swap_horiz Manuel Gamio Alternatives

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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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Lewis Binford

For Lewis Binford, archaeology needed to explain past human behavior rather than only classify objects or describe seque...

American Theory 20TH Century Processual

8.67 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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Gordon Willey

Gordon Willey was a 20th-century American archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica. His research focused on settlement...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Settlement Patterns

8.26 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

8.21 Great

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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

8.20 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

8.14 Great

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Alfonso Caso

Alfonso Caso was a prominent 20th-century Mexican archaeologist specializing in Mesoamerica. His extensive work centered...

20TH Century Mexican Mesoamerica Mixtec

8.11 Great

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Leonardo López Luján

Leonardo López Luján is a prominent Mexican archaeologist dedicated to the study of the Aztec civilization. He leads the...

Modern Mexican Mesoamerica Aztec

8.02 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

8.01 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

7.91 Good

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Tatiana Proskouriakoff

Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a Russian-born American archaeologist, architect, and illustrator whose work transformed the...

Illustration 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

7.87 Good

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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

7.65 Good

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Ignacio Bernal

Ignacio Bernal (1910-1992) was a prominent Mexican archaeologist who served as director of Mexico's National Institute o...

20TH Century Mexican Mesoamerica Oaxaca

7.59 Good

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Sylvanus Morley

Sylvanus G. Morley was an American archaeologist, epigrapher, and Maya specialist who worked extensively in Mexico and C...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

7.50 Good

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William R. Coe

William R. Coe (1926–2009) was an American archaeologist who served as a leading figure in the University of Pennsylvani...

American 20TH Century Maya Mesoamerica

7.19 Good

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Felipe Solís Olguín

Felipe Solís Olguín (1944–2009) was a Mexican archaeologist, anthropologist, and curator at the National Museum of Anthr...

20TH Century Mexican Museum Mesoamerica

7.19 Good

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Miguel Covarrubias

Miguel Covarrubias was a Mexican artist, caricaturist, writer, ethnographer, and scholar of pre-Columbian cultures. His...

20TH Century Mexican Mesoamerica Art

6.95 Fair

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George Vaillant

George Clapp Vaillant was an American anthropologist and archaeologist whose research focused on the pre-Columbian cultu...

American 20TH Century Mesoamerica Aztec

6.85 Fair

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Ian Graham

Ian Graham was a British archaeologist and explorer known for documenting Maya ruins, monuments, and hieroglyphic inscri...

Survey 20TH Century British Maya

6.83 Fair