List of archaeologists
This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise archaeology, the study of the human past through material remains.
A
- Kamyar Abdi Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age
- Aziz Ab'Saber Brazilian; Brazil
- Johann Michael Ackner Transylvanian; Roman Dacia
- Dinu Adameșteanu Romanian-Italian; aerial photography and survey of sites
- James M. Adovasio U.S.; New World and perishable technologies
- Anagnostis Agelarakis Greek; archaeological and physical anthropology
- Yohanan Aharoni Israeli; Israel Bronze Age
- Ekrem Akurgal Turkish; Anatolia
- Jorge de Alarcão Portuguese; Roman Portugal
- William F. Albright U.S.; Orientalist
- Leslie Alcock English; Dark Age Britain
- Susan E. Alcock American; Roman provinces
- Miranda Aldhouse-Green British; British Iron Age and Romano-Celtic
- Abbas Alizadeh Iranian; Iran
- Jim Allen, Australian; Australia, South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita, Polynesian
- Sedat Alp Turkish; Hittitology
- Ruth Amiran Israeli; Tel Arad
- David G. Anderson U.S.; eastern North America
- Manolis Andronicos Greek; Greece
- Remzi Oğuz Arık Turkish; early Bronze Age Anatolia
- Mikhail Artamonov Russian/Soviet; Khazar
- Khaled al-Asaad Syrian; Palmyra
- Mick Aston English; popularizer
- Richard J. C. Atkinson English; England
- Val Attenbrow Australian; Aboriginal stone tools, archaeology of aboriginal Sydney
- Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau French; Black Death/bubonic plague
- Anthony Aveni U.S.; archaeoastronomy
- Nahman Avigad Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada
- Massoud Azarnoush Iranian; Sassanid archaeology
B
- Churchill Babington English; classical archaeology
- Paul Bahn English; prehistoric art, Easter Island
- Geoff Bailey English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
- Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier American; American South-West, Mexico
- Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture
- Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli Italian; Estruscans & art
- Luisa Banti Italian; Etruscology
- Taha Baqir Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
- Pessah Bar-Adon Israeli; Israel
- Diane Barwick Australian; Aboriginal culture and society
- Gabriel Barkay Israeli; Israel
- Philip Barker British; excavation methods, historic England
- Ofer Bar-Yosef Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites
- Thomas Bateman English; England
- Leopoldo Batres Mexican; Meso-America
- Gertrude Bell English; adventurer and Middle Eastern archaeologist, formed the Baghdad Archaeological Museum
- Peter Bellwood Australian; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments | interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni Italian/Venetian; Egypt
- Anna Belfer-Cohen ; Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant
- Erez Ben-Yosef ; Israeli; archaeometallurgist;
- Crystal Bennett British; Jordan
- James Theodore Bent British; twenty years of researches in the E. Med, Africa, and Arabia.
- Dumitru Berciu Romanian; South-Eastern and Central Europe, Geto-Dacians, Thracians and Celts
- Lee Berger U.S.; paleo-anthropology
- Gerhard Bersu German; Europe
- Charles Ernest Beule French; Greece
- Paolo Biagi Italian; Eurasian Mesolithic and Neolithic, Pakistan prehistory
- Geoffrey Bibby British; Arabia
- Penny Bickle British; bioarchaeology, Neolithic
- Clarence Bicknell British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles, France
- Martin Biddle British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain
- Manfred Bietak Austrian; Egypt
- Fereidoun Biglari Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
- Lewis Binford American; U.S., France, theory
- Hiram Bingham U.S.; discovered Machu Picchu
- Flavio Biondo Italian; Rome
- Avraham Biran Israeli; Near East
- Judy Birmingham Australian; historical archaeology in Australia, Irrawang pottery, Tasmania
- Glenn Albert Black U.S.; US Mid-West
- Carl Blegen U.S.; Troy
- Elizabeth Blegen U.S.; Greece, educator
- Frederick Jones Bliss U.S.; Palestine
- Bayar Dovdoi Mongolian; Mongolia
- Jean Boisselier French; Khmer, Southeast Asia
- Larissa Bonfante U.S.; Etruscans
- Giacomo Boni Italian; Roman architecture
- François Bordes French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
- Stephen Borhegyi U.S.; Meso-America
- Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes French; France
- Stephen Bourke, Australian; Pella
- Jole Bovio Marconi Italian; Neolithic Sicily
- Sandra Bowdler Australian; Australian Indigenous archaeology, pre-neolithic East and Southeast Asia
- Harriet Boyd Hawes American; Greece & Crete; Minoan
- Richard Bradley British; prehistoric Europe
- Linda Schreiber Braidwood U.S.; Near East
- Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg French; Meso-America
- James Henry Breasted U.S.; Egypt
- Adela Breton British; Mexico
- Eric Breuer Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
- Jacques Breuer Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
- Robert Brier U.S.; Egypt paleopathology
- Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
- Srečko Brodar Slovene; Upper Paleolithic
- Mary Brodrick English; Egyptology
- Myrtle Florence Broome English; Egyptology, illustrator
- Don Brothwell British; paleopathology
- Elizabeth Brumfiel U.S.; Mesoamerica
- Caitlin E. Buck British; statistics, radiocarbon dating.
