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• Aziz Ab'Saber
  Aziz Ab'Saber
  Aziz Nacib Ab'Sáber is an environmentalist and one of Brazil´s most respected scientists, honored with the highest awards of Brazilian science in geography, geology, ecology and archaeology...
  
   (born 1924) Brazilian; Brazil
• Yohanan Aharoni
  Yohanan Aharoni
  Yohanan Aharoni , was an Israeli archaeologist and historical geographer, chairman of the Department of Near East Studies and chairman of the Institute of Archeology at Tel-Aviv University.-Life:...
  
   (1919–1976) Israeli; Israel Bronze Age
• Ekrem Akurgal
  Ekrem Akurgal
  Ekrem Akurgal 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 , Pitane , Erythrai and old Smyrna Ekrem Akurgal (March 30, 1911 – November 1, 2002) was a ...
  
   (1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia
• Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Portugal
• William F. Albright
  William F. Albright
  William Foxwell Albright was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist and expert on ceramics. From the early twentieth century until his death, he was the dean of biblical archaeologists and the universally acknowledged founder of the Biblical archaeology movement...
  
   (1891–1971) U.S.A.; Orientalist
• Susan E. Alcock
  Susan E. Alcock
  Susan Alcock is a American archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman empire. Alcock grew up in Massachusetts and was educated at Yale and the University of Cambridge....
  
   (born 19??) American; Roman provinces
• Leslie Alcock
  Leslie Alcock
  Leslie Alcock was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Mediaeval Britain. His major excavations included Dinas Powys hill fort in Wales, Cadbury Castle, South Cadbury in Somerset and a series of major hillforts in Scotland.-Early...
  
   (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain
• Miranda Aldhouse-Green (born 19??) British; British
  Britons (historical)
  The Britons were the Celtic people culturally dominating Great Britain from the Iron Age through the Early Middle Ages. They spoke the Insular Celtic language known as British or Brythonic...
  
   Iron Age
  Iron Age
  The Iron Age is the archaeological period generally occurring after the Bronze Age, marked by the prevalent use of iron. The early period of the age is characterized by the widespread use of iron or steel. The adoption of such material coincided with other changes in society, including differing...
  
   and Romano-Celtic
• Jim Allen
  Jim Allen (archaeologist)
  Professor Jim Allen is a prominent Australian archaeologist who has specialized in the archaeology of the South Pacific. In 1966 Jim Allen undertook the first professional excavation of a European site in Australia, the 1840s military settlement of Victoria, which was established at Port...
  
   (born 19??) Australian; Oceania
• Sedat Alp
  Sedat Alp
  Professor Sedat Alp was the first archaeologist in Turkey with a specialization in Hittitology, and is among the foremost names in the field....
  
   (1913–2006) Turkish; Hittitology
• Ruth Amiran
  Ruth Amiran
  Ruth Amiran was an Israeli archaeologist. Her book, Ancient Pottery of the Holy Land: From Its Beginnings in the Neolithic Period to the End of the Iron Age became a bible-like work in the academic field of archaeology quite soon after it was published in 1970, and remains a basic reference for...
  
   (1915–2005) Israeli; Tel Arad
• David G. Anderson
  David G. Anderson
  David G. Anderson is an archaeologist in the department of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, who specializes in Southeastern archaeology...
  
   (born 1949) American?; eastern North America
• Manolis Andronicos (1919–1992) Greek; Greece
• Remzi Oğuz Arık (1899-1954) Turkish; early Bronze Age Anatolia
• Mikhail Artamonov
  Mikhail Artamonov
  Mikhail Illarionovich Artamonov Artamonov's scientific career was centered on the Leningrad University, where he was a professor since 1935 and the head of the chair of archeology since 1949. He researched Bronze Age and Iron Age settlements by the Don River, in the North Caucasus and in the Ukraine...
  
   (1898–1972) Russian/Soviet; Khazar (Central Asia)
• Mick Aston
  Mick Aston
  Professor Michael Antony 'Mick' Aston is a prominent English archaeologist. As an academic, he has taught at a number of universities across the United Kingdom, and has helped popularise the discipline amongst the British public by appearing as the resident academic on the Channel 4 television...
  
   (born 1946) English; popularizer
• Richard J. C. Atkinson
  Richard J. C. Atkinson
  Richard John Copland Atkinson CBE was a British prehistorian and archaeologist.-Biography:He was born in Evershot, Dorset and went to Sherborne School and then Magdalen College, Oxford, reading PPE...
  
   (1920–1994) English; England
• Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau
  Fred Vargas
  Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of the French historian, archaeologist and writer Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau . Her crime fiction policiers have won three International Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers Association, for three successive novels: in 2006, 2008 and 2009. She is the first author to...
  
   (born 1957) French
• Anthony Aveni
  Anthony Aveni
  Anthony Francis Aveni is an American academic anthropologist, astronomer, and author, noted in particular for his extensive publications and leading contributions to the field of archaeoastronomy. With an academic career spanning over four decades, Aveni is recognized for his influence on the...
  
   (born 1938) American; archaeoastronomy
• Mordechai Aviam (born 1953) Israeli; archaeology of the Galilee
  Galilee
  Galilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country. Traditionally divided into Upper Galilee , Lower Galilee , and Western Galilee , extending from Dan to the north, at the base of Mount Hermon, along Mount Lebanon to the...
  
  
• Nahman Avigad
  Nahman Avigad
  Dr. Nahman Avigad , born in Zawalow, Galicia , was an Israeli archaeologist.-Biography:...
  
   (1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada
• Massoud Azarnoush
  Massoud Azarnoush
  Massoud Azarnoush 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, Los Angeles in 1985...
  
   (1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology

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• Churchill Babington
  Churchill Babington
  Churchill Babington was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist, born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire....
  
   (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology
• Paul Bahn
  Paul Bahn
  Paul G. Bahn is a British archaeologist, translator, writer and broadcaster who has published extensively on a range of archaeological topics, with particular attention to prehistoric art...
  
   (born 19?? ) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island
• Geoff Bailey
  Geoff Bailey
  Geoff Bailey is a British archaeologist. He currently holds the Anniversary Chair at the University of York in England. His research interests include palaeoeconomy and the archaeology of shell middens and prehistoric coastlines as well as maritime environments as used by humans.- Bibliography :*...
  
   (born 19?? ) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
• Andrew K. Balkansky (born 19??) American; Mixtec (Oaxaca, Mexico)
• Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
  Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
  Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier was an American archaeologist after whom Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico, United States, is named....
  
   (1840–1914) American; American South-West
• Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
  Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli
  Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli was an Italian archaeologist and art historian.-Biography:A Marxist, Bianchi Bandinelli was descended from ancient aristocracy in Siena. His early research focused on the Etruscan centers close to his family lands, Clusium and Suana...
  
    (1900–1975) Italian; Estruscans & art
• Pessah Bar-Adon
  Pessah Bar-Adon
  Pessah Bar-Adon was a Polish-born, Israeli archaeologist and writer.-Early life:Born Pessah Panitsch in Kolno, Poland, to a Zionist, ultra-orthodox family, he was educated in a Jewish orthodox school and in Yeshivas. He immigrated to Israel in 1925...
  
   (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (Bet Shearim, Tel Bet Yerah, Nahal Mishmar hoard)
• Gabriel Barkay
  Gabriel Barkay
  Gabriel Barkay is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in 1944 in Hungary, he immigrated to Israel in 1950. He received his PhD in Archaeology from Tel Aviv University in 1985. His dissertation was about LMLK seal impressions on jar handles. He participated in the Lachish excavations with David Ussishkin...
  
   (born 1944) Israeli; Israle (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy,glyptics in the Iron Age, Ketef Hinnom)
• Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England
• Ofer Bar-Yosef
  Ofer Bar-Yosef
  Ofer Bar-Yosef is an Israeli archaeologist whose main field of study has been the Palaeolithic period.He was Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the institution where he originally studied archaeology at undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the 1960s...
  
   (born 1937) Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites
• Aileen G. Baron (born 1925) American
• Thomas Bateman
  Thomas Bateman
  Thomas Bateman was an English antiquary and barrow-digger.-Biography:Thomas Bateman was born in Rowsley, Derbyshire, England, the son of the amateur archaeologist William Bateman...
  
   (1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire)
• Bayar Dovdoi
  Bayar Dovdoi
  Bayar Dovdoi was a Mongolian archaeologist, scholar of historical science, instructor, Doctor of Science, professor, boxer, coach, conductor of boxing sports.-Life:...
  
   (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia
• Giovanni Battista Belzoni
  Giovanni Battista Belzoni
  Giovanni Battista Belzoni , sometimes known as The Great Belzoni, was a prolific Venetian explorer of Egyptian antiquities.-Early life:...
  
   (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian /?Dutch; Egypt
• Mark Beech
  Mark Beech
  Mark Beech is an unemployed career politician nominally affiliated with the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, he has also represented the Labour party and as an independent campaigner.-University Politics:...
  
   (born 1963) English; Arabia
• Lee Berger
  Lee R. Berger
  Lee Rogers Berger is a paleoanthropologist, physical anthropologist and archeologist and is best known for his discovery of Australopithecus sediba and his work on Australopithecus africanus body proportions and the Taung Bird of Prey Hypothesis.-Background:Berger was born in Shawnee Mission,...
  
   (born 1965) American; paleo-anthroplogy
• Gerhard Bersu
  Gerhard Bersu
  Gerhard Bersu was a German archaeologist who excavated widely across Europe.He was born in Jauer in Silesia and as a teenager joined excavations near Potsdam. In successive years Bersu dug in several European countries and during the First World War he worked for the Office for the Protection of...
  
  (1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.)
• Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco)
• Taha Baqir
  Taha Baqir
  Taha Baqir was an Iraqi archaeologist, author, cuneiformist, linguist, historian, and former curator of the National Museum of Iraq.Baqir is considered one of Iraq's most eminent archaeologists...
  
   (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
• Barbara Bender
• Charles Ernest Beule
  Charles Ernest Beulé
  thumb|Beulé's grave at the [[Père Lachaise Cemetery]] in ParisCharles Ernest Beulé was a French archaeologist and politician.-Biography:...
  
   (1826–1874) French; Greece
• Clarence Bicknell
  Clarence Bicknell
  Clarence Bicknell was a British amateur botanist and archaeologist.While employed as a vicar in Bordighera, Italy, Bicknell became noted for his identification of the plants and petroglyphs of the Ligurian Riviera...
  
   (1842-1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles
  Vallée des Merveilles
  The Vallée des Merveilles, also known in Italian as the Valle delle Meraviglie , is a part of the Mercantour National Park in southern France...
  
  , France
• Martin Biddle
  Martin Biddle
  Martin Biddle is a British archaeologist. He was educated at Merchant Taylors' School. His work was important in the development of medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain.-Excavations:* Nonsuch Palace 1959-1960* Winchester 1961-1971...
  
   (born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain.
• Peter Biehl (born 19??) German?; Neolithic & Copper Age Europe & Near East, cognitive archaeology
• Fereidoun Biglari
  Fereidoun Biglari
  -Career:Fereidoun Biglari is co-founder and head of the Paleolithic department in National Museum of Iran which established in 2001. His field of research covers Lower Paleolithic of Iran and western Asia and Middle Paleolithic of Iran in general and Zagros region in particular...
  
   (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
• Lewis Binford
  Lewis Binford
  Lewis Roberts Binford was an American archaeologist known for his influential work in archaeological theory, ethnoarchaeology and the Paleolithic period...
  
   (1930-1911) American; theory
• Orhan Bingöl (born 19??) Turkish; Magnesia (Anatolia)
• Hiram Bingham
  Hiram Bingham III
  Hiram Bingham, formally Hiram Bingham III, was an academic, explorer, treasure hunter and politician from the United States. He made public the existence of the Quechua citadel of Machu Picchu in 1911 with the guidance of local indigenous farmers...
  
   (1875–1956) American; discovered Machu Picchu
• Flavio Biondo
  Flavio Biondo
  Flavio Biondo was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. He was one of the first historians to used a three-period division of history and is known as one of the first archaeologists.Born in the capital city of Forlì, in the Romagna region, Flavio was well schooled from an early age,...
  
  (1392–1463) Italian; Rome
• Avraham Biran
  Avraham Biran
  Avraham Biran was an Israeli archaeologist, best known for heading excavations at Tel Dan in northern Israel. He headed the Institute of Archaeology at Hebrew Union College in Jerusalem for many years.-Biography:...
  
   (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan))
• Glenn Albert Black
  Glenn Albert Black
  Glenn Albert Black was an influential archaeologist of the United States who was the first professional to study Indiana prehistoric sites. He was born 18 August 1900 in Indianapolis, Indiana and died 2 September 1964....
  
   (1900–1964) American; US Mid-West
• Dennis Blanton American; U.S. state of Georgia
• Carl Blegen
  Carl Blegen
  Carl William Blegen was an American archaeologist famous for his work on the site of Pylos in modern day Greece and Troy in modern day Turkey...
  
   (1887–1971) American; Troy
• Frederick Jones Bliss
  Frederick Jones Bliss
  Frederick Jones Bliss was an American archaeologist. After training under Flinders Petrie in Egypt, Bliss became involved with the Palestine Exploration Fund working in the field of Biblical archaeology at the site of Tell el-Hesi between 1894 and 1897, while cuncurrently leading an expedition...
  
