List of archaeologists
A list of eminent archaeologists.
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- Churchill Babington (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology
- Paul Bahn (born 19?? ) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island
- Geoff Bailey (born 19?? ) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
- Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914) American; American South-West
- Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) Italian; Estruscans & art
- Pessah Bar-Adon (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (Bet Shearim, Tel Bet Yerah, Nahal Mishmar hoard)
- Gabriel Barkay (born 1944) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy,glyptics in the Iron Age, Ketef Hinnom)
- Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England
- Ofer Bar-Yosef (born 1937) Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites
- Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire)
- Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco)
- Bayar Dovdoi (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia
- Mark Beech (born 1963) English; Arabia
- Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian /?Dutch; Egypt
- Taha Baqir (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
- Lee Berger (born 1965) American; paleo-anthroplogy
- Gerhard Bersu(1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.)
- Charles Ernest Beule (1826–1874) French; Greece
- Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles, France
- Martin Biddle (born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain.
- Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
- Lewis Binford (1930-2011) American; theory
- Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) American; discovered Machu Picchu
- Flavio Biondo(1392–1463) Italian; Rome
- Avraham Biran (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan))
- Glenn Albert Black (1900–1964) American; US Mid-West
- Carl Blegen (1887–1971) American; Troy
- Frederick Jones Bliss (1857–1939) American; Palestine
- Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture
- François Bordes(1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
- Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868) French; France
- Richard Bradley (born 19??) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain)
- Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) French; Meso-America
- James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) American; Egypt
- Eric Breuer (born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
- Jacques Breuer(born ????) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
- Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
- Don Brothwell (born ????) British; paleopathology
- Elizabeth Brumfiel (born ????) American; Mesoamerica
- Aubrey Burl (born 19??) British?; British megalithic monuments
- Karl Butzer (born 1934) American; environmental archaeology
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- Frank Calvert (1828–1908) English; Troy
- Catherine M. Cameron (born 19??) American; Southwest United States
- Luigi Canina (1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way)
- Bob Carr (born 1947) American; Florida historic Indians
- Martin Carver (born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo
- Howard Carter (1874–1939) English; Egypt
- Joanna Casey (born 19??) ; Africa and ethnoarchaeology
- Alfonso Caso (1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico
- Mirza Hasan Ceman (born 1949) Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Islamic Art and Archaeology
- C. W. Ceram (1915–1972) German; popularizer
- Dilip Chakrabarti (born ????) ; South Asian archaeology (especially archaeological geography of the Ganga Plain)
- John Leland Champe (1895–1978) American?; archaeology of the Great Plains
- Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) French; Egypt
- Kwang-chih Chang (1931–2001) Chinese/Taiwanese; China
- Arlen F Chase (1953-)American?; Mesoamerica
- Diane Zaino Chase (1957-) American; Mesoamerica
- Chen Mengjia (1911-1966) Chinese; China
- John F. Cherry (born 19??) Welsh; Aegean prehistory
- Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) Australian; Europe / neolithic
- Choi Mong-lyong (born 1946) Korean; Korea (Mumin pottery period)
- Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834) Italian; Italy
- Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (born 1914) Turkish; Sumerology
- Bob Clarke (Historian) English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
- David Clarke (1937–1976) English; theory
- John Desmond Clark (1916–2002) English; Africa
- Stephen Clarke (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
- Grahame Clark (1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy
- Albert Tobias Clay (1866–1925) American; Assyriology
- Eric H. Cline (b0rn 1960) Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
- Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West
- John M. Coles (born 1930) British:; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age archaeology, experimental archaeology
- John Collis (born 1944) English; Iron Age Europe
- Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838) English, England
- Margaret Conkey (born 19??); France / paleolithic
- Graham Connah (born 19??) Australian?; historic Africa and Australia
- Gudrun Corvinus (1931-2006?) German; India/Nepal/Africa
- George Cowgill (born 19??) American; Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
- O.G.S. Crawford (1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology
- Roger Cribb (1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds & Australian Aborigines
- Michelle M. Croissier, American; Mexico, ceramics.