- Hallie Buckley New Zealand; bioarchaeology
- Heather Burke Australian; historical archaeology, field methods
- Aubrey Burl British; British megalithic monuments
- Les Bursill Australian; Dharawal people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra
- Karl Butzer U.S.; environmental archaeology
C
- Errett Callahan American; experimental archaeology
- Frank Calvert English; Troy
- Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell American; California
- Scott Cane Australian; Australia, desert people of Australia
- Luigi Canina Italian; Italy
- Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino Romanian; Romania
- Bob Carr American; Florida historic Indians
- Martin Carver British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo
- Howard Carter English; Egypt
- Alfonso Caso Mexican; Mexico
- C. W. Ceram German; popularizer
- Dilip Chakrabarti Indian?; South Asia
- John Leland Champe American?; archaeology of the Great Plains
- Jean-François Champollion French; Egypt
- Kwang-chih Chang Chinese/Taiwanese; China
- Doris Emerson Chapman British; prehistory
- Arlen F Chase American?; Mesoamerica
- Diane Zaino Chase American; Mesoamerica
- George Henry Chase American; Heraion of Argos
- Alfredo Chavero Mexican; Mexico
- Chen Mengjia Chinese; China
- Chen Tiemei Chinese; scientific archaeology and radiocarbon dating
- John F. Cherry Welsh; Aegean prehistory
- Vere Gordon Childe Australian; Europe / neolithic
- Choi Mong-lyong Korean; Korea
- Neil Christie British; Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Leopoldo Cicognara Italian; Italy
- Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Turkish; Sumerology
- John Desmond Clark English; Africa
- Grahame Clark British; Mesolith and economy
- Bob Clarke English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
- David Clarke English; theory
- Stephen Clarke Welsh; Wales
- Albert Tobias Clay American; Assyriology
- John Clegg Australian; rock art
- Eric H. Cline American?; Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
- Margaret Clunies Ross Australian; Old Norse-Icelandic studies, Australian Aborigines
- Fay-Cooper Cole American; U.S. Mid-West
- Bryony Coles British; prehistoric archaeology, wetland archaeology, Somerset Levels, Doggerland
- John Coles British; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age, experimental archaeology
- Donald Collier American; Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology
- John Collis English; Iron Age Europe
- Dominique Collon Belgian; cylinder seals of the Near East
- Sir Richard Colt Hoare English, England
- Margaret Conkey American; Upper Paleolithic France
- Robin Coningham British; South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics
- Diane Atnally Conlin American; Roman art and architecture
- Niculae Conovici Romanian; Romania, amphorae
- Graham Connah South Africa; historical archaeology
- Gudrun Corvinus German; India/Nepal/Africa
- Peter Coutts Australian; historical archaeology
- George Cowgill American; Mesoamerica
- O.G.S. Crawford English; aerial archaeology
- Roger Cribb Australian; Turkish Kurds and Australian Aborigines
- Ion Horaţiu Crişan Romanian; Geto-Dacians and Celts
- William Culican Australian; Middle East, Australian historical archaeology
- Joseph George Cumming English; Isle of Man
- Barry Cunliffe British; Iron Age Europe, Celts
- Ben Cunnington English; prehistoric England
- Maud Cunnington Welsh; prehistoric Britain
- William Cunnington English; prehistoric Britain
- James Curle Scottish; Roman Scotland, Gotland
- Florin Curta American; Eastern Europe
- Ernst Curtius German; Greece
- Clive Eric Cussler American; underwater archaeology
D
- Bruno Dagens French; Khmer and India
- Constantin Daicoviciu Romanian; Romania
- George F. Dales American; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
- Ahmad Hasan Dani Pakistani; South Asian archaeology
- Glyn Daniel Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology
- Ken Dark British; Roman Europe
- Raymond Dart Australian; paleoanthropology: Australopithecus africanus
- Theodore M. Davis American; Egypt
- William Boyd Dawkins British; antiquity of man
- Touraj Daryaee Iranian; ancient Persia
- Janette Deacon South African; rock art, heritage management
- Hilary Deacon South African; African; antiquity of man
