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Encyclopedia > List of archaeologists

A list of eminent archaeologists.


Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z


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Professor Ekrem Akurgal was, during a career that spanned more than fifty years, a prominent and internationally famous Turkish archaeologist, who has conducted marking research in several sites along the western coast of Anatolia such as Phokaia (Foça), Pitane (Çandarlı), Erythrai (Ildırı) and old Smyrna (the Bayraklı tumulus... William Foxwell Albright (May 24, 1891 - September 19/20, 1971) was an evangelical Methodist archaelogist, biblical authority, linguist and expert on ceramics. ... Susan Alcock Susan Alcock is a Roman archaeologist specializing in survey archaeology and the archaeology of memory in the provinces of the Roman empire. ... Leslie Alcock (born Manchester April 24, 1925, died June 6, 2006) was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Dark Age Britain. ... Professor Sedat Alp Professor Sedat Alp (1913, Veroia - October 9, 2006, Ankara) was the first archaeologist in Turkey with a specialization in Hittitology, and is among the foremost names in the field. ... Manolis Andronikos (Greek: Μανώλης Ανδρόνικος) (23 October 1919 – 30 March 1992) was a Greek archaeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki On 8 November 1977 Manolis Andronikos announced that he had found unopened the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina in the prefecture of Imathia. ... The site of the Khazar fortress of Sarkel, which was discovered and excavated by Artamonov in the 1930s. ... Professor Michael Aston (born 1946) has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. ... Richard John Copland Atkinson (1920–1994) was a British prehistorian and archaeologist. ... Fred Vargas is a French historian, archeologist and writer born in 1957 in Paris. ...

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Churchill Babington ( 11th March, 1821- 1889) was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Roecliffe, in Leicestershire. ... Geoff Bailey is a British archaeologist. ... Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840-1914) was an American archaeologist after whom the Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico is named. ... Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (b. ... Philip Arthur Barker (1920 - 2001) was a British archaeologist most famous for his work on excavation methodology. ... Ofer Bar-Yosef (born 1937) is an Israeli archaeologist whose main field of study has been the palaeolithic period. ... Thomas Bateman (1821 - 1861) was an English antiquary and barrow-digger. ... Giovanni Battista Belzoni, from Narrative of the Operations and Recent Discoveries Within the Pyramids, Temples, Tombs and Excavations in Egypt and Nubia by Giovanni Battista Belzoni,London, 1820. ... Professor Lee Rogers Berger, also known as Rod when he was younger, was born in Shawnee Mission Kansas in 1965 but grew up in Georgia in the United States but has lived in South Africa since 1989 and has been a Permanent Resident of South Africa since 1993. ... Gerhard Bersu (1889 - 1964) was a German archaeologist who excavated widely across Europe. ... Charles Ernest Beul (29 June 1826 - 4 April 1874) was a French archaeologist and politician. ... Lewis Roberts Binford (born 1930) is an American archaeologist, known as the leader of the New Archaeology movement of the 1950s/60s. ... Hiram Bingham is the name of several people. ... Flavio Biondo (Latin Flavius Blondus) (1392 – June 4, 1463) was an Italian Renaissance humanist historian. ... Glenn Albert Black was an influential archaeologist of the United States. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Frederick Jones Bliss (1857 - 1939) was an American archaeologist. ... Giacomo Boni (b. ... François Bordes François Bordes (December 30, 1919 – April 30, 1981), also known by the pen name of Francis Carsac, was a French scientist, geologist, and archaeologist. ... Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (10 September 1788 – 5 August 1868), also referred to as Boucher de Perthes, was the customhouse director at Abbeville in Picardy, France from 1825 to 1868. ... Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (8 September 1814 - 8 January 1874) was a Belgian ethnographer. ... Cover of Time Magazine, December 14, 1931 James Henry Breasted (August 27, 1865–December 2, 1935) was born in Rockford, Illinois and was an archaeologist and historian. ... Eric Breuer, is a Swiss archaeologist and historian. ... Jacques Breuer (b. ... Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) is a Belgian archaeologist whose main field of study has been the Palaeolithic period. ... 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 (which includes environmental archaeology). ... Elizabeth Brumfiel is an American archaeologist who teaches at Northwestern University. ... Aubrey Burl is a British archaeologist most well known for his studies into megalithic monuments and the nature of prehistoric rituals associated with them. ... Karl W. Butzer is an American environmental archaeologist. ...

