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19TH Century Culture North America Anthropology

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Flinders Petrie

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19TH Century British Palestine Egyptology

8.79 Great

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Howard Carter

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20TH Century British Excavation Egyptology

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Colin Renfrew

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Ian Hodder

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Mary Leakey

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Kathleen Kenyon

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8.29 Great

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Grahame Clark

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European 20TH Century British Prehistory

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David Clarke

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Mortimer Wheeler

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Dorothy Garrod

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20TH Century British Paleolithic Neanderthal

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Barry Cunliffe

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Modern European British Iron Age

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Eduard Seler

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German 19TH Century Mesoamerica Aztec

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Alexander Cunningham

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India 19TH Century British Asian

7.93 Good

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John Lubbock

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19TH Century British Neolithic Paleolithic

7.87 Good

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Austen Henry Layard

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19TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

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John Pendlebury

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Classical 20TH Century British Egypt

6.92 Fair

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Winifred Lamb

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Classical 20TH Century British Aegean

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Heinrich Schliemann

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German Classical 19TH Century Troy

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E. A. Wallis Budge

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19TH Century British Museum Egyptology

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