- Corinne Debaine-Francfort French; Eastern Central Asian and protohistoric China
- James Deetz American; Historical Archaeology
- Warren DeBoer American; North and South America, ethnoarchaeology; ceramics
- James P. Delgado American; maritime archaeologist
- Robin Dennell British; prehistoric archaeologist
- Donald Brian Doe British; Arabia
- Louis Felicien de Saulcy French; Holy Land
- Jules Desnoyers French; antiquity of man
- Rúaidhrí de Valera Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland
- Dragotin Dežman Slovenian; Ljubljana Marshes, Iron Age in Lower Carniola
- Adolphe Napoleon Didron French; Medievalist, Christian iconography
- Tom D. Dillehay American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas
- Kelly Dixon American; historical archaeology of the American West
- Brian Dobson British; Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Army
- Dong Zuobin Chinese/Taiwanese; oracle bones, Yinxu
- Wilhelm Dörpfeld German; Greece
- Trude Dothan Austrian; Israel
- Hans Dragendorff German; Roman ceramics
- Hilary du Cros Australian; history of Australian archaeology
- Duan Qingbo Chinese; Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
- Robert Dunnell American; theory, U.S. Mid-West
- Louis Dupree American; Afghanistan
- E. C. L. During Caspers Dutch; Prehistoric Mesopotamia, South Asian, and Persian Gulf
- Angela von den Driesch German; zooarchaeology
- Robert H. Dyson American; Near Eastern archaeology
E
- Elizabeth Eames British; specialist in English medieval tiles
- Amelia Edwards British; Egypt
- Ricardo Eichmann German; Near Eastern archaeology
- Kenan Erim Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia
- Ufuk Esin Turkish; prehistoric Anatolia, archaeometry
- Roland Étienne French; ancient Greece and Hellenistic period
- Sir Arthur Evans British; Aegean archaeology
- Sir John Evans English; British archaeology
F
- Georg Fabricius, German; Roman epigraphy
- Brian M. Fagan generalist, popularist, history of archaeology
- Panagiotis Faklaris Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina
- Fan Jinshi Chinese; Dunhuang
- Rev. Bryan Faussett English; Anglo-Saxon Kent
- Carlo Fea Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law
- Gary M. Feinman American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca
- Sir Charles Fellows British; Asia Minor
- Karl Ludwig Fernow German; Roman archaeology
- J. Walter Fewkes American; south-west USA *
- Irving Finkel British; cuneiform tablets
- Israel Finkelstein Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo
- George R. Fischer American; underwater archaeology
- Peter M. Fischer Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East
- Cleo Rickman Fitch American; Roman archaeology
- William W. Fitzhugh American; circumpolar archaeology
- Kent Flannery American; Mesoamerica
- Josephine Flood Australian; Aboriginal prehistory of the Australia Cloggs Cave
- Adam Ford Australian; Institute of Archaeology, University College London; Who's Been Sleeping in My House?
- James A. Ford American; Southeastern United States
- Sally Foster Scottish; Medieval Scotland
- Alfred Foucher French; Afghanistan
- Cyril Fox English; Wales
- William Flinders Petrie English; Egyptology, methodology
- David Frankel Australian; Cypress, Syria; Koongine Cave, Australia
- Barry L. Frankhauser Australian; archaeometry, residue analysis, Maori earth ovens, sourcing Australian ochres
- George Frison American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools, pale-oarchaeology
- Gayle J. Fritz American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America
- Honor Frost British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors
G
- Christopher Gaffney British; geophysics
- Vincent Gaffney British; landscape archaeology
- Lamia Al-Gailani Werr Iraqi; Mesopotamian archaeology
- Antoine Galland French; numismatics, Middle East
- Thomas Gann Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya
- Sandor Gallus Australian; Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation Koonalda Cave South Australia Dry Creek archaeological site Keilor
- Jean-Claude Gardin French; Bactria, theory in archaeology
- Percy Gardner English; classical archaeology
- Dorothy Garrod British; paleolithic
- Yosef Garfinkel Israeli; Israel
- John Garstang British; Anatolia, Southern Levant
