List of archaeologists

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This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise archaeology, the study of the human past through material remains.

A[]

  • Kamyar Abdi (born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age
  • Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012) Brazilian; Brazil
  • Johann Michael Ackner (1783–1862) Transylvanian; Roman Dacia
  • Dinu Adameșteanu (1913–2004) Romanian-Italian; aerial photography and survey of sites
  • James M. Adovasio (born 1944) U.S.; New World (esp. Pre-Clovis) and perishable technologies
  • Anagnostis Agelarakis (born 1956) Greek; archaeological and physical anthropology
  • Yohanan Aharoni (1919–1976) Israeli; Israel Bronze Age
  • Ekrem Akurgal (1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia
  • Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Roman Portugal
  • William F. Albright (1891–1971) U.S.; Orientalist
  • Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain
  • Susan E. Alcock (born 19??) American; Roman provinces
  • Miranda Aldhouse-Green (born 1947) British; British Iron Age and Romano-Celtic
  • Abbas Alizadeh (born 1951) Iranian; Iran
  • Jim Allen,[1] (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita,[2] Polynesian
  • Penelope Allison (born 19??) household and Roman archaeology
  • Sedat Alp (1913–2006) Turkish; Hittitology
  • Ruth Amiran (1915–2005) Israeli; Tel Arad
  • Atholl Anderson (born 1943) New Zealand; New Zealand and the Pacific
  • David G. Anderson (born 1949) U.S.; eastern North America
  • Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874-1960) Swedish; China
  • E. Wyllys Andrews IV (1916-1971) American; Maya
  • (born 194?) American; Maya [3]
  • Manolis Andronicos (1919–1992) Greek; Greece
  • (1899–1954) Turkish; early Bronze Age Anatolia[4]
  • Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972) Russian/Soviet; Khazar (Central Asia)
  • Khaled al-Asaad (1934–2015) Syrian; Palmyra
  • Mick Aston (1946–2013) English; popularizer
  • Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994) English; England
  • Val Attenbrow (born 1942) Australian; Aboriginal stone tools, archaeology of aboriginal Sydney
  • Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 1957) French; Black Death/bubonic plague
  • Anthony Aveni (born 1938) U.S.; archaeoastronomy
  • Nahman Avigad (1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada
  • Hasan Awad (born 1912–13) Bedouin; excavator
  • Massoud Azarnoush (1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology

B[]

  • Churchill Babington (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology
  • Paul Bahn (born 1953) 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, Mexico
  • Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885–1930) Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture
  • Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) Italian; Estruscans & art
  • Edward B. Banning (born 19??) Canadian; Near Eastern archaeology, archaeological survey
  • Luisa Banti (1894–1978) Italian; Etruscology
  • Taha Baqir (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
  • Pessah Bar-Adon (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (Bet Shearim, Tel Bet Yerah, Nahal Mishmar hoard)
  • John C. Barrett (born 19??) British; archaeological theory and European prehistory
  • Diane Barwick (1938–1986) Australian; Aboriginal culture and society[5]
  • Gabriel Barkay (born 1944) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy, glyptics in the Iron Age, Ketef Hinnom)
  • Graeme Barker (born 1946) British; Italian Bronze Age, Roman Libya, landscape archaeology
  • Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England
  • Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937–2020) Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites
  • George Bass (1932–2021) American; underwater archaeology
  • Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire)
  • Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco)
  • Gertrude Bell (1868–1926) English; adventurer and Middle Eastern archaeologist, formed the Baghdad Archaeological Museum (now Iraqi Museum)
  • Peter Bellwood (born 1943) Australian; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide)| interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology[6]
  • Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian; Egypt
  • Mary Beaudry (1950-2020) American; eastern U.S., Scotland, Caribbean, gastronomy
  • Anna Belfer-Cohen (born 1949); Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant
  • Erez Ben-Yosef (born 19??); Israeli; archaeometallurgist;
  • Crystal Bennett (1918–1987) British; Jordan
  • James Theodore Bent (1852–1897) British; eastern Med, Africa, and Arabia.
  • Dumitru Berciu (1907–1998) Romanian; South-Eastern and Central Europe, Geto-Dacians, Thracians and Celts
  • Lee Berger (born 1965) U.S.; paleo-anthropology
  • Gerhard Bersu (1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.)
  • Charles Ernest Beule (1826–1874) French; Greece
  • Paolo Biagi (born 1948) Italian; Eurasian Mesolithic and Neolithic, Pakistan prehistory
  • Geoffrey Bibby (1917–2001) British; Arabia
  • Penny Bickle (born 19??) British; bioarchaeology, Neolithic
  • Clarence Bicknell (1842–1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles, France
  • Martin Biddle (born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain
  • Manfred Bietak (born 1940) Austrian; Egypt
  • Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
  • Lewis Binford (1930–2011) American; U.S., France, theory
  • Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) U.S.; discovered Machu Picchu
  • Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) Italian; Rome
  • Avraham Biran (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan))
  • Caroline Bird (born 19??) Australia; heritage and indigenous studies research
  • Judy Birmingham (born 19??) Australian; historical archaeology in Australia,[7] Irrawang pottery, Tasmania
  • Glenn Albert Black (1900–1964) U.S.; US Mid-West
  • Carl Blegen (1888–1971) U.S.; Troy
  • Elizabeth Blegen (1888–1966) U.S.; Greece, educator
  • Frederick Jones Bliss (1857–1939) U.S.; Palestine
  • Bayar Dovdoi (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia
  • John Boardman (born 1927) British; Classical archaeology, especially Greek architecture
  • Jean Boisselier (1912–1996) French; Khmer, Southeast Asia
  • Larissa Bonfante (1931–2019) U.S.; Etruscans
  • Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture
  • François Bordes (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
  • Barbara Borg (born 1960) German; Classical archaeology
  • (1921–1969) American; Meso-America[8]
  • Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868) French; France
  • Stephen Bourke, Australian;[9] Pella
  • Jole Bovio Marconi (1897–1986) Italian; Neolithic Sicily
  • Sandra Bowdler (born 1947) Australian; Australian Indigenous archaeology, pre-neolithic East and Southeast Asia
  • Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945) American; Greece & Crete; Minoan
  • Richard Bradley (born 1946) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain)
  • Linda Schreiber Braidwood (1909–2003) U.S.; Near East
  • Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) French; Meso-America
  • James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) U.S.; Egypt
  • Adela Breton (1849–1923) British; Mexico
  • Eric Breuer (born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
  • Jacques Breuer (born 1956) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
  • Robert Brier (born 1943) U.S.; Egypt paleopathology
  • Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
  • Srečko Brodar (1893–1987) Slovene; Upper Paleolithic
  • Mary Brodrick (c. 1858–1933) English; Egyptology
  • Alison S. Brooks (born 19??) American; Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa
  • Myrtle Florence Broome (c. 1888–1978) English; Egyptology, illustrator
  • Don Brothwell (1933–2016) British; paleopathology
  • Frank Edward Brown (1908-1988) American; Mediterranean
  • Elizabeth Brumfiel (1945–2012) U.S.; Mesoamerica
  • Caitlin E. Buck (born 1964) British; statistics, radiocarbon dating.
  • Sue Bulmer (1933–2016) American; New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
  • Hallie Buckley (born 19??) New Zealand; bioarchaeology
  • Heather Burke (born 19??) Australian; historical archaeology, field methods[10]
  • Aubrey Burl (1926-2020) British; British megalithic monuments
  • Les Bursill (1945-2019) Australian; Dharawal people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra[11]
  • Karl Butzer (1934-2016) U.S.; environmental archaeology

