swap_horiz Arthur Evans Alternatives

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Franz Boas

Franz Boas was a 19th-century archaeologist and anthropologist whose work fundamentally shaped the field of American ant...

19TH Century Culture North America Anthropology

9.7 Brilliant

2

Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion was a French archaeologist whose work fundamentally changed our understanding of ancient Egypt...

French 19TH Century Egyptology Rosetta Stone

9.7 Brilliant

3

Flinders Petrie

Flinders Petrie was a pioneering archaeologist central to the development of modern Egyptology. His meticulous technique...

19TH Century British Palestine Egyptology

9.6 Brilliant

4

Howard Carter

Howard Carter was a 20th-century British archaeologist whose meticulous work led to the unprecedented discovery of Tutan...

20TH Century British Excavation Egyptology

9.5 Brilliant

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Colin Renfrew

Colin Renfrew was a British archaeologist renowned for his pioneering use of radiocarbon dating and archaeogenetic analy...

Modern European British Aegean

9.2 Excellent

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Ian Hodder

Ian Hodder is a British archaeologist renowned for pioneering post-processual archaeology in the 1980s. His work challen...

Modern Theory British Post Processual

9.2 Excellent

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Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey was a British archaeologist specializing in paleoanthropology. Her work significantly advanced our understan...

20TH Century British Paleoanthropology Hominin

9.0 Excellent

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Kathleen Kenyon

Kathleen Kenyon was a prominent 20th-century British archaeologist specializing in Near Eastern cultures. Her rigorous e...

20TH Century Near East British Methodology

9.0 Excellent

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Mortimer Wheeler

Mortimer Wheeler was a prominent 20th-century British archaeologist renowned for his innovative excavation techniques. H...

Military 20TH Century British Methodology

8.8 Great

10

Grahame Clark

Grahame Clark was a prominent British archaeologist specializing in European prehistory. His work centered on the Mesoli...

European 20TH Century British Prehistory

8.8 Great

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Barry Cunliffe

Barry Cunliffe is a prominent British archaeologist specializing in the study of Iron Age Europe. His work focuses on in...

Modern European British Iron Age

8.8 Great

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Dorothy Garrod

Dorothy Garrod was a British archaeologist specializing in the Paleolithic period. Her work, particularly at Mount Carme...

20TH Century British Paleolithic Neanderthal

8.8 Great

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David Clarke

David Clarke was a prominent British archaeologist influential for developing analytical approaches to archaeological in...

Theory 20TH Century British Analytical

8.8 Great

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John Lubbock

John Lubbock was a British banker, politician, naturalist, and archaeologist who contributed to the nineteenth-century s...

19TH Century British Neolithic Paleolithic

8.6 Great

15

Alexander Cunningham

Alexander Cunningham was a British army engineer and archaeologist who became the first Director-General of the Archaeol...

India 19TH Century British Asian

8.6 Great

16

Austen Henry Layard

Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) was a British traveller, archaeologist, and diplomat who excavated the Neo-Assyrian site...

19TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

8.4 Great

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John Pendlebury

John Pendlebury (1904-1941) was a British archaeologist who specialized in the study of Minoan civilization on Crete. As...

Classical 20TH Century British Egypt

7.5 Good

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Winifred Lamb

Winifred Lamb was a pioneering British classical archaeologist who specialized in the prehistory of the Aegean region. C...

Classical 20TH Century British Aegean

7.4 Good

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Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and amateur archaeologist who conducted major excavations at Hisarlik in pr...

German Classical 19TH Century Troy

6.1 Fair

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E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge was a British Egyptologist, philologist, and museum curator whose work focused on the languages, text...

19TH Century British Museum Egyptology

5.6 Mediocre