- Jillian Garvey Australian; Quaternary Australian Indigenous Archaeology
- William Gell English; Classical archaeology
- Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard German; Rome
- John Wesley Gilbert first African-American archaeologist; Classical
- Marija Gimbutas Lithuanian-American; Neolithic & Bronze Age
- Pere Bosch-Gimpera Spanish-Mexican; prehistoric Spain
- Einar Gjerstad Swedish; Cyprus and Rome
- John Mann Goggin American; typology, colonial Caribbean
- Albert Glock American; Palestinian archaeology
- Franck Goddio French; underwater archaeology
- Lynne Goldstein American; prehistoric eastern North America, mortuary
- Jack Golson Australian; Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia Savai'i island, Samoa
- Albert Goodyear American; Paleo-Indians
- Alice Gorman Australian; Space archaeology, contemporary archaeology, Indigenous Australian archaeology, stone tools, orbital debris, space as a cultural landscape
- Ian Graham British; Mayans
- Boris Grakov Soviet/Russian; Scythians and Sarmatians
- Kevin Greene British; classical archaeology
- J. Patrick Greene British; Medieval England
- Canon William Greenwell British; neolithic England
- Alan Greaves British; Turkey
- James Bennett Griffin American; prehistoric eastern North America
- W. F. Grimes Welsh; London
- Klaus Grote German; Lower Saxony
- Nikolai Grube German; Mayan epigraphy
- Raimondo Guarini Italian; Classical
- Prishantha Gunawardena Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
- Guo Moruo Chinese; China
- Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden Swedish; Classical
H
- Robert Hall American; U.S. Mid-West
- Osman Hamdi Bey Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon
- Robert Hamilton British; Near Eastern archaeology
- Norman Hammond British; Afghanistan, Maya
- Richard D. Hansen American; Meso-America
- Phil Harding British; Britain, flint-knapping
- J.C. "Pinky" Harrington American; U.S. historical archaeology
- James Penrose Harland American; Aegean
- Emil Haury American; Southwestern United States
- Zahi Hawass Egyptian; Egypt
- Christopher Hawkes English; European archaeology
- Jacquetta Hawkes English; prehistory of England, Europe, Minoa
- Robert Heizer American; California
- Hans Helbæk Danish; palaeobotany
- John Basil Hennessy Australian; Near East
- Edgar Lee Hewett American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law
- Christian Gottlob Heyne Saxon-German; classics
- Eric Higgs English; economic archaeology
- Bert Hodge Hill American; classical archaeology
- Thomas Higham, New Zealand; radiocarbon dating
- Ida Hill American; classical archaeology
- Peter Hinton British; England
- Yizhar Hirschfeld Israeli; Israel
- Peter Hiscock Australian; ancient technology
- Ian Hodder English; theory
- Birgitta Hoffmann ; Gask Ridge
- Michael A. Hoffman American; Egyptology
- Frederick Webb Hodge American?; North American Indians
- Frank Hole American; Near East
- Vance T. Holliday American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology
- Jeannette Hope, Australian; Western New South Wales
- John Horsley British; Roman Britain
- Youssef Hourany Lebanese; archeologist
- Huang Wenbi Chinese; China
- Huang Zhanyue Chinese; China from the Han dynasty to the Tang dynasty
- John Hurst British; English medieval archaeology
- Elinor Mullett Husselman American; Coptic historian, papyrologist
I
- Richard Indreko Estonian; Estonia
- Cynthia Irwin-Williams American; Southwestern archaeology
- Glynn Isaac South African; African paleoanthropology
- Hideshi Ishikawa Japanese; Japanese and Korean archaeology
- Fumiko Ikawa-Smith Japanese-Canadian; East Asian and Japanese archaeology
J
- Roger Jacobi British; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Britain
- Otto Jahn German; classical world
- Jacques Jaubert French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology
- Thomas Jefferson U.S. President; Virginia prehistory
- Jesse D. Jennings American; New World
- Llewellyn Jewitt English; British antiquities
- Donald Johanson American; paleoanthropology, Ethiopia
- Jotham Johnson American; Minturno, past president of the Archaeological Institute of America
- Margaret Ursula Jones British; Mucking, England
- Rebecca Jones British; Roman Britain
- Rhys Maengwyn Jones Welsh/Australian; Tasmania
- Chris Judge American; eastern U.S.
