Iranian Archaeologists

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

A

* 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, (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita, 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 (born 1944) 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
*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
* 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, 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
* Jole Bovio Marconi (1897–1986) Italian; Neolithic Sicily
* Sandra Bowdler (born 1947) 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

* 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
* 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
* Chen Xingcan(born 1964) Chinese; China, history of Chinese archaeology
* John F. Cherry (born 19??) Welsh; Aegean prehistory
* Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957) Australian; Europe / neolithic

* Choe Nam-ju (1905-1980) Korean; Silla culture (Korea)

* Choi Mong-lyong (born 1946) Korean; Korea (Mumin pottery period)

* Neil Christie (born 19??) British; Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
* Leopoldo Cicognara (1767–1834) Italian; Italy
* Muazzez İlmiye Çığ (1914–2024) Turkish; Sumerology
* Jacques Cinq-Mars (died 2021) Canadian; Yukon, early man in North America
* Amanda Claridge (1949–2022) British; Rome
* John Desmond Clark (1916–2002) English; Africa
* Grahame Clark (1907–1995) British; Mesolith and economy
* Kate Clark (19??) industrial archaeology and museum
* Bob Clarke (Historian) (born 1964) English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
* David Clarke (1937–1976) English; theory
* Stephen Clarke (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
* Albert Tobias Clay (1866–1925) American; Assyriology
* John Clegg (1935–2015) Australian; rock art
* Eric H. Cline (born 1960) American?; Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
* Jean Clottes (born 1933) French; European cave art
* Juliet Clutton-Brock (1933–2015) English; zooarchaeology
* Fay-Cooper Cole (1881–1961) American; U.S. Mid-West
* Bryony Coles (born 1946) British; prehistoric archaeology, wetland archaeology, Somerset Levels, Doggerland
* John Coles (1930–2020) British; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age, experimental archaeology
* Donald Collier (1911–1995) American; Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology
* John Collis (born 1944) English; Iron Age Europe
* Dominique Collon (born 1940) Belgian; cylinder seals of the Near East
*Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838) English, England
* Margaret Conkey (born 1943) American; Upper Paleolithic France
* Robin Coningham (born 1965) British; South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics
* Diane Atnally Conlin (born 1963) American; Roman art and architecture
* Joan Breton Connelly (born 19??) American; Cyprus, Greek art, female agency
* Niculae Conovici (1948–2005) Romanian; Romania, amphorae
* Graham Connah (1934–2023) South Africa; historical archaeology
* Richard Cooke (1946–2023) British; Panama, archaeozoology
* Gudrun Corvinus (1931–2006) German; India/Nepal/Africa
* Peter Coutts (1934–?) Australian; historical archaeology
* George Cowgill (1929–2018) American; Mesoamerica (Teotihuacan)
*O.G.S. Crawford (1886–1957) English; aerial archaeology
* Rachel Crellin (born 19??) Manx; metal working, theory, British Isles
haeology* Aedeen Cremin (born 1940) Irish born, Australian. NSW and Canberra
* Luther Cressman (1897–1994) American; Paleo-Indians, Oregon
* Roger Cribb (1948–2007) Australian; Turkish Kurds and Australian Aborigines
* Ion Horaţiu Crişan (1928–1994)Romanian; Geto-Dacians and Celts
* William (Bill) Culican (1928–1984) Australian; Middle East, Australian historical archaeology
* 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)
*Alexander Cunningham (1814–1893) English; "Father of Indian Archaeology"
* 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), Gotland
* Florin Curta (born 1965) American; Eastern Europe
* Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) German; Greece
* Clive Eric Cussler (1931–2020) American; underwater archaeology

