List of archaeologists

A list of eminent archaeologists.

A

• Aziz Ab'Saber (born 1924) Brazilian; Brazil
• Yohanan Aharoni (1919–1976) Israeli; Israel Bronze Age
• Ekrem Akurgal (1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia
• Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Portugal [1]
• William F. Albright (1891–1971) U.S.A.; Orientalist
• Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain
• Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) American; Roman provinces
• Miranda Aldhouse-Green (born 19??) British; British Iron Age and Romano-Celtic
• Jim Allen (born 19??) Australian; Oceania
• Sedat Alp (1913–2006) Turkish; Hittitology
• Ruth Amiran (1915–2005) Israeli; Tel Arad
• David G. Anderson (born 1949) American?; eastern North America
• Manolis Andronicos (1919–1992) Greek; Greece
• Remzi Oğuz Arık (1899–1954) Turkish; early Bronze Age Anatolia [2]
• Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972) Russian/Soviet; Khazar (Central Asia)
• Mick Aston (born 1946) English; popularizer
• Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994) English; England
• Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 1957) French
• Anthony Aveni (born 1938) American; archaeoastronomy
• Nahman Avigad (1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada
• Massoud Azarnoush (1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology

B

• Churchill Babington (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology
• Paul Bahn (born 19?? ) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island
• Geoff Bailey (born 19?? ) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
• Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914) American; American South-West
• Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) Italian; Estruscans & art
• Pessah Bar-Adon (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (Bet Shearim, Tel Bet Yerah, Nahal Mishmar hoard)
• Gabriel Barkay (born 1944) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy,glyptics in the Iron Age, Ketef Hinnom)
• Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England
• Ofer Bar-Yosef (born 1937) Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites
• Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire)
• Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco)
• Bayar Dovdoi (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia
• Mark Beech (born 1963) English; Arabia
• Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian /?Dutch; Egypt
• Taha Baqir (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
• Lee Berger (born 1965) American; paleo-anthroplogy
• Gerhard Bersu (1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.)
• Charles Ernest Beule (1826–1874) French; Greece
• Clarence Bicknell (1842–1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles, France
• Martin Biddle (born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain.
• Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
• Lewis Binford (1930–2011) American; theory
• Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) American; discovered Machu Picchu
• Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) Italian; Rome
• Avraham Biran (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan))
• Glenn Albert Black (1900–1964) American; US Mid-West
• Carl Blegen (1887–1971) American; Troy
• Frederick Jones Bliss (1857–1939) American; Palestine
• Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture
• François Bordes (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
• Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868) French; France
• Richard Bradley (born 19??) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain)
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) French; Meso-America
• James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) American; Egypt
• Eric Breuer (born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
• Jacques Breuer (born ????) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
• Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
• Don Brothwell (born ????) British; paleopathology
• Elizabeth Brumfiel (born ????) American; Mesoamerica
• Aubrey Burl (born 19??) British?; British megalithic monuments
• Karl Butzer (born 1934) American; environmental archaeology

C

• Frank Calvert (1828–1908) English; Troy
• Catherine M. Cameron (born 19??) American; Southwest United States
• Luigi Canina (1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way)
• Bob Carr (born 1947) American; Florida historic Indians
• Martin Carver (born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo
• Howard Carter (1874–1939) English; Egypt
• Joanna Casey (born 19??) ; Africa and ethnoarchaeology
• Alfonso Caso (1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico
• Mirza Hasan Ceman (born 1949) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Islamic Art and Archaeology
• C. W. Ceram (1915–1972) German; popularizer
• Dilip Chakrabarti (born ????) ; South Asian archaeology (especially archaeological geography of the Ganges Plain)
• John Leland Champe (1895–1978) American?; archaeology of the Great Plains
• Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) French; Egypt
• Kwang-chih Chang (1931–2001) Chinese/Taiwanese; China
• Arlen F Chase (1953-)American?; Mesoamerica
• Diane Zaino Chase (1957-) American; Mesoamerica
• Chen Mengjia (1911–1966) Chinese; China
• John F. Cherry (born 19??) Welsh; Aegean prehistory
• Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) Australian; Europe / neolithic
• Choi Mong-lyong (born 1946) Korean; Korea (Mumin pottery period)
• Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834) Italian; Italy
• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914) Turkish; Sumerology
• Bob Clarke (Historian) English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
• David Clarke (1937–1976) English; theory
• John Desmond Clark (1916–2002) English; Africa
• Stephen Clarke (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
• Grahame Clark (1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy
• Albert Tobias Clay (1866–1925) American; Assyriology
• Eric H. Cline (b0rn 1960) Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
• Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West
• John M. Coles (born 1930) British; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age archaeology, experimental archaeology
• John Collis (born 1944) English; Iron Age Europe
• Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838) English, England
• Margaret Conkey (born 19??); France / paleolithic
• Graham Connah (born 19??) Australian?; historic Africa and Australia
• Gudrun Corvinus (1931-2006?) German; India/Nepal/Africa
• George Cowgill (born 19??) American; Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
• O.G.S. Crawford (1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology
• Roger Cribb (1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds & Australian Aborigines
• Michelle M. Croissier, American; Mexico, ceramics.
• Joseph George Cumming (1812–1868) English; Isle of Man
• Barry Cunliffe (born 1939) British; Iron Age Europe, Celts
• Ben Cunnington (1861–1950) English; prehistoric England (Wiltshire)
• Maud Cunnington (1869–1951) Welsh; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain)
• William Cunnington (1754–1810) English; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain)
• James Curle (1861?-1944) Scottish; Roman Scotland (Trimontium)
• Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) German: Greece