C[]

  • Errett Callahan (1937-2019) American; experimental archaeology
  • Frank Calvert (1828–1908) English; Troy
  • Raissa Calza (1894–1979) Ukrainian; Italy (Ostia)
  • Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell (1893–1971) American; California
  • Scott Cane (born 1954) Australian; Australia,[12] desert people of Australia
  • Luigi Canina (1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way)
  • Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino (born 1938) Romanian; Romania
  • Bob Carr (born 1947) American; Florida historic Indians
  • Maureen Carroll (born 1953) British; Roman archaeology
  • Martin Carver (born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo
  • Howard Carter (1874–1939) English; Egypt
  • Alfonso Caso (1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico
  • C. W. Ceram (1915–1972) German; popularizer
  • Dilip Chakrabarti (born 1941) Indian; South Asia (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
  • Doris Emerson Chapman (1903–1990) British; prehistory
  • Arlen F Chase (born 1953) American?; Mesoamerica
  • Diane Zaino Chase (born 1953) American; Mesoamerica
  • George Henry Chase (1874–1952) American; Heraion of Argos
  • Alfredo Chavero (1841–1906) Mexican; Mexico
  • Chen Mengjia (1911–1966) Chinese; China
  • Chen Tiemei (1935–2018) Chinese; scientific archaeology and radiocarbon dating
  • 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)
  • Neil Christie (born 19??) British; Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
  • Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834) Italian; Italy
  • Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914) Turkish; Sumerology
  • John Desmond Clark (1916–2002) English; Africa
  • Grahame Clark (1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy
  • Bob Clarke (Historian) (born 1964) English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
  • David Clarke (1937–1976) English; theory
  • Stephen Clarke (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
  • Albert Tobias Clay (1866–1925) American; Assyriology
  • John Clegg (1935–2015) Australian; rock art
  • Eric H. Cline (born 1960) American?; Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
  • Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West
  • Bryony Coles (born 1946) British; prehistoric archaeology, wetland archaeology, Somerset Levels, Doggerland
  • John Coles (1930–2020) British; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age, experimental archaeology[13][14]
  • Donald Collier (1911–1995) American; Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology
  • John Collis (born 1944) English; Iron Age Europe
  • Dominique Collon (born 1940) Belgian; cylinder seals of the Near East
  • Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838) English, England
  • Margaret Conkey (born 1943) American; Upper Paleolithic France
  • Robin Coningham (born 1965) British; South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics
  • Diane Atnally Conlin (born 1963) American; Roman art and architecture
  • Niculae Conovici (1948–2005) Romanian; Romania, amphorae
  • Graham Connah (born 1934) South Africa; historical archaeology
  • Gudrun Corvinus (1931–2006?) German; India/Nepal/Africa
  • Peter Coutts (born 1934) Australian; historical archaeology
  • George Cowgill (1929–2018) American; Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
  • O.G.S. Crawford (1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology
  • Roger Cribb (1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds and Australian Aborigines
  • Ion Horaţiu Crişan (1928–1994)Romanian; Geto-Dacians and Celts
  • William (Bill) Culican (1928–1984) Australian; Middle East, Australian historical archaeology[15]
  • 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)
  • (1861?–1944) Scottish; Roman Scotland (Trimontium), Gotland[16]
  • Florin Curta (born 1965) American; Eastern Europe
  • Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) German; Greece
  • Clive Eric Cussler (1931–2020) American; underwater archaeology

D[]