- Elsie Jury Canadian; historical archaeology of Ontario
K
- Gilbert Kaenel Swiss; Iron Age, La Tène culture
- Seifollah Kambakhshfard Iranian; Iron Age Temple of Anahita
- Johan Kamminga; University of Sydney; use-wear and residues
- Alice Beck Kehoe American; North America: early contact
- Eduard von Kallee German; Germany: found 4 Roman castra on the Limes Germanicus
- Richard Kallee German; studied 102 Alemannic tombs
- J. Charles Kelley American; north-west Mexico
- Arthur Randolph Kelly American; Southeastern USA
- Robert Laurens Kelly American; Western USA
- Jonathan Mark Kenoyer American; Indus Valley Civilization
- Kathleen Kenyon English; Britain, Near East
- Alfred V. Kidder American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica
- T. R. Kidder American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States
- Kristian Kristiansen Danish; Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies, archaeological theory
- Kim Won-yong Korean; Korea
- Athanasius Kircher German; Egyptian hieroglyphics
- Richard Klein American; paleo-anthropology
- Amos Kloner Israeli; Talpiot Tomb, Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology
- Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet English; anthropology and prehistory
- Alice Kober American; Linear B
- Robert Koldewey German; Near East
- Manfred Korfmann German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia
- Gustaf Kossinna German; Germany
- Hamit Zübeyir Koşay Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia
- Raiko Krauss German; prehistory
- Pasko Kuzman Macedonian; Ohrid, North Macedonia
L
- Dorothy Lamb British; classical archaeology
- Luigi Lanzi Italian; Etruscans
- Nancy Lapp American; Near Eastern archaeology, biblical archaeology
- Pierre Henri Larcher French; classical archaeology
- Donald Lathrap American; South America, U.S. Mid-West
- Jean-Philippe Lauer French; Egypt
- Bo Lawergren American? ; music archaeology; Mesopotamia
- T. E. Lawrence British; adventurer, Middle East
- Sir Austen Henry Layard British; Middle East
- Estelle Lazer Australian; human skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii
- Louis Leakey British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
- Mary Leakey British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
- Richard Leakey Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
- Edward Thurlow Leeds British; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 19281945
- Charles Lenormant French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
- François Lenormant French; Assyriologist
- Mark P. Leone American; theory, historical archaeology
- Dana Lepofsky Canadian; paleoethnobotany, Northwest Coast
- André Leroi-Gourhan French; theory, art, Paleolithic
- Jean Antoine Letronne French; Greece, Rome, Egypt
- Gerson Levi-Lazzaris Brazilian; ethnoarchaeology
- Carenza Lewis British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
- Madeline Kneberg Lewis American; typologist, Illustrator.
- David Lewis-Williams South African;cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art
- Edward Lhuyd Welsh; Britain
- Li Feng Chinese/American; early China
- Li Ji Chinese; Yinxu and Yangshao culture
- Li Xueqin Chinese; early China
- Mary Aiken Littauer American; horses in pre-history
- Li Liu Chinese/American; neolithic and Bronze Age China
- Gary Lock British; computational archaeology, European prehistory
- Georg Loeschcke German; Mycenaean pottery
- William A. Longacre American; ethnoarchaeology
- Samuel Kirkland Lothrop American; Central and South America and the Caribbean
- Victor Loret French; Egypt
- Harry Lourandos Australian; hunter-gatherer intensification
- Sir John Lubbock English; terminology, evolution, generalist
- Rev. William Collings Lukis British; megaliths of Great Britain and France
M
- Ma Chengyuan Chinese; authority on ancient Chinese bronzes
- Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
- Burton MacDonald Canadian; biblical archaeology
- John MacEnery Irish; Paleolithic
- Richard MacNeish American; Canada, Iroquois, Meso-America, discovered origins of maize
- Aren Maeir Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
- Mai Yinghao Chinese; archaeology of the Nanyue kingdom in Guangzhou
- Aren Maeir Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
- Yousef Majidzadeh Iranian; Jiroft culture
- Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi Iranian; ancient Persia
- James Patrick Mallory Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
- Max Mallowan British; Middle East
- John Manley British; Roman Britain
- Joyce Marcus American; Latin America
- Auguste-Édouard Mariette French; Egypt
- Spyridon Marinatos Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans
- Alexander Marshack American; Paleolithic era
- James A. Marshall American; eastern North American earthworks
- John Hubert Marshall British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila, Crete
- Marjan Mashkour Iranian; zooarchaeology of Europe and Middle East
- J. Alden Mason American; New World archaeology
- Ronald J. Mason Upper Great Lakes
- Gaston Maspero French; Egypt
- Therkel Mathiassen Danish; Arctic region
- Peter Mathews Australian; Maya hieroglyphs
