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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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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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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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Donald Johanson

Donald Johanson is an American archaeologist primarily known for his pivotal role in paleoanthropology. In 1974, he led...

Modern American Paleoanthropology Awash

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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George Bass

American archaeologist considered the father of underwater archaeology, who founded the Institute of Nautical Archaeolog...

American 20TH Century Underwater Bronze Age

8.8 Great

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Michael Schiffer

American archaeologist Michael Schiffer is renowned for founding behavioral archaeology and his theories on the formatio...

Modern American Theory Behavioral

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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Jane Buikstra

Jane Buikstra is an American bioarchaeologist who formalized the field in the 1970s and significantly advanced the study...

Modern American Founder Bioarchaeology

8.8 Great

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Ofer Bar-Yosef

Ofer Bar-Yosef is an Israeli archaeologist whose extensive fieldwork in the Levant fundamentally shaped the understandin...

Modern Israeli Neolithic Paleolithic

8.8 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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Jacques Boucher de Perthes

French antiquarian who in the 1830s–1840s was among the first to demonstrate human antiquity by associating flint tools...

French 19TH Century Antiquity Paleolithic

8.7 Great

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Tim White

American paleoanthropologist Tim White is notable for co-discovering Ardipithecus ramidus in Ethiopia and his work on ea...

Modern American Paleoanthropology Awash

8.7 Great

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Sally Binford

American archaeologist Sally Binford was a prominent pioneer in the field of zooarchaeology and an early leader in the N...

American Theory 20TH Century Paleolithic

7.9 Good

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Fred Wendorf

Fred Wendorf was an American archaeologist noted for his extensive work in the American Southwest and his prehistoric ex...

American 20TH Century African Paleolithic

7.9 Good

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Olga Soffer

Olga Soffer is an American archaeologist known for her influential research on Upper Paleolithic societies and the earli...

Russia Modern American Paleolithic

7.8 Good

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Anthony Marks

Anthony Marks is an American archaeologist recognized for his significant contributions to the study of Paleolithic cult...

American 20TH Century African Paleolithic

7.5 Good