List of archaeologists

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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

[edit] A

Kamyar Abdi (1969-) Iranian, Chalcolithic-Bronze Age
Ekrem Akurgal (1911-2002) Turkish, Anatolia
Jorge Alarcao Portuguese, Portugal
William F. Albright (1891-1971) U.S.A., Orientalist
Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) Roman provinces
Leslie Alcock (1925-2006), English, Dark Age Britain
Jim Allen (born 19??) Australian, Oceania
Sedat Alp (1913-2006), Turkish, Hittitologist
David G. Anderson (1949) Eastern North America
Manolis Andronicos (1919-1992) Greek, Greece
Remzi Oğuz Arık, Turkish, Early Bronze Age Anatolia
Mikhail Artamonov (1898-1972) Russian/Soviet, Khazarist
Mick Aston (born 1946) English, popularizer
Richard Atkinson (1920-94) English, England
Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau French
Anthony Aveni, archaeoastronomy
Massoud Azarnoush, Sassanid archaeology

[edit] B

Churchill Babington (1821-1889) English
Paul Bahn (born 19?? ) English
Geoff Bailey (born 19?? ) English
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840-1914) American
Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900-1975) Italian, Estruscans & art
Philip Barker (1920 – 2001) British
Ofer Bar-Yosef (born 1937) Israeli
Aileen G. Baron (born 1925) American
Thomas Bateman (1821-1861) English
Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) Italian
Mark Beech (b. 1963) English,
Lee Berger (b. 1965) American
Gerhard Bersu (1889 – 1964) German
Leopoldo Batres
Charles Ernest Beule (1826 – 1874) French, Greece
Martin Biddle
Peter Biehl
Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish, Paleolithic
Lewis Binford (born 1930) American, theory
Orhan Bingöl, Turkish, Anatolia
Hiram Bingham, (1875-1956) American, "discovered" Machu Picchu
Flavio Biondo(1392 – 1463) Italian, Rome
Glenn Albert Black (1900 - 1964) American, US Mid-West
Carl Blegen (1887-1971) American, Troy
Frederick Jones Bliss (1857 - 1939) American, Palestine
Harriet Boyd-Howes
Giacomo Boni (1859 - 1925) Italian, Roman architecture
François Bordes(1919 - 1981) French
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788 - 1868) French, France
Jan Bouzek
Richard Bradley
R. Joe Brandon
Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814 - 1874) French, Meso-America
James Henry Breasted(1865 - 1935) American, Egypt
Eric Breuer (b. 1968) Swiss, Roman/Medieval chronology
Jacques Breuer( ) Belgian, Roman Belgium
Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (b. 1970) Belgian, Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
Aisling Bronach (b. 19??) American, Irish archaeology
Don Brothwell (b. ????) British, paleopathology
Elizabeth Brumfiel (b. ????) American, Mesoamerican archaeology
Bernard Bruyère (1879 - 1971) French, Egypt
Aubrey Burl (b. 19??) British?, British megaltihic monuments
Karl Butzer (b. 1934) American, environmental archaeology

[edit] C

Frank Calvert (1828 – 1908), English, Troy
Luigi Canina (1795 – 1856) Italian
Bob Carr ( ) American, Florida historic Indians
Martin Carver (b. 19??) British, Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe - Sutton Hoo
Howard Carter (1874– 1939) English, Egypt
Joanna Casey (b. 19??) , Africa and ethnoarchaeology
Alfonso Caso (1896 - 1970) Mexican, Mexico
Dilip Chakrabarti
Jean-François Champollion (1790 – 1832) French, Egypt
Kwang-chih Chang (1931 - 2001), Chinese archaeologist and prehistorian
John F. Cherry Aegean prehistory
Vere Gordon Childe (1892 - 1957) Australian, Europe / neolithic
Choi Mong-lyong (b. 1946), Korean archaeologist
Leopoldo Cicognara (1767 – 1834) Italian, Italy
Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914), Turkish, Sumerologist
Bob Clarke (Historian) English, Prehistoric and Modern Era
David Clarke (1937 – 1976) English, theory
John Desmond Clark (1916 - 2002) English, Africanist
Grahame Clark (1907 - 1995) British, Mesolith and economy
Albert Tobias Clay (born 1866), American Lutheran minister and Assyriologist
Eric H. Cline Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
John Coles
John Collis ( - ) English, Iron Age Europe
Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758 - 1838) English, England
Margaret Conkey (b. 19??) , France / paleothic
Graham Connah (b. 19??) Australian?, historic Africa and Australia
Gudrun Corvinus (1931 - 2006?) German, India/Nepal/Africa
George Cowgill American; Mesoamerica, Teotihuacan
O.G.S. Crawford (1886 - 1957) English, aerial archaeology
Roger Cribb (1948 - 2007) Australian: Turkish Kurds & Aust. Aborigines.
Joseph George Cumming
Barry Cunliffe
Ben Cunnington
Maud Cunnington
William Cunnington
James Curle
Ernst Curtius

[edit] D

George F. Dales, United States (1927 – 1992)
Glyn Daniel
Théodore Davies
William Boyd Dawkins
Janette Deacon
Hilary Deacon
James Deetz (1930-2000) American; Historical Archaeology
James P. Delgado
Richard Dent, Chesapeake, Southwest
Jules Desnoyers
Adolphe Napoleon Didron
Ali Dinçol, Turkish, Hittitologist
Belkıs Dinçol, Turkish, Hittitologist
Marcia-Anne Dobres
Wilhelm Dörpfeld
Hans Dragendorff
Robert Dunnell

[edit] E

Kutlu Emre, Turkish, Hittitologist
Kenan Erim (1929-1990), Turkish, Hellenistic Anatolia
Sir Arthur Evans
Sir John Evans

