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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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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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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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Alfonso Caso

Influential Mexican archaeologist who famously excavated Monte Albán in Oaxaca, discovering Tomb 7 in 1932 and successfu...

20TH Century Mexican Mesoamerica Mixtec

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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Joyce Marcus

American archaeologist known for her research on ancient Mesoamerican writing systems and political organization, with e...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

8.6 Great

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Jeremy Sabloff

Jeremy Sabloff is an American archaeologist known for his research on ancient Maya settlement patterns and his promotion...

Modern American Settlement Maya

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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Michael E. Smith

American archaeologist noted for his systematic surface surveys and excavations of Aztec sites in Mexico, particularly a...

Modern American Mesoamerica Urbanism

8.6 Great

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John Lloyd Stephens

John Lloyd Stephens was an American explorer whose 1839 and 1840 expeditions to Central America documented ancient Maya...

American 19TH Century Explorer Maya

8.4 Great

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Elizabeth Brumfiel

Elizabeth Brumfiel was an American archaeologist whose pioneering research focused on Aztec socio-economic inequalities...

Modern American Mesoamerica Gender

8.3 Great

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Ignacio Bernal

Mexican archaeologist who directed the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) and led major excavations a...

20TH Century Mexican Mesoamerica Oaxaca

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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Sylvanus Morley

Sylvanus Morley was an American archaeologist and epigrapher who directed large-scale excavations at the Chichen Itza si...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.2 Great

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Richard Blanton

American anthropologist noted for his large-scale settlement pattern surveys at Monte Albán, Mexico, and his theories on...

Modern American Mesoamerica Urbanism

8.2 Great

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Jeffrey R. Parsons

American archaeologist recognized for his extensive regional surveys of pre-Hispanic settlements in the Basin of Mexico...

Modern American Survey Mesoamerica

7.9 Good

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William R. Coe

William R. Coe was an American archaeologist who directed the massive University of Pennsylvania excavations at the anci...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

7.8 Good

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Payson Sheets

Payson Sheets is an American archaeologist best known for his excavations at Joya de Cerén, a well-preserved ancient May...

Modern American Mesoamerica Volcanology

7.7 Good