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Frank Calvert (1828 – 1908) was an English expatriate who was a consular official in the eastern Mediterranean region and an amateur crack dealer. ... Luigi Canina (1795–1856) was an Italian archaeologist and architect. ... Bob Carr (????-????) is the former Director of the Historic Preservation Division of Miami-Dade Country and currently County Archaeologist. ... This article should belong in one or more categories. ... For other persons of the same name, see Howard Carter. ... Alfonso Caso y Andrade (Mexico City, 1896 -- Mexico City 30th november, 1970)was one of big props of the so called Mexican archaeology gold period. Between his discoveries are the prehispanic city of Monte Albán (which is now visited by lots of tourists and archaeologists), the famous Tomb Seven... For the Champollion comet rendezvous spacecraft, see Champollion (spacecraft). ... Kwang-chih Chang (張光直) (1931-2001), also known as K.C. Chang, was a Chinese/Taiwanese archaeologist and sinologist. ... John F. Cherry is an Aegean prehistorian and survey archaeologist. ... Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892, Sydney, New South Wales–October 19, 1957, Mt. ... Choi Mong-lyong (b. ... Count Leopoldo Cicognara (17 November 1767–5 March 1834) was an Italian archaeologist and writer on art. ... There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Bob Clarke, born in Scarborough in 1964 is an English archeologist. ... David Leonard Clarke (1937-1976) was an archaeologist, born in Kent, England. ... John Desmond Clark (more commonly J. Desmond Clark, April 10, 1916 - February 14, 2002) was a British archaeologist noted particularly for his work on prehistoric Africa. ... Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark (28 July 1907–12 September 1995) was a British archaeologist most notable for his work on the Mesolithic and his theories on palaeoeconomy. ... Albert Tobias Clay (1866- ? ) was an American Semitic archaeologist, born in Hanover, Penna. ... Eric H. Cline (born September 1, 1960) is an author, historian, archaeologist, and anthropology professor at George Washington University, where he is the Chair of the Department of Classical and Semitic Languages and Literatures. ... John David Coles is an American film and television director. ... ... Richard Colt Hoare (9 December 1758 - 7 May 1838) was an English antiquarian and archaeologist of the early nineteenth century. ... Margaret Conkey is an archaeologist. ... Gudrun Corvinus was a German archaeologist of the Nepal Research Centre in Kathmandu. ... George L. Cowgill is an American anthropologist and archaeologist. ... Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (28 October 1886–November 28, 1957) was an English archaeologist and a pioneer in the use of aerial photographs for deepening archaeological understanding of the landscape. ... Dr Roger Llewellyn Dunmore Cribb (1948 - 2007): An Australian archaeologist and anthropologist who specialised in documenting and modelling spatial patterns and social organisation of nomadic peoples: conducting early fieldwork amongst the nomadic pastoralists of Anatolia, Turkey; writing a book on the archaeology of these nomads[1]; and pioneering Australian archaeology... Joseph George Cumming OKW MA Cantab (15 February 1812 – 21 December 1868) was an English geologist and archaeologist. ... Barrington Windsor Cunliffe CBE (born December 10, 1939), known as Barry Cunliffe, has been Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford since 1972. ... Edward Benjamin Howard Cunnington (1861–1950), was a British archaeologist most famous for his work on prehistoric Wiltshire. ... Maud Edith Cunnington (née Pegge) (24 September 1869–28 February 1951), was a Welsh-born archaeologist, most famous for her pioneering work on the prehistoric sites of Salisbury Plain. ... William Cunnington (1754–31 December 1810) was a pioneering English antiquarian and archaeologist of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. ... You may be looking for Ernst Robert Curtius (1886–1956). ...