  • Gaetano d'Ancora (1751-1816) Italy
  • Albéric d'Auxy (1836—1914) Belgian; Belgium
  • Bruno Dagens (born 1935) French; Khmer and India
  • Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973) Romanian; Romania
  • George F. Dales (1927–1992) American; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
  • Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920–2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology
  • Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology
  • Ken Dark (born 1961) British; Roman Europe
  • Raymond Dart (1893–1988) Australian; paleoanthropology: Australopithecus africanus
  • Janet Davidson (born 19?) New Zealand; New Zealand, Pacific Islands
  • Theodore M. Davis (1837–1915) American; Egypt
  • William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man
  • Touraj Daryaee (born 1967) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran)
  • Janette Deacon (born 1939) South African; rock art, heritage management
  • Hilary Deacon (1936–2010) South African; African; antiquity of man
  • Corinne Debaine-Francfort (born 19??) French; Eastern Central Asian and protohistoric China
  • James Deetz (1930–2000) American; Historical Archaeology
  • Warren DeBoer (died May 24, 2020) American; North and South America, ethnoarchaeology; ceramics
  • James P. Delgado (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist
  • Robin Dennell (born 1947) British; prehistoric archaeologist
  • Donald Brian Doe (1920–2005) British; Arabia
  • Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880) French; Holy Land
  • Jules Desnoyers (1800–1887) French; antiquity of man
  • Rúaidhrí de Valera (1916–1978) Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland
  • Dragotin Dežman (1821–1889) Slovenian; Ljubljana Marshes, Iron Age in Lower Carniola
  • Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1806–1867) French; Medievalist, Christian iconography
  • Tom D. Dillehay (born 19??) American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas
  • Kelly Dixon (born 19??) American; historical archaeology of the American West
  • Brian Dobson (1931–2012) British; Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Army
  • Dong Zuobin (1895–1963) Chinese/Taiwanese; oracle bones, Yinxu
  • Gertrud Dorka (1893–1976), German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director
  • Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) German; Greece
  • Trude Dothan (1922–2016) Austrian; Israel
  • Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics
  • Penelope Dransart (born 19??) British?; South American anthropology
  • Carol van Driel-Murray (born 1950) British; gender archaeology, Roman archaeology, and leather
  • Angela von den Driesch (1934–2012) German; osteoarchaeology
  • Hilary du Cros (born 19??) Australian; history of Australian archaeology[17]
  • Duan Qingbo (1964–2019) Chinese; Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
  • Roger Duff (1912–1978) New Zealander; New Zealand
  • Katherine Dunbabin (born 19??) British?; classical archaeology; Roman art
  • Robert Dunnell (1947–2010) American; theory, U.S. Mid-West
  • Louis Dupree (1925–1989) American; Afghanistan
  • E. C. L. During Caspers (1934–1996) Dutch; Prehistoric Mesopotamia, South Asian, and Persian Gulf
  • Robert H. Dyson (1927–2020) American; Near Eastern archaeology

E[]

  • Elizabeth Eames (1918–2008) British; specialist in English medieval tiles
  • Hella Eckardt (born 19??) Roman archaeology; material culture
  • Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938) British; Cyclades and Hellenistic Egypt, papyrology specialist
  • Amelia Edwards (1831–1892) British; Egypt
  • Ricardo Eichmann (born 1955) German; Near Eastern archaeology
  • Kenan Erim (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia
  • Ufuk Esin (1933–2008) Turkish; prehistoric Anatolia, archaeometry
  • Roland Étienne (born 1944) French; ancient Greece and Hellenistic period
  • 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 1936) British; generalist, popularist, history of archaeology
  • Panagiotis Faklaris (born 1950) Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina
  • Fan Jinshi (born 1938) Chinese; Dunhuang
  • William Fash (born 1954) American; Maya
  • Rev. Bryan Faussett (1720–1776) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England)
  • Carlo Fea (1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law
  • Gary M. Feinman (born 1951) American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca
  • Sir Charles Fellows (1799–1860) British; Asia Minor
  • Karl Ludwig Fernow (1763–1808) German; Roman archaeology
  • J. Walter Fewkes (1850–1930) American; south-west USA (Hohokam; Pueblo, pottery)*
  • Irving Finkel (born 1951) British; cuneiform tablets
  • Israel Finkelstein (born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel)
  • George R. Fischer (1937–2016) American; underwater archaeology
  • Peter M. Fischer (born 19??) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East
  • Cleo Rickman Fitch (1910–1995) American; Roman archaeology
  • William W. Fitzhugh (born 1943) American; circumpolar archaeology
  • Kent Flannery (born 1934) American; Mesoamerica
  • Josephine Flood (born 1938) Australian; Aboriginal prehistory of the Australia Cloggs Cave
  • Adam Ford (born 19??) Australian; host of documentary series Who's Been Sleeping in My House?
  • James A. Ford (1911–1968) American; Southeastern United States
  • Sally Foster (born 19??) Scottish; Medieval Scotland
  • Alfred Foucher (1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art)
  • Aileen Fox (1907–2005) British; South West England
  • Cyril Fox (1882–1967) English; Wales
  • William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology
  • David Frankel (born 19??) Australian; Cypress, Syria; Koongine Cave, Australia
  • Barry L. Frankhauser (1943–2014) Australian;[18] archaeometry, residue analysis, Maori earth ovens,[19] sourcing Australian ochres
  • Elizabeth French (1931-2021) British; Mycenaean Greece, especially the site of Mycenae, and Mycenaean terracottas
  • George Frison (1924–2020) American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools, pale-oarchaeology
  • Gayle J. Fritz (born 19??) American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America
  • Honor Frost (1924–2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors
  • Dorian Fuller (born 19??) American; archaeobotany, domestication

G[]

  • Christopher Gaffney (born 1962) British; geophysics
  • Vincent Gaffney (born 1958) British; landscape archaeology
  • Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (1938–2019) Iraqi; Mesopotamian archaeology
  • Antoine Galland (1646–1715) French; numismatics, Middle East
  • Thomas Gann (1867–1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya
  • Sandor (Alexander) Gallus (1907–1996) Australian; Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation Koonalda Cave South Australia Dry Creek archaeological site Keilor
  • Jean-Claude Gardin (1925–2013) French; Bactria, theory in archaeology, computing in archaeology
  • Andrew Gardner (born 19??) Roman archaeology
  • Percy Gardner (1846–1937) English; classical archaeology
  • Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) British; paleolithic
  • Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956) Israeli; Israel
  • John Garstang (1876–1954) British; Anatolia, Southern Levant
  • Jillian Garvey (born 19??) Australian; Quaternary Australian Indigenous Archaeology
  • William Gell (1777–1836) English; Classical archaeology
  • Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867) German; Rome
  • Diane Gifford-Gonzalez (born 19??) 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
  • Kathryn Gleason (born 1957) American; Specialist in the archaeology of landscape architecture
  • John Mann Goggin (1916–1963) American; typology, colonial Caribbean
  • Albert Glock (1925–1992) American; Palestinian archaeology
  • Franck Goddio (born 1947) French; underwater archaeology
  • Lynne Goldstein (born 1953) American; prehistoric eastern North America, mortuary
  • Jack Golson (born 1926) Australian; Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia Savai'i island, Samoa
  • Albert Goodyear (born 19??) American; Paleo-Indians
  • Alice Gorman (born 1964) Australian; Space archaeology, contemporary archaeology, Indigenous Australian archaeology, stone tools, orbital debris, space as a cultural landscape[20]
  • Ian Graham (1923–2017) British; Mayans
  • Boris Grakov (1899–1970) Soviet/Russian; Scythians and Sarmatians
  • Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887) Italy; Etruscans
  • Roger Green (1932–2009) American; New Zealand, Pacific Islands
  • Kevin Greene (born 19??) British; classical archaeology
  • J. Patrick Greene (born 19??) British; Medieval England
  • Canon William Greenwell (1820–1918) British; Neolithic England
  • Alan Greaves (born 1969) British; Turkey
  • James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America
  • W. F. Grimes (1905–1988) Welsh; London
  • Klaus Grote (born 1947) German; Lower Saxony (Germany)
  • Nikolai Grube (born 1962) German; Mayan epigraphy
  • Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852) Italian; Classical
  • Prishantha Gunawardena (born 1968) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
  • Guo Moruo (1892–1978) Chinese; China
  • Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882–1973) Swedish; Classical

