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 British archaeologist who developed the grid system of excavation and led major digs at Roman sit...

Military 20TH Century British Methodology

8.8 Great

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Grahame Clark

British archaeologist who excavated the Mesolithic site of Star Carr, Yorkshire (1949–1951), and pioneered environmental...

European 20TH Century British Prehistory

8.8 Great

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Barry Cunliffe

British archaeologist renowned for his research on Iron Age Europe and the Celts, including decades of excavation at Dan...

Modern European British Iron Age

8.8 Great

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Dorothy Garrod

British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod was the first woman to hold a professorship at Cambridge, noted for her Paleolithic...

20TH Century British Paleolithic Neanderthal

8.8 Great

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David Clarke

David Clarke was a British archaeologist who pioneered analytical and spatial archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s, notabl...

Theory 20TH Century British Analytical

8.8 Great

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Eduard Seler

German explorer and ethnographer whose meticulous early 20th-century documentation of Mesoamerican codices and archaeolo...

German 19TH Century Mesoamerica Aztec

8.8 Great

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John Lubbock

British naturalist and politician who coined the terms 'Paleolithic' and 'Neolithic' in his 1865 book 'Pre-historic Time...

19TH Century British Neolithic Paleolithic

8.6 Great

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Alexander Cunningham

British archaeologist Alexander Cunningham was the first Director General of the Archaeological Survey of India, investi...

India 19TH Century British Asian

8.6 Great

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Austen Henry Layard

Austen Henry Layard was a British archaeologist who excavated the ancient Assyrian cities of Nimrud and Nineveh in the 1...

19TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

8.4 Great

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John Pendlebury

John Pendlebury was a British archaeologist who served as curator at Knossos and conducted extensive surveys of Crete be...

Classical 20TH Century British Egypt

7.5 Good

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Heinrich Schliemann

Heinrich Schliemann was a German businessman and pioneer archaeologist who excavated Hisarlik in the 1870s, claiming to...

German Classical 19TH Century Troy

6.1 Fair

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E. A. Wallis Budge

E. A. Wallis Budge was a British Egyptologist who served as Keeper of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, acquir...

19TH Century British Museum Egyptology

5.6 Mediocre