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Harappa Excavations is located in the Pakistani Punjab. ... Glyn Edmund Daniel (23 April 1914–13 December 1986) was a British archaeologist who specialised in the European Neolithic and made some of the earliest efforts to popularise the subject on radio and television. ... Professor Sir William Boyd Dawkins (1837 – 1929) was an English geologist and archaeologist. ... Dr Hilary John Deacon, born 1936 in Cape Town, is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa, specialising in the ‘emergence of modern humans’ and African archaeology. ... James Deetz (February 8, 1930 - November 25, 2000) was an American anthropologist, often known as one of the fathers of historical archaeology. ... This article is considered orphaned, since there are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Jules Pierre François Stanislaus Desnoyers (October 8, 1800 - 1887) was a French geologist and archaeologist. ... Adolphe Napoleon Didron (13 March 1806 _ 13 November 1867) was a French archaeologist. ... Wilhelm Dörpfeld Wilhelm Dörpfeld (or Doerpfeld) (26 December 1853 – 25 April 1940) was a German architect, best known for his contributions to classical archaeology. ... Hans Dragendorff (15 October 1870 in Dorpat (Tartu), Estonia - 12 September 1941 in Freiburg, Germany) was a German scholar who introduced the first classification system for Roman Samian ware, or Terra Sigillata, in 1896, using type numbers. ... Robert C. Dunnell is a theoretical archaeologist. ...

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Kenan Erim (1929 – 1990) was a Turkish archaeologist. ... Sir Arthur John Evans (July 8, 1851 – July 11, 1941) was an English archaeologist. ... Sir John Evans (17 November 1823 - 31 May 1908) was an English archaeologist and geologist. ...

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Georg Fabricius (1516–July 17, 1571), Protestant German poet, historian and archaeologist, was born at Chemnitz in upper Saxony on April 23 1516, and educated at Leipzig. ... Brian Murray Fagan is an author of popular archaeology books as well as being emeritus professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt. ... Carlo Fea (2 February 1753 - 18 March 1836) was an Italian archaeologist. ... Sir Charles Fellows (August, 1799 - 8 November 1860) was a British archaeologist. ... Karl Ludwig Fernow (19 November 1763 - 4 December 1808) was a German art-critic and archaeologist. ... Jesse Walter Fewkes, (1850-1930), was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, writer and naturalist. ... Israel Finkelstein Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist. ... George R. Fischer at his namesake laboratory at Florida State University George Robert Fischer (born May 4, 1937) is an American underwater archaeologist, considered the founding father of the field in the National Park Service. ... Kent Vaughn Flannery (b. ... James A. Ford was born in Water Valley, Mississippi, on February 12, 1911. ... Alfred Foucher (1865 - 1952), a French scholar, identified the Buddha image as having Greek origins. ... Sir Cyril Fred Fox (16 December 1882–15 January 1967) was an English archaeologist. ... Egyptologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 - 28 July 1942) was a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. ...

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Antoine Galland (April 4, 1646 — February 17, 1715) was a French orientalist and archaeologist, and the first European translator of the Arabian Nights. ... Thomas William Francis Gann (1867-1938) was a medical doctor by profession, but is best remembered for his work as an amateur archeologist exploring ruins of the Maya civilization. ... Percy Gardner (1846-1937), English classical archaeologist, was born in London, and was educated at the City of London school and Christs College, Cambridge (fellow, 1872). ... Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod (1892 - 1968) was a British archaeologist who was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the Palaeolithic period. ... Sir William Gell (1777 - 4 February 1836) was an English classical archaeologist. ... Friedrich Wilhelm Eduard Gerhard (November 29, 1795 - May 12, 1867), German archaeologist, was born at Posen, and was educated at Breslau and Berlin. ... Marija Gimbutas by Kerbstone 52, at the back of Newgrange, Co. ... Pere Bosch-Gimpera (born 1891 in Barcelona, Spain; died 1974 in Mexico) was a Spanish-born Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist. ... Einar Gjerstad (born 1897; died 1988) was a Swedish archaeologist of the ancient Mediterranean, particularly known for his work on Cyprus as well as his studies of early Rome. ... Dr. Albert C. Goodyear III, 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. ... Ian Graham (born January 5, 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Collingwood in the VFL during the 1960s. ... Boris Nikolaevich Grakov (Russian: ) (December 13 [O.S. December 1] 1899 in Onega — September 14, 1970 in Moscow) was a Soviet Russian archaeologist, who specialized in Scythian and Sarmatian archeology, classical philology and ancient epigraphy. ... Canon William Greenwell (23 March 1820–27 January 1918) was an English archaeologist. ... James Bennett Griffin, also known as Jimmy Griffin, was one of the most influential archaeologists of the United States during the 20th century. ... hello Professor William Francis Grimes (31 October 1905 – 25 December 1988) was a British archaeologist who devoted his career to the archaeology of London. ... Gustaf VI Adolf (Oskar Fredrik Wilhelm Olaf Gustaf Adolf) (November 11, 1882 – September 15, 1973) was King of Sweden from 1950 until his death. ...