H[]

  • Joseph Hackin (1886–1941) French; Afghanistan
  • Marie Hackin (1905–1941) French; Afghanistan
  • Robert Hall (1927–2012) American; U.S. Mid-West
  • Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon
  • Robert Hamilton (1905–1995) British; Near Eastern archaeology
  • Norman Hammond (born 1944) British; Afghanistan, Maya
  • Richard D. Hansen (born 19??) American; Meso-America
  • Phil Harding (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping
  • J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology
  • James Penrose Harland (1891–1973) American; Aegean
  • Emil Haury (1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States
  • Zahi Hawass (born 1947) Egyptian; Egypt
  • Christopher Hawkes (1905–1992) English; European archaeology
  • Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–1996) English; prehistory of England, Europe, Minoa
  • Lotte Hedeager (born 1948) Danish; Iron Age Scandinavia
  • Robert Heizer (1915–1979) American; California
  • Hans Helbæk (1907–1981) Danish; palaeobotany
  • John Basil Hennessy (1925-2013) Australian; Near East
  • 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
  • Charles Higham (born 1939) British; South East Asia
  • Thomas Higham, New Zealand; radiocarbon dating
  • Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology
  • Ida Hill (1875–1958) American; classical archaeology
  • Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology
  • Gordon Hillman (1943–2018) British; archaeobotany
  • Peter Hinton (born 19??) British; England
  • Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran)
  • Peter Hiscock (born 1957) Australian; ancient technology
  • Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory, Catalhoyuk
  • Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956) American; North American Indians
  • Richard Hodges (born 1952) British; Middle Ages
  • Birgitta Hoffmann (born 1969); Gask Ridge
  • Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990) American; Egyptology
  • Alexander Hubert Arthur Hogg (1908–1989) British; hillforts
  • Frank Hole (born 1931) American; Near East
  • Vance T. Holliday (born 1950) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology
  • Mads Kähler Holst (born 1973) Danish; Bronze Age and Iron Age wetland sites in Denmark
  • (1917–2021) British; Knossos [21][22]
  • Jeannette Hope, Australian; Western New South Wales
  • John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain
  • Youssef Hourany (1931-2019) Lebanese; Middle East
  • Huang Wenbi (1893–1966) Chinese; China
  • Huang Zhanyue (1926–2019) Chinese; China from the Han dynasty to the Tang dynasty
  • John Hurst (1927–2003) British; English medieval archaeology
  • Elinor Mullett Husselman (1900–1996) American; Coptic historian, papyrologist

I[]

  • Richard Indreko (1900–1961) Estonian; Estonia
  • Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology
  • Glynn Isaac (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology
  • Hideshi Ishikawa (born 1954) Japanese; Japanese and Korean archaeology
  • Fumiko Ikawa-Smith (born 1930) Japanese-Canadian; East Asian and Japanese archaeology

J[]

  • Roger Jacobi (1947–2009) British; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Britain
  • Otto Jahn (1813–1869) German; classical world (art)
  • Jean-François Jarrige (1940-2014) French; South Asia
  • Jacques Jaubert (born 1957) French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology
  • Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) U.S. President; Virginia prehistory
  • Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) American; New World
  • Llewellyn Jewitt (1816–1886) English; British antiquities
  • Donald Johanson (born 1943) American; paleoanthropology, Ethiopia
  • Jotham Johnson (1905–1967) American; Minturno (Italy), past president of the Archaeological Institute of America
  • Margaret Ursula Jones (1916–2001) British; Mucking, England
  • Rebecca Jones (born 19??) British; Roman Britain
  • Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941–2001) Welsh/Australian; Tasmania
  • Chris Judge (born 19??) American; eastern U.S. (Woodland, Mississippian)
  • Elsie Jury (1910–1993) Canadian; historical archaeology of Ontario

K[]

  • Lili Kaelas (1919–2007) Swedish; Stone and Bronze Age
  • Gilbert Kaenel (1949–2020) Swiss; Iron Age, La Tène culture
  • Seifollah Kambakhshfard (1929–2010) Iranian; Iron Age Temple of Anahita
  • Johan Kamminga (born 19??); University of Sydney; use-wear and residues
  • Simon Keay (1954-2021) English; Roman Portus, surveys of Roman Spain and Italy
  • Phoebe Keef (1898–1978) British; prehistoric archaeology, Sussex
  • Bennie Carlton Keel (born 1934) American; Southeastern archaeology, Public Archaeology, Cherokee archaeology
  • Alice Beck Kehoe (born 1934) American; North America: early contact
  • Eduard von Kallee (1818–1888) German; Germany: found 4 Roman castra on the Limes Germanicus
  • Richard Kallee (1854–1933) German; studied 102 Alemannic tombs
  • J. Charles Kelley (1913–1997) American; north-west Mexico
  • Arthur Randolph Kelly (1900–1979) American; Southeastern USA
  • Robert Laurens Kelly (born 1957) American; Western USA
  • David L. Kennedy (born 1948) British and Australian; Roman Near East
  • Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (born 1952) American; Indus Valley Civilization
  • Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho)
  • Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica
  • T. R. Kidder (born 1960) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States
  • Keith Kintigh (born 19??) American; quantitative archaeology, Southwestern archaeology
  • Kristian Kristiansen (born 1948) Danish; Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies, archaeological theory
  • Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea
  • Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) German; Egyptian hieroglyphics ("the father of Egyptology")
  • Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe)
  • Amos Kloner (1940–2019) Israeli; Talpiot Tomb (Israel), Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology
  • Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet (1886–1953) English; anthropology and prehistory
  • Alice Kober (1906–1950) American; Linear B
  • Robert Koldewey (1855–1925) German; Near East (Babylon)
  • Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia (Troy)
  • Paul Kosok (1896–1959) American; Nazca geoglyphs
  • Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931) German; Germany (Neolithic, Aryan concept)
  • Hamit Zübeyir Koşay (1897–1984) Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia
  • Raiko Krauss (born 1973) German; prehistory
  • Pasko Kuzman (born 1947) Macedonian; Ohrid, North Macedonia

