List of archaeologists

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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

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 1947) 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

Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972) Russian/Soviet; Khazar (Central Asia)

Khaled al-Asaad (1934–2015) 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

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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

Luisa Banti (1894-1978) Italian; Etruscology

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)

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

Geoffrey Bibby (1917-2001) British; Arabia

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

Bayar Dovdoi (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia* Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture

François Bordes (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping

Stephen Borhegyi (1921–1969) American; Meso-America

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 1956) 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 (19??-2016) British; paleopathology

Elizabeth Brumfiel (1945–2012) American; Mesoamerica

Aubrey Burl (born 1926) British; British megalithic monuments

Karl Butzer (born 1934) American; environmental archaeology

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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

Alfredo Chavero (1841-1906) Mexican; Mexico

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

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

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

Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) German; Greece

Clive Eric Cussler (born 1931) American; underwater archaeology

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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

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

Louis Dupree (1925-1989) American; Afghanistan

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

Amelia Edwards (1831-1892) British; Egypt

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

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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

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

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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

Franck Goddio (born 1947) French; underwater archaeology

Lynne Goldstein (born 1953) American; prehistoric eastern North America; mortuary

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

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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 (born 19??) 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

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Glynn Isaac (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology

Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology

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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)

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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

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 American?; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States

Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea

Athanasius Kircher (1601/1602–1680) 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

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Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967) British; classical archaeology

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??) 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)

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.

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

Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist

Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France

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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

Alexander Marshack (1918-2004) American; Paleolitic era

James A. Marshall (died 2006) American; eastern North American earthworks

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

James Mellaart (1925-2012) British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük

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"

Margaret Murray (1863–1963) Anglo-Indian; Egyptologist

Tim Murray (archaeologist) (born 19??) Australian?; history of archaeology

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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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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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)

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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

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

Michael Shanks (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory

Thurstan Shaw (born 1914) English; Africa (especially Nigeria)

Alison Sheridan British; Bronze and Neolithic ages

Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea

William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar

Stanley South (1928–2016) American; historical archaeology

Janet D. Spector (1944–2011) American; North America

E. Lee Spence (born 1947)American; marine 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

Julie K. Stein, (born 19??) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites

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

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

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Takaku Kenji (born 19??) Japanese; Korea

Zemaryalai Tarzi (born 1939) Afghan; Afghanistan

Joan du Plat Taylor (1906–1983) Scottish; maritime archaeology, Cyprus

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)

John C. Trever (1916-2006) American; Biblical archaeologist

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

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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

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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

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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

William Thompson Watkin (1836–1888), British; Roman Britain

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

Joyce White (born 19??) American; prehistoric Southeast Asia

Alasdair Whittle (born 19??) European Neolithic

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

Peter Woodman (1943–2017), Irish; Irish Mesolithic

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

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Xia Nai (1910–1985) Chinese; China

Xu Xusheng (1888–1976) Chinese; discoverer of the Erlitou culture

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Yigael Yadin (1917–1984) Israeli; Masada, Hazor

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Inger Zachrisson (born 1936); Swedish; Sami people since the Iron Age

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