- Alfred P. Maudslay British; Mayans
- Sally Kate May Australian; indigenous rock art
- Amihai Mazar Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
- Benjamin Mazar Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
- Eilat Mazar Israeli; Jerusalem, Phoenicians
- Gaby Mazor Israeli; Bet She'an
- August Mau German; Pompeii
- Sally McBrearty American; Palaeolithic archaeology
- Isabel McBryde Australian; "Mother of Australian Archaeology," axe sourcing studies
- Charles McBurney British; Britain, Libya, Iran, cave art
- Fred McCarthy Australian; Australia's Aborigines
- Robert McGhee Canadian; Arctic
- Betty Meehan Australian; Maningrida, Australia
- Vincent Megaw Australian; Early Celtic Art in Britain
- Betty Meggers American; South America
- James Mellaart British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük
- Paul Mellars British?; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
- Michael Mercati Italian ; lithics
- Roger Mercer British; Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles
- Prosper Mérimée French; French monuments
- Jerald T. Milanich American; U.S. south-east
- Sir Ellis Minns British; eastern Europe
- Oscar Montelius Swedish; seriation, Europe
- Pierre Montet French; Lebanon, Egypt
- Harri Moora Estonian; Iron Age Baltics
- Andrew M.T. Moore English; neolithic, Middle East
- Clarence Bloomfield Moore American; southern United States
- Warren K. Moorehead American; prehistoric eastern United States
- Mike Morwood Australian; Homo floresiensis
- Sylvanus G. Morley American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
- Dan Morse American; Central Mississippi Valley
- Phyllis Morse American; Central Mississippi Valley
- John Robert Mortimer English; England
- Sabatino Moscati Italian; Phoenicians
- Keith Muckelroy British?; maritime archaeology
- John Mulvaney Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
- Ken Mulvaney Australian; Aboriginal engagement, Burrup Peninsula rock art
- Stephen Munro Australian; engraved fossil shell from Java
- Margaret Murray Anglo-Indian; Egyptologist
- Tim Murray Australian; history of archaeology
N
- Maysoon al-Nahar Jordanian; Palaeoarchaeology of the Southern Levant
- Dimitri Nakassis American; Greece
- Alma Mekondjo Nankela Namibian; Namibia, rock art
- Ezzat Negahban Iranian; Iran
- Sarah Milledge Nelson American; Korea, Hongshan, gender
- Ion Nestor Romanian; Balkans
- Ehud Netzer Israeli; Israel
- Charles Thomas Newton British; Classical archaeology
- Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor Romania; Romanian prehistory
- Christiane Desroches Noblecourt French; Egypt
- Francisco Nocete Spanish; Spain
- Ivor Noël Hume British; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology
O
- Kenneth Oakley English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax
- Jérémie Jacques Oberlin Alsatian; Biblical archaeology, philology
- Alexandru Odobescu Romanian; history of archaeology
- Neil Oliver Scottish; popularizer and television presenter: northern Europe
- Bjørnar Olsen Norwegian; theory, material culture, Arctic
- John W. Olsen American; prehistory, Paleolithic, Central Asia
- Stanley John Olsen American; historical archaeology and zooarchaeology
- Tahsin Özgüç Turkish; Assyria
P
- Bertha Parker Abenaki, Seneca; Southwest US archaeology and ethnology
- André Parrot French; ancient Near East
- Timothy Pauketat American; Mississippian culture
- Vasile Pârvan Romanian; classical archaeology
- Deborah M. Pearsall American; paleo-ethnobotany
- Richard J. Pearson Canadian; Pacific
- William Pengelly British; England, paleolithic
- Peter N. Peregrine American; Mississippian culture, cross-cultural studies
- Gregory Perino American; Woodland, and Mississippian cultures in Illinois and Oklahoma
- William Matthew Flinders Petrie British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology
- Stewart Perowne British; Imadia and Beihan
- Alejandro Peschard Fernández Mexican; Meso-America
- Philip Phillips American; theory, eastern and central United States
- Alexandre Piankoff Russian; Egypt
- Stuart Piggott British; neolithic, Europe
- John Pinkerton Scottish; theory of Gothic superiority, Scottish proto-history
- Dolores Piperno American; archaeobotany, maize, Panama
- Augustus Pitt Rivers British; Britain, method
- Nikolaos Platon Greek; Minoan Crete
- Augustus Le Plongeon British-American; photographer and antiquarian specializing in Pre-Columbian high cultures
- Natalia Polosmak Russian; Siberia: Altay: Pazyryk culture
- Cristian Popa Romanian; Coţofeni culture
- Rachel Pope British; Iron Age Europe
- Reginald Stuart Poole English; Egypt
- Gregory Possehl American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization
- Timothy W. Potter, British; Classical archaeology
- Timothy Potts Australian; Middle East and Mediterranean
- Gary Presland Australian; Aboriginal landscapes in Victoria
- Francis Pryor British; Bronze and Iron Ages
- Senarath Paranavithana Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
Q
- Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat French; ancient Europe
R
- Wulf Raeck German; classical archaeology, Pergamon, Greek barbarian portrayals
- Philip Rahtz British; United Kingdom
