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Franz Boas

Franz Boas was a 19th-century archaeologist and anthropologist whose work fundamentally shaped the field of American ant...

19TH Century Culture North America Anthropology

9.7 Brilliant

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Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion was a French archaeologist whose work fundamentally changed our understanding of ancient Egypt...

French 19TH Century Egyptology Rosetta Stone

9.7 Brilliant

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Flinders Petrie

Flinders Petrie was a pioneering archaeologist central to the development of modern Egyptology. His meticulous technique...

19TH Century British Palestine Egyptology

9.6 Brilliant

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Claude Lévi-Strauss

Claude Lévi-Strauss was a prominent 20th-century French anthropologist and archaeologist. His work, particularly his dev...

French Theory 20TH Century Anthropology

9.6 Brilliant

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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

8.7 Great

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Max Uhle

German archaeologist often called the father of South American scientific archaeology, who conducted systematic excavati...

German 19TH Century South America Inca

8.6 Great

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Julio C. Tello

Peruvian archaeologist known as the father of Peruvian archaeology, who discovered the Paracas culture in 1925 and was t...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Chavin

8.6 Great

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Richard L. Burger

Richard L. Burger is an American archaeologist noted for his significant excavations and research at the Chavín de Huánt...

Modern American South America Chavin

8.2 Great

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Hiram Bingham

American explorer and Yale historian who brought Machu Picchu to world attention in 1911 and later served as U.S. senato...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

8.1 Great

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Izumi Shimada

Izumi Shimada is a Japanese-born archaeologist famous for his long-term interdisciplinary research on the Sicán culture...

Modern South America Japanese American Sican

8.1 Great

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Michael E. Moseley

American archaeologist who proposed the Maritime Foundations of Andean Civilization hypothesis, arguing that Andean civi...

American 20TH Century South America Maritime

8.0 Great

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María Rostworowski

María Rostworowski was a Polish-Peruvian historian and archaeologist whose influential research transformed the understa...

20TH Century South America Peruvian Inca

8.0 Great

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Betty Meggers

Betty Meggers was a prominent American archaeologist known for her extensive work on prehistoric South American cultures...

American Environmental 20TH Century Amazonia

7.9 Good

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William H. Isbell

American archaeologist specializing in Andean prehistory, widely recognized for his extensive research and chronological...

Modern American South America Tiwanaku

7.9 Good

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Craig Morris

Craig Morris was an American archaeologist recognized for his extensive excavations at the Inca administrative center of...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

7.8 Good

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Elizabeth P. Benson

American art historian and archaeologist who curated the Dumbarton Oaks collection, becoming a leading scholar on the ar...

Modern American South America Art

7.8 Good

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Walter Alva

Peruvian archaeologist who in 1987 excavated the Royal Tombs of Sipán, uncovering one of the richest unlooted pre-Columb...

Modern South America Peruvian Moche

7.7 Good

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Clifford Evans

Clifford Evans was an American archaeologist who worked extensively in South America, collaborating with Betty Meggers o...

American 20TH Century Amazonia South America

7.4 Good

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Grete Mostny

Grete Mostny was an Austrian-born Chilean archaeologist who directed the National Museum of Natural History and studied...

20TH Century South America Museum Inca

6.8 Fair

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Hans Horkheimer

Hans Horkheimer was a German-Peruvian archaeologist known for his work on pre-Columbian cultures and the history of food...

Education 20TH Century South America Pre Inca

6.4 Fair