- Joseph George Cumming (1812–1868) English; Isle of Man
- Barry Cunliffe (born 1939) British; Iron Age Europe, Celts
- Ben Cunnington (1861–1950) English; prehistoric England (Wiltshire)
- Maud Cunnington (1869–1951) Welsh; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain)
- William Cunnington (1754–1810) English; prehistoric Britain (Salisbury Plain)
- James Curle (1861?-1944) Scottish; Roman Scotland (Trimontium)
- Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) German: Greece
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- George F. Dales (1927—1992) Ameican; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
- Ahmad Hasan Dani (1920—2009) Pakistani; South Asian archaeology
- Glyn Daniel (1914–1986) Welsh; European Neolithic; popularization of archaeology
- Ken Dark (born 1961) British; Roman Europe
- Theodore M. Davies (born 19??) American; Egypt
- William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man
- Janette Deacon (born 1939) South African; rock art; heritage management
- Hilary Deacon (1936–2010) South African; African; antiquity of man
- James Deetz (1930–2000) American; Historical Archaeology
- James P. Delgado (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist
- Richard Dent (born 19??) American?: Chesapeake, Southwest
- Shiran Deraniyagala(born 19??) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
- Louis Felicien de Saulcy (1807–1880) French; Holy Land
- Jules Desnoyers (1800–1887) French; antiquity of man
- Rúaidhrí de Valera (1916–1978) Irish; megalithic tombs in Ireland
- Dragotin Dežman (1821-1889) Slovenian; Ljubljana Marshes, iron age in Lower Carniola
- Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1806–1867) French; Medievalist, Christian iconography
- Tom D. Dillehay (born 19??) American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas
- Ali Dinçol (born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
- Belkıs Dinçol (born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
- Kelly Dixon (born 19??) American; historical archaeology of the American West
- Nick Dixon (born 1971) Scottish; underwater archaeology, submerged settlement sites, loch dwellings, Scottish Crannog Centre
- Marcia-Anne Dobres (born 19??) ; agency and gender in archaeology
- Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) German; Greece
- Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics
- Robert Dunnell American; theory, U.S. Mid-West
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- Kutlu Emre (born 19??) Turkish; Hittitologist
- Kenan Erim (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia
- Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) British; Aegean archaeology (Minoan studies, Knossos, Linear A and B)
- Sir John Evans (1823–1908) English; British archaeology
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- Georg Fabricius (1516–1571), German; Roman epigraphy
- Brian M. Fagan (born 19??) generalist, popularist, history of archaeology
- Panagiotis Faklaris (born 1950) Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina
- Rev. Bryan Faussett (born 17??; died ?) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England)
- Patrick Fazioli (born 19??) Medieval archaeology
- Carlo Fea (1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law
- Gary M. Feinman (born 19??) American; Mesoamerica, Oaxaca
- Sir Charles Fellows (1799–1860) British; Asia Minor
- Karl Ludwig Fernow (1763–1808) German; Roman archaeology
- J. Walter Fewkes (1850–1930) American; south-West USA (Hohokam; Pueblo, pottery)
- Israel Finkelstein (born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel)
- William D. Finlayson (born 19??) Canadian?; Ontario (Huron)
- George R Fischer (born 1937) American; underwater achaeology
- Peter M. Fischer (born 19??) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East
- Kent Flannery (born 1934) American; Mesoamerica
- James A. Ford (1911–1968) American; Southeastern United States
- Henry Chandlee Forman (born ????) American?; south-eastern U.S. historical archaeology/architecture
- Alfred Foucher (1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art)
- Cyril Fox (1882–1967) English; Wales
- William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology
- David Frankell (born 19??) Australian?; Cyprus, Aboriginal Australia (western Victoria)
- George Frison (born 1924) American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools
- Gayle J. Fritz (born 19??) American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America
- Honor Frost (1924-2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors
- Paulo P. Funari (born 19??) Brazilian; Brazil, public archaeology
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- Robert Hall (born 19??) American; U.S. Mid-West
- Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon
- Richard D. Hansen (born 19??) American; Meso-America
- Anthony Harding (born 19??) British; European Bronze Age
- Phil Harding (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping
- J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology
- James Penrose Harland (1891–1973) American; Aegean
- Michael G. Hasel (born 19??) American; Egyptology
- Emil Haury (1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States
- Zahi Hawass (born 1947) Egyptian; Egypt
- Christopher Hawkes (1905–1992) English; European archaeology
- Edgar Lee Hewett (1865–1946) American; U.S. South-West, antiquities law