D

• George F. Dales (1927—1992) Ameican; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
• Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920—2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology
• Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology
• Ken Dark (born 1961) British; Roman Europe
• Theodore M. Davies (born 19??) American; Egypt
• William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man
• Janette Deacon (born 1939) South African; rock art; heritage management
• Hilary Deacon (1936–2010) South African; African; antiquity of man
• James Deetz (1930–2000) American; Historical Archaeology
• James P. Delgado (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist
• Richard Dent (born 19??) American?: Chesapeake, Southwest
• Shiran Deraniyagala (born 19??) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
• Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880) French; Holy Land
• Jules Desnoyers (1800–1887) French; antiquity of man
• Rúaidhrí de Valera (1916–1978) Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland
• Dragotin Dežman (1821–1889) Slovenian; Ljubljana Marshes, Iron Age in Lower Carniola
• Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1806–1867) French; Medievalist, Christian iconography
• Tom D. Dillehay (born 19??) American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas
• Ali Dinçol (born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
• Belkıs Dinçol (born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
• Kelly Dixon (born 19??) American; historical archaeology of the American West
• Marcia-Anne Dobres (born 19??) ; agency and gender in archaeology
• Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) German; Greece
• Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics
• Robert Dunnell American; theory, U.S. Mid-West

E

• Kutlu Emre (born 19??) Turkish; Hittitologist
• Kenan Erim (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia
• Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) British; Aegean archaeology (Minoan studies, Knossos, Linear A and B)
• Sir John Evans (1823–1908) English; British archaeology

F

• Georg Fabricius (1516–1571), German; Roman epigraphy
• Brian M. Fagan (born 19??) generalist, popularist, history of archaeology
• Panagiotis Faklaris (born 1950) Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina
• Rev. Bryan Faussett (born 17??; died ?) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England)
• Patrick Fazioli (born 19??) Medieval archaeology
• Carlo Fea (1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law
• Gary M. Feinman (born 19??) American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca
• Sir Charles Fellows (1799–1860) British; Asia Minor
• Karl Ludwig Fernow (1763–1808) German; Roman archaeology
• J. Walter Fewkes (1850–1930) American; south-West USA (Hohokam; Pueblo, pottery)
• Israel Finkelstein (born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel)
• William D. Finlayson (born 19??) Canadian?; Ontario (Huron)
• George R Fischer (born 1937) American; underwater achaeology
• Peter M. Fischer (born 19??) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East
• Kent Flannery (born 1934) American; Mesoamerica
• James A. Ford (1911–1968) American; Southeastern United States
• Henry Chandlee Forman (born ????) American?; south-eastern U.S. historical archaeology/architecture
• Alfred Foucher (1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art)
• Cyril Fox (1882–1967) English; Wales
• William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology
• David Frankell (born 19??) Australian?; Cyprus, Aboriginal Australia (western Victoria)
• George Frison (born 1924) American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools
• Gayle J. Fritz (born 19??) American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America
• Honor Frost (1924–2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors
• Paulo P. Funari (born 19??) Brazilian; Brazil, public archaeology

