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Lewis Binford

Lewis Binford was a prominent American archaeologist whose work fundamentally reshaped the field. He spearheaded the pro...

American Theory 20TH Century Processual

9.4 Excellent

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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

9.0 Excellent

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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

8.9 Great

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Linda Schele

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American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.9 Great

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George Bass

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American 20TH Century Underwater Bronze Age

8.8 Great

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Michael D. Coe

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American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.7 Great

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Tom D. Dillehay

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Modern American South America Paleoindian

8.7 Great

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Robert McC. Adams

American archaeologist whose pioneering regional surveys in Iraq and Mexico during the 1960s transformed the study of an...

American Survey 20TH Century Near East

8.7 Great

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Samuel Noah Kramer

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American 20TH Century Sumerian Cuneiform

8.6 Great

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Alfred V. Kidder

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American 20TH Century North America Peabody

8.6 Great

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Julio C. Tello

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20TH Century South America Peruvian Chavin

8.6 Great

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Richard S. MacNeish

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American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Origins Of Agriculture

8.6 Great

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William Foxwell Albright

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American 20TH Century Near East Biblical

8.6 Great

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James B. Griffin

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American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

8.4 Great

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Hiram Bingham

American explorer and Yale historian who brought Machu Picchu to world attention in 1911 and later served as U.S. senato...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

8.1 Great

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Albert C. Spaulding

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American Theory 20TH Century Statistics

8.1 Great

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Michael E. Moseley

American archaeologist who proposed the Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization hypothesis, arguing that Andean civi...

American 20TH Century South America Maritime

8.0 Great

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Betty Meggers

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American Environmental 20TH Century Amazonia

7.9 Good

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Craig Morris

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American 20TH Century South America Inca

7.8 Good

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James A. Ford

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American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

7.7 Good