- Christian Gottlob Heyne (1729–1812) Saxon-German; Classics
- Eric Higgs (1908–1976) English; economic archaeology
- Peter Hinton (born 19??) British; England
- Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran)
- Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory
- Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990) American; Egyptology
- Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956) American? ; North American Indians
- Simon Holdaway (born 19??) New Zealander?; landscape archaeology, New Zealand, Egypt
- Vance T. Holliday (????) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology
- Marcel Homet (????) French or Algerian?; Brazil
- John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain
- Ferenc Horváth (born 1948) Hungarian; Hungarian neolithic
- Youssef Hourany (born 1931) Lebanese; archeologist
- Jean-Louis Huot (born 19??) ?; biblical archaeology; agriculture
- Saman Heydari (born 1970) Iranian; Geoarchaeologist (Prehistory)
- Bahar Hamzeh Pour (born 1975) Iranian;
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- Enver Imamović (born 19??) Bosnian; Balkans
- Glynn Isaac (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology
- Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology
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- Otto Jahn (1813–1869) German; classical world (art)
- Jacques Jaubert(born 19??) French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology
- Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) US President; Virginia prehistory
- Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) USA; New World
- Llewellyn Jewitt (1816–1886) English; British antiquities
- Donald Johanson (born 1943) American; paleoanthropology, Ethiopia
- Gregory Johnson
- Jotham Johnson (1905-1967) American; Minturno (Italy), past president of the Archaeological Institute of America
- Martin Jones
- Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941–2001) Welsh/Australian; Tasmania
- Rosemary Joyce (born 19??) American; Mayans, gender archaeology
- Vítor Oliveira Jorge (born 1948) Portuguese; late prehistory of Europe (Iberia)
- Christopher Judge (born 1964) American; eastern U.S. (Woodland, Mississippian)
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- Eduard von Kallee (1818 - 1888) German; general und archaeologist; found 4 Roaman castra on the Limes Germanicus
- Richard Kallee (1854 - 1933) German; pastor and archaeologist of 102 Alemannic tombs
- Johan Kamminga (born 1948) Australian; Australian archaeology and prehistory; human evolution in Asia; stone technology; microwear
- Benjamin Kamphaus (born 19??) American?; Cognitive archaeology, central Europe
- Şevket Aziz Kansu (born ????) Turkish, Early Bronze Age Anatolia
- Dustin Keeler (born 19??) American?; Europe, GIS
- J. Charles Kelley (1913–1997) American; north-west Mexico
- Arthur Randolph Kelly (1900–1979) American; South-eastern USA
- Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho)
- Oliver Kessler (born 1972) German; archaeologist and historian; South Asia, Sri Lanka
- Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica
- T.R. Kidder (born ????) American?; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States
- Kim Won-yong(1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea
- Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe)
- Amos Kloner (born 1940) Israeli; Talpiot Tomb (Israel), Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology
- Robert Koldewey (1855–1925) German; Near East (Babylon)
- Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia (Troy)
- Gustaf Kossinna (1858-1931) German; Germany (Neolithic, Aryan concept)
- Hamit Zübeyir Koşay (1897–1984) Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia
- Kristian Kristiansen (born 19??) Swedish?; European prehistory
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- C. C. Lamberg-Karlovsky (born 1937) American; Mesopotamia, Indus valley
- Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans
- Peter Lape (born 19??) American; South-east Asia
- Pierre Henri Larcher (1726–1812) French; Classical archaeology
- Donald Lathrap (1927–1990) American; South America, U.S. Mid-West
- Jean-Philippe Lauer (1902–2001) French; Egypt
- Bo Lawergren (born 19??) music archaeology
- T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East
- Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud)
- Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
- Mary Leakey (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
- Richard Leakey (born 1944) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
- Mark Leone (born 19??) American; theory, historical archaeology
- Charles Lenormant (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
- François Lenormant (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist
- André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–1986) French; theory, art, Paleolithic
- Jean Antoine Letronne (1787–1848) French; Greece, Rome, Egypt
- Gerson Levi-Lazzaris (born 1979) Brazilian; ethnoarchaeology
- Carenza Lewis (born 196?) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
- R. Barry Lewis (born 1947) American; archaeology of early modern South India, Cahokia, Mississippian culture
- David Lewis-Williams, (born 1934) cognitive archaeologist specialising in Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art.