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Self-portait of Osman Hamdi Bey (Source&permisson: Osman Hamdi Bey Museum, Gebze, İstanbul). ... Dr. Richard D. Hansen, Ph. ... British field archaeologist Phillip Harding has become a familiar face on the Channel 4 television series Time Team, his trademarks being his long hair, battered hat and West Country accent. ... Harrington can refer to: Places in the United Kingdom: Harrington, Cumbria Harrington, Lincolnshire Harrington, Northamptonshire Places in the United States: Harrington, Delaware Harrington, Maine Harrington, Washington Harrington Park, New Jersey Harrington Lake People: Earl of Harrington James Harrington Joey Harrington Other: Harrington jacket The Harrington computer font. ... Michael Gerald Hasel is an American archaeologist and Egyptologist. ... Emil Walter Haury (Born May 2, 1904 Newton, Kansas- Died December 5, 1992 Tuscon, Arizona) was an influential archaeologist who specialized in the archaeology of the American Southwest. ... Dr. Zahi Hawass signs an autograph (Aug. ... This article lacks information on the subject matters importance. ... Hi Every Body For the cruiseferry, see: M/S Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl Thor Heyerdahl (October 6, 1914 Larvik, Norway – April 18, 2002 Colla Micheri, Italy) was a Norwegian ethnographer and adventurer with a scientific background in zoology and geography. ... Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett (1865 - 1946) 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. ... Christian Gottlob Heyne Odysseus and Euryclea, by Christian G. Heyne Christian Gottlob Heyne (25 September 1729-14 July 1812) was a German classical scholar and archaeologist. ... Eric Sidney Higgs (26 November 1908–23 September 1976) was an English archaeologist. ... Peter Hinton is a British archaeologist and the current Chief Executive of the Institute of Field Archaeologists. ... Ian R. Hodder (born 23 November 1948 in Bristol) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology. ... Frederick W. Hodge (October 28, 1864–September 28, 1956) was an editor, anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian born in Plymouth, England to Edwin and Emily (Webb) Hodge. ... For the actor, see John Horsley (actor). ... Ferenc Horváth (born 6 May 1973) is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Videoton FC Fehérvár. ...

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Glynn Llywelyn Isaac (1937-1985) was a South African archaeologist who specialised in the very early prehistory of Africa. ...

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  • Otto Jahn
  • acques Jaubert, Franch,Paleolithic archaeologist
  • Thomas Jefferson, US President
  • Llewellyn Jewitt
  • Donald Johanson
  • Gregory Johnson
  • Martin Jones
  • Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941-2001) Welsh/Australian, Tasmania
  • Rosemary Joyce Mayan, Feminist

Thomas Jefferson (13 April 1743 N.S.–4 July 1826) was the third President of the United States (1801–09), the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of Republicanism in the United States. ... Donald Carl Johanson (born June 28, 1943) is an American paleoanthropologist known for his discovery of the skeleton of a 3. ...

