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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

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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

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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

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a prominent 20th-century French anthropologist and archaeologist. His work, particularly his dev...

French Theory 20TH Century Anthropology

9.6 Brilliant

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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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André Leroi-Gourhan

André Leroi-Gourhan was a prominent French archaeologist specializing in Paleolithic prehistory. His work focused on und...

Technology French 20TH Century Paleolithic

9.1 Excellent

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Bruce Trigger

Bruce Trigger was a prominent Canadian archaeologist specializing in Egyptology during the 20th century. His work signif...

History Theory Canadian 20TH Century

9.1 Excellent

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Yves Coppens

Yves Coppens is a French archaeologist renowned for his contributions to paleoanthropology during the 20th century. He p...

French 20TH Century Paleoanthropology Australopithecus

8.8 Great

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Eduard Seler

Eduard Seler was a German archaeologist and philologist primarily known for his extensive work in Mesoamerica during the...

German 19TH Century Mesoamerica Aztec

8.8 Great

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Jacques Boucher de Perthes

French antiquarian who in the 1830s–1840s was among the first to demonstrate human antiquity by associating flint tools...

French 19TH Century Antiquity Paleolithic

8.7 Great

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François Bordes

French prehistorian who developed a standard typological classification system for Middle Paleolithic flint tools and co...

French 20TH Century Paleolithic Prehistory

8.7 Great

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Paul Pelliot

Paul Pelliot was a French archaeologist and sinologist primarily known for his extensive work excavating and documenting...

French 20TH Century Asian Dunhuang

8.7 Great

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Mark Lehner

Mark Lehner is an American archaeologist who has directed the Giza Plateau Mapping Project since 1984, conducting extens...

Modern American Survey Egyptology

8.6 Great

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Max Uhle

German archaeologist often called the father of South American scientific archaeology, who conducted systematic excavati...

German 19TH Century South America Inca

8.6 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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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell was a British archaeologist and diplomat who mapped sites in the Middle East and was instrumental in estab...

20TH Century Mesopotamia British Museum

8.5 Great

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Karl Richard Lepsius

Karl Richard Lepsius was a pioneering German Egyptologist who led the 1842 Prussian expedition to Egypt and Nubia, metic...

German 19TH Century Expedition Egyptology

7.9 Good

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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

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Giovanni Battista Belzoni

Giovanni Battista Belzoni was an Italian explorer and pioneer archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities who famously relocat...

Italian 19TH Century Explorer Transport

5.2 Mediocre