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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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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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Stephen Houston

Stephen Houston is a modern American archaeologist specializing in the study of the Maya civilization. His work focuses...

Modern American Maya Mesoamerica

8.8 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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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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Vance Haynes

Vance Haynes is an American geoarchaeologist famous for his foundational work defining the geological timelines of the C...

American 20TH Century North America Geoarchaeology

8.2 Great

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Timothy Pauketat

Timothy Pauketat is an American archaeologist renowned for his research on the Mississippian culture and his excavations...

Modern American North America Mississippian

8.2 Great

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David Hurst Thomas

David Hurst Thomas is an American archaeologist and curator at the American Museum of Natural History, noted for his wor...

Modern American North America Mission

8.2 Great

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David J. Meltzer

David J. Meltzer is an American archaeologist specializing in the peopling of North America and the environmental histor...

Modern American North America Paleoindian

8.1 Great

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Patricia Crown

Patricia Crown is an American archaeologist celebrated for her research on Southwestern US cultures, notably discovering...

Modern American North America Southwest

7.8 Good

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James M. Adovasio

James M. Adovasio is an American archaeologist famous for directing the excavation of Meadowcroft Rockshelter, an early...

Modern American North America Paleoindian

7.8 Good

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James A. Ford

James A. Ford was an American archaeologist recognized for developing quantitative methods in ceramic seriation and Sout...

American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

7.7 Good

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Philip Phillips

Philip Phillips was an American archaeologist who, alongside James A. Ford, developed the foundational type-variety meth...

American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

7.6 Good

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William Henry Holmes

American archaeologist and artist at the Smithsonian who served as chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology and made fo...

American 19TH Century North America Smithsonian

7.4 Good

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Edgar Lee Hewett

American archaeologist instrumental in passing the Antiquities Act of 1906 and founder of the School of American Researc...

American 20TH Century North America Southwest

7.2 Good