swap_horiz Robert McC. Adams Alternatives

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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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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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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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George Bass

George Bass was a twentieth-century American archaeologist instrumental in establishing underwater archaeology as a dist...

American 20TH Century Underwater Bronze Age

8.8 Great

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Michael D. Coe

Michael D. Coe was a prominent 20th-century American archaeologist dedicated to the study of Mesoamerica. His research s...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.7 Great

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Mark Lehner

Mark Lehner is an American archaeologist who has directed the Giza Plateau Mapping Project since 1984, conducting extens...

Modern American Survey Egyptology

8.6 Great

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Samuel Noah Kramer

Samuel Noah Kramer was a Ukrainian-American Assyriologist who translated numerous Sumerian cuneiform tablets, significan...

American 20TH Century Sumerian Cuneiform

8.6 Great

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Alfred V. Kidder

Alfred Vincent Kidder was an American archaeologist who pioneered modern excavation techniques in North America through...

American 20TH Century North America Peabody

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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William Foxwell Albright

William Foxwell Albright was an influential American archaeologist and biblical scholar who led excavations at Tell Beit...

American 20TH Century Near East Biblical

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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Yigael Yadin

Yigael Yadin was an influential Israeli archaeologist and military leader notable for directing major excavations at Mas...

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Masada

8.5 Great

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James B. Griffin

James B. Griffin was a prominent American archaeologist who revolutionized the classification of prehistoric Native Amer...

American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

8.4 Great

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Patty Jo Watson

American archaeologist Patty Jo Watson is celebrated for her pioneering work in processual archaeology and her extensive...

American 20TH Century Near East Caves

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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Henry T. Wright

American archaeologist renowned for his extensive research on the origins of state societies in Mesopotamia, particularl...

Modern American Near East Sumer

8.2 Great

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Gregory Johnson

American archaeologist who co-developed early information processing theories of early state formation, conducting key s...

American 20TH Century Near East Complexity

7.7 Good

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Nelson Glueck

Nelson Glueck was an American rabbi and archaeologist who conducted extensive explorations of the Negev desert and serve...

American Survey 20TH Century Near East

7.3 Good