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Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978), important English archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent and excavator of Jericho in Jordan from 1952 to 1958. ... Alfred Vincent Kidder (1885 - 1963) was considered the foremost archaeologist of the southwestern United States and Middle America during the first half of the 20th century. ... Kim Won-yong (1922 - 1993) was a Korean archaeologist and art historian. ... Dr. Richard Klein is an Adjunct Professor of Astronomy at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB) and a Scientific Staff Member at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). ... Robert Koldewey Robert Johann Koldewey (* 10 September 1855 in Blankenburg (Harz); † 4 February 1925 in Berlin) was a German architect and archaeologist, famous for his discovery of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in modern day Iraq. ... Portrait of Kossinna with an example of excavated pottery Gustaf Kossinna (28 September 1858 in Tilsit - 20 December 1931 in Berlin) was a linguist and professor of German archaeology at the University of Berlin. ...

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K,RAJAN INDIA Luigi Lanzi (Treia, 1732–30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. ... Pierre Henri Larcher (October 12, 1726 - December 22, 1812) was a French classical scholar and archaeologist. ... Donald Ward Lathrap (1927. ... Jean-Philippe Lauer (May 7, 1902 – May 15, 2001), was a French architect and Egyptologist. ... Thomas Edward Lawrence (August 16, 1888 – May 19, 1935), also known as Lawrence of Arabia, and (apparently, among his Arab allies) Aurens or El Aurens, became famous for his role as a British liaison officer during the Arab Revolt of 1916–1918. ... The Right Honourable Sir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 1817–5 July 1894) was a British author and diplomatist, best known as the excavator of Nineveh. ... Louis Leakey examining skulls from Olduvai Gorge Map of Kenya. ... Replica of an Australopithecus boisei skull discovered by Mary Leakey in 1959 Mary Leakey (February 6, 1913 – December 9, 1996) 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. ... Richard Erskine Frere Leakey (born 19 December 1944 in Nairobi, Kenya), is a Kenyan paleontologist and conservationist. ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, etc. ... François Lenormant (January 17, 1837–December 9, 1883) was a French Assyriologist and archaeologist. ... André Leroi-Gourhan (August 25, 1911 - February 19, 1986) was a French archaeologist, paleontologist, paleoanthropologist, and anthropologist with an interest in technology and aesthetics. ... Jean Antoine Letronne (25 January 1787 - 14 December 1848) was a French archaeologist. ... Carenza Rachel Lewis is a British archaeologist who became famous as a result of her appearances on the Channel 4 television series Time Team. ... James David Lewis-Williams is a professor emeritus of cognitive archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. ... Edward Llwyd (also spelt Lhuyd) ( 1660 - June 30, 1709) was a Welsh naturalist, botanist, linguist, geographer and antiquary. ... Mary Aiken Littauer (born February 11, 1912; died December 7, 2005) was a leading authority on ancient domesticated horses and related materials (Brownrigg 2006). ... Victor Clement Georges Philippe Loret (1 September 1859 – 3 February 1946) was a French Egyptologist. ... John Lubbock. ...