   (1857–1939) American; Palestine
• Harriet Boyd-Howes (1871-1945) American; Greece
• Giacomo Boni
  Giacomo Boni (archaeologist)
  Giacomo Boni was an Italian archaeologist specializing in Roman architecture.Born in Venice, Boni studied architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in his native city and later dedicated himself to extensive and important excavations in the Forum Romanum in Rome...
  
   (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture
• François Bordes
  François Bordes
  François Bordes , also known by the pen name of Francis Carsac, was a French scientist, geologist, and archaeologist. He was a professor of prehistory and quaternary geology at the Science Faculty of Bordeaux...
  
  (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
• Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
  Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
  Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes , 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 the Somme valley....
  
   (1788–1868) French; France
• Jan Bouzek (born 1935) Czech; Classical archaeology
• Richard Bradley
  Richard Bradley (archaeologist)
  Richard Bradley is a British archaeologist specialising in the study of European prehistory, and in particular Prehistoric Britain. He is currently working as a professor of archaeology at the University of Reading. He is also the author of a number of books on the subject of archaeology and...
  
  
• Jeffrey Phipps Brain  (born 19??) American; historic New England (Popham Colony)
• R. Joe Brandon (born 1967) American; U.S., Central America
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
  Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg
  Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist...
  
   (1814–1874) French; Meso-America
• James Henry Breasted
  James Henry Breasted
  James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist 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 became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the University of Chicago, where he continued to...
  
   (1865–1935) American; Egypt
• Eric Breuer
  Eric Breuer
  Eric Breuer is a Swiss archaeologist and historian.He studied archaeology and history at the Universities of Munich, Vienna, Fribourg and Basel...
  
   (b. 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
• Jacques Breuer
  Jacques Breuer
  Jacques Breuer is a German television actor.-Selected filmography:*2006 Im Tal der wilden Rosen-Vermächtnis der Liebe TV-movie*2006 Vergiss, wenn du lieben willst TV-movie...
  
  ( ) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
• Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans
  Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans
  Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans was born November 28, 1970 in Hasselt, Belgium to Albert and Elly Bringmans-Jans. He is a Belgian archaeologist and paleoanthropologist whose main field of study has been the Palaeolithic period.-Education:...
  
    (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
• Aisling Bronach (b. 19??) American; Ireland
• Don Brothwell
  Don Brothwell
  Recognised for his work in both human and animal paleopathology, Don Brothwell has interests in the broad field of the archaeological sciences, but particularly in human palaeoecology...
  
   (born ????) British; paleopathology
• Elizabeth Brumfiel
  Elizabeth Brumfiel
  Elizabeth M. Brumfiel is an American archaeologist who teaches at Northwestern University. She is a former president of the American Anthropological Association....
  
   (born ????) American; Mesoamerica
• Bernard Bruyère (1879–1971) French; Egypt
• Aubrey Burl
  Aubrey Burl
  Harry Aubrey Woodruff Burl MA, DLitt, PhD, FSA, HonFSA Scot is a British archaeologist most well known for his studies into megalithic monuments and the nature of prehistoric rituals associated with them. Prior to retirement he was Principal Lecturer in Archaeology, Hull College, East Riding of...
  
   (born 19??) British?; British megalithic monuments
• Karl Butzer
  Karl Butzer
  Karl W. Butzer is an American geographer, cultural ecologist and environmental archaeologist. He was born in Germany on 19 August 1934. While he was still a child, his family emigrated, first to England, and then to Canada...
  
   (born 1934) American; environmental archaeology

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• Frank Calvert
  Frank Calvert
  Frank Calvert was an English expatriate who was a consular official in the eastern Mediterranean region and an amateur archaeologist...
  
    (1828–1908) English; Troy
• Catherine M. Cameron
  Catherine M. Cameron
  Catherine M. Cameron is a professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder whose research focuses on the American Southwest, specializing on the Chacoan and post-Chacoan area...
  
   (born 19??) American; Southwest United States
• Luigi Canina
  Luigi Canina
  Luigi Canina 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 F. Bonsignore in Turin, and settled in Rome in 1818...
  
    (1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way)
• Bob Carr
  Bob Carr (archaeologist)
  Robert Carr is an American archaeologist and the current executive director of The Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, Inc. He specializes in Southeastern archaeology, with particular emphasis on archaeology in Florida. He has also conducted fieldwork in the Bahamas.-Early life and...
  
   (born 1947) American; Florida historic Indians
• Martin Carver
  Martin Carver
  Martin Oswald Hugh Carver FSA , is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of York, England, director of the Sutton Hoo Research Project and a leading exponent of new methods in excavation and survey. He specialises in the archaeology of early Medieval Europe...
  
   (born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo
• Howard Carter
  Howard Carter (archaeologist)
  Howard Carter was an English archaeologist and Egyptologist, noted as a primary discoverer of the tomb of Tutankhamun.-Beginning of career:...
  
    (1874–1939) English; Egypt
• Joanna Casey (born 19??) ; Africa and ethnoarchaeology
• Alfonso Caso
  Alfonso Caso
  Alfonso Caso y Andrade was an archaeologist who made important contributions to pre-Columbian studies in his native Mexico. Caso believed that the systematic study of ancient Mexican civilizations was an important way to understand Mexican cultural roots...
  
   (1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico
• Mirza Hasan Ceman (born 1949) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Islamic Art and Archaeology, Islamic Urban Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology
• C. W. Ceram
  C. W. Ceram
  C. W. Ceram was the pseudonym of German journalist and author Kurt Wilhelm Marek, known for his popular works about archaeology. He chose to write under a pseudonym to distance himself from his earlier work as a propagandist for the Third Reich.Ceram was born in Berlin. During World War II, he...
  
   (1915–1972) German; popularizer
• Dilip Chakrabarti  (born ????) ; South Asian archaeology (especially archaeological geography of the Ganga Plain)
• John Leland Champe
  John Leland Champe
  John Leland Champe was an academic and archaeologist especially influential in the area of Great Plains archaeology. From 1953-1961, he was Chairman of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He joined the University of Nebraska faculty in 1940 as an...
  
   (1895–1978) American?; archaeology of the Great Plains
• Jean-François Champollion
  Jean-François Champollion
  Jean-François Champollion was a French classical scholar, philologist and orientalist, decipherer of the Egyptian hieroglyphs....
  
   (1790–1832) French; Egypt
• Kwang-chih Chang
  Kwang-chih Chang
  Kwang-chih Chang , aka K.C. Chang, was a Chinese/Taiwanese archaeologist and sinologist. He was a professor of archaeology at Harvard University, a Vice-President of the Academia Sinica and a curator at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. He helped to bring modern, western methods of...
  
   (1931–2001) Chinese/Taiwanese; China
• Arlen F Chase (1953-) Mesoamerican
• Diane Zaino Chase
  Diane Zaino Chase
  Diane Zaino Chase is an American anthropologist and archaeologist who specializes in the study of the Ancient Maya. She entered her studies at a time when Mayan Archaeology was moving from a past time of the wealthy to a more academic approach. Her husband Dr. Arlen F. Chase, is also an...
  
   (1957-) Mesoamerican
• Chen Mengjia
  Chen Mengjia
  Chen Mengjia was a Chinese scholar and archaeologist. At the height of his career Chen was Professor of Chinese at Tsinghua University in Beijing. He was married to Chinese poet and translator Zhao Luorui...
  
   (1911-1966) Chinese; China
• John F. Cherry
  John F. Cherry
  John F. Cherry is an Aegean prehistorian and survey archaeologist. He is currently Joukowsky Family Professor in Archaeology and Professor of Classics at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World at Brown University John F. Cherry is an Aegean prehistorian and survey...
  
   (born 19??) Welsh; Aegean prehistory
• Vere Gordon Childe
  Vere Gordon Childe
  Vere Gordon Childe , better known as V. Gordon Childe, was an Australian archaeologist and philologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. A vocal socialist, Childe accepted the socio-economic theory of Marxism and was an early proponent of Marxist archaeology...
  
   (1892–1957) Australian; Europe / neolithic
• Choi Mong-lyong
  Choi Mong-lyong
  Choi Mong-lyong is an archaeologist and Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Art History at Seoul National University in Seoul, South Korea. Choi was born in Jeolla Province and received his PhD degree in Anthropology in 1984 from Harvard University in the United States. At Harvard, Choi...
  
   (born 1946) Korean; Korea (Mumin pottery period)
• Leopoldo Cicognara
  Leopoldo Cicognara
  Count Leopoldo Cicognara was an Italian archaeologist and writer on art.-Biography:Cicognara was born in Ferrara, Italy....
  
   (1767–1834) Italian; Italy
• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ
  Muazzez Ilmiye Çig
  Muazzez İlmiye Çığ is a Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist who specializes in the study of Sumerian civilization...
  
   (born 1914) Turkish; Sumerologist
• Bob Clarke (Historian)
  Bob Clarke (historian)
  Bob Clarke, born in Scarborough in 1964 is an English archaeologist and historian.-Aviation career:Upon leaving school Clarke joined the Royal Air Force in 1981 at the height of the Cold War. He served at RAF Leeming, Lyneham, Ascension Island and St Athan during a nine year term. During that time...
  
   English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
• David Clarke
  David L. Clarke
  David Leonard Clarke was an English archaeologist, born in Kent, England, noted for his work on processual archaeology....
  
   (1937–1976) English; theory
• John Desmond Clark (1916–2002) English; Africa
• Stephen Clarke
  Stephen Clarke (archaeologist)
  Stephen Harold Henry Clarke is a Welsh archaeologist, he is chairman and founding member of Monmouth Archaeological Society. He was awarded an MBE for services to archaeology in the 1997 New Years Honours.-Memberships and awards:...
  
   Welsh
• Grahame Clark
  John Grahame Douglas Clark
  Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark, CBE FBA was a British archaeologist most notable for his work on the Mesolithic and his theories on palaeoeconomy.-Biography:...
  
   (1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy
• Albert Tobias Clay
  Albert Tobias Clay
  Albert Tobias Clay was an American Semitic archaeologist, born in Hanover, Penna.He graduated at Franklin and Marshall College in 1889, and at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in 1892; was ordained to the Lutheran ministry in the latter year; was fellow in Assyrian and instructor in Hebrew at...
  
   (1866–1925) American; Assyriology
• Eric H. Cline
  Eric H. Cline
  Eric H. Cline is an author, historian, archaeologist, and professor of ancient history and archaeology at The George Washington University in Washington DC, where he is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations as well as Director of...
  
    (b0rn 1960) Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
• Fay-Cooper Cole
  Fay-Cooper Cole
  .Fay-Cooper Cole was a professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago and most famously was a witness for the defense for John Scopes at the Scopes Trial.-External links:...
  
   (1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West
• John M. Coles (born 1930) British:; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age archaeology, experimental archaeology
• John Collis
  John Collis
  John Collis, is a British prehistorian. His first dig was in Longbridge Deverill with the Hawkes. He studied in Prague , Tübingen and Cambridge and was awarded his Ph.D. in Cambridge, where he studied from 1963-1970. He joined the Archaeology Department in Sheffield in 1972 and was made professor...
  
   (born 1944) English; Iron Age Europe
• Sir Richard Colt Hoare
  Richard Colt Hoare
  Sir Richard Colt Hoare, 2nd Baronet FRS was an English antiquarian, archaeologist, artist, and traveller of the 18th and 19th centuries, the first major figure in the detailed study of the history of his home county, Wiltshire.-Career:Hoare was descended from Sir Richard Hoare, Lord Mayor of...
  
    (1758–1838) English, England
• Margaret Conkey
  Margaret Conkey
  -Biography:Conkey graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 1965. She is a professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is the director of the university's Archaeological Research Facility and holds a rare endowed chair...
  
   (born 19??); France / paleolithic
• Graham Connah (born 19??) Australian?; historic Africa and Australia
• Gudrun Corvinus
  Gudrun Corvinus
  Gudrun Corvinus was a German archaeologist of the Nepal Research Centre in Kathmandu.Her father had a PhD in agriculture and her mother was a professor of economics...
  
   (1931-2006?) German; India/Nepal/Africa
• George Cowgill
  George Cowgill
  George L. Cowgill is an American anthropologist and archaeologist. He is currently professor emeritus at Arizona State University. He received his PhD from Harvard in 1963 with a dissertation on The Post-Classic Period in the Southern Maya Lowlands. Most of his career has been devoted to research...
  
   (born 19??) American; Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
• O.G.S. Crawford
  O. G. S. Crawford
  Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford was an English archaeologist and a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs for deepening archaeological understanding of the landscape.-Early life:...
  
   (1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology
• Roger Cribb
  Roger Cribb
  Roger Llewellyn Dunmore Cribb was an Australian archaeologist and anthropologist who specialised in documenting and modelling spatial patterns and social organisation of nomadic peoples...
  
   (1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds & Australian Aborigines
• Michelle M. Croissier, American; Mexico, ceramics.
• Joseph George Cumming
  Joseph George Cumming
  Joseph George Cumming, MA Cantab., was an English geologist and archaeologist. His major works concerned the geology and History of the Isle of Man.-Biography:...
  
   (1812–1868) English; Isle of Man
• Barry Cunliffe
  Barry Cunliffe
  Sir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, CBE, known professionally as Barry Cunliffe is a former Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a position held from 1972 to 2007...
  
