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Howard Carter

The discovery of Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings made Howard Carter a central figure in...

20TH Century British Excavation Egyptology

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Lewis Binford

For Lewis Binford, archaeology needed to explain past human behavior rather than only classify objects or describe seque...

American Theory 20TH Century Processual

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Vere Gordon Childe

Australian-born archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe developed influential explanations for major changes in prehistoric soc...

Theory European 20TH Century Neolithic

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Louis Leakey

Louis Leakey helped establish Africa's central place in the study of human origins through twentieth-century archaeologi...

20TH Century Paleoanthropology Hominin Olduvai

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André Leroi-Gourhan

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Technology French 20TH Century Paleolithic

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Bruce Trigger

Bruce Trigger was a prominent Canadian archaeologist specializing in Egyptology during the 20th century. His work signif...

History Theory Canadian 20TH Century

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Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey was a British archaeologist specializing in paleoanthropology. Her work significantly advanced our understan...

20TH Century British Paleoanthropology Hominin

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Kathleen Kenyon

Kathleen Kenyon was a prominent 20th-century British archaeologist specializing in Near Eastern cultures. Her rigorous e...

20TH Century Near East British Methodology

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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

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Raymond Dart

Raymond Dart was a 20th-century South African archaeologist specializing in paleoanthropology. He is primarily known for...

20TH Century South African Paleoanthropology Australopithecus

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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

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Richard Leakey

Richard Leakey was a 20th-century Kenyan archaeologist specializing in paleoanthropology. His significant discoveries, m...

20TH Century Kenyan Paleoanthropology Hominin

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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

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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

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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

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Li Ji

Li Ji was a 20th-century Chinese archaeologist whose work profoundly shaped the field. He spearheaded crucial excavation...

20TH Century Chinese Asian Shang

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David Clarke

David Clarke was a prominent British archaeologist influential for developing analytical approaches to archaeological in...

Theory 20TH Century British Analytical

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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

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Manfred Korfmann

Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) was a German archaeologist and prehistorian best known for his directorship of the excavati...

German Classical 20TH Century Prehistory

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Rhys Jones

Rhys Jones was a Welsh-Australian archaeologist celebrated for his foundational contributions to the study of Australian...

Australian 20TH Century Aboriginal Prehistory

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