L[]

  • Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967) British; classical archaeology
  • Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans
  • Nancy Lapp (born 1930) American; Near Eastern archaeology, biblical archaeology
  • Pierre Henri Larcher (1726–1812) French; classical archaeology
  • Donald Lathrap (1927–1990) American; South America, U.S. Mid-West
  • Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902–2001) French; Egypt
  • Bo Lawergren (born 19??) American?; music archaeology; Mesopotamia
  • T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East
  • Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud)
  • Estelle Lazer[23] (born 19??) Australian; human skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii[23]
  • Foss Leach (born 1942) New Zealand; New Zealand
  • Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
  • Mary Leakey (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
  • Richard Leakey (born 1944) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
  • Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955) British; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 1928–1945
  • Charles Lenormant (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
  • François Lenormant (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist
  • Mark P. Leone (born 1940) American; theory, historical archaeology
  • Dana Lepofsky (born 1958) Canadian; paleoethnobotany, Northwest Coast
  • 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 1963) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
  • Jodie Lewis (born 19??) prehistoric archaeology
  • Madeline Kneberg Lewis (1901–1996) American; typologist, Illustrator.
  • Mary Lewis (born 19??) British; bioarchaeologist
  • David Lewis-Williams (born 1934) South African;cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art
  • Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain
  • Li Feng (born 1962) Chinese/American; early China
  • Li Ji (Li Chi, 1896–1979) Chinese; Yinxu and Yangshao culture
  • Li Xueqin (1933–2019) Chinese; early China
  • Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history
  • Li Liu (born 1953) Chinese/American; neolithic and Bronze Age China
  • Gary Lock (born 19??) British; computational archaeology, European prehistory
  • Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery
  • Helen Loney (born 19??) prehistoric archaeology and pottery studies
  • (1937–2015) American; ethnoarchaeology[24]
  • Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892–1965) American; Central and South America and the Caribbean
  • Victor Loret (1859–1946) French; Egypt
  • Harry Lourandos (born 1945) Australian; hunter-gatherer intensification
  • Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist
  • Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France
  • Cajsa S. Lund (sv) (born 1940) Swedish; music archaeology [25]
  • Albert Lythgoe (1868–1934) American; Egyptologist and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art[26]

M[]

  • Ma Chengyuan (1927–2004) Chinese; authority on ancient Chinese bronzes
  • Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
  • Burton MacDonald (born 1939) Canadian; biblical archaeology
  • 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
  • Mai Yinghao (1929–2016) Chinese; archaeology of the Nanyue kingdom in Guangzhou
  • Aren Maeir (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
  • Yousef Majidzadeh (born 1938) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran)
  • Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (born 1940) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran)
  • James Patrick Mallory (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
  • Max Mallowan (1904–1978) British; Middle East
  • John Manley (born 1952) British; Roman Britain
  • Joyce Marcus (born 19??) American; Latin America
  • Auguste-Édouard Mariette (1821–1881) French; Egypt
  • Spyridon Marinatos (1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans
  • Alexander Marshack (1918–2004) American; Paleolithic era
  • Fiona Marshall (born 19??) American;zooarchaeology and ethnoarchaeology
  • James A. Marshall (died 2006) American; eastern North American earthworks[27]
  • John Hubert Marshall (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila, Crete
  • Pamela Marshall (born 19??) buildings archaeologist and castellologist
  • Marjan Mashkour (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology of Europe and Middle East
  • J. Alden Mason (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology
  • (born 1929) Upper Great Lakes[28]
  • Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) French; Egypt
  • Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967) Danish; Arctic region
  • Peter Mathews(born 1951) Australian; Maya hieroglyphs
  • Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931) British; Mayans
  • Valerie Maxfield (born 19??) Roman archaeology
  • Sally Kate May (born 19??) Australian; indigenous rock art
  • Amihai Mazar (born 1942) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
  • Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
  • Eilat Mazar (1956–2021) Israeli; Jerusalem, Phoenicians
  • Gaby Mazor (born 1944) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli)
  • August Mau (1840–1909) German; Pompeii
  • Sally McBrearty (born 19??) American; Palaeolithic archaeology
  • Isabel McBryde (born 1934) Australian; "Mother of Australian Archaeology," axe sourcing studies[29]
  • Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
  • Fred McCarthy[30] (1905–1997) Australian; Australia's Aborigines[31]
  • Aleksandra McClain (born 19??) medieval and church archaeology
  • Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic
  • Betty Meehan (born 1933) Australian; Maningrida, Australia
  • Vincent Megaw (born 1934) Australian;[32] Early Celtic Art in Britain [33]
  • Betty Meggers (1921–2012) American; South America
  • James Mellaart (1925–2012) British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük
  • Paul Mellars (born 1939) British?; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
  • Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian [born in Rome]; lithics
  • Roger Mercer (1944–2018) British; Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles
  • Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) French; French monuments
  • Kazimierz Michałowski (1901-1981) Polish; Mediterranean archaeology
  • Jerald T. Milanich (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida)
  • Walter Minchinton (1921–1996) British; industrial archaeology
  • Sir Ellis Minns (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe
  • Oscar Montelius (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia)
  • Pierre Montet (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis)
  • Harri Moora (1900–1968) Estonian; Iron Age Baltics [34]
  • Andrew M.T. Moore (born 19??) English; neolithic, Middle East
  • Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852–1936) American; southern United States
  • Warren K. Moorehead (1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States
  • Robert Morkot (born 1957) Egyptology
  • Mike Morwood (1950–2013) Australian; Homo floresiensis
  • Sylvanus G. Morley (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
  • Ann Axtell Morris (1900–1945) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico
  • Earl H. Morris (1889-1956) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico
  • Dan Morse (born 1935) American; Central Mississippi Valley
  • Phyllis Morse (Anderson) (born 1934) American; Central Mississippi Valley
  • John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) English; England (barrows)
  • Sabatino Moscati (1922–1997) Italian; Phoenicians
  • Amini Aza Mturi Tanzanian; Palaeolithic archaeology
  • Keith Muckelroy (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology
  • David Mullin (b. 19??) prehistoric archaeology
  • John Mulvaney (1925–2016) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
  • Ken Mulvaney (born 19??) Australian;[35] Aboriginal engagement, Burrup Peninsula rock art
  • Stephen Munro (born 19??) Australian; engraved fossil shell from Java[36]
  • Margaret Murray (1863–1963) Anglo-Indian; Egyptologist
  • Tim Murray (born 1955) Australian; history of archaeology

