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Franz Boas

Franz Boas was a 19th-century archaeologist and anthropologist whose work fundamentally shaped the field of American ant...

19TH Century Culture North America Anthropology

9.7 Brilliant

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Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion was a French archaeologist whose work fundamentally changed our understanding of ancient Egypt...

French 19TH Century Egyptology Rosetta Stone

9.7 Brilliant

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Flinders Petrie

Flinders Petrie was a pioneering archaeologist central to the development of modern Egyptology. His meticulous technique...

19TH Century British Palestine Egyptology

9.6 Brilliant

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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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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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Grahame Clark

Grahame Clark was a prominent British archaeologist specializing in European prehistory. His work centered on the Mesoli...

European 20TH Century British Prehistory

8.8 Great

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Yves Coppens

Yves Coppens is a French archaeologist renowned for his contributions to paleoanthropology during the 20th century. He p...

French 20TH Century Paleoanthropology Australopithecus

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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Ofer Bar-Yosef

Ofer Bar-Yosef is a prominent Israeli archaeologist specializing in the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the Levant...

Modern Israeli Neolithic Paleolithic

8.8 Great

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Eduard Seler

Eduard Seler was a German archaeologist and philologist primarily known for his extensive work in Mesoamerica during the...

German 19TH Century Mesoamerica Aztec

8.8 Great

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François Bordes

François Bordes (1919–1981) was a French prehistorian and professor at the University of Bordeaux whose work on Middle P...

French 20TH Century Paleolithic Prehistory

8.7 Great

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Paul Pelliot

Paul Pelliot was a French archaeologist and sinologist primarily known for his extensive work excavating and documenting...

French 20TH Century Asian Dunhuang

8.7 Great

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Max Uhle

Max Uhle was a German archaeologist whose systematic fieldwork helped establish the chronological study of pre-Columbian...

German 19TH Century South America Inca

8.6 Great

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John Lubbock

John Lubbock was a British banker, politician, naturalist, and archaeologist who contributed to the nineteenth-century s...

19TH Century British Neolithic Paleolithic

8.6 Great

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Alexander Cunningham

Alexander Cunningham was a British army engineer and archaeologist who became the first Director-General of the Archaeol...

India 19TH Century British Asian

8.6 Great

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John Mulvaney

John Mulvaney was an Australian archaeologist whose fieldwork and scholarship helped establish the systematic study of A...

Australian 20TH Century Aboriginal Prehistory

8.5 Great

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Glynn Isaac

Glynn Isaac was a Kenyan-born archaeologist whose research examined early human behavior and Plio-Pleistocene sites in E...

20TH Century Africa Paleolithic Kenyan British

8.5 Great

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Steven Mithen

Steven Mithen is a British archaeologist whose research examines prehistoric societies, human cognitive evolution, and l...

Modern Evolution British Cognitive

8.4 Great

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Catherine Perlès

Catherine Perles is a French archaeologist known for research on European prehistory, particularly the Paleolithic and N...

Modern French Greece Paleolithic

7.6 Good

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Auguste Mariette

Auguste Mariette was a French Egyptologist and archaeologist who worked in Egypt during the nineteenth century. In 1858...

French 19TH Century Museum Egyptology

6.5 Fair