swap_horiz William Foxwell Albright 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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Robert McC. Adams

Robert McC. Adams was an American archaeologist renowned for his innovative survey methods in the Near East. His extensi...

American Survey 20TH Century Near East

8.7 Great

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Samuel Noah Kramer

Samuel Noah Kramer was an influential Assyriologist who specialized in the translation and interpretation of Sumerian cu...

American 20TH Century Sumerian Cuneiform

8.6 Great

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Alfred V. Kidder

Alfred V. Kidder was an American archaeologist whose fieldwork helped establish systematic methods for studying the anci...

American 20TH Century North America Peabody

8.6 Great

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Richard S. MacNeish

Richard S. MacNeish was a 20th-century American archaeologist recognized for his extensive fieldwork in Mesoamerica and...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Origins Of Agriculture

8.6 Great

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Israel Finkelstein

Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist and professor at Tel Aviv University who specializes in the archaeology o...

Modern Israeli Near East Biblical

8.6 Great

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Yigael Yadin

Yigael Yadin was an Israeli archaeologist, military officer, and politician who served as the second chief of staff of t...

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Masada

8.5 Great

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John V. Murra

John V. Murra was an anthropologist and historian whose research focused on the political economy and social organizatio...

American 20TH Century South America Inca

8.4 Great

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James B. Griffin

James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) was a prominent American archaeologist who served as the director of the University of...

American 20TH Century North America Mississippi

8.4 Great

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Patty Jo Watson

Patty Jo Watson is an American archaeologist who served as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is rec...

American 20TH Century Near East Caves

8.3 Great

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William T. Sanders

William T. Sanders was an American archaeologist and anthropologist who specialized in the cultural ecology and demograp...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Teotihuacan

8.3 Great

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Benjamin Mazar

Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995), born Binyamin Maisler in Ciechanowiec, Poland, was an Israeli historian and archaeologist wh...

Israeli 20TH Century Near East Biblical

8.0 Great

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Gregory Johnson

Gregory Johnson is an American archaeologist and anthropologist known for his research on the development of early compl...

American 20TH Century Near East Complexity

7.7 Good

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Nelson Glueck

Nelson Glueck was an American rabbi, biblical scholar, and archaeologist whose fieldwork focused on the ancient Near Eas...

American Survey 20TH Century Near East

7.3 Good