[edit] F

Georg Fabricius
Brian M. Fagan
Rev. Brian Faussett
Patrick Fazioli
Carlo Fea
Gary M. Feinman American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca
Sir Charles Fellows
Karl Ludwig Fernow
J. Walter Fewkes
Israel Finkelstein
William D. Finlayson
George R Fischer
Kent Flannery
Rand Flem-Ath
James A. Ford
Henry Chandlee Forman
Alfred Foucher
Cyril Fox
William Flinders Petrie
David Frankell

[edit] G

Stane Gabrovec
Antoine Galland
Clive Gamble
Thomas Gann - (1867-1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya (Primarily in Belize)
Percy Gardner
Dorothy Garrod
William Gell
Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard
Joan Gero Andean, feminist
Diane Gifford-Gonzalez
Marija Gimbutas
Pere Bosch-Gimpera
Einar Gjerstad
John Mann Goggin
Albert Goodyear
Avraham Gopher
Yuval Goren
Ian Graham
Boris Grakov (1899 - 1970) Soviet/Russian, Scythians and Sarmatians
Canon William Greenwell
Alan Greaves
James Bennett Griffin
W. F. Grimes
Raimondo Guarini 1765-1852 Italian Archaeologist,Epigrapher,Poet,College President,Teacher
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden
Elham Ghasidian 1979, Iranian Paleolithician

[edit] H

Robert Hall
Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1911), Ottoman Turkish, Syria and Lebanon
Richard D. Hansen
Anthony Harding
Phil Harding
J.C. "Pinky" Harrington
Michael G. Hasel
Emil Haury, 2 May 1904-5 December 1992, Southwestern United States
Zahi Hawass, Egypt
Christopher Hawkes
Thor Heyerdahl
Edgar Lee Hewett
Christian Gottlob Heyne
Eric Higgs
Catherine Hills
Peter Hinton
Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory
Frederick Webb Hodge
Simon Holdaway
Marcel Homet
John Horsley
Ferenc Horváth
Jean-Louis Huot
Saman Heydari 1970 Iranian Paleolithician
Bahar Hamzeh Pour 1975 Iranian archeaologist

[edit] I

Glynn Isaac

[edit] J

Otto Jahn
acques Jaubert, Franch,Paleolithic archaeologist
Thomas Jefferson, US President
Llewellyn Jewitt
Donald Johanson
Gregory Johnson
Henry Jones Jr. Famous Archaeologist and college Professor
Martin Jones
Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941-2001) Welsh/Australian, Tasmania
Rosemary Joyce Mayan, Feminist

[edit] K

Johan Kamminga
Benjamin Kamphaus
Şevket Aziz Kansu, Turkish, Early Bronze Age Anatolia
Kathleen Kenyon
Alfred V. Kidder
Kim Won-yong
Richard Klein
Robert Koldewey
Gustaf Kossinna
Hamit Zübeyir Koşay, Turkish, Early Bronze Age Anatolia
Kristian Kristiansen

[edit] L

C.C. Lamberg-Karlovsky
Luigi Lanzi
Peter Lape
Pierre Henri Larcher
Donald Lathrap
Jean-Philippe Lauer
Bo lawergren, music archeologist
T.E. Lawrence
Sir Austen Henry Layard
Louis Leakey, 1903-1972, British archaeologist and paleoanthropologist.
Mary Leakey, 1913-1996, British archaeologist and paleoanthropologist.
Richard Leakey, 1944- , Kenyan paleoanthropologist
Mark Leone, theory, historical archaeology
Charles Lenormant
François Lenormant
André Leroi-Gourhan
Jean Antoine Letronne
Carenza Lewis
David Lewis-Williams, (b. 1934) cognitive archaeologist specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art.
William D. Lipe
Edward Lhuyd
Mary Aiken Littauer
Georg Loeschcke
Victor Loret
Stephen Loring 1950 -
William A. Longacre
Sir John Lubbock
Rev. W. C. Lukis

K,RAJAN INDIA

[edit] M

Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister
Father John MacEnery
Richard MacNeish
Aren Maeir, Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
Yousef Majidzadeh, Iranian, Jiroft culture
JP Mallory
Sir Max Mallowan
John Manley
Meral Manyas, Turkish, Anatolia
Joyce Marcus
Auguste-Édouard Mariette
Spyridon Marinatos
John Hubert Marshall
Marjan Mashkour, (zooarchaeologist), Iranian
Ronald J. Mason
Gaston Maspero
Paul Massiera, (1899 - 1976) French archaeologist and Latinist, Roman ruins in Algeria, specially Wilaya de Sétif, Daira de Ain Arnet
Therkel Mathiassen, (1892 - 1967), Danish, Arctic region
Alfred P. Maudslay
Amihai Mazar
Benjamin Mazar
Eilat Mazar
August Mau
Charles McBurney
Betty Meggers
Randall McGuire
W. C. McKern (1892 - 1988) American, Americanist/theorist
Paul Mellars
Michael Mercati
Prosper Mérimée
Jerald T. Milanich
Sarunas Milisauskas
René Millon
Paul Minnis
Sir Ellis Minns
Oscar Montelius
Pierre Montet
Clarence Bloomfield Moore
Elizabeth A. Moore, American, Zooarchaeology, Prehistoric archaeology, Middle Atlantic, especially Virginia
Sylvanus G. Morley (1883-1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
John Robert Mortimer
Peder Mortensen, Danish, Prehistoric archaeology
Keith Muckelroy
John Mulvaney
Tim Murray

[edit] N

Katie Neilson
Ezzat Ol, llah Negahban
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Evzen Neustupný
Charles Thomas Newton
Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
Ivor Noël Hume
Rahmat Naderi (born 1981) Iranian Kurdish, Paleolithic

[edit] O

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