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David Stuart

David Stuart is a modern American archaeologist specializing in the study of the Maya civilization and Mesoamerica. His...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

9.1 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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Stephen Houston

Stephen Houston is an American epigrapher and archaeologist renowned for his foundational contributions to the decipherm...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

8.8 Great

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Michael D. Coe

Michael D. Coe was an American archaeologist who specialized in Mesoamerican studies and authored groundbreaking works o...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.7 Great

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a Russian-American archaeologist whose detailed architectural drawings of Maya sites and brea...

Illustration 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.6 Great

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Jeremy Sabloff

Jeremy Sabloff is an American archaeologist known for his research on ancient Maya settlement patterns and his promotion...

Modern American Settlement Maya

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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Michael E. Smith

American archaeologist noted for his systematic surface surveys and excavations of Aztec sites in Mexico, particularly a...

Modern American Mesoamerica Urbanism

8.6 Great

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John Lloyd Stephens

John Lloyd Stephens was an American explorer whose 1839 and 1840 expeditions to Central America documented ancient Maya...

American 19TH Century Explorer Maya

8.4 Great

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Elizabeth Brumfiel

Elizabeth Brumfiel was an American archaeologist whose pioneering research focused on Aztec socio-economic inequalities...

Modern American Mesoamerica Gender

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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Sylvanus Morley

Sylvanus Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who directed large-scale excavations at the Chichen Itza si...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.2 Great

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Richard Blanton

American anthropologist noted for his large-scale settlement pattern surveys at Monte Albán, Mexico, and his theories on...

Modern American Mesoamerica Urbanism

8.2 Great

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William R. Coe

William R. Coe was an American archaeologist who directed the massive University of Pennsylvania excavations at the anci...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

7.8 Good

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William Saturno

William Saturno is an American archaeologist who discovered the oldest known intact Maya mural at the site of San Bartol...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

7.5 Good

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Arthur Demarest

Arthur Demarest is an American archaeologist who directed the Petexbatun Regional Archaeological Project in Guatemala du...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

7.5 Good

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Richard Hansen

Richard D. Hansen is an American archaeologist who directs the Mirador Basin Project in Guatemala, leading major investi...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

7.2 Good

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Scott L. Fedick

Scott L. Fedick is an American archaeologist recognized for his extensive landscape and agricultural research on ancient...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

7.0 Good