   (born 1939) British; Iron Age Europe, Celts
• Ben Cunnington (1861–1950) English; prehistoric England (Wiltshire)
• Maud Cunnington
  Maud Cunnington
  Maud Edith Cunnington , was a Welsh-born archaeologist, most famous for her pioneering work on the prehistoric sites of Salisbury Plain....
  
    (1869–1951) Welsh; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain)
• William Cunnington
  William Cunnington
  William Cunnington was a pioneering English antiquarian and archaeologist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. His work centred on excavating the barrows of Salisbury Plain. The first recorded excavations at Stonehenge were done by William Cunnington & Richard Colt Hoare in 1798...
  
   (1754–1810) English; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain)
• James Curle (1861?-1944) Scottish; Roman Scotland (Trimontium)
• Ernst Curtius
  Ernst Curtius
  You may be looking for Ernst Robert Curtius .Ernst Curtius was a German archaeologist and historian.-Biography:...
  
   (1814–1896) German: Greece

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• George F. Dales
  George F. Dales
  George Franklin Dales Jr. , was an archaeology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and later the University of California, Berkeley, where he chaired the South and Southeast Asian Studies department. He was considered a leading expert on Indus valley peoples and their languages.-Early...
  
   (1927—1992) Ameican; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
• Ahmad Hasan Dani
  Ahmad Hasan Dani
  Professor Ahmad Hasan Dani FRAS, SI, HI , was a Pakistani intellectual, archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology and history. He introduced archaeology as a discipline in higher education in Pakistan and Bangladesh...
  
   (1920—2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology
• Glyn Daniel
  Glyn Daniel
  Glyn Edmund Daniel was a Welsh scientist and archaeologist whose academic career at Cambridge University specialised in the European Neolithic period. He edited the academic journal Antiquity from 1958–1985...
  
   (1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology
• Ken Dark
  Ken Dark
  Ken Dark is a British archaeologist who works on the 1st millennium AD in Europe and the Roman and Byzantine Middle East, on the archaeology of religion , archaeological theory and methods, and on the relationship between the study of the past and contemporary...
  
   (born 1961) British; Roman Europe
• Théodore Davies
• William Boyd Dawkins
  William Boyd Dawkins
  Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins, FRS, KBE 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, Manchester. He is noted for his research on fossils and the antiquity of man...
  
    (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man
• Janette Deacon (born 1939) South African; rock art; heritage management
• Hilary Deacon
  Hilary Deacon
  Hilary John Deacon 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 humans’ and African archaeology...
  
   (1936–2010) South African; African; antiquity of man
• James Deetz
  James Deetz
  James Deetz 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 archaeological record, and was concerned primarily with the Massachusetts and Virginia colonies...
  
   (1930–2000) American; Historical Archaeology
• James P. Delgado
  James P. Delgado
  James P. Delgado is a maritime archaeologist, explorer and author.-Life:As a maritime archaeologist who has worked all around the globe, he has spent decades underwater exploration and has uncovered many new archaeological sites across the globe...
  
   (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist
• Richard Dent (born 19??) American?: Chesapeake, Southwest
• Shiran Deraniyagala(born 19??) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
• Louis Felicien de Saulcy
  Louis Felicien de Saulcy
  Louis Felicien de Saulcy was a French numismatist, Orientalist, and archaeologist.Louis Felicien de Saulcy was born in Lille, France, the scion of a noble family. He traveled though Syria and Palestine in 1850–51, 1863, and 1869...
  
   (1807–1880)
• Jules Desnoyers
  Jules Desnoyers
  Jules Pierre François Stanislaus Desnoyers was a French geologist and archaeologist.-Life:Desnoyers was born at Nogent-le-Rotrou, in the department of Eure-et-Loir. Becoming interested in geology at an early age, he was one of the founders of the Geological Society of France in 1830...
  
   (1800–1887) French; antiquity of man
• Rúaidhrí de Valera
  Rúaidhri De Valera
  Rúaidhrí de Valera was an Irish archaeologist most known for his work on the megalithic tombs of his country.-Early studies:...
  
   (1916–1978) Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland
• Dragotin Dežman (1821-1889) Slovenian; Ljubljana Marshes, iron age in Lower Carniola
• Adolphe Napoleon Didron
  Adolphe Napoleon Didron
  Adolphe Napoleon Didron was a French art historian and archaeologist.Didron was born at Hautvillers, in the département of Marne, and began his education as a student of law...
  
   (1806–1867) French; Medievalist, Christian iconography
• Tom D. Dillehay, American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas
• Ali Dinçol(born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
• Belkıs Dinçol (born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
• Kelly Dixon
  Kelly Dixon
  Dr. Kelly J. Dixon is an Associate Professor of Archaeology at the University of Montana and a member of the College of Arts And Sciences at UM. Her main area of work is the American West, and she is perhaps best known for her work with the Donner Party site, as well as research into saloons in...
  
   (born 19??) American; historical archaeology of the American West
• Nick Dixon
  Nick Dixon
  Nick Dixon is a Scottish broadcast journalist. He currently is a Correspondent for Daybreak based in London-Early life:Nick Dixon was born on 26 September 1971.He left school at the age of 16 and went to work for BBC Scotland delivering the mail.-Career:...
  
   (born 1971) Scottish; underwater archaeology, submerged settlement sites, loch dwellings, Scottish Crannog Centre
• Marcia-Anne Dobres (born 19??) ; agency and gender in archaeology
• Wilhelm Dörpfeld
  Wilhelm Dörpfeld
  Wilhelm Dörpfeld was a German architect and archaeologist, the pioneer of stratigraphic excavation and precise graphical documentation of archaeological projects...
  
   (1853–1940) German; Greece
• Hans Dragendorff
  Hans Dragendorff
  Hans Dragendorff was a German scholar who introduced the first classification system for the type of Ancient Roman pottery known as Samian ware or Terra Sigillata, in 1896, using type numbers...
  
   (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics
• Robert Dunnell
  Robert Dunnell
  Robert C. Dunnell was a theoretical archaeologist. He received his PhD from Yale University in 1967. He was Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington....
  
   American; theory, U.S. Mid-West

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• Kutlu Emre (born 19??) Turkish; Hittitologist
• Kenan Erim
  Kenan Erim
  Kenan Tefvik Erim was a Turkish archaeologist who excavated from 1961 until his death at the site of Aphrodisias in Turkey.-Life:...
  
   (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia
• Sir Arthur Evans
  Arthur Evans
  Sir Arthur John Evans FRS was a British archaeologist most famous for unearthing the palace of Knossos on the Greek island of Crete and for developing the concept of Minoan civilization from the structures and artifacts found there and elsewhere throughout eastern Mediterranean...
  
   (1851–1941) British; Aegean archaeology (Minoan studies, Knossos, Linear A and B)
• Sir John Evans
  John Evans (archaeologist)
  Sir John Evans, KCB, FRS was an English archaeologist and geologist.-Biography:John Evans was the son of the Rev. Dr A. B. Evans, headmaster of Market Bosworth Grammar School, and was born at Britwell Court, Buckinghamshire...
  
   (1823–1908) English; British archaeology

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• Georg Fabricius
  Georg Fabricius
  Georg Fabricius , born Georg Goldschmidt, was a Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist.- Life :...
  
    (1516–1571), German; Roman epigraphy
• Brian M. Fagan (born 19??) generalist, popularist, history of archaeology
• Panagiotis Faklaris
  Panagiotis Faklaris
  Panagiotis V. Faklaris is a greek archaeologist, professor of classical archaeology and excavator of the acropolis and the walls of Vergina...
  
   Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina
• Rev. Bryan Faussett
  Bryan Faussett
  Bryan Faussett , was an English antiquary.Faussett was born on 30 October 1720 at Heppington, near Canterbury, was the eldest of the thirteen children of Bryan Faussett of Staplehurst, Kent, by his wife Mary, daughter of Henry Godfrey of Heppington and Lydd...
  
   (born 17??; died ?) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England)
• Patrick Fazioli (born 19??) Medieval archaeology
• Carlo Fea
  Carlo Fea
  Carlo Fea was an Italian archaeologist.Born at Pigna, in what is now Liguria, Fea studied law in Rome, receiving the degree of doctor of laws from the university of La Sapienza, but archaeology gradually attracted his attention, and with the view of obtaining better opportunities for his research...
  
   (1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law
• Gary M. Feinman (born 19??) American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca
• Sir Charles Fellows
  Charles Fellows
  Sir Charles Fellows was a British archaeologist.-Bigography:Fellows was born at Nottingham, where his family had an estate. When fourteen he drew sketches to illustrate a trip to the ruins of Newstead Abbey, which afterwards appeared on the title-page of Moore's Life of Lord Byron...
  
   (1799–1860) British; Asia Minor
• Karl Ludwig Fernow
  Karl Ludwig Fernow
  Karl Ludwig Fernow 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 clerk to a notary, and was afterwards apprenticed to a druggist...
  
   (1763–1808) German; Roman archaeology
• J. Walter Fewkes
  J. Walter Fewkes
  Jesse Walter Fewkes was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, writer and naturalist. He was born in Newton, Massachusetts, and initially trained as a zoologist at Harvard University...
  
   (1850–1930) American; south-West USA (Hohokam; Pueblo, pottery)
• Israel Finkelstein
  Israel Finkelstein
  Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist and academic. He is currently the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze Age and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University and is also the co-director of excavations at Megiddo in northern Israel...
  
   (born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel)
• William D. Finlayson (born 19??) Canadian?; Ontario (Huron)
• George R Fischer  (born 1937) American; underwater achaeology
• Peter M. Fischer
  Peter M. Fischer
  Peter M. Fischer is an Austrian-Swedish archaeologist. He is a specialist on Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern archaeology, and archaeometry. He belongs to the University of Gothenburg and is associated with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Sweden...
  
   (born 19??) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East
• Kent Flannery (born 1934) American; Mesoamerica
• James A. Ford
  James A. Ford
  James Alfred Ford was an American archaeologist. He was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, on February 12, 1911. He became interested in work on Native American mound research while growing up in Mississippi.-Archaeological work:...
  
   (1911–1968) American; Southeastern United States
• Henry Chandlee Forman
• Alfred Foucher
  Alfred A. Foucher
  Alfred Foucher , a French scholar, identified the Buddha image as having Greek origins.He made his first trip to northeastern India in 1895...
  
   (1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art)
• Cyril Fox
  Cyril Fox
  Sir Cyril Fred Fox , born, Chippenham, Wiltshire, was an English archaeologist.Cyril Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales...
  
   (1882–1967) English; Wales
• William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology
• David Frankell (born 19??) Australian?; Cyprus, Aboriginal Australia (western Victoria)
• George Frison
  George Carr Frison
  George Carr Frison is an internationally-recognized archaeologist and recipient of many prestigious awards including: American Archaeology Lifetime Achievement Award, Paleoarchaeologist of the Century Award, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences...
  
   (born 1924) American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools
• Gayle J. Fritz
  Gayle J. Fritz
  Gayle J. Fritz is an American paleoethnobotanist working outof Washington University in St. Louis. Her work focuses on crops other than maize, such as chenopodium and amaranth, and emphasizes the importance of direct radiocarbon dating when establishing the models of early agriculture...
  
   (born 19??) American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America
• Honor Frost
  Honor Frost
  Honor Frost was a pioneer in the field of underwater archaeology, who led many mediterranean archaeological investigations specially in the Lebanon and was noted for her typology of stone anchors and skills in archaeological illustration.-Early life:An only child, Frost was born in Nicosia, Cyprus...
  
    (1924-2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors
• Paulo P. Funari (born 19??) Brazilian; Brazil, public archaeology

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• Stane Gabrovec (born 19??) Slovenian; Slovenia
• Antoine Galland
  Antoine Galland
  Antoine Galland was a French orientalist and archaeologist, most famous as the first European translator of The Thousand and One Nights...
  
   (1646–1715) French; numismatics, Middle East
• Clive Gamble (born 19??) paleo-archaeology
• Thomas Gann
  Thomas Gann
  Thomas William Francis Gann was a medical doctor by profession, but is best remembered for his work as an amateur archaeologist exploring ruins of the Maya civilization....
  
   (1867–1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya
• Percy Gardner
  Percy Gardner
  Percy Gardner was an English classical archaeologist.Percy Gardner was born in London, and was educated at the City of London School and Christ's College, Cambridge...
  
   (1846–1937) English; Classical archaeology
• Dorothy Garrod
  Dorothy Garrod
  Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod CBE was a British archaeologist who was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the Palaeolithic period. Her father was Sir Archibald Garrod, the physician.-Life:Born in Oxford, she attended Newnham College, Cambridge...
  
   (1892–1968) British; Paleolithic
• Yosef Garfinkel
  Yosef Garfinkel
  Yosef Garfinkel is a professor of Prehistoric Archaeology and of Archaeology of the Biblical Period at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1956) Israeli; Israel
• William Gell
  William Gell
  Sir William Gell was an English classical archaeologist and illustrator.-Life:Born at Hopton in Derbyshire, the son of Philip Gell and Dorothy Milnes...
  