- William D. Lipe (born 19??) American; North American Southwest, archaeological method and theory
- Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain
- Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history
- Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery
- Victor Loret (1859–1946) French; Egypt
- Stephen Loring (born 1950) American; Arctic, museology, repatriation
- William A. Longacre (born 19??) American; ethnoarchaeology
- Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist
- Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817 - 1892)
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- Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
- Father John MacEnery (1797–1841) Irish; Paleolithic
- Richard MacNeish (1918–2001) American; Canada, Iroquois (U.S./Canada), Meso-America, discovered origins of maize
- Aren Maeir (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
- Yousef Majidzadeh (born 19??) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran)
- JP Mallory (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
- Sir Max Mallowan (1904–1978) British; Middle East
- John Manley (born 1952) British; Roman Britain
- Meral Manyas (born 19??) Turkish; Anatolia
- Joyce Marcus (born 19??) American; Latin America
- Auguste-Édouard Mariette (1821–1881) French; Egypt
- Spyridon Marinatos (1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans
- John Hubert Marshall (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila (India), Crete
- Kathleen Martinez (born 19??) Dominican Republican; Egypt
- Marjan Mashkour (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology
- J. Alden Mason (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology
- Ronald J. Mason (born 19??) Upper Great Lakes
- Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) French; Egypt
- Paul Massiera (1899–1976) French;
- Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967), Danish, Arctic region
- Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931) British; Mayans
- Amihai Mazar (1942- ) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
- Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
- Eilat Mazar (1956- ) Israeli; Jerusalem, Pheonecians
- Gaby Mazor (1944- ) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli)
- August Mau (1840–1909) German; Pompeii
- Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
- Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic
- Randall McGuire (born 1951) American; U.S. South-West, historical archaeology, quantitative methods, cultural resource management, archaeomagnetic dating
- W. C. McKern (1892–1988) American; Americanist/theorist
- Betty Meggers (born 1921) American; South America
- Paul Mellars (born 1939) British?; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
- Jaya Menon (born 19??) Indian; India, technology
- Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian [born in Rome]; lithics
- Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) French; French monuments
- Jerald T. Milanich (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida)
- Sarunas Milisauskas (born 19??) Old World archaeology, neolithic, Bronze Age
- Naomi Miller (born 19??) American?; Near East archaeobotanist
- René Millon (born 19??) French; highland Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
- Paul Minnis (born 19??) American; southwest USA (Casas Grandes), northern Mexico, environment
- Sir Ellis Minns (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe
- Oscar Montelius (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia),
- Pierre Montet (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis)
- Andrew M.T. Moore (born 19??) English; neolithic, Middle East
- Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852–1936) American; southern United States
- Elizabeth A. Moore (born 19??) American?; Prehistoric Zooarchaeology, Middle Atlantic
- Elizabeth A. Moore (born 19??) British?; South-East Asia, hydraulic systems
- Warren K. Moorehead (1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States
- Sylvanus G. Morley (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
- Dan Morse(b. 1935) American; Central Mississippi Valley
- Phyllis Morse (Anderson) (b. 1934) American; Central Mississippi Valley
- John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) English; England (barrows)
- Peder Mortensen Danish; Prehistoric archaeology
- Sabatino Moscati (1922-997) Italian; Phoenicians
- Keith Muckelroy (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology
- John Mulvaney (born 1925) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
