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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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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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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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Dorothy Garrod

Dorothy Garrod was a British archaeologist specializing in the Paleolithic period. Her work, particularly at Mount Carme...

20TH Century British Paleolithic Neanderthal

8.8 Great

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Michael D. Coe

Michael D. Coe was a prominent 20th-century American archaeologist dedicated to the study of Mesoamerica. His research s...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

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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Robert McC. Adams

Robert McC. Adams was an American archaeologist renowned for his innovative survey methods in the Near East. His extensi...

American Survey 20TH Century Near East

8.7 Great

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Samuel Noah Kramer

Samuel Noah Kramer was a Ukrainian-American Assyriologist who translated numerous Sumerian cuneiform tablets, significan...

American 20TH Century Sumerian Cuneiform

8.6 Great

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Alfred V. Kidder

Alfred Vincent Kidder was an American archaeologist who pioneered modern excavation techniques in North America through...

American 20TH Century North America Peabody

8.6 Great

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J. Desmond Clark

British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark was a leading authority on African prehistory, noted for his extensive excavation...

20TH Century British African Stone Age

8.6 Great

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Richard S. MacNeish

Richard S. MacNeish was an American archaeologist famous for discovering the sequence of domesticated maize evolution in...

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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Glynn Isaac

Glynn Isaac was a Kenyan-born archaeologist renowned for his research on early human evolution and Plio-Pleistocene site...

20TH Century Africa Paleolithic Kenyan British

8.5 Great

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James B. Griffin

James B. Griffin was a prominent American archaeologist who revolutionized the classification of prehistoric Native Amer...

American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

8.4 Great

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Nicholas Conard

Nicholas Conard is an American archaeologist whose excavations in Germany uncovered some of the world's oldest known mus...

Modern Germany American Paleolithic

8.3 Great

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Sally Binford

American archaeologist Sally Binford was a prominent pioneer in the field of zooarchaeology and an early leader in the N...

American Theory 20TH Century Paleolithic

7.9 Good

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Anthony Marks

Anthony Marks is an American archaeologist recognized for his significant contributions to the study of Paleolithic cult...

American 20TH Century African Paleolithic

7.5 Good