   (1777–1836) English; Classical archaeology
• Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867) German; Rome
• Joan Gero (born 19??) American?; Andean studies, gender studies
• Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (born 19??) American?; zooarchaeology
• John Wesley Gilbert
  John Wesley Gilbert
  John Wesley Gilbert was the first African American archaeologist, the first graduate of Paine College, the first African American professor of that school, and the first African American to receive a master's degree from Brown University.-Early life:Born to slaves in Hephzibah, Georgia on July 6,...
  
   (1864–1923) first African-American archaeologist; Classical
• Marija Gimbutas
  Marija Gimbutas
  Marija Gimbutas , was a Lithuanian-American archeologist known for her research into the Neolithic and Bronze Age cultures of "Old Europe", a term she introduced. Her works published between 1946 and 1971 introduced new views by combining traditional spadework with linguistics and mythological...
  
   (1921–1994) Lithuanian-American; Neolithic & Bronze Age
• Pere Bosch-Gimpera
  Pere Bosch-Gimpera
  Pere Bosch-Gimpera was a Spanish-born Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist.He arrived in Mexico with many other intellectuals during the Spanish Civil War. He became a Mexican citizen in 1971.-Career:...
  
   (1891–1974) Spanish-Mexican; prehistoric Spain
• Einar Gjerstad
  Einar Gjerstad
  Einar Gjerstad was a Swedish archaeologist of the ancient Mediterranean, particularly known for his work on Cyprus, as well as his studies of early Rome....
  
   (1897–1988) Swedish; Cyprus and Rome
• John Mann Goggin
  John Mann Goggin
  John Mann Goggin was a cultural anthropologist in the southwest, southeast, Mexico, and Caribbean, primarily focusing on the ethnology, cultural history, and typology of artifacts from archaeological sites....
  
   (1916–1963) American; typology, colonial Caribbean
• Albert Goodyear
  Albert Goodyear
  Albert C. Goodyear III is an 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 occupation of North America by humans to 50,000 years or more before the present...
  
   (born 19??) American; paleo-Indians
• Avraham Gopher (born 195?) Israel; Near East neolithic
• Yuval Goren (born 19??) Israeli; ceramic microarchaeology
• Ian Graham
  Ian Graham
  Ian Graham is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL during the 1960s.His best season came in 1964 when he won the Copeland Trophy for Collingwood's Best and Fairest player...
  
   (born 1923) British; Mayans
• Boris Grakov
  Boris Grakov
  Boris Nikolaevich Grakov |Onega]] — September 14, 1970 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian archaeologist, who specialized in Scythian and Sarmatian archeology, classical philology and ancient epigraphy....
  
   (1899–1970) Soviet/Russian, Scythians and Sarmatians
• J. Patrick Greene
  J. Patrick Greene
  Dr. J. Patrick Greene OBE, PhD, is an archaeologist and a museum director.-Biography:Greene was appointed in 1971 to conduct an exploratory excavation at Norton Priory near Runcorn in Cheshire, England...
  
   (born 19??) British; Medieval England
• Canon William Greenwell
  William Greenwell
  Canon William Greenwell FRS FSA FSA.Scot was an English archaeologist.-Life:William Greenwell was born 23 March 1820 in the estate known as Greenwell Ford near Lanchester, County Durham, England...
  
    (1820–1918) British; neolithic England
• Alan Greaves
  Alan Greaves
  Alan Greaves is a British archaeologist, based at the University of Liverpool and working in Turkey. His research has largely focussed on the region of western Turkey known as Ionia in the Bronze and Iron Ages. Other research themes include Greek colonisation and teaching in Higher Education...
  
   (born 1969) British; Turkey
• James Bennett Griffin
  James Bennett Griffin
  James Bennett Griffin was an American archaeologist. He is regarded as one of the most influential archaeologists in North America in the 20th century.-Personal life:...
  
   (1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America
• W. F. Grimes
  W. F. Grimes
  Professor William Francis Grimes was a Welsh archaeologist who devoted his career to the archaeology of London and the prehistory of Wales. Born in Pembrokeshire, Wales, he received his education at the University of Wales. He held a number of prominent posts in Wales, including Chairman of the...
  
   (1905–1988) Welsh; London
• Klaus Grote (born 1947) German; Lower Saxony (Germany)
• Raimondo Guarini
  Raimondo Guarini
  Raimondo Guarini 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 middle class parents-Angelo and Rosaria Guarini.Raimondo and his...
  
   (1765–1852) Italian; Classical
• Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
  Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
  Gustaf VI Adolf - Oscar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf - was King of Sweden from October 29, 1950 until his death. His official title was King of Sweden, of the Goths and of the Wends. He was the eldest son of King Gustaf V and his wife Victoria of Baden...
  
   (1882–1973) Swedish; Classical
• Elham Ghasidian (born 1979) Iranian?; Iranian Paleolithic

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• Robert Hall (born 19??) American; U.S. Mid-West
• Osman Hamdi Bey
  Osman Hamdi Bey
  Osman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman statesman, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering Turkish painter. He was also an accomplished archaeologist, and is considered as the pioneer of the museum curator's profession in Turkey...
  
   (1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon
• Richard D. Hansen
  Richard D. Hansen
  Dr. Richard D. Hansen, Ph.D, is a prominent American archaeologist and currently Senior Scientist at the Institute for Mesoamerican Research in the Department of Anthropology at Idaho State University. Dr. Hansen is a specialist on the ancient Maya and also a director of the Mirador Basin...
  
   (born 19??) American; Meso-America
• Anthony Harding (born 19??) British; European Bronze Age
• Phil Harding
  Phil Harding (archaeologist)
  Philip Harding is a British field archaeologist. He has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team...
  
   (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping
• J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology
• James Penrose Harland
  James Penrose Harland
  James Penrose Harland was an American archaeologist of the ancient Aegean.Harland graduated from Princeton University in 1913. From 1926 to 1927 Harland excavated Late Helladic II layers on the island of Aigina, in Greece. His work in those years was funded by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial...
  
   (1891–1973) American; Aegean
• Michael G. Hasel (born 19??) American; Egyptology
• Emil Haury
  Emil Haury
  Emil Walter "Doc" Haury was an influential archaeologist who specialized in the archaeology of the American Southwest....
  
   (1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States
• Zahi Hawass
  Zahi Hawass
  Zahi Hawass is an Egyptian archaeologist, an Egyptologist, and former Minister of State for Antiquities Affairs. He has also worked at archaeological sites in the Nile Delta, the Western Desert, and the Upper Nile Valley....
  
   (born 1947) Egyptian; Egypt
• Christopher Hawkes (1905–1992) English; European archaeology
• Edgar Lee Hewett
  Edgar Lee Hewett
  Edgar Lee Hewett, D.Sc., was an archaeologist/anthropologist active in work on the Native American communities of New Mexico and the southwestern United States, and most famous for his role in bringing about the Antiquities Act, a pioneering piece of legislation for the conservation movement...
  
   (1865–1946) American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law
• Christian Gottlob Heyne
  Christian Gottlob Heyne
  Christian Gottlob Heyne was a German classical scholar and archaeologist as well as long-time director of the Göttingen State and University Library.-Biography:He was born in Chemnitz, Electorate of Saxony...
  
   (1729–1812) Saxon-German; Classics
• Eric Higgs
  Eric Sidney Higgs
  Eric Sidney Higgs He was the founder of the Cambridge Palaeoeconomy School, a school of thought that focused on the economic aspects of archaeology. His name is closely connected with the "Site catchment Analysis"....
  
    (1908–1976) English; economic archaeology
• Catherine Hills (born 19??) British; burial archaeology, Anglo-Saxon archaeology
• Peter Hinton
  Peter Hinton
  Peter Hinton is a British archaeologist and the current Chief Executive of the Institute for Archaeologists. Before working for the IfA he worked for the Museum of London Archaeology Service originally as a volunteer field archaeologist and eventually specialising as a post excavation manager. He...
  
   (born 19??) British; England
• Yizhar Hirschfeld
  Yizhar Hirschfeld
  Yizhar Hirschfeld was an Israeli archaeologist studying Greco-Roman and Byzantine archaeology. He was an associate professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and director of excavations at a number of sites around Israel, including Ramat Hanadiv, Tiberias, and Khirbet ed-Deir...
  
   (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran)
• Ian Hodder
  Ian Hodder
  Ian Hodder FBA is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980-1990...
  
   (born 1948) English; theory
• Michael A. Hoffman
  Michael A. Hoffman
  Michael Allen Hoffman, Ph.D. was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and author.Michael A. Hoffman was born in Washington D.C. on October 14, 1944 and was raised in Virginia although he spent a lot of vacation time in Ohio. In 1966, he graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. He...
  
   (1944–1990) American; Egyptology
• Frederick Webb Hodge
  Frederick Webb Hodge
  Frederick W. Hodge was an editor, anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian born in Plymouth, England to Edwin and Emily Hodge. His parents moved to Washington, D.C. when Frederick was seven years old....
  
   (1864–1956) American? ; North American Indians
• Simon Holdaway (born 19??) New Zealander?; landscape archaeology, New Zealand, Egypt
• Vance T. Holliday
  Vance T. Holliday
  Vance T. Holliday currently serves as a professor in the School of Anthropology and the department of Geosciences as well as an adjunct professor in the department of Geography at the University of Arizona in Tucson...
  
   (????) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology
• Marcel Homet (????) French or Algerian?; Brazil
• John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain
• Ferenc Horváth
  Ferenc Horváth
  Ferenc Horváth is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for SV Markt St Martin in the 2.Burgenlandliga Middle, in Austria.He made his debut for the Hungarian national team in 1996, and got 32 caps and 11 goals until 2001....
  
   (born 1948) Hungarian; Hungarian neolithic
• Youssef Hourany
  Youssef Hourany
  Youssef Hourany is a Lebanese Writer, Archeologist and Historian. Hourany received his Diploma in Philosophy, from the Lebanese University, and his Ph. D...
  
   (born 1931) Lebanese; archeologist
• Jean-Louis Huot (born 19??) ?; biblical archaeology; agriculture
• Saman Heydari (born 1970) Iranian; Geoarchaeologist (Prehistory)
• Bahar Hamzeh Pour  (born 1975) Iranian;

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• Enver Imamović(born 19??) Bosnian; Balkans
• Glynn Isaac
  Glynn Isaac
  Glynn Llywelyn Isaac was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa...
  
   (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology
• Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology

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• Otto Jahn
  Otto Jahn
  Otto Jahn , was a German archaeologist, philologist, and writer on art and music.He was born at Kiel...
  
   (1813–1869) German; classical world (art)
• Jacques Jaubert
  Jacques Jaubert
  French prehistorian and professor of Paleolithic archaeology at University of Bordeaux 1.- Academic career:He obtained his MA and PhD at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne...
  
  (born 19??) French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology
• Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson
  Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the United States Declaration of Independence and the Statute of Virginia for Religious Freedom , the third President of the United States and founder of the University of Virginia...
  
   (1743–1826) US President; Virginia prehistory
• Jesse D. Jennings
  Jesse D. Jennings
  Jesse David Jennings was an American archaeologist and anthropologist. Based at the University of Utah, Jennings is best known for his work on desert west prehistory and his excavation of Danger Cave near Utah's Great Salt Lake...
  
   (1909–1997) USA; New World
• Llewellyn Jewitt
  Llewellyn Jewitt
  Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt was a noted illustrator, engraver, natural scientist and author of The Ceramic Art of Great Britain...
  
   (1816–1886) English; British antiquities
• Donald Johanson
  Donald Johanson
  Donald Carl Johanson is an American paleoanthropologist. Along with Maurice Taieb, and Yves Coppens he is known for the discovery of the skeleton of the female hominid australopithecine known as "Lucy", in the Afar Triangle region of Hadar, Ethiopia.-Early years:Johanson was born in Chicago,...
  
   (born 1943) American; paleoanthropology, Ethiopia
• Gregory Johnson
• Jotham Johnson
  Jotham Johnson
  Jotham Johnson was an American classical archaeologist.He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania where he received his doctorate in 1931. He was involved in fieldwork at the site of Dura Europos in Syria. Later he became involved in the excavations at the site of Minturno in Italy, under...
  
   (1905-1967) American; Minturno (Italy), past president of the Archaeological Institute of America
• Martin Jones
• Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941–2001) Welsh/Australian; Tasmania
• Rosemary Joyce (born 19??) American; Mayans, gender archaeology
• Vítor Oliveira Jorge (born 1948) Portuguese; late prehistory of Europe (Iberia)
• Christopher Judge
  Christopher Judge
  Douglas Christopher Judge is an American actor best known for playing Teal'c in the Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. He attended the University of Oregon on a football scholarship and was a Pacific Ten Conference player.-Early life:Christopher Judge was...
  
   (born 1964) American; eastern U.S. (Woodland, Mississippian)

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• Eduard von Kallee
  Eduard von Kallee
  Eduard von Kallee was a German Major General und archaeologist.-Biography:...
  
   (1818 - 1888) German; general und archaeologist; found 4 Roaman castra
  Castra
  The Latin word castra, with its singular castrum, was used by the ancient Romans to mean buildings or plots of land reserved to or constructed for use as a military defensive position. The word appears in both Oscan and Umbrian as well as in Latin. It may have descended from Indo-European to Italic...
  
   on the Limes Germanicus
  Limes Germanicus
  The Limes Germanicus was a line of frontier fortifications that bounded the ancient Roman provinces of Germania Inferior, Germania Superior and Raetia, dividing the Roman Empire and the unsubdued Germanic tribes from the years 83 to about 260 AD...
  