N[]

  • Maysoon al-Nahar (born 19??) Jordanian; Palaeoarchaeology of the Southern Levant
  • Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975) American; Greece
  • Alma Mekondjo Nankela (born 19??) Namibian; Namibia, rock art
  • Ezzat Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran
  • Sarah Milledge Nelson (1931–2020) American; Korea, Hongshan (China), gender
  • Ion Nestor (1905–1974) Romanian; Balkans (Sirmium)
  • Ehud Netzer (1934–2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture)
  • Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) British; Classical archaeology
  • Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor (1900–1968) Romania; Romanian prehistory
  • Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913–2011) French; Egypt (Nubian temples)
  • Francisco Nocete (born 1961) Spanish; Spain
  • Ivor Noël Hume (1927–2017) British; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology

O[]

  • Hugh O'Neill Hencken (1902–1981) American; Iron Age Europe
  • Kenneth Oakley (1911–1981) English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax
  • Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806) Alsatian; Biblical archaeology, philology
  • Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895) Romanian; history of archaeology
  • Neil Oliver (born 1967) Scottish; popularizer and television presenter: northern Europe
  • Katsuhiko Ohnuma (born 1944) Japanese, Lithic expert, flintknapper, prehistorian, (Syria, Iraq, Iran)
  • Bjørnar Olsen (born 1958) 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
  • Jocelyn Orchard (1936–2019) British Trinidadian; Near Eastern archaeology, Oman
  • Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) Turkish; Assyria

P[]

  • Bertha Parker (1907–1978) Abenaki, Seneca; Southwest US archaeology and ethnology
  • André Parrot (1901–1980) French; ancient Near East
  • Timothy Pauketat (born 19??) American; Mississippian culture
  • Vasile Pârvan (1882–1927) Romanian; classical archaeology (Hitria)
  • Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths)
  • Mike Parker Pearson (born 1957) English; Neolithic British Isles, archaeology of death and burial
  • Richard J. Pearson (born 1938) Canadian; Pacific
  • William Pengelly (1812–1894) British; England, paleolithic
  • Francis Penrose (1817–1903), British; classical
  • Peter N. Peregrine (born 1963) American; Mississippian culture, cross-cultural studies
  • Gregory Perino (1914–2005) American; Woodland, and Mississippian cultures in Illinois and Oklahoma
  • William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology
  • Stewart Perowne (1901–1989) British; Imadia and Beihan
  • Alejandro Peschard Fernández (born 19??) Mexican; Meso-America
  • Philip Phillips (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States
  • (1897–1966) Russian; Egypt[37]
  • Stuart Piggott (1910–1996) British; neolithic, Europe (especially Britain)
  • John Pinkerton (1758–1826) Scottish; theory of Gothic superiority, Scottish proto-history
  • Dolores Piperno (born 1949) American; archaeobotany, maize, Panama
  • Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900) British; Britain (especially Dorset), method
  • Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete
  • Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908) British-American; photographer and antiquarian specializing in Pre-Columbian high cultures
  • Aleks Pluskowski (born 19??) environmental archaeology; medieval Europe
  • Natalia Polosmak (born 1956) Russian; Siberia: Altay: Pazyryk culture
  • Cristian Popa (born 19??) Romanian; Coţofeni culture
  • Rachel Pope (born 19??) British; Iron Age Europe
  • Reginald Stuart Poole (1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics)
  • Gregory Possehl (1941–2011) American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization
  • Timothy W. Potter (1944–2000), British; Classical archaeology
  • Timothy Potts (born 1958) Australian; Middle East and Mediterranean
  • Gary Presland (born 19??) Australian; Aboriginal landscapes in Victoria[38]
  • Francis Pryor (born 1945) British; Bronze (Flag Fen, England) and Iron Ages
  • Senarath Paranavithana (1896–1972) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka

Q[]

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

R[]

