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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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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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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 an influential Assyriologist who specialized in the translation and interpretation of Sumerian cu...

American 20TH Century Sumerian Cuneiform

8.6 Great

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Alfred V. Kidder

Alfred V. Kidder was an American archaeologist whose fieldwork helped establish systematic methods for studying the anci...

American 20TH Century North America Peabody

8.6 Great

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Richard S. MacNeish

Richard S. MacNeish was a 20th-century American archaeologist recognized for his extensive fieldwork in Mesoamerica and...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Origins Of Agriculture

8.6 Great

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William Foxwell Albright

William Foxwell Albright was an American archaeologist, biblical scholar, and specialist in ancient Near Eastern languag...

American 20TH Century Near East Biblical

8.6 Great

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John V. Murra

John V. Murra was an anthropologist and historian whose research focused on the political economy and social organizatio...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

8.4 Great

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James B. Griffin

James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) was a prominent American archaeologist who served as the director of the University of...

American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

8.4 Great

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Patty Jo Watson

Patty Jo Watson is an American archaeologist who served as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is rec...

American 20TH Century Near East Caves

8.3 Great

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William T. Sanders

William T. Sanders was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialized in the cultural ecology and demograp...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Teotihuacan

8.3 Great

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Sylvanus Morley

Sylvanus G. Morley was an American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Maya specialist who worked extensively in Mexico and C...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.2 Great

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Robert Ballard

Robert Ballard is an American oceanographer and deep-sea explorer known for locating historically significant shipwrecks...

Modern American Deep Sea Nautical

8.2 Great

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Vance Haynes

Vance Haynes is an American geoarchaeologist specializing in the geological contexts of early human occupation in North...

American 20TH Century North America Geoarchaeology

8.2 Great

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Hiram Bingham

Hiram Bingham III was an American historian, explorer, and politician associated with Yale University. In 1911, an exped...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

8.1 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

8.1 Great

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Trude Dothan

Trude Dothan was an Israeli archaeologist whose research concentrated on the Philistines and the archaeology of the east...

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Bronze Age

8.1 Great