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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

Linda Schele was a 20th-century American archaeologist specializing in the study of the Maya civilization in Mesoamerica...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.9 Great

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George Bass

George Bass was a twentieth-century American archaeologist instrumental in establishing underwater archaeology as a dist...

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

Tom D. Dillehay is an American archaeologist renowned for his excavations at Monte Verde, Chile, which revolutionized th...

Modern American South America Paleoindian

8.7 Great

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Robert McC. Adams

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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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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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Julio C. Tello

Peruvian archaeologist known as the father of Peruvian archaeology, who discovered the Paracas culture in 1925 and was t...

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

William Foxwell Albright was an influential American archaeologist and biblical scholar who led excavations at Tell Beit...

American 20TH Century Near East Biblical

8.6 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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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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María Rostworowski

María Rostworowski was a Polish-Peruvian historian and archaeologist whose influential research transformed the understa...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Inca

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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Clifford Evans

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American 20TH Century Amazonia South America

7.4 Good

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Grete Mostny

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20TH Century South America Museum Inca

6.8 Fair