G

• Stane Gabrovec (born 19??) Slovenian; Slovenia
• Antoine Galland (1646–1715) French; numismatics, Middle East
• Clive Gamble (born 19??) paleo-archaeology
• Thomas Gann (1867–1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya
• Percy Gardner (1846–1937) English; Classical archaeology
• Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) British; Paleolithic
• Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956) Israeli; Israel
• William Gell (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 (1864–1923) first African-American archaeologist; Classical
• Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994) Lithuanian-American; Neolithic & Bronze Age
• Pere Bosch-Gimpera (1891–1974) Spanish-Mexican; prehistoric Spain
• Einar Gjerstad (1897–1988) Swedish; Cyprus and Rome
• John Mann Goggin (1916–1963) American; typology, colonial Caribbean
• Albert Goodyear (born 19??) American; paleo-Indians
• Avraham Gopher (born 195?) Israel; Near East neolithic
• Yuval Goren (born 19??) Israeli; ceramic microarchaeology
• Ian Graham (born 1923) British; Mayans
• Boris Grakov (1899–1970) Soviet/Russian, Scythians and Sarmatians
• J. Patrick Greene (born 19??) British; Medieval England
• Canon William Greenwell (1820–1918) British; neolithic England
• Alan Greaves (born 1969) British; Turkey
• James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America
• W. F. Grimes (1905–1988) Welsh; London
• Klaus Grote (born 1947) German; Lower Saxony (Germany)
• Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852) Italian; Classical
• Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882–1973) Swedish; Classical
• Elham Ghasidian (born 1979) Iranian?; Iranian Paleolithic

H

• Robert Hall (born 19??) American; U.S. Mid-West
• Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon
• Richard D. Hansen (born 19??) American; Meso-America
• Anthony Harding (born 19??) British; European Bronze Age
• Phil Harding (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping
• J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology
• James Penrose Harland (1891–1973) American; Aegean
• Michael G. Hasel (born 19??) American; Egyptology
• Emil Haury (1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States
• Zahi Hawass (born 1947) Egyptian; Egypt
• Christopher Hawkes (1905–1992) English; European archaeology
• Edgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946) American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law
• Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) Saxon-German; Classics
• Eric Higgs (1908–1976) English; economic archaeology
• Peter Hinton (born 19??) British; England
• Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran)
• Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory
• Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990) American; Egyptology
• Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956) American? ; North American Indians
• Simon Holdaway (born 19??) New Zealander?; landscape archaeology, New Zealand, Egypt
• Vance T. Holliday (????) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology
• Marcel Homet (????) French or Algerian?; Brazil
• John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain
• Ferenc Horváth (born 1948) Hungarian; Hungarian neolithic
• Youssef Hourany (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;

I

• Enver Imamović (born 19??) Bosnian; Balkans
• Glynn Isaac (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology
• Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology

J

• Otto Jahn (1813–1869) German; classical world (art)
• Jacques Jaubert (born 19??) French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology
• Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) US President; Virginia prehistory
• Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) USA; New World
• Llewellyn Jewitt (1816–1886) English; British antiquities
• Donald Johanson (born 1943) American; paleoanthropology, Ethiopia
• Gregory Johnson (born 19??) American?; complex societies, quantitative analysis; Near East
• Jotham Johnson (1905–1967) American; Minturno (Italy), past president of the Archaeological Institute of America
• Martin Jones (born 19??) Irish; later prehistoric and early historic metalwork and society in Ireland and Hiberno-Roman contact
• 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 (born 1964) American; eastern U.S. (Woodland, Mississippian)

K

• Eduard von Kallee (1818–1888) German; general und archaeologist; found 4 Roaman castra on the Limes Germanicus
• Richard Kallee (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 (born ????) Turkish, Early Bronze Age Anatolia
• Dustin Keeler (born 19??) American?; Europe, GIS
• J. Charles Kelley (1913–1997) American; north-west Mexico
• Arthur Randolph Kelly (1900–1979) American; South-eastern USA
• Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho)
• Oliver Kessler (born 1972) German; archaeologist and historian; South Asia, Sri Lanka
• Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica
• T.R. Kidder (born ????) American?; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States
• Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea
• Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe)
• Amos Kloner (born 1940) Israeli; Talpiot Tomb (Israel), Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology
• Robert Koldewey (1855–1925) German; Near East (Babylon)
• Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia (Troy)
• Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931) German; Germany (Neolithic, Aryan concept)
• Hamit Zübeyir Koşay (1897–1984) Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia
• Kristian Kristiansen (born 19??) Swedish?; European prehistory

