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Flinders Petrie

Careful attention to ordinary objects helped Flinders Petrie change the practice of archaeology. A British Egyptologist...

19TH Century British Palestine Egyptology

8.79 Great

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Howard Carter

The discovery of Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings made Howard Carter a central figure in...

20TH Century British Excavation Egyptology

8.69 Great

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Vere Gordon Childe

Australian-born archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe developed influential explanations for major changes in prehistoric soc...

Theory European 20TH Century Neolithic

8.57 Great

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Ian Hodder

British archaeologist Ian Hodder helped develop post-processual archaeology in the 1980s, arguing that material remains...

Modern Theory British Post Processual

8.42 Great

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Mary Leakey

Mary Leakey was a British archaeologist specializing in paleoanthropology. Her work significantly advanced our understan...

20TH Century British Paleoanthropology Hominin

8.30 Great

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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

8.29 Great

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Grahame Clark

Grahame Clark was a prominent British archaeologist specializing in European prehistory. His work centered on the Mesoli...

European 20TH Century British Prehistory

8.11 Great

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David Clarke

David Clarke was a prominent British archaeologist influential for developing analytical approaches to archaeological in...

Theory 20TH Century British Analytical

8.11 Great

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Mortimer Wheeler

Mortimer Wheeler was a prominent 20th-century British archaeologist renowned for his innovative excavation techniques. H...

Military 20TH Century British Methodology

8.10 Great

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Dorothy Garrod

Dorothy Garrod was a British archaeologist specializing in the Paleolithic period. Her work, particularly at Mount Carme...

20TH Century British Paleolithic Neanderthal

8.09 Great

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Barry Cunliffe

Barry Cunliffe is a prominent British archaeologist specializing in the study of Iron Age Europe. His work focuses on in...

Modern European British Iron Age

8.05 Great

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Alexander Cunningham

Alexander Cunningham was a British army engineer and archaeologist who became the first Director-General of the Archaeol...

India 19TH Century British Asian

7.93 Good

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David Wengrow

David Wengrow is a British archaeologist and professor at University College London whose research focuses on the Near E...

Modern Near East British Neolithic

7.91 Good

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J. Desmond Clark

J. Desmond Clark was a British archaeologist whose research focused on African prehistory and the environmental settings...

20TH Century British African Stone Age

7.89 Good

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John Lubbock

John Lubbock was a British banker, politician, naturalist, and archaeologist who contributed to the nineteenth-century s...

19TH Century British Neolithic Paleolithic

7.87 Good

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Leonard Woolley

Sir Leonard Woolley was a British archaeologist known chiefly for directing excavations at the ancient Sumerian city of...

20TH Century British Ur Assyriology

7.83 Good

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Marija Gimbutas

Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994) was a prominent Lithuanian-American archaeologist and anthropologist known for her research...

European 20TH Century Neolithic Lithuanian American

7.80 Good

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Gertrude Bell

Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was a British archaeologist, diplomat, and writer who played a significant role in the formati...

20TH Century Mesopotamia British Museum

7.77 Good

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O.G.S. Crawford

Osbert Guy Stanhope Crawford (1886–1957) was a British archaeologist who pioneered the use of aerial photography as a me...

European 20TH Century Geography British

7.75 Good

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Winifred Lamb

Winifred Lamb was a pioneering British classical archaeologist who specialized in the prehistory of the Aegean region. C...

Classical 20TH Century British Aegean

6.76 Fair