  
• Richard Kallee
  Richard Kallee
  Richard Kallee was a German Protestant pastor.-Life and work:On 7 October 1877 Richard Kallee was ordained in the church of Böblingen and worked then at the parishes of Willsbach, Michelbach am Wald and of the Collegiate Church of Oehringen...
  
   (1854 - 1933) German; pastor and archaeologist of 102 Alemannic tombs
• Johan Kamminga (born 1948) Australian; Australian archaeology and prehistory; human evolution in Asia; stone technology; microwear
• Benjamin Kamphaus (born 19??) American?; Cognitive archaeology, central Europe
• Şevket Aziz Kansu, Turkish, Early Bronze Age Anatolia
• Dustin Keeler (born 19??) american?; Europe, GIS
• J. Charles Kelley (1913–1997) American; north-west Mexico
• Arthur Randolph Kelly
  Arthur Randolph Kelly
  Arthur Randolph Kelly was a professional archaeologist born in Hubbard, Texas to Thomas Lucius Kelly and Mamye Lewis Kelly on October 27, 1900....
  
   (1900–1979) American; South-eastern USA
• Kathleen Kenyon
  Kathleen Kenyon
  Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon , was a leading archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. She is best known for her excavations in Jericho in 1952-1958.-Early life:...
  
   (1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho)
• Oliver Kessler (born 1972) German; archaeologist and historian; South Asia, Sri Lanka
• Alfred V. Kidder
  Alfred V. Kidder
  Alfred Vincent Kidder was an American archaeologist considered the foremost of the southwestern United States and Mesoamerica during the first half of the 20th century...
  
   (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica
• T.R. Kidder
  Tristram Randolph Kidder
  Tristram Randolph Kidder is an archaeologist and geologist specializing in the evolution of human societies in Southeastern United States, especially Poverty Point, Louisiana. Kidder is particularly interested in the dynamics of human settlement in the Mississippi River Valley and how it was...
  
   geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States
• Kim Won-yong
  Kim Won-yong
  Kim Won-yong was a South Korean archaeologist and art historian. Noted in the discipline of Korean archaeology and ancient art history , he was one of the first people recognized as an archaeologist in Korea to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.Kim graduated from New York University in 1959...
  
  (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea
• Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe)
• Amos Kloner
  Amos Kloner
  Amos Kloner is an archaeologist and professor emeritusin the Martin Szusz Department of the Land of Israel Studies at the Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, where he teaches Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology....
  
   (born 1940) Israeli; Talpiot Tomb (Israel), Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology
• Robert Koldewey
  Robert Koldewey
  Robert Johann Koldewey was a German architect, famous for his discovery of the ancient city of Babylon in modern day Iraq. He was born in Blankenburg am Harz in Germany, the duchy of Brunswick, and died in Berlin at the age of 70...
  
   (1855–1925) German; Near East (Babylon)
• Manfred Korfmann
  Manfred Korfmann
  Manfred Osman Korfmann was a German archaeologist.- Biography :...
  
   (1942–2005) German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia (Troy)
• Gustaf Kossinna
  Gustaf Kossinna
  Gustaf Kossinna was a linguist and professor of German archaeology at the University of Berlin...
  
   (1858-1931 German; Germany (Neolithic, Aryan concept)
• Hamit Zübeyir Koşay
  Hamit Zübeyir Kosay
  Koşay, Hamit Zübeyir - archaeologist, ethnographer, writer and folklore researcher.-Biography:...
  
   (1897–1984) Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia
• Kristian Kristiansen (born 19??) Swedish?; European prehistory

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• C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (born 1937) American; Mesopotamia, Indus valley
• Luigi Lanzi
  Luigi Lanzi
  Luigi Lanzi was an Italian art historian and archaeologist.Born in Treia, Lanzi was educated as a priest. He entered the Order of the Jesuits, resided at Rome and in 1773 was appointed keeper of the galleries of Florence, where he became president of the Accademia della Crusca...
  
   (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans
• Peter Lape (born 19??) American; South-east Asia
• Pierre Henri Larcher
  Pierre Henri Larcher
  Pierre Henri Larcher was a French classical scholar and archaeologist.Born at Dijon, and originally intended for the law, he abandoned it for the classics. His translation of Chariton's Callirhoe marked him as an excellent Greek scholar...
  
   (1726–1812) French; Classical archaeology
• Donald Lathrap
  Donald Lathrap
  Donald Ward Lathrap was an American archaeologist who specialized in the study of neolithic American culture. He was a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at the time of his death....
  
   (1927–1990) American; South America, U.S. Mid-West
• Jean-Philippe Lauer
  Jean-Philippe Lauer
  Jean-Philippe Lauer , was a French architect and Egyptologist.He was born in Paris, France and originally studied architecture, but in 1926 he went to Egypt. Here he met and married Marguerite Jouguet....
  
   (1902–2001) French; Egypt
• Bo Lawergren
  Bo Lawergren
  Bo Lawergren is a Professor Emeritus of Physics at Hunter College, The City University of New York.-References:...
  
   (born 19??) music archaeology
• T. E. Lawrence
  T. E. Lawrence
  Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lawrence, CB, DSO , known professionally as T. E. Lawrence, was a British Army officer renowned especially for his liaison role during the Arab Revolt against Ottoman Turkish rule of 1916–18...
  
   (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East
• Sir Austen Henry Layard
  Austen Henry Layard
  Sir Austen Henry Layard GCB, PC was a British traveller, archaeologist, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, author, politician and diplomat, best known as the excavator of Nimrud.-Family:...
  
   (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud)
• Louis Leakey
  Louis Leakey
  Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey was a British archaeologist and naturalist whose work was important in establishing human evolutionary development in Africa. He also played a major role in creating organizations for future research in Africa and for protecting wildlife there...
  
   (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
• Mary Leakey
  Mary Leakey
  Mary Leakey was a British archaeologist and anthropologist, who discovered the first skull of a fossil ape on Rusinga Island and also a noted robust Australopithecine called Zinjanthropus at Olduvai. For much of her career she worked together with her husband, Louis Leakey, in Olduvai Gorge,...
  
   (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
• Richard Leakey
  Richard Leakey
  Richard Erskine Frere Leakey is a politician, paleoanthropologist and conservationist. He is second of the three sons of the archaeologists Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey, and is the younger brother of Colin Leakey...
  
   (born 1944) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
• Mark Leone (born 19??) American; theory, historical archaeology
• Charles Lenormant
  Charles Lenormant
  Charles Lenormant was a French archaeologist.After pursuing his studies at the Lycée Charlemagne and the Lycée Napoléon, he took up law, but a visit to Italy and Sicily made him an enthusiastic archaeologist...
  
   (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
• François Lenormant
  François Lenormant
  François Lenormant was a French assyriologist and archaeologist.-Early life:Lenormant's father, Charles Lenormant, distinguished as an archaeologist, numismatist and Egyptologist, was anxious that his son should follow in his steps...
  
   (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist
• André Leroi-Gourhan
  André Leroi-Gourhan
  André Leroi-Gourhan was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics and a penchant for philosophical reflection.- Biography :...
  
   (1911–1986) French; theory, art, Paleolithic
• Jean Antoine Letronne
  Jean Antoine Letronne
  Jean Antoine Letronne was a French archaeologist.Born in Paris, his father, a poor engraver, sent him to study art under the painter David, but his own tastes were literary, and he became a student in the Collège de France, where it is said he used to exercise his already strongly developed...
  
   (1787–1848) French; Greece, Rome, Egypt
• Gerson Levi-Lazzaris
  Gerson Levi-Lazzaris
  Gerson Levi-Lazzaris is a Brazilian archaeologist, descendent of Italo-Slovenian immigrants. Most of the Lazzaris are from Forno di Zoldo, Veneto, from where most of them emigrated during the end of the 19th century, and also after the Second World War to Argentina, Australia, Brazil and United...
  
   (born 1979) Brazilian; ethnoarchaeology
• Carenza Lewis
  Carenza Lewis
  Carenza Rachel Lewis is a British archaeologist who became famous as a result of her appearances on the Channel 4 television series Time Team....
  
   (born 196?) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
• R. Barry Lewis (born 1947) American; archaeology of early modern South India, Cahokia, Mississippian culture
• David Lewis-Williams
  David Lewis-Williams
  James David Lewis-Williams is a South African scholar. He is professor emeritus of cognitive archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg....
  
  , (born 1934) cognitive archaeologist specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art.
• William D. Lipe (born 19??) American; North American Southwest, archaeological method and theory
• Edward Lhuyd
  Edward Lhuyd
  Edward Lhuyd was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary. He is also known by the Latinized form of his name, Eduardus Luidius....
  
   (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain
• Mary Aiken Littauer
  Mary Aiken Littauer
  Mary Aiken Littauer was a leading authority on ancient domesticated horses and related materials . Using her knowledge of contemporary horsemanship, she wrote authoritative works on ridden horses and chariots in Greece, the Near East and Egypt.She was born Mary Aiken Graver in Pittsburgh and...
  
   (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history
• Georg Loeschcke
  Georg Loeschcke
  Georg Loeschcke was a German archaeologist who was born in Penig, Saxony.He studied archaeology under Johannes Overbeck in Leipzig, and afterwards at the University of Bonn, where he was a student of Reinhard Kekulé von Stradonitz...
  
   (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery
• Victor Loret
  Victor Loret
  Victor Clement Georges Philippe Loret was a French Egyptologist.-Biography:Loret studied with Gaston Maspero at the École des Hautes Études. In 1897 he became the head of the Egyptian Antiquities Service. In March 1898, he discovered KV35, the tomb of Amenhotep II in the Valley of the Kings...
  
   (1859–1946) French; Egypt
• Stephen Loring (born 1950) American; Arctic, museology, repatriation
• William A. Longacre (born 19??) American; ethnoarchaeology
• Sir John Lubbock
  John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
  John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury PC , FRS , known as Sir John Lubbock, 4th Baronet from 1865 until 1900, was a polymath and Liberal Member of Parliament....
  
   (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist
• Rev. William Collings Lukis
  William Collings Lukis
  Rev. William Collings Lukis MA. FSA was a British antiquarian, archeologist and polymath....
  
   (1817 - 1892)

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• Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
  Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
  Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister was an Irish archaeologist.Macalister was born in Dublin, Ireland and studied at Cambridge University. Although his earliest interest was in the archaeology of Ireland, he soon developed a strong interest in biblical archaeology. Along with Frederick J...
  
   (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
• Father John MacEnery (1797–1841) Irish; Paleolithic
• Richard MacNeish
  Richard MacNeish
  Richard Stockton MacNeish , known to many as "Scotty", was an American archaeologist. His fieldwork revolutionized the understanding of the development agriculture in the New World, the prehistory of several regions of Canada, the United States and Central and South America...
  
    (1918–2001) American; Canada, Iroquois (U.S./Canada), Meso-America, discovered origins of maize
• Aren Maeir
  Aren Maeir
  Aren Maeir is a professor at Bar Ilan University and director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project . Born in 1958 in Rochester, New York, USA, he moved to Israel in 1969 and has lived there since...
  
   (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
• Yousef Majidzadeh (born 19??) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran)
• JP Mallory
  JP Mallory
  James Patrick Mallory is an Irish-American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist. Mallory is a professor at the Queen's University, Belfast.-Biography:...
  
   (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
• Sir Max Mallowan
  Max Mallowan
  Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan, CBE was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie.-Life and work:...
  
   (1904–1978) British; Middle East
• John Manley
  John Manley (archaeologist)
  John Manley is a British archaeologist and author. His book, A.D. 43, published by Tempus in 2002, is the first to give serious consideration to the archaeological evidence for the Roman invasion of Britain having taken place via alternative routes .John Manley was educated at the...
  
   (born 1952) British; Roman Britain
• Meral Manyas (born 19??) Turkish; Anatolia
• Joyce Marcus
  Joyce Marcus
  Joyce Marcus is a well-known American archaeologist, who has published extensively in the field of Latin American archaeological research. Her particular focus has been on the pre-Columbian cultures and civilizations of Mesoamerica, where much of her fieldwork has been concentrated on the Maya...
  
   (born 19??) American; Latin America
• Auguste-Édouard Mariette (1821–1881) French; Egypt
• Spyridon Marinatos
  Spyridon Marinatos
  Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century.- Career :...
  
   (1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans
• John Hubert Marshall
  John Marshall (archaeologist)
  Sir John Hubert Marshall was the Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India from 1902 to 1928...
  
   (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila (India), Crete
• Kathleen Martinez (born 19??) Dominican Republican; Egypt
• Marjan Mashkour
  Marjan Mashkour
  Marjan Mashkour received her Ph.D. in zooarchaeology in Paris and currently is a member of CNRS. She is the first Iranian who is specialized in the field of zooarchaeology and has been engaged in many field and laboratory projects in Iran and Near East. Her research interest is late Paleolithic...
  
   (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology
• J. Alden Mason (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology
• Ronald J. Mason (born 19??) Upper Great Lakes
• Gaston Maspero
  Gaston Maspero
  Gaston Camille Charles Maspero was a French Egyptologist.-Life:Gaston Maspero was born in Paris to parents of Lombard origin. While at school he showed a special taste for history, and by the age of fourteen he was already interested in hieroglyphic writing...
  
