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Flinders Petrie

Careful attention to ordinary objects helped Flinders Petrie change the practice of archaeology. A British Egyptologist...

19TH Century British Palestine Egyptology

8.79 Great

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Howard Carter

The discovery of Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings made Howard Carter a central figure in...

20TH Century British Excavation Egyptology

8.69 Great

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Lewis Binford

For Lewis Binford, archaeology needed to explain past human behavior rather than only classify objects or describe seque...

American Theory 20TH Century Processual

8.67 Great

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Vere Gordon Childe

Australian-born archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe developed influential explanations for major changes in prehistoric soc...

Theory European 20TH Century Neolithic

8.57 Great

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Louis Leakey

Louis Leakey helped establish Africa's central place in the study of human origins through twentieth-century archaeologi...

20TH Century Paleoanthropology Hominin Olduvai

8.51 Great

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Ian Hodder

British archaeologist Ian Hodder helped develop post-processual archaeology in the 1980s, arguing that material remains...

Modern Theory British Post Processual

8.42 Great

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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

8.39 Great

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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

8.30 Great

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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

8.29 Great

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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

8.26 Great

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Raymond Dart

Raymond Dart was a 20th-century South African archaeologist specializing in paleoanthropology. He is primarily known for...

20TH Century South African Paleoanthropology Australopithecus

8.23 Great

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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

8.20 Great

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Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey was a 20th-century Kenyan archaeologist specializing in paleoanthropology. His significant discoveries, m...

20TH Century Kenyan Paleoanthropology Hominin

8.14 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

8.11 Great

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Su Bingqi

Su Bingqi was a 20th-century Chinese archaeologist whose work significantly advanced our knowledge of Neolithic China. H...

Theory 20TH Century Chinese Asian

8.01 Great

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Albert C. Spaulding

Albert C. Spaulding was an American archaeologist recognized for his contributions to archaeological method and theory....

American Theory 20TH Century Statistics

7.41 Good

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Gertrude Caton-Thompson

Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888–1985) was a pioneering British archaeologist known for her rigorous fieldwork in Egypt and...

20TH Century British Egyptology Predynastic

7.34 Good

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Sally Binford

Sally Binford (1924–1994) was an American archaeologist who became a prominent figure in the development of processual a...

American Theory 20TH Century Paleolithic

7.28 Good

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James Deetz

James Deetz (1930–2000) was an American anthropologist and a foundational figure in the discipline of historical archaeo...

American Theory 20TH Century Historical

7.26 Good

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Murray was a British Egyptologist, archaeologist, and folklorist whose career connected university teaching, mu...

Mining 20TH Century British Tomb

5.01 Mediocre