- Tim Murray (archaeologist) (born 19??) Australian?; history of archaeology
- Adnan Muftarević (born 1972) Bosnian; Ottoman and Classical archaeology
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- Katie Neilson
- Ezzat Ol, llah Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran
- Sarah Milledge Nelson (born 1931) American; Korea, Hongshan (China), gender
- Ehud Netzer (1934-2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture)
- Evzen Neustupný (born 1933) Czech; Czechoslovakia, method, landscape archaeology
- Charles Thomas Newton (1816-1894) British; Classical archaeology
- Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (born 1913) French; Egypt (Numbian temples)
- Ivor Noël Hume (born 1927) British?; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology
- Rahmat Naderi (born 1981) Iranian Kurdish; Ealeolithic
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- Kenneth Oakley (1911–1981) English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax
- Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806) Alsatian; France?, philology
- Bjørnar Olsen, Norwegian; theory, material culture, Arctic
- John W. Olsen (born 1955) American; prehistory, Paleolithic, Central Asia
- Stanley John Olsen (1919-2003) American; historical archaeology and zooarchaeology
- Charles Orser (born 19??) American; historical archaeology
- Nimet Özgüç (born 19??) Turkish; Hittites
- Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) Turkish; Assyria
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- Glorimar Pagan
- John Parkington
- André Parrot
- Timothy Pauketat (born 19??) American; Mississippian culture
- Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths)
- Richard J. Pearson (born 1938) Canadian; Pacific
- William Pengelly (1812–1894) British; England, paleolithic
- Gregory Perino (1914–2005) American; Woodland, and Mississippian cultures in Illinois and Oklahoma
- Alessandro Pezzati
- William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology
- Philip Phillips (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States
- Stuart Piggott (1910–1996) British; neolithic, Europe (especially Britain)
- John Pinkerton (1758—1826) Scottish; theory of Gothic superiority, Scottish proto-history
- Dolores Piperno (born 1949?) American; archaeobotany, maize, Panama
- Augustus Pitt Rivers(1827–1900) British; Britain (especially Dorset), method
- Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete
- Reginald Stuart Poole (1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics)
- Georges Posener (1906–1988) French; Egypt
- Gregory Possehl (born 19??) American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization
- Timothy W. Potter (1944–2000), British; Classical archaeology
- Richard Potts, archaeologist (born 19??) paleoanthropology, Olorgesailie
- Francis Pryor (born 1945) British; Bronze (Flag Fen, England) and Iron Ages
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- Philip Rahtz (born 1921) British; United Kingdom
- Sir Andrew Ramsay(1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy
- Katharina C. Rebay (born 1977) Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender
- George (Rip) Rapp, Jr. (born 19??) American?; geoarchaeology, Greece, China
- William Rathje (born 1945) American; early civilizations, modern material culture studies, Mesoamerica
- Desire Raoul Rochette(1790–1854) French; Greece
- Jean Gaspard Felix Ravaisson-Mollien (1813–1900) French; Classical sculpture
- Ronny Reich - (born 1947) Israeli; Jerusalem
- M.A.P. Renouf (b. 19??) Canadian; Newfoundland (Canada)
- Colin Renfrew (born 1937) English; history of language, archaeogenetics
- Caspar Reuvens(1793–1835) Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands
- Julian Richards (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer
- Derek Roe (born 19??) British; paleolithic
- Wil Roebroeks (born 1955) Dutch, The Netherlands
- Carlos Armando Rodriguez (born 19??) editor of International Journal of South American Archaeology - IJSA (magazine)
- Malcolm J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California
- Martha Ann Rolingson American; Woodland period
- Jeffrey Royal (born 1964) American; Roman, maritime archaeology
- Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952) Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia
- Katherine Routledge (1866–1935) British; Easter Island
- Emmanuel de Rouge (1811-1872) French; Egyptian numismatics
- Peter Rowley-Conwy (born 1951) Danish? Welsh?; environmental archaeology
- Ron Rule (born 19??) American;
- Simon Rutar (1851-1903) Slovenian; Slovenia
- Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (1906–1979) Mexican; Pre-Columbian Meso-America
- Donald P. Ryan (born 19??) American; Egypt (Valley of the Kings)
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- Sharada Srinivasan (born 19??) Indian; archaeometallurgy, India
- Yannis Sakellarakis (1936-2010) Greek; Greece, Minoan culture, Crete (Zominthos)
- Roderick Salisbury (born 19??) American?; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe (Neolithic)
- Daniel H. Sandweiss (born 1957) American; prehistoric Peru, environmental studies
- Viktor Sarianidi (born 1929) Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia
- Otto Schaden (born 19??) American; Egypt
- Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) French; Ugarit
- Michael Brian Schiffer (born 1947) American? (born in Canada); behavioral archaeology, method and theory
- Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn
- Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790–1836) Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man
- Carmel Schrire (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Africa
- Francesco Scipone (1675-1755) Italian; Etruscans
- Ovid R. Sellers, United States, Biblical Old Testament
- Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt (1730–1814) French; ancient monumental art
- Michael Shanks (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory
- Thurstan Shaw (born 1914) English; Africa (especially nigeria)
- Sonia Shidrang (born 19??) Iranian; Paleolithic Archaeology
- Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea
- Isobel Smith (1912–2005) British?; British neolithic, Avebury
- William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar
- Steven Snape (born 19??) British?; Egyptian imperialism in the Ramesside period
- Janet D. Spector (1944-2011) American; North America
- E. Lee Spence (born 1947) marine archaeology
- Kurt Springs (born 19??)
- Stanley South (born 19??) American; historical archaeology
- Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842–1915) English; prehistoric England, Egypt
- Rev. Frederick Spurrell (1824–1902) English; English archaeology (Essex and Sussex)
- Carl Steen (born 19??) American; south-eastern U.S., historical archaeology
- Julie K. Stein, geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites
- Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) Hungarian; Central Asia
- M. Stekelis (born 19??) excavation of Sha'ar HaGolan, a neolithic site on the Yarmouk River
- Hans-Georg Stephan (born 1950) German; Medievalist, post-Medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, oven tiles
- Nicola Stern (born 19??) Australian?; paleolithic, Africa
- Simon Stoddart (born 19??) British?; Iron Age Europe, Italy, Malta, computer imaging,
island societies, landscape archaeology, mortuary ritual
- William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics
- Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953) Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls
- Pál Sümegi (born 1960) Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary
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- Roland de Vaux (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls
- Henri de Vaux (1870-1930) French; France
- Marius Vazeilles (1881-1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology
- Alphonse Vinatié (1924-2005) French; France (especially Gallo-Roman)
- Alan Vince (1952–2009) British; British ceramics
- Zsolt Visy (born 1944) Hungarian; aerial archaeologist
- Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art
- Mary Voight American?; Turkish archaeology, Oriental carpets
- Vahdati Nasab Hamed (born 1973) Iranian?; paleoanthropology, Paleolithic, cannibalism
- Vahdati Ali Akbar (Born 1978) Iranian; Bronze and Iron Ages of Iran
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- Yigael Yadin (1917–1984) Israeli; Massada
- Norman Yoffee (born 19??) American; Middle East, Europe, Sri Lanka, neolithic evolution, theory of states
- Yun Ki-hyon (born 19??) Korean?;
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- Robert N. Zeitlin (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies
- Irit Ziffer (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art
- Andreas Zimmermann(born 19??) German; quantitative methods
- Ezra B.W. Zubrow[1] (born 19??) American; theory, Nordic archaeology, remote sensing
- R. Tom Zuidema (born 1927) American?; Incas
- Vladas Žulkus (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology)
- Marek Zvelebil (1952-2011) Czech; European stone age
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