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Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870-1950) was an Irish archaeologist. ... Father John MacEnery (1796-1841) was a Catholic priest and early archaeologist who investigated the prehistoric remains at Kents Cavern in Devon. ... Richard Stockton (Scotty) MacNeish (April 29, 1918 — January 16, 2001) was an American archaeologist and Mesoamericanist scholar, who conducted pioneering research into the origins of agriculture, plant domestication and the rise of sedentary cultures in the pre-Columbian Americas. ... Aren Maeir is a Professor at Bar Ilan University and Director of the Tel esSafi/Gath Archaeological Project ([1]). Born in 1958 in Rochester, NY, USA, he moved to Israel in 1969 and has lived there since. ... This article is about the archaeologist James JP Mallory. ... Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history, and was also (despite his Roman Catholicism) the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie, who was 14 years his senior. ... John Manley (born 1952) is a British archaeologist and author. ... Joyce Marcus is a renowned American archaeologist, who has published extensively in the field of Latin American archaeological research. ... The French scholar and archaeologist Auguste Ferdinand François Mariette (February 11, 1821 – January 19, 1881) was the foremost Egyptologist of his generation, and the founder of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. ... Spyridon Nikolaou Marinatos (November 4, 1901 - October 1, 1974) was one of the premier Greek archaeologists of the 20th century, whose most notable discovery was the site of the Minoan port city on the island of Thera destroyed and preserved by the massive volcanic eruption, ca 1650-1600 BCE, spawning... John Hubert Marshall was an English archaeologist, excavator of the prehistoric city of Taxila in the Himalayas, in todays Pakistan, and of other sites throughout India. ... Gaston Camille Charles Maspero (June 23, 1846 - June 30, 1916), French Egyptologist, was born in Paris, his parents being of Lombard origin. ... Alfred Maudslay (1850-1931) was a British colonial diplomat, explorer and archaeologist. ... Amihai Ami Mazar (born 1942) is an Israeli archaeologist. ... Benjamin Mazar (June 28, 1906 - September 9, 1995) was a pioneering Israeli archaeologist who shared the national passion for the archaeology of Israel that also attracts considerable international interest due to the regions Biblical links. ... Dr. Eilat Mazar Eilat Mazar is a third-generation Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archaeology. ... August Mau (1840-1909) was a prominent German art historian and archeologist 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. The paintings were in remarkably good condition... Charles Brian Montagu McBurney (18 June 1914–14 December 1979) was an American archaeologist who spent most of his working life in England. ... Betty J. Meggers (b. ... Categories: Stub | 1541 births | 1593 deaths | Archaeologists ... Prosper Mérimée Prosper Mérimée (September 28, 1803–September 23, 1870) was a French dramatist, historian, archaeologist, and short story writer. ... Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. ... Sir Ellis Hovell Minns (1874 - 1953) was a British academic and archaeologist whose studies focused on Eastern Europe. ... Oscar Montelius (9 September 1843–4 November 1921) was a Swedish archaeologist who refined the concept of seriation, a relative chronological dating method. ... Pierre Montet (1885 — 1966) was a French Egyptologist. ... Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852-1936) was an American archaeologist, son of Clara Jessup Moore, born in Philadelphia. ... Photo taken c. ... John Robert Mortimer (1825-1911) 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. ... Keith Muckelroy (1951 - 1980) was a pioneer of maritime archaeology. ... Timothy P. Murray is the Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts and is the Democratic nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts. ...

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Ezzat Ol,llah Negahban (1921-) is a celebrated Iranian archaeologist who is known as the patriarch of Iranian modern archaeology. ... Sarah Milledge Nelson (b. ... Sir Charles Thomas Newton (September 16, 1816–November 28, 1894) was a British archaeologist. ... Christiane Desroches Noblecourt is a French Egyptologist. ...

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  • Kenneth Oakley
  • Jérémie Jacques Oberlin
  • Bjørnar Olsen Norwegian, archaeological theory, material culture, Arctic Archaeology
  • Charles Orser Historical Archaeology
  • Nimet Özgüç, Turkish, Hittitologist
  • Tahsin Özgüç (1916-2005), Turkish, Assyrian archaeology

Kenneth Page Oakley (April 7, 1911-November 2, 1981) was an English physical anthropologist, geologist, and palaeontologist best known for his work in the relative dating of fossils by fluorine content. ... Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (8 August 1735–10 October 1806) was an Alsatian philologist and archaeologist. ... Tahsin Özgüç, (1916- 2005) was an eminent Turkish field archaeologist. ...

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Richard Joseph Pearson (born 1937) is a Canadian archaeologist. ... is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1938 (MCMXXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... William Pengelly (1812-1894) was a 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 wrong. ... Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie (3 June 1853 – 28 July 1942) was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. ... Philip Phillips was one of the most influential archaeologists of the United States during the 20th century. ... Stuart Ernest Piggott (28 May 1910–23 September 1996) CBE, was a British archaeologist most well known for his work on prehistoric Wessex. ... John Pinkerton (17 February 1758–10 March 1826) was a Scottish archaeologist, numismatist, and author. ... Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14th April, 1827– 4 May 1900) was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. ... Nikolaos Platon (Greek , Anglicised Nicolas Platon; January 8, 1909) – March 28, 1992) was a renowned Greek archaeologist. ... Reginald Stuart Poole (27 January 1832 - 8 February 1895) was an English archaeologist and orientalist. ... Gregory Possehl is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. ... Timothy William Potter (born 1944; died January 2000) was a prominent archaeologist of ancient Italy, as well as of Roman Britain, best known for his focus on landscape archaeology. ... Richard Potts Richard Potts (July 19, 1753–November 26, 1808) was appointed to the United States Senate seat left open by the resignation of Maryland senator Charles Carroll of Carrollton, serving from January 10, 1793, until his resignation on October 24, 1796. ... Francis Pryor (right) discusses the excavation during the filming of a 2007 dig for Time Team with series editor Michael Douglas (left). ...