L

• C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (born 1937) American; Mesopotamia, Indus valley
• Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans
• Peter Lape (born 19??) American; South-east Asia
• Pierre Henri Larcher (1726–1812) French; Classical archaeology
• Donald Lathrap (1927–1990) American; South America, U.S. Mid-West
• Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902–2001) French; Egypt
• Bo Lawergren (born 19??) music archaeology
• T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East
• Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud)
• Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
• Mary Leakey (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
• Richard Leakey (born 1944) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
• Mark Leone (born 19??) American; theory, historical archaeology
• Charles Lenormant (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
• François Lenormant (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist
• André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986) French; theory, art, Paleolithic
• Jean Antoine Letronne (1787–1848) French; Greece, Rome, Egypt
• Gerson Levi-Lazzaris (born 1979) Brazilian; ethnoarchaeology
• Carenza Lewis (born 196?) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
• R. Barry Lewis (born 1947) American; archaeology of early modern South India, Cahokia, Mississippian culture
• David Lewis-Williams, (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 (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain
• Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history
• Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery
• Victor Loret (1859–1946) French; Egypt
• Stephen Loring (born 1950) American; Arctic, museology, repatriation
• William A. Longacre (born 19??) American; ethnoarchaeology
• Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist
• Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817–1892)

M

• Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
• Father John MacEnery (1797–1841) Irish; Paleolithic
• Richard MacNeish (1918–2001) American; Canada, Iroquois (U.S./Canada), Meso-America, discovered origins of maize
• Aren Maeir (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
• Yousef Majidzadeh (born 19??) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran)
• JP Mallory (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
• Sir Max Mallowan (1904–1978) British; Middle East
• John Manley (born 1952) British; Roman Britain
• Meral Manyas (born 19??) Turkish; Anatolia
• Joyce Marcus (born 19??) American; Latin America
• Auguste-Édouard Mariette (1821–1881) French; Egypt
• Spyridon Marinatos (1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans
• John Hubert Marshall (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila (India), Crete
• Kathleen Martinez (born 19??) Dominican Republican; Egypt
• Marjan Mashkour (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology
• J. Alden Mason (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology
• Ronald J. Mason (born 19??) Upper Great Lakes
• Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) French; Egypt
• Paul Massiera (1899–1976) French; Roman Algeria (Wilaya de Sétif, Daira de Ain Arnet)
• Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967), Danish, Arctic region
• Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931) British; Mayans
• Amihai Mazar (1942- ) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
• Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
• Eilat Mazar (1956- ) Israeli; Jerusalem, Pheonecians
• Gaby Mazor (1944- ) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli)
• August Mau (1840–1909) German; Pompeii
• Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
• Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic
• 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 (born 1921) American; South America
• Paul Mellars (born 1939) British?; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
• Jaya Menon (born 19??) Indian; India, technology
• Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian [born in Rome]; lithics
• Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) French; French monuments
• Jerald T. Milanich (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida)
• 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 (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe
• Oscar Montelius (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia),
• Pierre Montet (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis)
• Andrew M.T. Moore (born 19??) English; neolithic, Middle East
• Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852–1936) American; southern United States
• Elizabeth A. Moore (born 19??) American?; Prehistoric Zooarchaeology, Middle Atlantic
• Elizabeth A. Moore (born 19??) British?; South-East Asia, hydraulic systems
• Warren K. Moorehead (1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States
• Sylvanus G. Morley (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
• Dan Morse (b. 1935) American; Central Mississippi Valley
• Phyllis Morse (Anderson) (b. 1934) American; Central Mississippi Valley
• John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) English; England (barrows)
• Peder Mortensen Danish; Prehistoric archaeology
• Sabatino Moscati (1922-997) Italian; Phoenicians
• Keith Muckelroy (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology
• John Mulvaney (born 1925) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
• Tim Murray (archaeologist) (born 19??) Australian?; history of archaeology
• Adnan Muftarević (born 1972) Bosnian; Ottoman and Classical archaeology

N

• Katie Neilson
• Ezzat Ol, llah Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran
• Sarah Milledge Nelson (born 1931) American; Korea, Hongshan (China), gender
• Ehud Netzer (1934–2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture)
• Evzen Neustupný (born 1933) Czech; Czechoslovakia, method, landscape archaeology
• Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) British; Classical archaeology
• Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (born 1913) French; Egypt (Numbian temples)
• Ivor Noël Hume (born 1927) British?; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology
• Rahmat Naderi (born 1981) Iranian Kurdish; Ealeolithic