   (1846–1916) French; Egypt
• Paul Massiera (1899–1976) French;
• Therkel Mathiassen
  Therkel Mathiassen
  Therkel Mathiassen was an archaeologist, anthropologist, cartographer, and ethnographer notable for his scientific study of the Arctic....
  
   (1892–1967), Danish, Arctic region
• Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931) British; Mayans
• Amihai Mazar
  Amihai Mazar
  Amihai "Ami" Mazar is an Israeli archaeologist. Born in Haifa, Israel , he is currently Professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Eleazer Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel.Mazar has directed archaeological excavations at a number of...
  
   (1942- ) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
• Benjamin Mazar
  Benjamin Mazar
  Benjamin Mazar was a pioneering Israeli historian, recognized as the "dean" of biblical archaeologists. He shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the region's biblical links...
  
   (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
• Eilat Mazar
  Eilat Mazar
  Eilat Mazar is a third-generation Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archeology. A senior fellow at the Shalem Center, she has worked on the Temple Mount excavations, as well as excavations at Achzib. In addition to heading the Shalem Center's Institute of Archeology,...
  
   (1956- ) Israeli; Jerusalem, Pheonecians
• Gaby Mazor
  Gaby Mazor
  Gabriel Mazor is an Israeli archaeologist working for the Israel Antiquities Authority. Mazor is the director and senior researcher of the Bet She'an Archaeological Project. He is the co-author of "NYSA-Scythopolis: The Caesareum and the Odeum" and has taught in Macalester College and the...
  
   (1944- ) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli)
• August Mau
  August Mau
  August Mau was a prominent German art historian and archaeologist who worked with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut while studying and classifying the Roman paintings at Pompeii, which was destroyed with the town of Herculaneum by volcanic eruption in 79 AD...
  
   (1840–1909) German; Pompeii
• Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
• Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic
• Randall McGuire (born 1951) American; U.S. South-West, historical archaeology, quantitative methods, cultural resource management, archaeomagnetic dating
• W. C. McKern (1892–1988) American; Americanist/theorist
• Betty Meggers
  Betty Meggers
  Betty Jane Meggers is an American archaeologist best known for her work conducted in association with her husband, Cliff Evans, in South America. Meggers was born on December 5, 1921, in Washington D.C. to William and Edith Meggers. Meggers's father was a physicist as well as an archaeology...
  
   (born 1921) American; South America
• Paul Mellars
  Paul Mellars
  Sir Paul Anthony Mellars FBA is Professor of Pre-History and Human Evolution in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge.- Academic career:...
  
   (born 1939) British?; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
• Jaya Menon (born 19??) Indian; India, technology
• Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian [born in Rome]; lithics
• Prosper Mérimée
  Prosper Mérimée
  Prosper Mérimée was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. He is perhaps best known for his novella Carmen, which became the basis of Bizet's opera Carmen.-Life:...
  
   (1803–1870) French; French monuments
• Jerald T. Milanich
  Jerald T. Milanich
  Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. He is the curator of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville; Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of...
  
   (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida)
• Sarunas Milisauskas (born 19??) Old World archaeology, neolithic, Bronze Age
• Naomi Miller (born 19??) American?; Near East archaeobotanist
• René Millon (born 19??) French; highland Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
• Paul Minnis (born 19??) American; southwest USA (Casas Grandes), northern Mexico, environment
• Sir Ellis Minns
  Ellis Minns
  Sir Ellis Hovell Minns was a British academic and archaeologist whose studies focused on Eastern Europe.Educated at Charterhouse, he went to Pembroke College, Cambridge studying the Classical tripos including Slavonic and Russian. He lived briefly in Paris before moving to St Petersburg in 1898 to...
  
   (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe
• Oscar Montelius
  Oscar Montelius
  Oscar Montelius was a Swedish archaeologist who refined the concept of seriation, a relative chronological dating method...
  
   (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia),
• Pierre Montet
  Pierre Montet
  Pierre Montet was a respected French Egyptologist.-Biography:Montet first began his studies under Victor Loret at the University of Lyon....
  
   (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis)
• Andrew M.T. Moore (born 19??) English; neolithic, Middle East
• Clarence Bloomfield Moore
  Clarence Bloomfield Moore
  Clarence Bloomfield Moore was an American archaeologist and writer...
  
   (1852–1936) American; southern United States
• Elizabeth A. Moore (born 19??) American?; Prehistoric Zooarchaeology, Middle Atlantic
• Elizabeth A. Moore (born 19??) British?; South-East Asia, hydraulic systems
• Warren K. Moorehead
  Warren K. Moorehead
  Warren King Moorehead was known in his time as the 'Dean of American archaeology' ; born in Siena, Italy to missionary parents on March 10, 1866, he died on January 5, 1939 at the age of 72, and is buried in his hometown of Xenia, Ohio.-Early life:His mother died when he was quite young, and while...
  
   (1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States
• Sylvanus G. Morley  (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
• Dan Morse
  Dan Morse
  Dan Franklin Morse is an archaeologist specializing in the prehistory of the midwestern United States and the central Mississippi Valley, research summarized in a number of books, monographs, and technical articles. He is best known for his 1983 synthesis of the "Archaeology of the Central...
  
  (b. 1935) American; Central Mississippi Valley
  Mississippi River
  The Mississippi River is the largest river system in North America. Flowing entirely in the United States, this river rises in western Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for to the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. With its many tributaries, the Mississippi's watershed drains...
  
  
• Phyllis Morse
  Phyllis Morse
  Phyllis Morse is an American archaeologist. When she started at the University of Michigan to study Anthropology in 1953 she embarked on a lifetime immersed in archaeology by profession and marriage. Her expertise lay in the laboratory, where she worked with materials from prehistoric sites...
  
   (Anderson) (b. 1934) American; Central Mississippi Valley
• John Robert Mortimer
  John Robert Mortimer
  John Robert Mortimer was an English corn-merchant and archaeologist who lived in Driffield, Yorkshire and was responsible for the excavation of many barrows in that area, including Duggleby Howe....
  
   (1825–1911) English; England (barrows)
• Peder Mortensen Danish; Prehistoric archaeology
• Sabatino Moscati
  Sabatino Moscati
  Sabatino Moscati was an Italian archaeologist and linguist known for his work on Phoenician and Punic civilizations...
  
   (1922-997) Italian; Phoenicians
• Keith Muckelroy
  Keith Muckelroy
  Keith Muckelroy was a pioneer of maritime archaeology. In 1976 he published a paper in which he proposed a theory for the formation of shipwreck sites. He later expanded this theory in a book...
  
   (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology
• John Mulvaney
  John Mulvaney
  John Mulvaney AO CMG is an Australian archaeologist and known as the "father of Australian Archaeology".Derek John Mulvaney was born in Yarram, Victoria...
  
   (born 1925) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
• Tim Murray (archaeologist)
  Tim Murray (archaeologist)
  Tim Murray is an Australian archaeologist and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University in Melbourne, Australia . He joined the Archaeology department in 1986 as Lecturer. On the retirement of the foundation Chair Professor Jim Allen, Murray was appointed to the...
  
   (born 19??) Australian?; history of archaeology
• Adnan Muftarević (born 1972) Bosnian; Ottoman and Classical archaeology

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• Katie Neilson
• Ezzat Ol, llah Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran
• Sarah Milledge Nelson
  Sarah Milledge Nelson
  Sarah Milledge Nelson is an American archaeologist and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, United States....
  
   (born 1931) American; Korea, Hongshan (China), gender
• Ehud Netzer
  Ehud Netzer
  Ehud Netzer was an Israeli architect, educator and archaeologist, known for his extensive excavations at Herodium, where in 2007 he found the tomb of Herod the Great; and the discovery of the oldest Jewish synagogue, located at Jericho....
  
   (1934-2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture)
• Evzen Neustupný (born 1933) Czech; Czechoslovakia, method, landscape archaeology
• Charles Thomas Newton
  Charles Thomas Newton
  Sir Charles Thomas Newton was a British archaeologist. He was made KCB in 1887.Newton was born at Bredwardine in Herefordshire, and educated at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford. He entered the British Museum in 1840 as an assistant in the Antiquities Department...
  
   (1816-1894) British; Classical archaeology
• Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
  Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
  Christiane Desroches Noblecourt was a French Egyptologist. She was the author of many books on Egyptian art and history and was also known for her role in the preservation of the Nubian temples from flooding caused by the Aswan Dam.-Background:She was born Christiane Desroches on November 17...
  
   (born 1913) French; Egypt (Numbian temples)
• Ivor Noël Hume
  Ivor Noel Hume
  Ivor Noël Hume is a British-born archaeologist and author, heralded by his peers as the "father" of Historical Archaeology. He studied at Farmingham College and St...
  
    (born 1927) British?; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology
• Rahmat Naderi (born 1981) Iranian Kurdish; Ealeolithic

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• Kenneth Oakley
  Kenneth Oakley
  Kenneth Page Oakley was an English physical anthropologist, palaeontologist and geologist.Oakley, known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content, was instrumental in the exposure in the 1950s of the Piltdown Man hoax.Oakley was born and died in Amersham,...
  
   (1911–1981) English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax
• Jérémie Jacques Oberlin
  Jérémie Jacques Oberlin
  Jérémie Jacques Oberlin was an Alsatian philologist and archaeologist.The brother of Jean Frédéric Oberlin, he was born at Strasbourg. While studying theology at the university he devoted special attention to Biblical archaeology...
  
   (1735–1806) Alsatian; France?, philology
• Bjørnar Olsen, Norwegian; theory, material culture, Arctic
• John W. Olsen
  John W. Olsen
  John W. Olsen, Ph.D. is an American archaeologist specializing in the early Stone Age prehistory and Pleistocene paleoecology of eastern Eurasia. Olsen is Regents’ Professor of Anthropology and Executive Director of the Je Tsongkhapa Endowment for Central and Inner Asian Archaeology at the...
  
   (born 1955) American; prehistory, Paleolithic, Central Asia
• Stanley John Olsen
  Stanley John Olsen
  Stanley John Olsen was an American vertebrate paleontologist and one of the founding figures of zooarchaeology in the United States. Olsen was also recognized as an historical archaeologist and scholar of United States military insignia, especially buttons of the American Colonial through Civil...
  
   (1919-2003) American; historical archaeology and zooarchaeology
• Charles Orser (born 19??) American; historical archaeology
• Nimet Özgüç (born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
• Tahsin Özgüç
  Tahsin Özgüç
  Tahsin Özgüç, was an eminent Turkish field archaeologist. His long career, began after the World War II and lasted up to the present, made him doyen of Anatolian archaeology....
  
   (1916–2005) Turkish; Assyria

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• Glorimar Pagan
• John Parkington
• André Parrot
  André Parrot
  André Parrot was a French archaeologist specializing in the ancient Near East. He led excavations in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.-Biography:...
  
  
• Timothy Pauketat
  Timothy Pauketat
  Dr. Timothy R. Pauketat is an “American Bottom” Mississippian-era archaeologist and professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. He is best known for his investigations at and involving the World Heritage site of Cahokia Mounds near St. Louis, MO.-Academic...
  
   (born 19??) American; Mississippian culture
  Mississippian culture
  The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally....
  
  
• Deborah M. Pearsall
  Deborah M. Pearsall
  Deborah M. Pearsall is an American archaeologist, specializing in paleoethnobotany. She maintains an online Phytolith database. She is a full professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where she where first began working in 1978. She received...
  
   (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths)
• Richard J. Pearson
  Richard J. Pearson
  Richard Joseph Pearson is a Canadian archaeologist.He grew up in Toronto and Oakville, Ontario and graduated with a Bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in 1960. Richard Pearson studied at the University of Hawaii, and Yale University under K.C. Chang and received his doctorate in...
  
   (born 1938) Canadian; Pacific
• William Pengelly
  William Pengelly
  William Pengelly, FRS FGS was a British geologist and early archaeologist who was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated by Archbishop James Ussher was incorrect....
  
   (1812–1894) British; England, paleolithic
• Gregory Perino
  Gregory Perino
  Greg Perino was a self-taught professional archaeologist, author, consultant, and the last living founder of the Illinois State Archaeological Society. Perino was considered one of the foremost experts on Native American artifacts...
  
   (1914–2005) American; Woodland
  Woodland period
  The Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures was from roughly 1000 BCE to 1000 CE in the eastern part of North America. The term "Woodland Period" was introduced in the 1930s as a generic header for prehistoric sites falling between the Archaic hunter-gatherers and the...
  
  , and Mississippian
  Mississippian culture
  The Mississippian culture was a mound-building Native American culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 CE to 1500 CE, varying regionally....
  
   cultures in Illinois
  Illinois
  Illinois is the fifth-most populous state of the United States of America, and is often noted for being a microcosm of the entire country. With Chicago in the northeast, small industrial cities and great agricultural productivity in central and northern Illinois, and natural resources like coal,...
  
   and Oklahoma
  Oklahoma
  Oklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
  
  
• Alessandro Pezzati
• William Matthew Flinders Petrie
  William Matthew Flinders Petrie
  William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS , commonly known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology and preservation of artifacts...
  
   (1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology
• Philip Phillips
  Philip Phillips (archaeologist)
  Philip Phillips was an influential archaeologist in the United States during the 20th century. Although his first graduate work was in architecture, he later received a doctorate from Harvard University under advisor Alfred Marston Tozzer...
  