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Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat (13 October 1814 – 8 April 1882) was a French historian and archaeologist, viewed by some as the father of French archaeology. ...

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Philip Rahtz was born in Bristol in 1921 and after leaving Bristol Grammar School served with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. ... Did you know? ANDREW RAMSAY fUKED HIS CAT Ramsay was born at Glasgow, being the son of William Ramsay, manufacturing chemist. ... Dr Katharina Rebay (born 16 December 1977) is an archaeologist and researcher in the Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge. ... William Rathje (born 1 July 1954) is an archaeologist and Professor at Stanford University. ... Desire Raoul Rochette (March, 1790 - 3 July 1854) was a French archaeologist. ... Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien (October 23, 1813 - May 18, 1900) was a French philosopher and archaeologist. ... Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn (born 25 July 1937), English archaeologist, notable for his work on the radiocarbon revolution, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting of archaeological sites. ... Professor Caspar J.C. Reuvens Caspar Jacob Christiaan Reuvens (22 January 1793, The Hague - 26 July 1835, Rotterdam) was a Dutch historian and archaeologist. ... == Julian Richards is a presenter on television and radio, a writer and an archaeologist with over 30 years experience of fieldwork and publication. ... Derek Roe is a British archaeologist most famous for his work on the Palaeolithic period. ... This article refers to the archaeologist. ... Mikhail Ivanovich Rostovtzeff, or Rostovtsev (October 29, 1870-October 20, 1952) was one of the 20th centurys foremost authorities on ancient Greek and Roman history. ... Katherine Maria Routledge, née Pease (1866-1935) was a British archaeologist who initiated (but did not complete) the first true survey of Easter Island. ... Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (27 January 1906 – 25 August 1979) was a Mexican archaeologist. ... Dr. Donald P. Ryan is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist and writer and a member of the Division of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. ...

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Roderick Salisbury is an archaeologist and IGERT Fellow in GI Science at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. ... Viktor Ivanovich Sarianidi (russ. ... Otto J. Schaden is an American Egyptologist, who is currently Field Director, Valley of the Kings, Amenmesse Tomb Project of the University of Memphis. ... Michael Schiffer is one of the founders and pre-eminent exponents of behavioural archaeology. ... Portrait of Heinrich Schliemann. ... Publications Schrire, Carmel. ... Ovid Rogers Sellers (born August 12, 1884, died 1975) was an internationally known Old Testament scholar and archaeologist who played a role in the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. ... Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux DAgincourt (1730–1814) was a French archaeologist and historian. ... Further information: Shanks_(disambiguation) Michael Shanks is a British archaeologist who has been at the forefront of thinking and practice in archaeology (usually placed under the banner of post-processualism or interpretive archaeology). ... Sim Bong-geun (b. ... William Robertson Smith (8 November 1846–31 March 1894) was a Scottish philologist, physicist, archaeologist, and Biblical critic best known for his work on the Encyclopædia Britannica and his book Religion of the Semites, which is considered a foundational text in the comparative study of religion. ... Although internationally known as a pioneer in underwater archaeology and an expert on shipwrecks and sunken treasure, Dr. Spence is also a published author of non-fiction, reference books; a magazine editor (Diving World, Atlantic Coastal Diver, Treasure, Treasure Diver, and Treasure Quest), and publisher of both books and magazines... Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (6 September 1842 - 25 February 1915), the archaeologist 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 (who were also cousins). ... Born on 2 August 1824, Frederick Spurrell was the second son, and seventh of eight children, of Charles Spurrell and Hannah Shears. ... Carl Calle Steen (born May 16, 1980, Stockholm, Sweden) is a Swedish professional ice hockey player. ... Image:AurelStein. ... William Duncan Strong (1899-1962) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist most famous for his development of the Direct historical approach. ... Pál Sumegi is a Hungarian geoarchaeologist at the University of Szeged. ...

