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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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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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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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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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Jacques Boucher de Perthes

Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788–1868) was a French customs official and antiquarian whose discoveries in the Somme Vall...

French 19TH Century Antiquity Paleolithic

8.7 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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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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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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Nicholas Conard

Nicholas Conard is an American archaeologist and professor at the University of Tübingen who specializes in Paleolithic...

Modern Germany American Paleolithic

8.3 Great

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Sally Binford

Sally Binford (1924–1994) was an American archaeologist who became a prominent figure in the development of processual a...

American Theory 20TH Century Paleolithic

7.9 Good

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Fred Wendorf

Fred Wendorf (1925–2015) was an American archaeologist who spent much of his career at Southern Methodist University, wh...

American 20TH Century African Paleolithic

7.9 Good

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Olga Soffer

Olga Soffer is an American archaeologist recognized for her extensive research on Upper Paleolithic societies and her wo...

Russia Modern American Paleolithic

7.8 Good

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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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Anna Belfer-Cohen

Anna Belfer-Cohen is an Israeli archaeologist specializing in prehistoric archaeology, particularly the later Paleolithi...

Modern Israeli Paleolithic Levant

7.5 Good

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Anthony Marks

Anthony Marks is an American archaeologist and academic recognized for his extensive research concerning Paleolithic cul...

American 20TH Century African Paleolithic

7.5 Good