swap_horiz Max Mallowan Alternatives

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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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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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Mary Leakey

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

20TH Century British Paleoanthropology Hominin

9.0 Excellent

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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

9.0 Excellent

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Mortimer Wheeler

Mortimer Wheeler was a British archaeologist who developed the grid system of excavation and led major digs at Roman sit...

Military 20TH Century British Methodology

8.8 Great

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Grahame Clark

British archaeologist who excavated the Mesolithic site of Star Carr, Yorkshire (1949–1951), and pioneered environmental...

European 20TH Century British Prehistory

8.8 Great

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Dorothy Garrod

British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod was the first woman to hold a professorship at Cambridge, noted for her Paleolithic...

20TH Century British Paleolithic Neanderthal

8.8 Great

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David Clarke

David Clarke was a British archaeologist who pioneered analytical and spatial archaeology in the 1960s and 1970s, notabl...

Theory 20TH Century British Analytical

8.8 Great

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J. Desmond Clark

British archaeologist J. Desmond Clark was a leading authority on African prehistory, noted for his extensive excavation...

20TH Century British African Stone Age

8.6 Great

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Leonard Woolley

Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist best known for his excavation of the Sumerian city of Ur in the 1920s, where...

20TH Century British Ur Assyriology

8.5 Great

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell was a British archaeologist and diplomat who mapped sites in the Middle East and was instrumental in estab...

20TH Century Mesopotamia British Museum

8.5 Great

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Austen Henry Layard

Austen Henry Layard was a British archaeologist who excavated the ancient Assyrian cities of Nimrud and Nineveh in the 1...

19TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

8.4 Great

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O.G.S. Crawford

British archaeologist who pioneered the use of aerial photography as an archaeological prospection tool and founded the...

European 20TH Century Geography British

8.4 Great

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Gertrude Caton-Thompson

British archaeologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson is celebrated for her excavations in Egypt and her 1929 work at the Great...

20TH Century British Egyptology Predynastic

8.0 Great

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Hormuzd Rassam

Hormuzd Rassam was an Assyrian archaeologist who worked for the British Museum and famously discovered the Cyrus Cylinde...

19TH Century Iraqi Assyriology Nineveh

7.7 Good

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John Pendlebury

John Pendlebury was a British archaeologist who served as curator at Knossos and conducted extensive surveys of Crete be...

Classical 20TH Century British Egypt

7.5 Good

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Ian Graham

Ian Graham was a British archaeologist who established the Corpus of Maya Hieroglyphic Inscriptions at Harvard Universit...

Survey 20TH Century British Maya

7.4 Good

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Murray was a prominent British Egyptologist and archaeologist who worked extensively with Flinders Petrie and s...

Mining 20TH Century British Tomb

5.5 Mediocre