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The Nautical Archaeology Society (NAS) is a charity registered in England and is a company limited by guarantee. ... Walter Willard Taylor Jr (1913 – 1997) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist most famous for his work at Coahuila in Mexico and his Conjunctive archaeology, a method of studing of the past combining elements of both the traditional archaeology of the period and the allied field of anthropology. ... Julio C. Tello was born on April 11, 1880, in Huarochiri, the mountain range of Lima. ... Professor Alexander Thom (1894 - 1985) was a Scottish engineer most famous for his theory of the Megalithic yard. ... Sir John Eric Sidney Thompson (31 December 1898 – 9 September 1975) was an English archeologist and Mayanist epigrapher, regarded as the pre-eminent mid-20th century scholar of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization. ... Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (December 29, 1788–May 21, 1865) was a Danish archaeologist. ... This article is about the British Scout. ... Christopher Y. Tilley is a British archaeologist and a leading proponent of post-processual archaeology. ... Alfred Marston Tozzer (4 July 1877 - 5 October 1954) was an American anthropologist, archaeologist, linguist, and educator. ... Bruce Graham Trigger (June 18, 1937–December 1, 2006) was a Canadian archaeologist. ... Ronald Frank Tylecote (15 June 1916-17 June 1990) was a British archaeologist, generally recognised as the founder of the sub-discipline of archaeometallurgy. ...

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Peter J. Ucko FSA (1938-2007) was Professor Emeritus of Comparative Archaeology, Director of University College Londons Institute of Archaeology, and most notable for his organisation of the first World Archaeological Congress in 1986. ... Luigi Maria Ugolini (born 1895, died 1936) was an Italian archaeologist. ... David Ussishkin is a noted Israeli archaeologist. ...

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Dominique Vivant, Baron de Denon (4 January 1747 - 27 April 1825) was a French artist and archaeologist. ...

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Marc Waelkens is a professor in Archaeology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium). ... John Bryan Ward-Perkins CMG, CBE, FBA (born February 3, 1912 Bromley, Kent, United Kingdom; died May 28, 1981 Cirencester, United Kingdom) was a British Classical architectural historian and archaeologist, and director of the British School at Rome [1]. He was the eldest son of Bryan Ward-Perkins, a British... Josef William Wegner (born October 1967) is an American Egyptologist. ... Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784-1868), German philologist and archaeologist, was born at Grünberg in the grand duchy of Hesse. ... Boyd N.D. Wettlaufer, C.M., (b. ... Brigadier Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler Kt, CH, CIE, MC (10 September 1890–22 July 1976), was one of the best-known British archaeologists of the twentieth century. ... Theodor Wiegand (Born October 30, 1864 at Bendorf am Rhein – died December 19, 1936 at Berlin) was one of the most famous German Archaeologists. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Sir Charles Leonard Woolley (17 April 1880–20 February 1960) was a British archaeologist, best known for his excavations at Ur in Sumerancient Mesopotamia. ... Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (14 March 1821 – 15 August 1885) was a Danish archaeologist who succeeded Christian Jürgensen Thomsen as director of the National Museum of Denmark and played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology. ... Alison Wylie is a philosopher of science at the University of Washington, Seattle. ... Dr John James Wymer, (5 March 1928 - 10 February 2006) was a British archaeologist and one of the leading experts on the Palaeolithic period. ...

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  • Norman Yoffee

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Ezra Zubrow is an archaeologist and Professor at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. ... Irit Margit Ziffer (born 1954 in Tel Aviv, israel) is the current curator of the Ceramic and Copper (hebrew: Nehushtán) pavillions of the Eretz Israel Museum in Tel Aviv. ...

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  • Vladas Žulkus (born 1945), Lithuanian

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