) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
- Robert Brier (born 1943) American; Egypt paleopathology
- Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
- Mary Brodrick (c. 1858–1933) English; Egyptology
- Don Brothwell (born ????) British; paleopathology
- Elizabeth Brumfiel (1945–2012) American; Mesoamerica
- Aubrey Burl (born 1926) British; British megalithic monuments
- Karl Butzer (born 1934) American; environmental archaeology
C
- Errett Callahan (born 1937) American; experimental archaeology
- Frank Calvert (1828–1908) English; Troy
- Luigi Canina (1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way)
- Bob Carr (born 1947) American; Florida historic Indians
- Martin Carver (born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo
- Howard Carter (1874–1939) English; Egypt
- Alfonso Caso (1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico
- C. W. Ceram (1915–1972) German; popularizer
- Dilip Chakrabarti (born 19??) Indian?; South Asian archaeology (especially archaeological geography of the Ganges Plain)
- John Leland Champe (1895–1978) American?; archaeology of the Great Plains
- Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) French; Egypt
- Kwang-chih Chang (1931–2001) Chinese/Taiwanese; China
- Arlen F Chase (born 1953) American?; Mesoamerica
- Diane Zaino Chase (born 1957) American; Mesoamerica
- Chen Mengjia (1911–1966) Chinese; China
- John F. Cherry (born 19??) Welsh; Aegean prehistory
- Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) Australian; Europe / neolithic
- Choi Mong-lyong (born 1946) Korean; Korea (Mumin pottery period)
- Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834) Italian; Italy
- Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914) Turkish; Sumerology
- Bob Clarke (Historian) English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
- David Clarke (1937–1976) English; theory
- John Desmond Clark (1916–2002) English; Africa
- Stephen Clarke (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
- Grahame Clark (1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy
- Albert Tobias Clay (1866–1925) American; Assyriology
- Eric H. Cline (born 1960) Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
- Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West
- John M. Coles (born 1930) British; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age archaeology, experimental archaeology[4][5]
- Donald Collier (1911–1995) American; Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology
- John Collis (born 1944) English; Iron Age Europe
- Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838) English, England
- Margaret Conkey (born 19??) France / paleolithic
- Gudrun Corvinus (1931–2006?) German; India/Nepal/Africa
- George Cowgill (born 19??) American; Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
- O.G.S. Crawford (1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology
- Roger Cribb (1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds & Australian Aborigines
- John Winter Crowfoot (1873-1959) British; Palestine
- Joseph George Cumming (1812–1868) English; Isle of Man
- Barry Cunliffe (born 1939) British; Iron Age Europe, Celts
- Ben Cunnington (1861–1950) English; prehistoric England (Wiltshire)
- Maud Cunnington (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[6]
- Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) German; Greece
- Clive Eric Cussler (born 1931) American; underwater archaeology
D
- George F. Dales (1927–1992) American; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
- Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology
- Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology
- Ken Dark (born 1961) British; Roman Europe
- Theodore M. Davis (1837–1915) American; Egypt
- William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man
- Janette Deacon (born 1939) South African; rock art, heritage management
- Hilary Deacon (1936–2010) South African; African; antiquity of man
- James Deetz (1930–2000) American; Historical Archaeology
- James P. Delgado (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist
- Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880) French; Holy Land
- Jules Desnoyers (1800–1887) French; antiquity of man
- Rúaidhrí de Valera (1916–1978) Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland
- Dragotin Dežman (1821–1889) Slovenian; Ljubljana Marshes, 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[7]
- Kelly Dixon (born 19??) American; historical archaeology of the American West
- Brian Dobson (1931–2012) British; Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Army
- Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) German; Greece
- Trude Dothan (born 1922) Austrian, Israel
- Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics
- Robert Dunnell (1947-2010) American; theory, U.S. Mid-West
E
- Kenan Erim (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia
- Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) British; Aegean archaeology (Minoan studies, Knossos, Linear A and B)
- Sir John Evans (1823–1908) English; British archaeology
F
- Georg Fabricius (1516–1571), German; Roman epigraphy
- Brian M. Fagan (born 19??) generalist, popularist, history of archaeology
- Panagiotis Faklaris (born 1950) Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina
- Tiziano Fantuzzi (born 1984) Italian; Egyptology, Theoretical archaeology
- Rev. Bryan Faussett (1720–1776) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England)
- Carlo Fea (1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law
- Gary M. Feinman (born 1951) American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca
- Sir Charles Fellows (1799–1860) British; Asia Minor
- Karl Ludwig Fernow (1763–1808) German; Roman archaeology
- J. Walter Fewkes (1850–1930) American; south-West USA (Hohokam; Pueblo, pottery)
- Israel Finkelstein (born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel)
- George R. Fischer (born 1937) American; underwater archaeology
- Peter M. Fischer (born 19??) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East
- William W. Fitzhugh (born 1943) American; circumpolar archaeology
- Kent Flannery (born 1934) American; Mesoamerica
- James A. Ford (1911–1968) American; Southeastern United States
- Alfred Foucher (1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art)
- Cyril Fox (1882–1967) English; Wales
- William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology
- George Frison (born 1924) American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools
- Gayle J. Fritz (born 19??) American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America
- Honor Frost (1924–2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors
G
- Antoine Galland (1646–1715) French; numismatics, Middle East
- Thomas Gann (1867–1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya
- Percy Gardner (1846–1937) English; Classical archaeology
- Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) British; Paleolithic
- Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956) Israeli; Israel
- John Garstang (1876-1954) British; Anatolia, Southern Levant
- William Gell (1777–1836) English; Classical archaeology
- Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867) German; Rome
- John Wesley Gilbert (1864–1923) first African-American archaeologist; Classical
- Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994) Lithuanian-American; Neolithic & Bronze Age
- Pere Bosch-Gimpera (1891–1974) Spanish-Mexican; prehistoric Spain
- Einar Gjerstad (1897–1988) Swedish; Cyprus and Rome
- John Mann Goggin (1916–1963) American; typology, colonial Caribbean
- Albert Glock (1925–1992) American; Palestinian Archaeology
- Albert Goodyear (born 19??) American; paleo-Indians
- Ian Graham (born 1923) British; Mayans
- Boris Grakov (1899–1970) Soviet/Russian; Scythians and Sarmatians
- J. Patrick Greene (born 19??) British; Medieval England
- Canon William Greenwell (1820–1918) British; neolithic England
- Alan Greaves (born 1969) British; Turkey
- James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America
- W. F. Grimes (1905–1988) Welsh; London
- Klaus Grote (born 1947) German; Lower Saxony (Germany)
- Nikolai Grube (born 1962) German; Mayan epigraphy
- Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852) Italian; Classical
- Prishantha Gunawardena (born 1968) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
- Guo Moruo (1892–1978) Chinese; China
- Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882–1973) Swedish; Classical
H
- Robert Hall (1927–2012) American; U.S. Mid-West
- Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon
- Robert Hamilton (1905–1995) British; Near Eastern archaeology
- Richard D. Hansen (born 19??) American; Meso-America
- Phil Harding (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping
- J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology
- James Penrose Harland (1891–1973) American; Aegean
- Emil Haury (1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States
- Zahi Hawass (born 1947) Egyptian; Egypt
- Christopher Hawkes (1905–1992) English; European archaeology
- Robert Heizer (1915–1979) American; California
- Edgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946) American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law
- Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) Saxon-German; Classics
- Eric Higgs (1908–1976) English; economic archaeology
- Peter Hinton (born 19??) British; England
- Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran)
- Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory
- Birgitta Hoffmann (born 1969); Gask Ridge
- Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990) American; Egyptology
- Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956) American?; North American Indians
- Vance T. Holliday (????) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology
- John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain
- Ferenc Horváth (born 1948) Hungarian; Hungarian neolithic
- Youssef Hourany (born 1931) Lebanese; archeologist
- Huang Wenbi (1893–1966) Chinese; China
- John Hurst (1927–2003) British; English medieval archaeology
I
- Glynn Isaac (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology
- Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology
J
- Otto Jahn (1813–1869) German; classical world (art)
- Jacques Jaubert (born 19??) French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) US President; Virginia prehistory
- Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) USA; 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
- Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941–2001) Welsh/Australian; Tasmania
- Chris Judge (archaeologist) (19??) American; eastern U.S. (Woodland, Mississippian)
K
- 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; South-eastern USA
- Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (1952) American; Indus Valley Civilization
- Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho)
- Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica
- T.R. Kidder (born ????) American?; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States
- Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea
- Athanasius Kircher (1601 or 1602–1680) German; Egyptian hieroglyphics ("the father of Egyptology")
- Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe)
- Amos Kloner (born 1940) 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)
- Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931) German; Germany (Neolithic, Aryan concept)
- Hamit Zübeyir Koşay (1897–1984) Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia
- Pasko Kuzman (Archaeologist) (born 1947) Macedonian; Ohrid, Macedonia
L
- Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans
- 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??); music archaeology
- T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East
- Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud)
- Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
- Mary Leakey (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
- Richard Leakey (born 1944) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
- Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955) British; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1928–1945
- Charles Lenormant (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
- François Lenormant (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist
- Mark P. Leone (born 1940) American; theory, historical archaeology
- 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 196?) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
- Madeline Kneberg Lewis (1901–1996) American; Typologist, Illustrator.[8]
- David Lewis-Williams, (born 1934); cognitive archaeologist specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art
- Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain
- Li Feng (born 1962) Chinese/American; early China
- Li Ji (Li Chi, 1896–1979) Chinese; Yinxu and Yangshao culture
- Li Xueqin (born 1933) Chinese; early China
- Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history
- Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery
- Victor Loret (1859–1946) French; Egypt
- William A. Longacre (born 1937) American; ethnoarchaeology[9]
- Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist
- Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France
M
- Ma Chengyuan (1927–2004) Chinese; authority on ancient Chinese bronzes
- Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
- Father 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
- Yousef Majidzadeh (born 19??) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran)
- JP Mallory (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
- Sir Max Mallowan (1904–1978) British; Middle East
- 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
- James A. Marshall (died 2006) American; eastern North American earthworks[10]
- John Hubert Marshall (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila (India), Crete
- Marjan Mashkour (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology
- J. Alden Mason (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology
- Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) French; Egypt
- Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967) Danish; Arctic region
- Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931) British; Mayans
- Amihai Mazar (born 1942) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
- Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
- Eilat Mazar (born 1956) Israeli; Jerusalem, Phoenicians
- Gaby Mazor (born 1944) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli)
- August Mau (1840–1909) German; Pompeii
- Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
- Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic
- Betty Meggers (born 1921) American; South America
- Paul Mellars (born 1939) British?; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
- Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian [born in Rome]; lithics
- Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) French; French monuments
- Jerald T. Milanich (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida)
- Sir Ellis Minns (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe
- Oscar Montelius (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia)
- Pierre Montet (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis)
- 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
- Sylvanus G. Morley (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
- Dan Morse (born 1935) American; Central 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
- Keith Muckelroy (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology
- John Mulvaney (born 1925) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
- Tim Murray (archaeologist) (born 19??) Australian?; history of archaeology
N
- Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975) American; Greece