- José Ramos Muñoz Spanish; Europe, northern Africa
- Sir Andrew Ramsay Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy
- Sir William Mitchell Ramsay Scottish; Asia Minor and New Testament
- Don Ranson Australian; Tasmanian prehistory Kutikina Cave
- Claude Rapin unknown nationality; Central Asia
- Katharina C. Rebay Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender
- William Rathje American; early civilizations, modern material culture studies, Mesoamerica
- Desire Raoul Rochette French; Greece
- Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien French; Classical sculpture
- Marion Rawson American; classical archaeology
- Shahrokh Razmjou
- Ronny Reich Israeli; Jerusalem
- Colin Renfrew English; history of language, archaeogenetics
- Caspar Reuvens Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands
- Julian Richards English; Stonehenge, popularizer
- Emil Ritterling German; archaeology
- Anne Strachan Robertson Scottish; Numismatics
- Derek Roe British; paleolithic
- Wil Roebroeks Dutch; The Netherlands
- Malcolm J. Rogers American; California
- John Romer British; Egypt, popularizer
- Jeffrey Royal American; Roman, maritime archaeology
- Michael Rostovtzeff Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia
- Irving Rouse American; Caribbean and migration
- Katherine Routledge British; Easter Island
- Peter Rowley-Conwy Danish? Welsh?; environmental archaeology
- Adrian Andrei Rusu Medieval archaeology, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca
- Simon Rutar Slovenian; Slovenia
- Alberto Ruz Lhuillier Mexican; Pre-Columbian Meso-America
- Donald P. Ryan American; Egypt
S
- Saad Abbas Ismail Kurdish; International archaeologist, Syria
- Antonio Sagona ; Australian;
- Sharada Srinivasan Indian; archaeometallurgy, India
- Roderick Salisbury American?; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe
- Viktor Sarianidi Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia
- Otto Schaden American; Egypt
- Claude Schaeffer French; Ugarit
- Michael Brian Schiffer American? ; behavioural archaeology, method and theory
- Heinrich Schliemann German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn
- Philippe-Charles Schmerling Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man
- Alain Schnapp French; Classical archaeology: iconography of Greek vases
- Carmel Schrire Australian; Australia, South Africa
- Francesco Scipone Italian; Etruscans
- Mercy Seiradaki English; Knossos
- Ovid R. Sellers American; Biblical Old Testament
- Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt French; ancient monumental art
- Veronica Seton-Williams Australian; University of Melbourne University College London; Egyptology and prehistory, Near East
- Thomas Sever American?; NASA’s only archaeologist, Maya, South America
- Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
- Michael Shanks English; Classical archaeology, theory
- Thurstan Shaw English; Africa
- Anna Shepard American; ceramic analysis
- Alison Sheridan British; Bronze and Neolithic ages
- Bong-geun Sim South Korean; Korea
- Elizabeth Simpson American; Ancient Near East, Anatolia
- Frederic Slater Australian; Aboriginal place names
- Claire Smith Australian; Indigenous archaeology, rock art
- Grafton Elliot Smith, Australian; 15 August 1871 – 1 January 1937; hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory
- William Robertson Smith Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar
- Stanley South American; historical archaeology
- Janet D. Spector American; North America
- E. Lee Spence American; marine archaeology
- Dirk HR Spennemann, Australian; Associate Professor in Cultural Heritage Management at the School of Environmental Sciences, Charles Sturt University
- Victor Spinei
- Flaxman Charles John Spurrell English; prehistoric England, Egypt
- Rev. Frederick Spurrell English; English archaeology
- Lady Hester Stanhope British; Ashkelon
- Julie K. Stein, American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites
- Eunice Stebbens American; Roman coins
- Marc Aurel Stein Hungarian; Central Asia
- Hans-Georg Stephan German; Medievalist, post-Medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, oven tiles
- Marion Stirling Pugh American; Mesopotamian archaeology
- James B. Stoltman American; ceramic analysis, Great Lakes
- James R. Stewart Australian; University of Sydney; Cyprus and the Ancient Near East
- Eugene Stockton Australian; Sydney University
- George E. Stuart III American; Mayan archaeology
- William Duncan Strong American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics
- Su Bai Chinese; Chinese Buddhism, grottoes
- Su Bingqi Chinese; ancient China
- Eleazar Sukenik Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls
- Sharon Sullivan, Australian; BA History and Archaeology 1964; Dip.Ed. 1965; MA History and Archaeology 1972; heritage conservation
- Pál Sümegi Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary
T
- Takaku Kenji Japanese; Korea
- Zemaryalai Tarzi Afghan; Afghanistan
- Joan du Plat Taylor Scottish; maritime archaeology, Cyprus
- Joan J. Taylor American; British prehistory
- Walter Willard Taylor, Jr. American; theory, Coahuila
- Julio C. Tello Peruvian; Peru
