swap_horiz Ricardo E. Latcham Alternatives

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Franz Boas

Franz Boas helped reshape American anthropology by arguing that cultures must be understood through their own histories...

19TH Century Culture North America Anthropology

8.88 Great

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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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Eduard Seler

Eduard Seler was a German archaeologist and philologist primarily known for his extensive work in Mesoamerica during the...

German 19TH Century Mesoamerica Aztec

8.05 Great

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Tom D. Dillehay

Tom Dillehay is a modern American archaeologist whose work significantly advanced our understanding of paleoindian cultu...

Modern American South America Paleoindian

8.01 Great

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Jacques Boucher de Perthes

Jacques Boucher de Perthes (1788–1868) was a French customs official and antiquarian whose discoveries in the Somme Vall...

French 19TH Century Antiquity Paleolithic

7.96 Good

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Alexander Cunningham

Alexander Cunningham was a British army engineer and archaeologist who became the first Director-General of the Archaeol...

India 19TH Century British Asian

7.93 Good

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Julio C. Tello

Julio C. Tello was a Peruvian archaeologist, trained at Harvard University, who is widely considered the founder of mode...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Chavin

7.92 Good

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Max Uhle

Max Uhle was a German archaeologist whose systematic fieldwork helped establish the chronological study of pre-Columbian...

German 19TH Century South America Inca

7.89 Good

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John Lubbock

John Lubbock was a British banker, politician, naturalist, and archaeologist who contributed to the nineteenth-century s...

19TH Century British Neolithic Paleolithic

7.87 Good

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Austen Henry Layard

Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) was a British traveller, archaeologist, and diplomat who excavated the Neo-Assyrian site...

19TH Century British Assyriology Nimrud

7.75 Good

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John V. Murra

John V. Murra was an anthropologist and historian whose research focused on the political economy and social organizatio...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

7.74 Good

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John Lloyd Stephens

John Lloyd Stephens (1805–1852) was an American explorer, diplomat, and travel writer who conducted two pivotal expediti...

American 19TH Century Explorer Maya

7.68 Good

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Robert Koldewey

Robert Koldewey was a German architect and archaeologist best known for directing the excavations of the ancient city of...

German Architecture 19TH Century Assyriology

7.55 Good

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Richard L. Burger

Richard L. Burger is an American archaeologist whose research focuses on the ancient civilizations of the central Andes,...

Modern American South America Chavin

7.53 Good

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Arthur Evans

Arthur Evans was a British archaeologist best known for excavating Knossos on the Greek island of Crete beginning in 190...

Classical 19TH Century British Minoan

7.50 Good

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Hiram Bingham

Hiram Bingham III was an American historian, explorer, and politician associated with Yale University. In 1911, an exped...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

7.47 Good

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Izumi Shimada

Izumi Shimada is a Japanese-born American archaeologist specializing in the pre-Columbian cultures of the Andes. He is b...

Modern South America Japanese American Sican

7.41 Good

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María Rostworowski

María Rostworowski (1915–2016) was a Polish-Peruvian historian and ethnohistorian whose research fundamentally reshaped...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Inca

7.38 Good

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Michael E. Moseley

Michael E. Moseley was an American archaeologist recognized for his extensive research on pre-Columbian societies in Sou...

American 20TH Century South America Maritime

7.37 Good

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William H. Isbell

William H. Isbell is an American archaeologist and professor who specializes in the prehistory of the Andes. He is widel...

Modern American South America Tiwanaku

7.28 Good