   (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States
• Stuart Piggott (1910–1996) British; neolithic, Europe (especially Britain)
• John Pinkerton
  John Pinkerton
  John Pinkerton was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory....
  
   (1758—1826) Scottish; theory of Gothic superiority, Scottish proto-history
• Dolores Piperno
  Dolores Piperno
  Dolores Piperno is an American archaeologist specializing in archaeobotany. She is a staff scientist emeritus of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama.-Career:...
  
   (born 1949?) American; archaeobotany, maize, Panama
• Augustus Pitt Rivers
  Augustus Pitt Rivers
  Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt Rivers was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for his innovations in archaeological methods, and in the museum display of archaeological and ethnological collections.-Life and career:Born Augustus Henry Lane-Fox at...
  
  (1827–1900) British; Britain (especially Dorset), method
• George Pitt Rivers
• Nikolaos Platon
  Nikolaos Platon
  Nikolaos Platon was a renowned Greek archaeologist. He discovered the Minoan palace of Zakros on Crete.He put forward one of the two systems of relative chronology used by archaeologists for Minoan history...
  
   (1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete
• David Pollack (archaeologist) (born 19??) American?; Caborn-Welborn culture
• Reginald Stuart Poole
  Reginald Stuart Poole
  Reginald Stuart Poole was an English archaeologist and orientalist.-Life:Born in London, he was the son of the Rev. Edward Poole, a well-known bibliophile. His parents became estranged during his early childhood, and his mother, Sophia Lane Poole, took her sons to Egypt to live with her brother,...
  
   (1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics)
• Georges Posener (1906–1988) French; Egypt
• Gregory Possehl
  Gregory Possehl
  Gregory Louis Possehl was a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and curator of the Asian Collections at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology...
  
   (born 19??) American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization
• Timothy W. Potter
  Timothy W. Potter
  Timothy William Potter was a prominent archaeologist of ancient Italy, as well as of Roman Britain, best known for his focus on landscape archaeology....
  
   (1944–2000), British; Classical archaeology
• Richard Potts, archaeologist (born 19??) paleoanthropology, Olorgesailie
• Francis Pryor
  Francis Pryor
  thumb|180px|Francis Pryor discusses the excavation during the filming of a 2007 dig for [[Time Team]] with series editor Michael Douglas ....
  
   (born 1945) British; Bronze (Flag Fen, England) and Iron Ages

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• Philip Rahtz
  Philip Rahtz
  Philip Arthur Rahtz was a British archaeologist.Rahtz was born in Bristol. After leaving Bristol Grammar School, he became an accountant before serving with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. During war service, Rahtz became friends with the archaeologist Ernest Greenfield...
  
   (born 1921) British; United Kingdom
• Sir Andrew Ramsay
  Andrew Ramsay
  Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay was a Scottish geologist.-Biography:Ramsay was born at Glasgow, being the son of William Ramsay, manufacturing chemist...
  
  (1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy
• Katharina C. Rebay
  Katharina C. Rebay
  Dr Katharina Rebay is an archaeologist and researcher in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Vienna. Presently, Dr. Rebay is part of the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Changing Beliefs of the Human Body: a Comparative Social...
  
   (born 1977) Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender
• George (Rip) Rapp, Jr. (born 19??) American?; geoarchaeology, Greece, China
• William Rathje
  William Rathje
  William Laurens Rathje is an American archaeologist. He is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Arizona, with a joint appointment with the Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology, and is consulting professor of anthropological sciences at Stanford University...
  
   (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
  Ronny Reich
  Ronny Reich is an Israeli archaeologist, excavator and scholar of the ancient remains of Jerusalem.-Education:Reich studied archaeology and geography at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His MA thesis Ronny Reich (born 1947) is an Israeli archaeologist, excavator and scholar of the ancient...
  
   - (born 1947) Israeli; Jerusalem
• M.A.P. Renouf (b. 19??) Canadian; Newfoundland (Canada)
• Colin Renfrew (born 1937) English; history of language, archaeogenetics
• Caspar Reuvens
  Caspar Reuvens
  Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens was a Dutch historian and archaeologist. He was the founding director of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden, the world's first ever professor of archaeology , and conducted the first excavations at the Roman provincial site Forum Hadriani...
  
  (1793–1835) Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands
• Julian Richards
  Julian Richards
  Julian Richards FSA, MIFA is a British television and radio presenter, writer and archaeologist with over 30 years experience of fieldwork and publication.-Early career:...
  
   (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer
• Derek Roe
  Derek Roe
  Derek Roe is a British archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period.Educated at St Edward's School in Oxford he undertook his National Service with the Royal Sussex Regiment and the Intelligence Corps in Berlin. He went on to study Archaeology and Anthropology at Peterhouse,...
  
   (born 19??) British; paleolithic
• Wil Roebroeks
  Wil Roebroeks
  Wil Roebroeks is the professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He is widely considered to be the pre-eminent Dutch archaeologist. In 2001 he became a member of the influential Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences...
  
   (born 1955) Dutch, The Netherlands
• Carlos Armando Rodriguez  (born 19??) editor of International Journal of South American Archaeology - IJSA (magazine)
  International Journal of South American Archaeology - IJSA (magazine)
  The International Journal of South American Archaeology – IJSA is an eJournal listed by scholarly journal and one of the first fully peer-reviewed electronic journal for archaeology published by Syllaba Press...
  
  
• Malcolm J. Rogers
  Malcolm Jennings Rogers
  This article refers to the archaeologist. For others with the name Malcolm Rogers, please see Malcolm Rogers .Malcolm Jennings Rogers was a pioneering archaeologist in southern California, Baja California, and Arizona....
  
   (1890–1960) American; California
• Martha Ann Rolingson American; Woodland period
• Jeffrey Royal
  Jeffrey Royal
  Jeffrey G. Royal is an American archaeologist active in the Mediterranean area. His specialties are Roman and maritime archaeology....
  
   (born 1964) American; Roman, maritime archaeology
• Michael Rostovtzeff
  Michael Rostovtzeff
  Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev was one of the 20th century's foremost authorities on ancient Greek, Iranian, and Roman history....
  
    (1870–1952) Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia
• Katherine Routledge
  Katherine Routledge
  Katherine Maria Routledge, née Pease was a British archaeologist who initiated the first true survey of Easter Island....
  
   (1866–1935) British; Easter Island
• Emmanuel de Rouge (1811-1872) French; Egyptian numismatics
• Peter Rowley-Conwy
  Peter Rowley-Conwy
  Peter Rowley-Conwy is an anthropologist, and Professor of Archaeology at Durham University-Biography:Peter Rowley-Conwy was born of Welsh and Danish parents. He was educated at Marlborough College, and then read Archaeology at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating in 1973...
  
   (born 1951) Danish? Welsh?; environmental archaeology
• Ron Rule (born 19??) American;
• Simon Rutar
  Simon Rutar
  Simon Rutar , was a Slovene historian and geographer. He wrote primarily on the history and geography of the areas that are now part of the Slovenian Littoral, the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia and the Croatian counties of Istria and Primorsko-Goranska.- Biography :Rutar was born in a...
  
   (1851-1903) Slovenian; Slovenia
• Alberto Ruz Lhuillier
  Alberto Ruz Lhuillier
  Alberto Ruz Lhuillier was a Mexican archaeologist. He specialized in pre-Columbian Mesoamerican archaeology and is well-known for leading the National Institute of Anthropology and History excavations at the Maya site of Palenque, where he found the tomb of the Maya ruler, Pakal...
  
   (1906–1979) Mexican; Pre-Columbian Meso-America
• Donald P. Ryan
  Donald P. Ryan
  Dr. Donald P. Ryan is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, writer and a member of the Division of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His areas of research interest include Egyptian archaeology, Polynesian archaeology, the history of archaeology, the history of...
  
   (born 19??) American; Egypt (Valley of the Kings)

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• Sharada Srinivasan
  Sharada Srinivasan
  Sharada Srinivasan, Associate Professor, National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bangalore, India, works in the field of inter-disciplinary scientific studies in art, archaeology, archaeometallurgy and culture and is also an acclaimed exponent of classical Bharata Natyam dance. She has a PhD...
  
   (born 19??) Indian; archaeometallurgy, India
• Yannis Sakellarakis (1936-2010) Greek; Greece, Minoan culture, Crete (Zominthos)
• Roderick Salisbury
  Roderick Salisbury
  Dr Roderick B. Salisbury is an archaeologist and IGERT Fellow in GI Science at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Research interests include the social construction of landscape, social organization, ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, and lithic analysis...
  
   (born 19??) American?; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe (Neolithic)
• Daniel H. Sandweiss (born 1957) American; prehistoric Peru, environmental studies
• Viktor Sarianidi
  Viktor Sarianidi
  Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi or Victor Sarigiannides is a well-known Soviet archaeologist of Pontic Greek descent. He discovered the remains of a Bronze Age culture in the Karakum Desert in 1976...
  
   (born 1929) Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia
• Otto Schaden
  Otto Schaden
  Otto J. Schaden is an American Egyptologist. He is currently the Field Director of the Amenmesse Tomb Project of the University of Memphis . In addition to his ongoing work on the tomb of Amenmesse in the main arm of the Valley of the Kings, he has also cleared and reinvestigated tombs WV23, WV24,...
  
   (born 19??) American; Egypt
• Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) French; Ugarit
• Michael Brian Schiffer
  Michael Brian Schiffer
  Michael Schiffer is one of the founders and pre-eminent exponents of behavioral archaeology. Schiffer's ideas, set out in his 1976 book Behavioral Archaeology and a number of journal articles, are mainly concerned with site formation processes...
  
   (born 1947) American? (born in Canada); behavioral archaeology, method and theory
• Heinrich Schliemann
  Heinrich Schliemann
  Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist, and an advocate of the historical reality of places mentioned in the works of Homer. Schliemann was an archaeological excavator of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns...
  
   (1822–1890) German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn
• Philippe-Charles Schmerling
  Philippe-Charles Schmerling
  Philippe-Charles Schmerling is a Belgian prehistorian, pioneer in paleontology, paleoanthropology, paleopathology and geologist. He is often considered the founder of paleontology....
  
   (1790–1836) Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man
• Carmel Schrire
  Carmel Schrire
  Carmel Schrire is a professor of anthropology at Rutgers University.She was born in Cape Town, South Africa and completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Cape Town , going on to attend the University of Cambridge...
  
   (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Africa
• Francesco Scipone (1675-1755) Italian; Etruscans
• Ovid R. Sellers
  Ovid R. Sellers
  Ovid Rogers Sellers was an internationally known Old Testament scholar and archaeologist who played a role in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls...
  
  , United States, Biblical Old Testament
• Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt
  Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt
  Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt was a French archaeologist and historian.Born at Beauvais, he was a descendant of the counts of Namur, and in his youth served as an officer in a regiment of cavalry...
  
   (1730–1814) French; ancient monumental art
• Michael Shanks
  Michael Shanks (archaeologist)
  Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist who has specialized in Classical archaeology and archaeological theory. He received his BA and PhD from Cambridge University, and was a lecturer at the University of Wales, Lampeter before moving to the United States of America in 1999 to take up a Chair...
  
   (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory
• Thurstan Shaw (born 1914) English; Africa (especially nigeria)
• Sonia Shidrang (born 19??) Iranian; Paleolithic Archaeology
• Bong-geun Sim
  Sim Bong-geun
  Sim Bong-geun is an archaeologist, university professor and administrator at Dong-A University in Greater Busan, South Korea...
  
   (born 1943) South Korean; Korea
• Isobel Smith (1912–2005) British?; British neolithic, Avebury
• William Robertson Smith
  William Robertson Smith
  William Robertson Smith was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland. He was an editor of the Encyclopædia Britannica and contributor to the Encyclopaedia Biblica...
  
    (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar
• Steven Snape (born 19??) British?; Egyptian imperialism in the Ramesside period
• Janet D. Spector (1944-2011) American; North America
• E. Lee Spence
  E. Lee Spence
  Edward Lee Spence is a pioneer in underwater archaeology who studies shipwrecks and sunken treasure. He is also a published editor and author of non-fiction reference books; a magazine editor , and magazine publisher ; and a...
  
   (born 1947) marine archaeology
• Kurt Springs (born 19??)
• Stanley South
  Stanley South
  Stanley South is an American archaeologist who was a major proponent of the processual archaeology movement. South's major contributions to archaeology deal in helping to legitimize it as a more scientific endeavor.-References:...
  
   (born 19??) American; historical archaeology
• Flaxman Charles John Spurrell
  Flaxman Charles John Spurrell
  Flaxman Charles John Spurrell , the archaeologist, geologist and photographer, was born in Mile End, Stepney, London, the eldest son of Dr. Flaxman Spurrell, M.D., F.R.C.S., and Ann Spurrell...
  
   (1842–1915) English; prehistoric England, Egypt
• Rev. Frederick Spurrell
  Frederick Spurrell
  The Reverend Frederick Spurrell was the second son, and seventh of eight children, of Charles Spurrell and Hannah Shears . He was descended from the Spurrell family of Thurgarton, Norfolk....
  
   (1824–1902) English; English archaeology (Essex and Sussex)
• Carl Steen
  Carl Steen
  Carl Erik "Calle" Steén is a Swedish professional ice hockey player currently playing for the Malmö Redhawks....
  