- Ezzat Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran
- Sarah Milledge Nelson (born 1931) American; Korea, Hongshan (China), gender
- Ehud Netzer (1934–2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture)
- Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) British; Classical archaeology
- Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (born 1913) French; Egypt (Nubian temples)
- Ivor Noël Hume (born 1927) British?; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology
O
- Kenneth Oakley (1911–1981) English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax
- Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806) Alsatian; France?, philology
- Bjørnar Olsen, 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
- Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) Turkish; Assyria
P
- 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
- Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths)
- Richard J. Pearson (born 1938) Canadian; Pacific
- William Pengelly (1812–1894) British; England, paleolithic
- Peter N. Peregrine (born 1963) American; Mississippian culture, cross-cultural studies
- Gregory Perino (1914–2005) American; Woodland, and Mississippian cultures in Illinois and Oklahoma
- William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology
- Stewart Perowne (1901–1989) British; Imadia and Beihan
- Philip Phillips (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States
- 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
- Natalia Polosmak (born 1956) Russian; Siberia: Altay: Pazyryk culture
- Reginald Stuart Poole (1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics)
- Gregory Possehl (born 19??) American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization
- Timothy W. Potter (1944–2000), British; Classical archaeology
- Francis Pryor (born 1945) British; Bronze (Flag Fen, England) and Iron Ages
- Senarath Paranavithana (1896–1972) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
Q
- Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat (1814–1882) French; ancient Europe
R
- Philip Rahtz (born 1921) British; United Kingdom
- Sir Andrew Ramsay (1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy
- Katharina C. Rebay (born 1977) Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender
- William Rathje (born 1945) 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
- 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
- Julian Richards (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer
- Derek Roe (born 19??) British; paleolithic
- Wil Roebroeks (born 1955) Dutch, The Netherlands
- Malcolm J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California
- John Romer (Egyptologist) (born 1941) British; Egypt, popularizer
- Jeffrey Royal (born 1964) American; Roman, maritime archaeology
- 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
- Peter Rowley-Conwy (born 1951) Danish? Welsh?; environmental archaeology
- 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)
S
- Saad Abbas Ismail (born 1980) Kurdish; International archaeologist, Syria
- Sharada Srinivasan (born 19??) Indian; archaeometallurgy, India
- Roderick Salisbury (born 19??) American?; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe (Neolithic)
- Viktor Sarianidi (born 1929) Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia
- Otto Schaden (born 1937–2015) American; Egypt
- Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) French; Ugarit
- Michael Brian Schiffer (born 1947) American? (born in Canada); behavioral archaeology, method and theory
- Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn
- Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790–1836) Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man
- Carmel Schrire (born 1941) Australian; Australia, South Africa
- Francesco Scipone (1675–1755) Italian; Etruscans
- Ovid R. Sellers (1884–1975) United States, Biblical Old Testament
- Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt (1730–1814) French; ancient monumental art
- Michael Shanks (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory
- Thurstan Shaw (born 1914) English; Africa (especially Nigeria)
- Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea
- William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar
- Janet D. Spector (1944–2011) American; North America
- E. Lee Spence (born 1947) marine archaeology
- Stanley South (born 19??) American; historical archaeology
- Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842–1915) English; prehistoric England, Egypt
- Rev. Frederick Spurrell (1824–1902) English; English archaeology (Essex and Sussex)
- Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) British; Ashkelon
- Carl Steen (born 19??) American; south-eastern U.S., historical archaeology
- Julie K. Stein, (born 19??) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites[11]
- Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) Hungarian; Central Asia
- Hans-Georg Stephan (born 1950) German; Medievalist, post-Medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, oven tiles
- George E. Stuart III (1935–2014) American; Mayan archaeology[12]
- William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics
- Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953) Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls
- Pál Sümegi (born 1960) Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary
T
- Takaku Kenji (born 19??) Japanese; Korea[13]
- Zemaryalai Tarzi (born 1939) Afghan; Afghanistan
- Joan du Plat Taylor (1906–1983) Scottish; maritime archaeology, Cyprus
- Walter Willard Taylor, Jr. (1913–1997) American; theory, Coahuila (Mexico)
- Julio C. Tello (1880–1947) Peruvian; Peru
- Alexander Thom (1894–1985) Scottish; engineer, Stonehenge
- David Hurst Thomas (born 19??), American; Spanish Borderlands, repatriation
- Julian Thomas (born 1959) British; north-west European Neolithic and Bronze Age
- J. Eric S. Thompson (1898–1975) English; Maya
- Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865) Danish; originator of the Three-Age System
- John Thurman (born 19??) Britain
- Christopher Tilley (born 19??) British; theory, Britain
- Tong Enzheng (1935–1997) Chinese; China
- Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877–1954) American; Mesoamerica (Maya)
- Bruce Trigger (1937–2006) Canadian; theory, comparative civilizations
- James Tuck (born 1940) American; eastern Canadian historical archaeology
- Ronald F. Tylecote (1916–1990) British; founder of archaeometallurgy
- Henrieta Todorova (1933-2015) Bulgarian; Neolithic
U
- Peter Ucko (1938–2007) British; Paleolithic art; archaeological politics
- Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936) Italian; Albania
- David Ussishkin (born 1935) Israeli; Lachish, Jezreel Valley and Megiddo
V
- Roland de Vaux (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls
- Marius Vazeilles (1881–1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology
- Alan Vince (1952–2009) British; British ceramics
- Zdenko Vinski (1913–1996) Croatian; Croatia
- Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art
W
- Marc Waelkens (born 1948) Belgian?; Turkish archaeology
- Wang Zhongshu (born 1925) Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology
- John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912–1981) British; architectural history
- Charles Warren (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
- Patty Jo Watson (born 1932) American; North American archaeology
- Clarence H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory
- Waldo Wedel (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory
- Fred Wendorf (born 1925) archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
- Josef W. Wegner (born 1967) American; Egyptology
- Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
- Boyd Wettlaufer (1914–2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
- Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) British; method, South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England)
- Tessa Verney Wheeler (1893–1936) British; method, British archaeology, cofounder of Institute of Archaeology
- Alasdair Whittle (born 19??) European Neolithic
- Derrick P. Whitlow, I (born 1969) Near East archaeology, Black Biblical archaeological epistomology
- Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography
- Malcolm H. Wiener (born 1935) American; Aegeanist, Prehistorian, President of INSTAP
- Gordon Willey (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory
- Stephen Williams (born 19??) American; North America
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world
- Bryant G. Wood (born 1936) American; Palestine
- Leonard Woolley (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia
- Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
- Wolfgang W. Wurster (1937–2003) German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador
- Alison Wylie (born 19??) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
- John Wymer (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic
X
- Xia Nai (1910–1985) Chinese; China
- Xu Xusheng (1888–1976) Chinese; discoverer of the Erlitou culture
Y
- Yigael Yadin (1917–1984) Israeli; Masada, Hazor
Z
- Robert N. Zeitlin (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies
- Zheng Zhenduo (1898–1958) Chinese; China
- Irit Ziffer (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art
- Andreas Zimmermann (born 1969) German; quantitative methods
- R. Tom Zuidema (born 1927) American?; Incas
- Vladas Žulkus (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology)
- Marek Zvelebil (1952–2011) Czech; European stone age
See also
References
- ↑ Prof. Doutor JORGE DE ALARCÃO
- ↑ http://www.biyografi.net/kisiayrinti.asp?kisiid=18
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- ↑ Book Review: Experimental Archaeology by John Coles
- ↑ The European Archaeological Heritage Prize 2006
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- ↑ http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/ancient/pleistocene-cultures.pdf
- ↑ http://anthropology.usf.edu/women/kneberg_lewis/kneberg_lewis.htm
- ↑ http://archaeology.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_longacrewa.htm
- ↑ "The James A. Marshall Collection" 2009. Echoes 48(4):2. Echoes
- ↑ faculty.washington.edu/jkstein/pdfs/stein%20vita%202006.pdf
- ↑ http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/george-e-stuart-iii-79-a-national-geographic-staff-archeologist-and-magazine-editor-dies/2014/06/23/7bb0231a-faf2-11e3-932c-0a55b81f48ce_story.html
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