O

• Kenneth Oakley (1911–1981) English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax
• Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806) Alsatian; France?, philology
• Bjørnar Olsen, Norwegian; theory, material culture, Arctic
• John W. Olsen (born 1955) American; prehistory, Paleolithic, Central Asia
• Stanley John Olsen (1919–2003) American; historical archaeology and zooarchaeology
• Charles Orser (born 19??) American; historical archaeology
• Nimet Özgüç (born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
• Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) Turkish; Assyria

P

• Glorimar Pagan
• John Parkington
• André Parrot
• Timothy Pauketat (born 19??) American; Mississippian culture
• Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths)
• Richard J. Pearson (born 1938) Canadian; Pacific
• William Pengelly (1812–1894) British; England, paleolithic
• Gregory Perino (1914–2005) American; Woodland, and Mississippian cultures in Illinois and Oklahoma
• Alessandro Pezzati
• William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology
• Philip Phillips (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States
• Stuart Piggott (1910–1996) British; neolithic, Europe (especially Britain)
• John Pinkerton (1758—1826) Scottish; theory of Gothic superiority, Scottish proto-history
• Dolores Piperno (born 1949?) American; archaeobotany, maize, Panama
• Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900) British; Britain (especially Dorset), method
• Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete
• Reginald Stuart Poole (1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics)
• Georges Posener (1906–1988) French; Egypt
• Gregory Possehl (born 19??) American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization
• Timothy W. Potter (1944–2000), British; Classical archaeology
• Richard Potts, archaeologist (born 19??) paleoanthropology, Olorgesailie
• Francis Pryor (born 1945) British; Bronze (Flag Fen, England) and Iron Ages

Q

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

R

• Philip Rahtz (born 1921) British; United Kingdom
• Sir Andrew Ramsay (1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy
• Katharina C. Rebay (born 1977) Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender
• George (Rip) Rapp, Jr. (born 19??) American?; geoarchaeology, Greece, China
• William Rathje (born 1945) American; early civilizations, modern material culture studies, Mesoamerica
• Desire Raoul Rochette (1790–1854) French; Greece
• Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813–1900) French; Classical sculpture
• Ronny Reich - (born 1947) Israeli; Jerusalem
• M.A.P. Renouf (b. 19??) Canadian; Newfoundland (Canada)
• Colin Renfrew (born 1937) English; history of language, archaeogenetics
• Caspar Reuvens (1793–1835) Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands
• Julian Richards (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer
• Derek Roe (born 19??) British; paleolithic
• Wil Roebroeks (born 1955) Dutch, The Netherlands
• Carlos Armando Rodriguez (born 19??) editor of International Journal of South American Archaeology - IJSA (magazine)
• Malcolm J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California
• Martha Ann Rolingson American; Woodland period
• Jeffrey Royal (born 1964) American; Roman, maritime archaeology
• Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952) Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia
• Katherine Routledge (1866–1935) British; Easter Island
• Emmanuel de Rouge (1811–1872) French; Egyptian numismatics
• Peter Rowley-Conwy (born 1951) Danish? Welsh?; environmental archaeology
• Ron Rule (born 19??) American;
• Simon Rutar (1851–1903) Slovenian; Slovenia
• Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (1906–1979) Mexican; Pre-Columbian Meso-America
• Donald P. Ryan (born 19??) American; Egypt (Valley of the Kings)