  • Wulf Raeck (born 1950) German; classical archaeology, Pergamon, Greek barbarian portrayals
  • Philip Rahtz (1921–2011) British; United Kingdom
  • José Ramos Muñoz (born 19??) Spanish; Europe, northern Africa
  • Sir Andrew Ramsay (1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy
  • Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) Scottish; Asia Minor and New Testament
  • Don Ranson (born 19??) Australian; Tasmanian prehistory Kutikina Cave
  • Claude Rapin (born 19??) French?; Central Asia
  • Charles Rau (1826-1887) American; curator at the Smithsonian
  • Katharina C. Rebay (born 1977) Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender
  • William Rathje (1945–2012) 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
  • Marion Rawson (1899–1980) American; classical archaeology
  • Shahrokh Razmjou (born 19??) Iranian; Achaemenid Archaeology
  • Ronny Reich (born 1947) Israeli; Jerusalem
  • Colin Renfrew (born 1937) English; history of language, archaeogenetics
  • Caspar Reuvens (1793–1835) Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands
  • Andrew Reynolds (born 19??) English; Medieval archaeology
  • Julian C. Richards (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer
  • Julian D. Richards (born 19??), British; Anglo-Saxons, Viking Age
  • Emil Ritterling (1861–1928) German; archaeology
  • Anne Strachan Robertson (1910–1997) Scottish; Numismatics
  • Derek Roe (1937–2014) British; paleolithic
  • Wil Roebroeks (born 1955) Dutch; The Netherlands
  • Malcolm J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California
  • John Romer (born 1941) British; Egypt, popularizer
  • Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952) Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia
  • Irving Rouse (1913–2006) American; Caribbean and migration
  • Katherine Routledge (1866–1935) British; Easter Island
  • Valentine Roux (born 1956) French; ceramic production in the Levant
  • Peter Rowley-Conwy (born 1951) Danish? Welsh?; environmental archaeology
  • Adrian Andrei Rusu (born 1951) Romanian; Medieval archaeology, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca
  • Simon Rutar (1851–1903) Slovenian; Slovenia
  • Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (1906–1979) Mexican; Pre-Columbian Meso-America
  • Donald P. Ryan (born 1957) American; Egypt (Valley of the Kings)

S[]

  • Saad Abbas Ismail (born 1980) Kurdish; International archaeologist, Syria
  • Antonio Sagona (1956–2017); Australian; Near East, Caucasus
  • Sharada Srinivasan (born 1966) Indian; archaeometallurgy, India
  • Roderick Salisbury (born 1967) American?; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe (Neolithic)
  • Viktor Sarianidi (1929–2013) Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia
  • Otto Schaden (1937–2015) American; Egypt
  • Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) French; Ugarit
  • Michael Brian Schiffer (born 1947) American (born in Canada); behavioural archaeology, method and theory
  • Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn
  • Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790–1836) Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man
  • Klaus Schmidt (1953–2014) German; Göbekli Tepe, Turkey
  • (born 1946) French; Classical archaeology: iconography of Greek vases [39]
  • Carmel Schrire (born 1941) Australian; Australia, South Africa
  • Francesco Scipone (1675–1755) Italian; Etruscans
  • Mercy Seiradaki (1910–1993) English; Knossos
  • Ovid R. Sellers (1884–1975) American; Biblical Old Testament
  • Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt (1730–1814) French; ancient monumental art
  • Veronica Seton-Williams (1910–1992) Australian; Egyptology and prehistory, Near East
  • Thomas Sever (born 19??) American?; NASA’s only archaeologist, Maya, South America
  • Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (1942–2006) Iranian; Iran
  • Michael Shanks (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory
  • Thurstan Shaw (1914–2013) English; Africa (especially Nigeria)
  • Anna Shepard (1903–1971) American; ceramic analysis
  • Alison Sheridan (19??) British; Bronze and Neolithic ages
  • Andrew Sherratt (1946–2006) English; prehistory
  • Susan Sherratt (born 1949) U.K. citizenship; Mediterranean archaeology
  • Yoko Shindo (1960–2018), Japanese; Islamic glass
  • Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea
  • Elizabeth Simpson (born 1947) American; Ancient Near East, Anatolia
  • Frederic Slater (c. 1880–1947) Australian; Aboriginal place names
  • Claire Smith (born 1957) Australian; Indigenous archaeology, rock art[40]
  • Grafton Elliot Smith, Australian; 15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937; (anatomist) hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory
  • William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar
  • Stanley South (1928–2016) American; historical archaeology
  • Janet D. Spector (1944–2011) American; North America
  • Sarah Speight (born 19??) British; castle studies and medieval archaeology
  • E. Lee Spence (born 1947) American; marine archaeology
  • Dirk HR Spennemann (born 19??) Australian; futures studies [41] Charles Sturt University[42]
  • Victor Spinei (born 1943) Romanian; medieval cult objects
  • Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842–1915) English; prehistoric England, Egypt
  • Frederick Spurrell (1824–1902), Rev. English; English archaeology (Essex and Sussex)
  • Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) British; Ashkelon
  • Julie K. Stein, (born 19??) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites
  • Eunice Stebbens (1893–1992) American; Roman coins
  • Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) Hungarian; Central Asia
  • Hans-Georg Stephan (born 1950) German; Medievalist, post-Medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, oven tiles
  • Marion Stirling Pugh (1911–2001) American; Mesopotamian archaeology
  • James B. Stoltman (1935–2019) American; ceramic analysis, Great Lakes (North America)
  • James R. Stewart (1913–1962) Australian; Cyprus and the Ancient Near East
  • Eugene Stockton (born 1934) Australian; Middle East, Australia
  • (1935–2014) American; Mayan archaeology[43]
  • William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics
  • Su Bai (1922–2018) Chinese; Chinese Buddhism, grottoes
  • Su Bingqi (1909–1997) Chinese; ancient China
  • Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953) Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls
  • Sharon Sullivan, Australian heritage conservation[44]
  • Pál Sümegi (born 1960) Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary
  • Naomi Sykes (born 19??) zooarchaeology
  • Jadwiga Szeptycka (1883–1939), Polish archeologist

T[]

