List of archaeologists

This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise archaeology, the study of the human past through material remains.

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Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919) American; advocate of early occupation of Americas Kamyar Abdi (born 1969) Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age Aziz Ab'Saber (1924–2012) Brazilian; Brazil Johann Michael Ackner (1783–1862) Transylvanian; Roman Dacia Dinu Adameșteanu (1913–2004) Romanian-Italian; aerial photography, survey of sites James M. Adovasio (born 1944) U.S.; New World (esp. Pre-Clovis), perishable technologies Anagnostis Agelarakis (born 1956) Greek; archaeological and physical anthropology Yohanan Aharoni (1919–1976) Israeli; Israel Bronze Age Julius Ailio (1872–1933) Finnish; Karelian Isthmus Ekrem Akurgal (1911–2002) Turkish; Anatolia Jorge de Alarcão (born 1934) Portuguese; Roman Portugal Umberto Albarella (born 19??) Italian-British; zooarchaeology William F. Albright (1891–1971) U.S.; Orientalist Leslie Alcock (1925–2006) English; Dark Age Britain Susan E. Alcock (born 1961?) American;Greece, Roman provinces Miranda Aldhouse-Green (born 1947) British; British Iron Age and Romano-Celtic Abbas Alizadeh (born 1951) Iranian; Iran Jim Allen,Australian archaeologist: collected papers in honour of Jim Allen, Jim Allen, Atholl Anderson, Tim Murray Coombs Academic Pub., the Australian National University, 2000 - Social Science (1938–2005) Australian; Australia, South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita,J. Allen, (1984). "In Search of the Lapita Homeland: Reconstructing the Prehistory of the Bismarck Archipelago". Journal of Pacific History (19/4): 186–187. Polynesian Penelope Allison (born 1954) household and Roman archaeology Sedat Alp (1913–2006) Turkish; Hittitology Ruth Amiran (1915–2005) Israeli; Tel Arad George El Andary (born 1958) Lebanese; site restoration Atholl Anderson (born 1943) New Zealand; New Zealand and the Pacific David G. Anderson (born 1949) U.S.; eastern North America Johan Gunnar Andersson (1874–1960) Swedish; China E. Wyllys Andrews IV (1916–1971) American; Maya Manolis Andronicos (1919–1992) Greek; Greece Carmen Aranegui (born 1945), Spanish; Valencia and Morocco Mikhail Artamonov (1898–1972) Russian/Soviet; Khazar (Central Asia) Khaled al-Asaad (1934–2015) Syrian; Palmyra J. R. Aspelin (1842–1915) Finnish; Scandinavia and the Ural region Mick Aston (1946–2013) English; popularizer Miriam Astruc (1904–1963) French; Phoenician-Punic people Richard J. C. Atkinson (1920–1994) English; England Val Attenbrow (born 1942) Australian; Aboriginal stone tools, archaeology of aboriginal Sydney Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 1957) French; Black Death/bubonic plague Anthony Aveni (born 1938) U.S.; archaeoastronomy Nahman Avigad (1905–1992) Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada Hasan Awad (born 1912/13) Bedouin; excavator Edward R. Ayrton (1882–1914) English Egyptologist and archaeologist Massoud Azarnoush (1946–2008) Iranian; Sassanid archaeology