S

• Sharada Srinivasan (born 19??) Indian; archaeometallurgy, India
• Yannis Sakellarakis (1936–2010) Greek; Greece, Minoan culture, Crete (Zominthos)
• Roderick Salisbury (born 19??) American?; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe (Neolithic)
• Daniel H. Sandweiss (born 1957) American; prehistoric Peru, environmental studies
• Viktor Sarianidi (born 1929) Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia
• Otto Schaden (born 19??) American; Egypt
• Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) French; Ugarit
• Michael Brian Schiffer (born 1947) American? (born in Canada); behavioral archaeology, method and theory
• Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn
• Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790–1836) Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man
• Carmel Schrire (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Africa
• Francesco Scipone (1675–1755) Italian; Etruscans
• Ovid R. Sellers, United States, Biblical Old Testament
• Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt (1730–1814) French; ancient monumental art
• Michael Shanks (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory
• Thurstan Shaw (born 1914) English; Africa (especially Nigeria)
• Sonia Shidrang (born 19??) Iranian; Paleolithic Archaeology
• Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea
• Isobel Smith (1912–2005) British?; British neolithic, Avebury
• William Robertson Smith (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 (born 1947) marine archaeology
• Kurt Springs (born 19??)
• Stanley South (born 19??) American; historical archaeology
• Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842–1915) English; prehistoric England, Egypt
• Rev. Frederick Spurrell (1824–1902) English; English archaeology (Essex and Sussex)
• Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) British; Ashkelon
• Carl Steen (born 19??) American; south-eastern U.S., historical archaeology
• Julie K. Stein, geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites
• Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) Hungarian; Central Asia
• M. Stekelis (born 19??) excavation of Sha'ar HaGolan, a neolithic site on the Yarmouk River
• Hans-Georg Stephan (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,island societies, landscape archaeology, mortuary ritual
• William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics
• Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953) Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls
• Pál Sümegi (born 1960) Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary

T

• 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 (1880–1947) Peruvian; Peru
• Alexander Thom (1894–1985) Scottish; engineer, Stonehenge
• David Thomas, excavator of the Minaret at Jam, Afghanistan
• David Hurst Thomas (born 19??), American; Spanish Borderlands, repatriation
• Julian Thomas (born 1959) British; north-west European Neolithic and Bronze Age
• J. Eric S. Thompson (1898–1975) English; Maya
• Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865) Danish; originator of the Three-Age System
• John Thurman (born 19??) Britain
• Tina Thurston (born 19??) North America, Denmark
• Christopher Tilley (born 19??) British; theory, Britain
• Tong Enzheng (1935–1997) Chinese; China
• Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877–1954) American; Mesoamerica (Maya)
• Bruce Trigger (1937–2006) Canadian; theory, comparative civilizations
• James A. Tuck (born 19??) American; Canada (Newfoundland)
• Evelyn Turner, Australian (born 19??) Australian?; Mesolithic
• Ronald F. Tylecote (1916–1990) British; founder of archaeometallurgy
• Zemaryalai Tarzi (born 1939) Afghan; Afghanistan

U

• Peter Ucko (1938–2007) British; Paleolithic art; archaeological politics
• Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936) Italian; Albania
• David Ussishkin (born 19??) Israeli; Lachish, Jezreel Valley and Megiddo

V

• Roland de Vaux (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls
• Henri de Vaux (1870–1930) French; France
• Marius Vazeilles (1881–1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology
• Alphonse Vinatié (1924–2005) French; France (especially Gallo-Roman)
• Alan Vince (1952–2009) British; British ceramics
• Zsolt Visy (born 1944) Hungarian; aerial archaeologist
• Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art
• Mary Voigt (born 19??) 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

W

• Marc Waelkens (born 1948) Belgian?; Turkish archaeology
• John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912–1981) British; architectural history
• Charles Warren (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
• Patty Jo Watson (born 1932) American; North American archaeology
• Clarence H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory
• Waldo Wedel (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory
• Fred Wendorf (born 1925) archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
• Josef W. Wegner (born 1967) American; Egyptology
• Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
• Boyd Wettlaufer (1914–2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
• Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) British; method; South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England)
• Derrick P. Whitlow (born 1969) Near East archaeology
• Alasdair Whittle (born 19??) European Neolithic
• Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography
• Stephen Williams (born 19??) American; North America
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world
• Leonard Woolley (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia.
• Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
• Alison Wylie (born 19??) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
• John Wymer (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic

Y

• Yigael Yadin (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?;

Z

• Robert N. Zeitlin (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies
• Irit Ziffer (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art
• Larry J. Zimmerman (born 1947) American; North America, Great Plains, Crow Creek Massacre, repatriation, Indigenous archaeology
• Andreas Zimmermann (born 19??) German; quantitative methods
• Ezra B.W. Zubrow (born 19??) American; theory, Nordic archaeology, remote sensing
• R. Tom Zuidema (born 1927) American?; Incas
• Vladas Žulkus (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology)
• Marek Zvelebil (1952–2011) Czech; European stone age

See also

• List of Russian archaeologists

External links

• Fictional Archaeologists -- characters from film, video and computer games, and fiction.
• Archaeologist Biographies