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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a prominent 20th-century French anthropologist and archaeologist. His work, particularly his dev...

French Theory 20TH Century Anthropology

9.6 Brilliant

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Howard Carter

Howard Carter was a 20th-century British archaeologist whose meticulous work led to the unprecedented discovery of Tutan...

20TH Century British Excavation Egyptology

9.5 Brilliant

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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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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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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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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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Patty Jo Watson

American archaeologist Patty Jo Watson is celebrated for her pioneering work in processual archaeology and her extensive...

American 20TH Century Near East Caves

8.3 Great

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William T. Sanders

American archaeologist who proposed the influential "cultural ecology" model for the Maya and directed the long-term sur...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Teotihuacan

8.3 Great

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Robert Ballard

American oceanographer and explorer who discovered the wreck of the RMS Titanic in 1985 and developed deep-sea explorati...

Modern American Deep Sea Nautical

8.2 Great

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Vance Haynes

Vance Haynes is an American geoarchaeologist famous for his foundational work defining the geological timelines of the C...

American 20TH Century North America Geoarchaeology

8.2 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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William Rathje

William Rathje was an American archaeologist who founded the Garbage Project in 1973, applying archaeological methods to...

American 20TH Century Modern Material Ethnoarchaeology

8.1 Great

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Albert C. Spaulding

Albert C. Spaulding was an influential American archaeologist who helped integrate rigorous statistical and quantitative...

American Theory 20TH Century Statistics

8.1 Great

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Trude Dothan

Trude Dothan was an influential Israeli archaeologist and expert on the Philistines, recognized for her foundational wor...

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Bronze Age

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