B Churchill Babington (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology Leila Badre (born 1943) Lebanese Paul Bahn (born 1953) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island Geoff Bailey (born 19??) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece Senake Bandaranayake (1938–2015) Sri Lankan; South Asia Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914) American; American South-West, Mexico Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) Italian; Etruscans & art Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885–1930) Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture Edward B. Banning (born 1955) Canadian; Near Eastern archaeology, archaeological survey Luisa Banti (1894–1978) Italian; Etruscology Taha Baqir (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites Pessah Bar-Adon (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (Bet Shearim, Tel Bet Yerah, Nahal Mishmar hoard) Ofer Bar-Yosef (1937–2020) Israeli; Palaeolithic, Neolithic Gabriel Barkay (1944–2026) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy, Iron Age glyptics, Ketef Hinnom) Graeme Barker (born 1946) British; Italian Bronze Age, Roman Libya, landscape archaeology Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England John C. Barrett (1949–2024) British; archaeological theory, European prehistory Alessandro Barsanti (1858–1917) Italian; Egypt (Zawyet El Aryan) Diane Barwick (1938–1986) Australian; Aboriginal culture and society"Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans 1835–1904", Part 1, Aboriginal History 1984, 8(2):100–131 George Bass (1932–2021) American; underwater archaeology 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 Mary Beaudry (1950–2020) American; eastern U.S., Scotland, Caribbean, gastronomy Sergei Beletzkiy (1953–2022) Russian; Medieval Russia Anna Belfer-Cohen (born 1949) Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant Gertrude Bell (1868–1926) English; adventurer and Middle Eastern archaeologist, formed the Baghdad Archaeological Museum (now Iraqi Museum) Harry Charles Purvis Bell (1851–1937) British; first Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon Peter Bellwood (born 1943) Australian; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide)| interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biologyProfessor Peter Bellwood , School of Archaeology and Anthropology of the Australian National University. Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian; Egypt Erez Ben-Yosef (born 19??) Israeli; archaeometallurgy Norbert Benecke (born 1954) German; zooarchaeology Crystal Bennett (1918–1987) British; Jordan Emma Benson (1866-1944) Irish; Egypt, archeologist James Theodore Bent (1852–1897) British; eastern Mediterranean, Africa, Arabia. Dumitru Berciu (1907–1998) Romanian; South-Eastern and Central Europe, Geto-Dacians, Thracians, Celts Sofia Berezanska (1924–2024) Ukrainian; Bronze Age Lee Berger (born 1965) U.S.; paleo-anthropology Folke Bergman (1902–1946) Swedish; Xiaohe Tomb complex in China Andrea Berlin (born 19??) U.S.; Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman East; ceramics Gerhard Bersu (1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.) Charles Ernest Beule (1826–1874) French; Greece Paolo Biagi (born 1948) Italian; Eurasian Mesolithic and Neolithic, Pakistan prehistory Geoffrey Bibby (1917–2001) British; Arabia Penny Bickle (born 19??) British; bioarchaeology, Neolithic 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 Manfred Bietak (born 1940) Austrian; Egypt Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic Lewis Binford (1930–2011) American; U.S., France, theory Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) U.S.; discovered Machu Picchu Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) Italian; Rome Avraham Biran (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan)) Caroline Bird (born 19??) Australia; heritage and indigenous studies research Judy Birmingham (born 1932) Australian; historical archaeology in Australia,Australian Pioneer Technology. Sites and Relics (1979), (Birmingham et al.), Heinemann Educational Australia, Irrawang pottery, Tasmania Glenn Albert Black (1900–1964) U.S.; US Mid-West Carl Blegen (1888–1971) U.S.; Troy Elizabeth Blegen (1888–1966) U.S.; Greece, educator Frederick Jones Bliss (1857–1939) U.S.; Palestine John Boardman (1927–2024) British; Classical archaeology, especially Greek architecture Jean Boisselier (1912–1996) French; Khmer, Southeast Asia Nicole Boivin (born 19??) Canadian; migration out of Africa, long-distance maritime trade Larissa Bonfante (1931–2019) U.S.; Etruscans Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture Ludwig Borchardt (1863–1938) German; Egypt (Amarna) François Bordes (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping Barbara Borg (born 1960) German; Classical archaeology Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868) French; France Stephen Bourke (born 19??) Australian; Pella, Jordan Jole Bovio Marconi (1897–1986) Italian; Neolithic Sicily Sandra Bowdler (born 1946) Australian; Australian Indigenous archaeology, pre-neolithic East and Southeast Asia Harriet Boyd Hawes (1871–1945) American; Greece and Crete; Minoan Richard Bradley (born 1946) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain) Linda Schreiber Braidwood (1909–2003) U.S.; Near East Robert John Braidwood (1907–2003) U.S.; Turkey Iosif Benyaminovich Brashinsky (1928–1982) U.S.S.R.; Scythians Виноградов, Ю. А. (2018) "ПАМЯТИ И. Б. БРАШИНСКОГО. К 90-летию СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ" [ To the memory of I. B. Brashinsky. On the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary ], TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE Nо. 18, pp. 175-181. DOI: 10.31600/2310-6557-2018-18-175-181 Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) French; Meso-America James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) U.S.; Egypt Adela Breton (1849–1923) British; Mexico Eric Breuer (born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology Jacques Breuer (1956–2024) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium Henri Breuil (1877–1961) French; cave art Robert Brier (born 1943) U.S.; Egypt paleopathology Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology and Paleoanthropology Srečko Brodar (1893–1987) Slovene; Upper Paleolithic Mary Brodrick (c. 1858–1933) English; Egyptology Alison S. Brooks (born 19??) American; Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa Myrtle Florence Broome (c. 1888–1978) English; Egyptology, illustrator Don Brothwell (1933–2016) British; paleopathology Frank Edward Brown (1908–1988) American; Mediterranean Elizabeth Brumfiel (1945–2012) U.S.; Mesoamerica Caitlin E. Buck (born 1964) British; statistics, radiocarbon dating Hallie Buckley (born 19??) New Zealand; bioarchaeology Sue Bulmer (1933–2016) American; New Zealand, Papua New Guinea James Burgess (1832–1916) Scottish; 19th-century India Heather Burke (born 1966) Australian; historical archaeology, field methods Aubrey Burl (1926–2020) British; British megalithic monuments Les Bursill (1945–2019) Australian; Dharawal people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra Alexander Butyagin (born 1971) Russian; ancient Greek colonies (Crimea) Karl Butzer (1934–2016) U.S.; environmental archaeology Ernst Boetticher (1842–1930): Prussian amateur archaeologist

C Errett Callahan (1937–2019) American; experimental archaeology Frank Calvert (1828–1908) English; Troy Raissa Calza (1894–1979) Ukrainian; Italy (Ostia) Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell (1893–1971) American; California Scott Cane (born 1954) Australian; Australia, desert people of Australia Luigi Canina (1795–1856) Italian; Italy (Tusculum, Appian Way) Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino (1937–2019) Romanian; Romania Bob Carr (born 1947) American; Florida historic Indians Maureen Carroll (born 1953) British; Roman archaeology Martin Carver (born 1941) British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo Howard Carter (1874–1939) English; Egypt Alfonso Caso (1896–1970) Mexican; Mexico Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888–1985) English; Egyptm Helena Cehak-Holubowiczowa (1902–1979) Polish; Poland C. W. Ceram (1915–1972) German; popularizer Dilip Chakrabarti (born 1941) Indian; South Asia (Ganges Plain) John Leland Champe (1895–1978) American?; Great Plains Jean-François Champollion (1790–1832) French; Egypt Kwang-chih Chang (1931–2001) Chinese/Taiwanese; China Doris Emerson Chapman (1903–1990) British; prehistory Arlen F. Chase (born 1953) American; Mesoamerica Diane Zaino Chase (born 1953) American; Mesoamerica George Henry Chase (1874–1952) American; Heraion of Argos Alfredo Chavero (1841–1906) Mexican; Mexico Maurice Chehab (1904–1994) Lebanese; archaeology Lebanon Chen Mengjia (1911–1966) Chinese; China Chen Tiemei (1935–2018) Chinese; scientific archaeology and radiocarbon dating