swap_horiz Mortimer Wheeler Alternatives

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Flinders Petrie

Careful attention to ordinary objects helped Flinders Petrie change the practice of archaeology. A British Egyptologist...

19TH Century British Palestine Egyptology

8.79 Great

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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

8.69 Great

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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

8.67 Great

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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

8.57 Great

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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

8.51 Great

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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

8.30 Great

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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

8.29 Great

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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

8.11 Great

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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

8.11 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

8.09 Great

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J. Desmond Clark

J. Desmond Clark was a British archaeologist whose research focused on African prehistory and the environmental settings...

20TH Century British African Stone Age

7.89 Good

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Leonard Woolley

Sir Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist known chiefly for directing excavations at the ancient Sumerian city of...

20TH Century British Ur Assyriology

7.83 Good

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a British archaeologist, diplomat, and writer who played a significant role in the formati...

20TH Century Mesopotamia British Museum

7.77 Good

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O.G.S. Crawford

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (1886–1957) was a British archaeologist who pioneered the use of aerial photography as a me...

European 20TH Century Geography British

7.75 Good

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Gertrude Caton-Thompson

Gertrude Caton-Thompson (1888–1985) was a pioneering British archaeologist known for her rigorous fieldwork in Egypt and...

20TH Century British Egyptology Predynastic

7.34 Good

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Max Mallowan

Sir Max Mallowan was a prominent British archaeologist whose career focused on the ancient Near East during the mid-20th...

20TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

7.25 Good

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John Pendlebury

John Pendlebury (1904-1941) was a British archaeologist who specialized in the study of Minoan civilization on Crete. As...

Classical 20TH Century British Egypt

6.92 Fair

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Ian Graham

Ian Graham was a British archaeologist and explorer known for documenting Maya ruins, monuments, and hieroglyphic inscri...

Survey 20TH Century British Maya

6.83 Fair

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Winifred Lamb

Winifred Lamb was a pioneering British classical archaeologist who specialized in the prehistory of the Aegean region. C...

Classical 20TH Century British Aegean

6.76 Fair

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Margaret Murray

Margaret Murray was a British Egyptologist, archaeologist, and folklorist whose career connected university teaching, mu...

Mining 20TH Century British Tomb

5.01 Mediocre