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David Stuart

David Stuart is a modern American archaeologist specializing in the study of the Maya civilization and Mesoamerica. His...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

9.1 Excellent

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Gordon Willey

Gordon Willey was a 20th-century American archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica. His research focused on settlement...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Settlement Patterns

9.0 Excellent

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Kent Flannery

Kent Flannery is an American archaeologist specializing in the study of Mesoamerica. His work focuses on the development...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Oaxaca

8.9 Great

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Linda Schele

Linda Schele was a 20th-century American archaeologist specializing in the study of the Maya civilization in Mesoamerica...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.9 Great

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Stephen Houston

Stephen Houston is a modern American archaeologist specializing in the study of the Maya civilization. His work focuses...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

8.8 Great

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Michael D. Coe

Michael D. Coe was a prominent 20th-century American archaeologist dedicated to the study of Mesoamerica. His research s...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.7 Great

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a Russian-born American archaeologist, architect, and illustrator whose work transformed the...

Illustration 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.6 Great

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Joyce Marcus

Joyce Marcus is an American archaeologist whose research examines ancient Mesoamerican writing, state formation, politic...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

8.6 Great

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Jeremy Sabloff

Jeremy Sabloff is an American archaeologist whose scholarship focuses on the ancient Maya and the development of complex...

Modern American Settlement Maya

8.6 Great

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Richard S. MacNeish

Richard S. MacNeish was a 20th-century American archaeologist recognized for his extensive fieldwork in Mesoamerica and...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Origins Of Agriculture

8.6 Great

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Michael E. Smith

Michael E. Smith is an American archaeologist and academic recognized for his extensive research on the Aztec civilizati...

Modern American Mesoamerica Urbanism

8.6 Great

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John Lloyd Stephens

John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was an American explorer, diplomat, and travel writer who conducted two pivotal expediti...

American 19TH Century Explorer Maya

8.4 Great

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Elizabeth Brumfiel

Elizabeth Brumfiel (1945-2012) was an American archaeologist who specialized in Mesoamerican studies, particularly focus...

Modern American Mesoamerica Gender

8.3 Great

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William T. Sanders

William T. Sanders was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialized in the cultural ecology and demograp...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Teotihuacan

8.3 Great

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Sylvanus Morley

Sylvanus G. Morley was an American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Maya specialist who worked extensively in Mexico and C...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.2 Great

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Richard Blanton

Richard E. Blanton is an American anthropological archaeologist known for research on ancient Mesoamerican societies, es...

Modern American Mesoamerica Urbanism

8.2 Great

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William R. Coe

William R. Coe (1926–2009) was an American archaeologist who served as a leading figure in the University of Pennsylvani...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

7.8 Good

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William Saturno

William Saturno is an American archaeologist known for research on ancient Maya civilization. In 2001, he discovered an...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

7.5 Good

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Richard Hansen

Richard D. Hansen is an American archaeologist known for his work in the Mirador Basin of northern Guatemala. He directs...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

7.2 Good

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Scott L. Fedick

Scott L. Fedick is an American archaeologist recognized for his extensive landscape and agricultural research on ancient...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

7.0 Good