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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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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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Eduardo Matos Moctezuma

Eduardo Matos Moctezuma is a Mexican archaeologist renowned for his extensive work excavating Templo Mayor in Mexico Cit...

Modern Mexican Mesoamerica Aztec

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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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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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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Eduard Seler

German explorer and ethnographer whose meticulous early 20th-century documentation of Mesoamerican codices and archaeolo...

German 19TH Century Mesoamerica Aztec

8.8 Great

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a Russian-American archaeologist whose detailed architectural drawings of Maya sites and brea...

Illustration 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

8.6 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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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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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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Peter Mathews

Peter Mathews is an Australian archaeologist and epigrapher noted for his extensive work in decoding ancient Maya inscri...

Modern Australian Maya Mesoamerica

7.9 Good