   (born 19??) American; south-eastern U.S., historical archaeology
• Julie K. Stein, geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites
• Marc Aurel Stein
  Marc Aurel Stein
  Sir Marc Aurel Stein KCIE, FBA was a Hungarian archaeologist, primarily known for his explorations and archaeological discoveries in Central Asia. He was also a professor at various Indian universities.-Early life:Stein was born in Budapest into a Jewish family...
  
   (1862–1943) Hungarian; Central Asia
• M. Stekelis (born 19??) excavation of Sha'ar HaGolan, a neolithic site on the Yarmouk River
  Yarmouk River
  The Yarmouk River is the largest tributary of the Jordan River. It drains much of the Hauran Plateau. It is one of three main tributaries which enter the Jordan between the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea. To the south, are the Jabbok/Zarqa and the Arnon/Wadi Mujib) rivers...
  
  
• Hans-Georg Stephan
  Hans-Georg Stephan
  Hans-Georg Stephan is a German university professor specializing in European medieval archaeology and post-medieval archaeology.-Biography:Stephan was born in in Beverungen in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia...
  
   (born 1950) German; Medievalist, post-Medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, oven tiles
• Nicola Stern (born 19??) Australian?; paleolithic, Africa
• Simon Stoddart (born 19??) British?; Iron Age Europe, Italy, Malta, computer imaging,

• William Duncan Strong
  William Duncan Strong
  William Duncan Strong was an American archaeologist and anthropologist noted for his application of the direct historical approach to the study of indigenous peoples of North and South America....
  
   (1899–1962) American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics
• Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953) Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls
• Pál Sümegi
  Pál Sümegi
  Pál Sümegi is a Hungarian geoarchaeologist at the University of Szeged.- Work :* The geohistory of Bátorliget Marshland : an example for the reconstruction of late Quaternary environmental changes and past human impact from Northeastern part of the Carpatgian Basin. Ed. with Sándor Gulyás....
  
   (born 1960) Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary

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• Jean Michel de Tarragon (born 19??) French?; Biblical archaeology
• Joan Du Plat Taylor (1906–1983) Scottish; maritime archaeology; Cyprus
• Walter Willard Taylor, Jr. (1913–1997) American; theory, Coahuila (Mexico)
• Julio C. Tello
  Julio C. Tello
  Julio César Tello was a Peruvian archaeologist. Tello is considered the "father of Peruvian archeology" and was America's first indigenous archaeologist...
  
   (1880-1947) Peruvian; Peru
• Alexander Thom
  Alexander Thom
  Alexander "Sandy" Thom was a Scottish engineer most famous for his theory of the Megalithic yard, categorization of stone circles and his studies of Stonehenge and other archaeological sites.- Life and work :...
  
   (1894–1985) Scottish; engineer, Stonehenge
• David Thomas, excavator of the Minaret at Jam, Afghanistan
• Julian Thomas
  Julian Thomas
  Julian Stewart Thomas is a British archaeologist, publishing widely on the Neolithic and Bronze Age prehistory of Britain and north-west Europe...
  
   (born 1959) British; north-west European Neolithic and Bronze Age
• J. Eric S. Thompson
  J. Eric S. Thompson
  Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson was an English Mesoamerican archeologist and epigrapher. His contributions to the understanding of Maya hieroglyphs lead him to be one of the foremost mid-20th century anthropological scholars. He was generally known as J. Eric S...
  
   (1898–1975) English; Maya
• Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
  Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
  Christian Jürgensen Thomsen was a Danish archaeologist.In 1816 he was appointed head of 'antiquarian' collections which later developed into the National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen. While organizing and classifying the antiquities for exhibition, he decided to present them chronologically...
  
   (1788–1865) Danish; originator of the Three-Age System
• John Thurman (born 19??) Britain
• Tina Thurston (born 19??) North America, Denmark
• Christopher Tilley
  Christopher Tilley
  Chris Tilley is a British archaeologist known for his contributions to postprocessualist archaeological theory. He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at University College London....
  
   (born 19??) British; theory, Britain
• ong Enzheng (1935–1997) Chinese; China
• Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877–1954) American; Mesoamerica (Maya)
• Bruce Trigger
  Bruce Trigger
  Bruce Graham Trigger, was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian.Born in Preston, Ontario, he received a doctorate in archaeology from Yale University in 1964. His research interests at that time included the history of archaeological research and the comparative study of...
  
   (1937–2006) Canadian; theory, comparative civilizations
• James A. Tuck (born 19??) American; Canada (Newfoundland)
• Evelyn Turner, Australian (born 19??) Australian?; Mesolithic
• Ronald F. Tylecote
  Ronald F. Tylecote
  Ronald Frank Tylecote was a British archaeologist and metallurgist, generally recognised as the founder of the sub-discipline of archaeometallurgy.-Education and profession:...
  
  (1916–1990) British; founder of archaeometallurgy
• Zemaryalai Tarzi
  Zemaryalai Tarzi
  Dr. Zemaryalai Tarzi is an internationally renowned archaeologist from Afghanistan. Born in Kabul in 1939, Professor Tarzi completed his studies under the supervision of Professor Daniel Schlumberger, in the process of obtaining three Ph.Ds...
  
   (born 1939) Afghan; Afghanistan

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• Peter Ucko
  Peter Ucko
  Peter John Ucko FRAI FSA was an influential English archaeologist, noted for being the Professor Emeritus of Comparative Archaeology and also the former Executive Director of University College London's Institute of Archaeology. He was also noted for his organisation of the first World...
  
   (1938–2007) British; Paleolithic art; archaeological politics
• Luigi Maria Ugolini
  Luigi Maria Ugolini
  Luigi Maria Ugolini was an Italian archaeologist.Ugolini was born in the small town of Bertinoro in the Italian Romagna, the son of a poor watchmaker. He shone at school and after service in the First World War in the Alpini studied archaeology at Bologna University...
  
   (1895–1936) Italian; Albania
• David Ussishkin
  David Ussishkin
  David Ussishkin is an Israeli archaeologist. Now retired as Professor of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University, Ussishkin has directed and co-directed important excavations at a variety of sites, including Lachish, Jezreel and Megiddo....
  
   Israeli; Lachish, Jezreel and Megiddo

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• Roland de Vaux
  Roland de Vaux
  Father Roland Guérin de Vaux OP was a French Dominican priest who led the Catholic team that initially worked on the Dead Sea Scrolls. He was the director of the Ecole Biblique, a French Catholic Theological School in East Jerusalem, and he was charged with overseeing research on the scrolls...
  
   (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls
• Henri de Vaux
• Marius Vazeilles (1881-1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology
• Alphonse Vinatié (1924-2005) French; France (especially Gallo-Roman)
• Alan Vince
  Alan Vince
  Dr. Alan George Vince was a British archaeologist who transformed the study of Saxon, medieval and early modern ceramics through the application of petrological, geological and archaeological techniques...
  
   (1952–2009) British; British ceramics
• Zsolt Visy (born 1944) Hungarian; aerial archaeologist
• Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art
• Mary Voight American?; Turkish archaeology, Oriental carpets
• Vahdati Nasab Hamed (born 1973) Iranian?; paleoanthropology, Paleolithic, cannibalism
• Vahdati Ali Akbar (Born 1978) Iranian; Bronze and Iron Ages of Iran

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• Marc Waelkens
  Marc Waelkens
  Marc Waelkens is a professor of archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium. He is director of the excavation at the Pisidian city of Sagalassos in Turkey...
  
    (born 1948) Beglian?; Turkish archaeology
• John Bryan Ward-Perkins
  John Bryan Ward-Perkins
  John Bryan Ward-Perkins CMG, CBE, FBA was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist, and director of the British School at Rome.-Background:...
  
   (1912–1981) British; architectural history
• Charles Warren
  Charles Warren
  General Sir Charles Warren, GCMG, KCB, FRS was an officer in the British Royal Engineers. He was one of the earliest European archaeologists of Biblical Holy Land, and particularly of Temple Mount...
  
   (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
• Patty Jo Watson
  Patty Jo Watson
  Patty Jo Watson is an American archaeologist renowned for her work on Pre-Columbian Native Americans, especially in the Mammoth Cave region of Kentucky. She is now Distinguished University Professor Emerita, Archaeology at Washington University in St. Louis...
  
   (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
  Fred Wendorf
  Fred Wendorf is Henderson-Morrison Professor of Anthropology at Southern Methodist University. He received his Ph.D. in 1953 from Harvard University, and founded the anthropology department at SMU along with founding the Fort Burgwin Research Center in Taos, New Mexico.Dr...
  
   (born 1925) archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
• Josef W. Wegner
  Josef W. Wegner
  Josef William Wegner is an American Egyptologist and Associate Professor of Egyptology in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his doctorate in Egyptology. He is noted for his continued research at Abydos, Egypt...
  
    (born 1967) American; Egyptology
• Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
  Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
  Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker was a German classical philologist and archaeologist.-Biography:Welcker was born at Grünberg, Hesse-Darmstadt. Having studied classical philology at the University of Giessen, in 1803 he was appointed master in the high school, an office which he combined with that of...
  
   (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
• Boyd Wettlaufer
  Boyd Wettlaufer
  Boyd Nicholas David Wettlaufer, CM was a Canadian archaeologist, considered as 'the Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology.' His groundbreaking archaeological work in western Canada is considered the foundation of our knowledge of the Northern Plains First Nations people.Wettlaufer was born in...
  
   (1914-2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
• Mortimer Wheeler
  Mortimer Wheeler
  Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler CH, CIE, MC, FBA, FSA , was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century.-Education and career:...
  
   (1890–1976) British; method; South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England)
• Derrick P. Whitlow (born 1969) Near East archaeology
• Alasdair Whittle
  Alasdair Whittle
  Alasdair W. R. Whittle FLSW FBA is Distinguished Research Professor in Archaeology at Cardiff University, specialising in the Neolithic period.He is also a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.- Publications :...
  
   (born 19??) European Neolithic
• Theodor Wiegand
  Theodor Wiegand
  Theodor Wiegand was one of the most famous German archaeologists.Wiegand was born in Bendorf, Rhenish Prussia. He studied at Munich, Berlin, and Freiburg. In 1894 he worked under Wilhelm Dörpfeld at the excavation of the Athenian Acropolis...
  
   (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography
• Stephen Williams
  Stephen Williams (archeologist)
  Stephen Williams is an archaeologist at Harvard University, currently holding the title of Peabody Professor of North American Archaeology and Ethnography, Emeritus....
  
   (born 19??) American; North America
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann
  Johann Joachim Winckelmann
  Johann Joachim Winckelmann was a German art historian and archaeologist. He was a pioneering Hellenist who first articulated the difference between Greek, Greco-Roman and Roman art...
  
   (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world
• Leonard Woolley
  Leonard Woolley
  Sir Charles Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia...
  
   (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia.
• Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
  Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
  Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae was a Danish archaeologist, historian and politician, who was the second director of the National Museum of Denmark . He played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology. Worsaae was the first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove C.J...
  
   (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
• Alison Wylie
  Alison Wylie
  Alison Wylie is a Canadian feminist philosopher of science at the University of Washington, Seattle. In her own words, Wylie describes her interests in the following:...
  
   (born 19??) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
• John Wymer
  John Wymer
  Dr John James Wymer, was a British archaeologist and one of the leading experts on the Palaeolithic period.Born near Kew Gardens in Surrey, Wymer was introduced to archaeology by his parents who would take him to gravel pits to search for ancient sites...
  
   (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic

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• Yigael Yadin
  Yigael Yadin
  Yigael Yadin on 21 March 1917, died 28 June 1984) was an Israeli archeologist, politician, and the second Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.-Early life and military career:...
  
   (1917–1984) Israeli; Massada
• Norman Yoffee (born 19??) American; Middle East, Europe, Sri Lanka, neolithic evolution, theory of states
• Yun Ki-hyon (born 19??) Korean?;

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• Robert N. Zeitlin
  Robert N. Zeitlin
  Robert Norman Zeitlin is an American professor emeritus of anthropology at Brandeis University. He has a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University, a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Boston University, an M.A. in anthropology from City University of New York, and a M.Phil. and Ph.D...
  
   (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies
• Irit Ziffer
  Irit Ziffer
  Dr. Irit Margit Ziffer , archaeologist and art historian, is the current curator of the Ceramics and Copper pavilions of the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv....
  
    (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art
• Andreas Zimmermann (born 19??) German; quantitative methods
• Ezra B.W. Zubrow (born 19??) American; theory, Nordic archaeology, remote sensing
• R. Tom Zuidema
  R. Tom Zuidema
  Reiner Tom Zuidema is professor emeritus of Anthropology and Latin American and Caribbean Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is well-known for his seminal contributions on Inca social and political organization. His early work consisted of a structural analysis of the ceque...
  
   (born 1927) American?; Incas
• Vladas Žulkus
  Vladas Žulkus
  Vladas Žulkus is a Lithuanian archaeologist. In October 2002 he was elected rector of Klaipėda University.- Biography :...
  
   (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology)
• Marek Zvelebil
  Marek Zvelebil
  thumb|rightMarek Zvelebil, FSA was a Czech-Dutch archaeologist and prehistorian, considered amongst "the most important and influential archaeological thinkers of his generation".-Biography:...
  
  (1952-2011) Czech; European stone age

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