- Alexander Thom Scottish; engineer, Stonehenge
- David Hurst Thomas, American; Spanish Borderlands, repatriation
- Julian Thomas British; north-west European Neolithic and Bronze Age
- John Arthur Thompson, Australian; 1913–2002 University of Queensland, University of Melbourne University of Cambridge; Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist
- J. Eric S. Thompson English; Maya
- Christian Jürgensen Thomsen Danish; originator of the Three-Age System
- Alan Thorne Australian; University of Sydney, Australian National University; Aboriginal Australian origins and the human genome Lake Mungo, Kow Swamp
- Christopher Tilley British; theory, Britain
- Norman Tindale Australian; University of Adelaide; mapping Australian tribes
- Tong Enzheng Chinese; China
- Alfred Marston Tozzer American; Mesoamerica
- Arthur Dale Trendall Australian; University of Sydney, Australian National University; Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia
- John C. Trever American; Biblical archaeologist
- Bruce Trigger Canadian; McGill University; archaeological theory, comparative civilizations, Huronia, Nubia, Egyptology
- Olena Vasylivna Tsvek Ukrainian; Trypillia culture
- James Tuck American; eastern Canadian historical archaeology
- Ronald F. Tylecote British; founder of archaeometallurgy
- Grigore Tocilescu
- Henrieta Todorova Bulgarian; Neolithic
- Vassilios Tzaferis Greek–Israeli; biblical archaeology, Byzantine monasticism
U
- Peter Ucko British; Paleolithic art; archaeological politics
- Luigi Maria Ugolini Italian; Albania
- Gary Urton American; Andes
- David Ussishkin Israeli; Lachish, Jezreel Valley and Megiddo
V
- Heiki Valk Estonian; Medieval Estonia
- Ron Vanderwal, Australian; Melbourne Museum, La Trobe University; Torres Strait, New Guinea
- Parviz Varjavand
- William Jones Varley British; English Iron Age hill forts
- Roland de Vaux French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls
- Marius Vazeilles French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology
- Bruce Veitch Australian; Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia; Bruce Veitch Award
- Alan Vince British; British ceramics
- Zdenko Vinski Croatian; Croatia
- Dominique Vivant Denon French; Egyptian art
- Alexandru Vulpe
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- Marc Waelkens Belgian; Turkish archaeology
- Alice Leslie Walker American, classical archaeologist
- Wang Zhongshu Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology
- Graeme K. Ward Australian; Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art
- John Bryan Ward-Perkins British; architectural history
- Charles Warren British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
- Helen Waterhouse, British; classical archaeology
- William Thompson Watkin, British; Roman Britain
- Patty Jo Watson American; North American archaeology
- Clarence H. Webb American; southern United States prehistory
- Waldo Wedel American; Great Plains prehistory
- Fred Wendorf archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
- Josef W. Wegner American; Egyptology
- Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
- Boyd Wettlaufer Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
- Mortimer Wheeler British; method, South Asia, Maiden Castle
- Tessa Verney Wheeler British; method, British archaeology, co-ounder of Institute of Archaeology
- Joyce White American; prehistoric Southeast Asia
- Elizabeth Augustus Whitehead American; classical archaeology
- John C. Whittaker American; experimental archaeology, Palaeolithic
- Alasdair Whittle European Neolithic
- Theodor Wiegand German; Pergamum, aerial photography
- Malcolm H. Wiener American; Aegeanist, Prehistorian, President of INSTAP
- Gordon Willey American; New World, method and theory
- Stephen Williams American; North America
- Johann Joachim Winckelmann German; Hellenist art, Greek world
- Bryant G. Wood American; Palestine
- Peter Woodman, Irish; Irish Mesolithic
- Leonard Woolley British; Ur in Mesopotamia
- Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
- George Roy Haslam Wright Australian; Middle East
- Wolfgang W. Wurster German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador
- Alison Wylie Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
- John Wymer British; Paleolithic
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- Xia Nai Chinese; China
- Xu Xusheng Chinese; discoverer of the Erlitou culture
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- Yigael Yadin Israeli; Masada, Hazor
Z
- Inger Zachrisson ; Swedish; Sami people since the Iron Age
- Louise Zarmati Australian; Archaeology in school curricula; women in archaeology; Australia, Crete, Cyprus
- Robert N. Zeitlin American; Mesoamerica, ancient political economies
- Zhao Kangmin Chinese; discoverer of the Terracotta Army
- Zheng Zhenduo Chinese; China
- Zheng Zhenxiang Chinese; discoverer of the Tomb of Fu Hao
- Irit Ziffer Israeli; symbols in ancient art
- Andreas Zimmermann German; quantitative methods
- Ezra B. W. Zubrow American; theory, GIS, demography, ecology, Circumpolar
- R. Tom Zuidema Dutch or American?; Incas
- Vladas Žulkus Lithuanian; Lithuania
- Marek Zvelebil Czech; European stone age