  • (born 19??) Japanese; Korea[45]
  • Zemaryalai Tarzi (born 1939) Afghan; Afghanistan
  • Joan du Plat Taylor (1906–1983) Scottish; maritime archaeology, Cyprus
  • Joan J. Taylor (1940–2019) American; British prehistory
  • Walter Willard Taylor, Jr. (1913–1997) American; theory, Coahuila (Mexico)
  • Julio C. Tello (1880–1947) Peruvian; Peru
  • Alexander Thom (1894–1985) Scottish; engineer, Stonehenge
  • Charles Thomas (1928–2016) Cornish studies
  • David Hurst Thomas (born 1945), American; Spanish Borderlands, repatriation
  • Julian Thomas (born 1959) British; north-west European Neolithic and Bronze Age
  • John Arthur Thompson, Australian; 1913–2002[46] University of Queensland, University of Melbourne University of Cambridge; Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist
  • J. Eric S. Thompson (1898–1975) English; Maya
  • Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865) Danish; originator of the Three-Age System
  • Alan Thorne (1939–2012) Australian; University of Sydney, Australian National University; Aboriginal Australian origins and the human genome Lake Mungo, Kow Swamp
  • Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963) Swedish; Viking Age, Nordic Middle Ages
  • Christopher Tilley (born 19??) British; theory, Britain
  • Norman Tindale (12 October 1900 – 19 November 1993) Australian; University of Adelaide; mapping Australian tribes
  • Tong Enzheng (1935–1997) Chinese; China
  • Malcolm Todd (1939–2013) British; classical archaeology
  • Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877–1954) American; Mesoamerica (Maya)
  • Arthur Dale Trendall (28 March 1909 – 13 November 1995) Australian; University of Sydney, Australian National University; Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia
  • John C. Trever (1916–2006) American; Biblical archaeologist
  • Bruce Trigger (1937–2006) Canadian; McGill University; archaeological theory, comparative civilizations, Huronia, Nubia, Egyptology
  • Olena Vasylivna Tsvek (1931–2020) Ukrainian; Trypillia culture
  • James Tuck (1940-2019) American; eastern Canadian historical archaeology
  • Ronald F. Tylecote (1916–1990) British; founder of archaeometallurgy
  • Grigore Tocilescu (1850–1909)
  • (1933–2015) Bulgarian; Neolithic [47]
  • Vassilios Tzaferis (1936–2015) Greek–Israeli; biblical archaeology, Byzantine monasticism

U[]

  • Peter Ucko (1938–2007) British; Paleolithic art; archaeological politics
  • Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936) Italian; Albania
  • Gary Urton (born 1948) American; Andes
  • David Ussishkin (born 1935) Israeli; Lachish, Jezreel Valley and Megiddo

V[]

  • Heiki Valk (born 1959) Estonian; Medieval Estonia
  • Ron Vanderwal (born 1938), Australian; Melbourne Museum, La Trobe University; Torres Strait, New Guinea[48]
  • Parviz Varjavand (1934–2007)
  • William Jones Varley (died 1976) British; English Iron Age hill forts
  • Roland de Vaux (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls
  • Marius Vazeilles (1881–1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology
  • (1957–2005) Australian;[49] Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia; Bruce Veitch Award[50]
  • Alan Vince (1952–2009) British; British ceramics
  • Zdenko Vinski (1913–1996) Croatian; Croatia
  • Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art
  • Alexandru Vulpe (1931–2016)

W[]

  • Marc Waelkens (born 1948) Belgian; Turkish archaeology
  • Tony Waldron (died 2021) British; palaeopathologist and palaeoepidemiologist
  • Alice Leslie Walker (1885–1954) American, classical archaeologist
  • Lynley A. Wallis (born 19??) Australian; Indigenous and historical archaeology
  • Wang Zhongshu (1925–2015) Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology
  • (born 1943) Australian; Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art[51]
  • John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912–1981) British; architectural history
  • Charles Warren (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
  • Helen Waterhouse (1913–1999), British; classical archaeology
  • William Thompson Watkin (1836–1888), British; Roman Britain
  • Trevor Watkins (born 19??) British; Near Eastern archaeology
  • Patty Jo Watson (born 1932) American; North American archaeology
  • Clarence H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory
  • Robert Wauchope (1909–1979) American; Maya, south-eastern U.S.
  • Waldo Wedel (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory
  • Fred Wendorf (1924–2015) archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
  • Josef W. Wegner (born 1967) American; Egyptology
  • Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
  • Boyd Wettlaufer (1914–2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
  • Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) British; method, South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England)
  • Tessa Verney Wheeler (1893–1936) British; method, British archaeology, co-ounder of Institute of Archaeology
  • Joyce White (born 19??) American; prehistoric Southeast Asia
  • Elizabeth Augustus Whitehead (1928–1983) American; classical archaeology
  • John C. Whittaker (born 1953) American; experimental archaeology, Palaeolithic
  • Alasdair Whittle (born 1949) European Neolithic
  • Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography
  • Malcolm H. Wiener (born 1935) American; Aegeanist, Prehistorian, President of INSTAP
  • (1940–2021) Dutch; archaeozoology[52]
  • Gordon Willey (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory
  • Stephen Williams (1926-2017) American; North America
  • Hugh Willmott (born 1972) British; Middle Ages and monastic archaeology
  • Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world
  • Bryant G. Wood (born 1936) American; Palestine
  • Peter Woodman (1943–2017), Irish; Irish Mesolithic
  • Leonard Woolley (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia
  • Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
  • (1924–2014) [53] Australian; Middle East
  • Wolfgang W. Wurster (1937–2003) German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador
  • Alison Wylie (born 1954) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
  • John Wymer (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic

X[]

  • Xia Nai (1910–1985) Chinese; China
  • Xu Xusheng (1888–1976) Chinese; discoverer of the Erlitou culture

Y[]

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

Z[]

  • Inger Zachrisson (born 1936); Swedish; Sami people since the Iron Age
  • Louise Zarmati (born 1958) Australian; Archaeology in school curricula; women in archaeology; Australia, Crete, Cyprus[54][55]
  • Robert N. Zeitlin (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies
  • Zhao Kangmin (1936–2018) Chinese; discoverer of the Terracotta Army
  • Zheng Zhenduo (1898–1958) Chinese; China
  • Zheng Zhenxiang (born 1929) Chinese; discoverer of the Tomb of Fu Hao
  • Irit Ziffer (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art
  • Andreas Zimmermann (born 1969) German; quantitative methods
  • Ezra B. W. Zubrow (born 1945) American; theory, GIS, demography, ecology, Circumpolar
  • R. Tom Zuidema (1927–2016) Dutch or American?; Incas
  • Vladas Žulkus (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology)
  • Marek Zvelebil (1952–2011) Czech; European stone age

See also[]

External links[]

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