D

* Gaetano d'Ancora (1751–1816) Italian; Italy
* Albéric d'Auxy (1836–1914) Belgian; Belgium
* Bruno Dagens (1935–2023) French; Khmer and India
* Constantin Daicoviciu (1898–1973) Romanian; Romania
* Don Martino de Zilva Wickremasinghe (1865–1937)Sri Lankan; epigraphist and archaeologist, Sri Lanka
* Paulus Edward Pieris Deraniyagala (1900–1976) Sri Lankan; paleontologist, zoologist, director of the National Museum of Ceylon from 1961 to 1964
* George F. Dales (1927–1992) American; Nippur, Indus valley civilizations
* Mary Dallas (1952–2023) Scottish-born Australian, Aboriginal cultural heritage management
* 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
*Raymond Dart (1893–1988) Australian; paleoanthropology: Australopithecus africanus
* Timothy Darvill (1957–2024) British; Britain
* Raksha Dave (Born 1977) British; Field and Public Archaeologist, President of Council for British Archaeology
* Janet Davidson (born 1941) New Zealand; New Zealand, Pacific Islands
* Theodore M. Davis (1837–1915) American; Egypt
* William Boyd Dawkins (1837–1929) British; antiquity of man
* Touraj Daryaee (born 1967) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran)
* Janette Deacon (born 1939) South African; rock art, heritage management
* Hilary Deacon (1936–2010) South African; Africa, antiquity of man
* Corinne Debaine-Francfort (born 19??) French; Eastern Central Asian and protohistoric China
* James Deetz (1930–2000) American; historical archaeology
* Warren DeBoer (died May 24, 2020) American; North and South America, ethnoarchaeology, ceramics
* James P. Delgado (born 1958) American; maritime archaeologist
* Arthur Demarest (fl. 2000 AD) American; Maya
* Robin Dennell (born 1947) British; prehistoric archaeologist
* Siran Upendra Deraniyagala (1942–2021) Sri Lankan; archaeologist and historian, Director-General of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology of Sri Lanka from 1992 to 2001
* Donald Brian Doe (1920–2005) British; Arabia
* 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 Marsh, Iron Age in Lower Carniola
* Harold L. Dibble (1951-2018) American; paleolithic lithics
* Adolphe Napoleon Didron (1806–1867) French; Medievalist, Christian iconography
* Tom D. Dillehay (born 1947) American-Chilean; ethnoarchaeologist, early occupation of the Americas
* Kelly Dixon (born 1970) American; historical archaeology of the American West
* Brian Dobson (1931–2012) British; Hadrian's Wall, the Roman Army
* Dong Zuobin (1895–1963) Chinese/Taiwanese; oracle bones, Yinxu
* Gertrud Dorka (1893–1976), German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director
* Wilhelm Dörpfeld (1853–1940) German; Greece
*Trude Dothan (1922–2016) Austrian; Israel
* Claude Doumet-Serhal (born 1958) Lebanese; history and archaeology of Sidon
* Hans Dragendorff (1870–1941) German; Roman ceramics
* Penelope Dransart (born 19??) British?; South American anthropology
* Carol van Driel-Murray (born 1950) British; gender archaeology, Roman archaeology, leather
* Angela von den Driesch (1934–2012) German; osteoarchaeology
* Hilary du Cros (born 1962) Australian; history of Australian archaeology
* Duan Qingbo (1964–2019) Chinese; Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
* Roger Duff (1912–1978) New Zealander; New Zealand
* Katherine Dunbabin (born 1941) British?; classical archaeology, Roman art
* Robert Dunnell (1947–2010) American; theory, U.S. Mid-West
* Louis Dupree (1925–1989) American; Afghanistan
* E. C. L. During Caspers (1934–1996) Dutch; Prehistoric Mesopotamia, South Asian, Persian Gulf
* Robert H. Dyson (1927–2020) American; Near Eastern archaeology

E

* Elizabeth Eames (1918–2008) British; specialist in English medieval tiles
* Hella Eckardt (born 19??) British; Roman archaeology, material culture
* Campbell Cowan Edgar (1870–1938) British; Cyclades and Hellenistic Egypt, papyrology specialist
*Amelia Edwards (1831–1892) British; Egypt
* Ricardo Eichmann (born 1955) German; Near Eastern archaeology
* George Eogan (1930–2021) Irish; Knowth (Ireland)
* Kenan Erim (1929–1990) Turkish; Hellenistic Anatolia
* Ufuk Esin (1933–2008) Turkish; prehistoric Anatolia, archaeometry
* Roland Étienne (born 1944) French; ancient Greece and Hellenistic period
* Damian Evans (19??-2023) Australian-Canadian; Angkor, lidar
*Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) British; Aegean archaeology (Minoan studies, Knossos, Linear A and B)
*Sir John Evans (1823–1908) English; British archaeology

F

* Georg Fabricius (1516–1571) German; Roman epigraphy
* Brian M. Fagan (born 1936) British; generalist, popularist, history of archaeology
* Panagiotis Faklaris (born 1950) Greek; classical archaeology, excavator of Vergina
* Fan Jinshi (born 1938) Chinese; Dunhuang
* William Fash (born 1954) American; Maya
* Charles H. Faulkner (1937–2022) American; Tennessee, historic archaeology
* Neil Faulkner (1958–2022) British; Norfolk, Jordan
*Rev. Bryan Faussett (1720–1776) English; Anglo-Saxon Kent (England)
* Carlo Fea (1753–1836) Italian; Roman archaeology, archaeological law
* Gary M. Feinman (born 1951) 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)
* Irving Finkel (born 1951) British; cuneiform tablets
* Israel Finkelstein (born 1949) Israeli; Bronze Age & Iron Age in Israel, Megiddo (Israel)
* George R. Fischer (1937–2016) American; underwater archaeology
* Peter M. Fischer (born 1967) Austrian-Swedish; Eastern Mediterranean, Near East
* Christopher T. Fisher (born 1967) American; Meso-America, LiDAR, Earth Archive
* Cleo Rickman Fitch (1910–1995) American; Roman archaeology
* William W. Fitzhugh (born 1943) American; circumpolar archaeology
* Kent Flannery (born 1934) American; Mesoamerica
* Josephine Flood (born 1938) Australian; Aboriginal prehistory of the Australia Cloggs Cave
* Robert Bruce Foote (1834–1912) British; India: "the father of Indian prehistory"
* Adam Ford (born 19??) Australian; host of documentary series '' Who's Been Sleeping in My House?''
* James A. Ford (1911–1968) American; Southeastern United States
* Sally Foster (born 19??) Scottish; Medieval Scotland
* Alfred Foucher (1865–1952) French; Afghanistan (Gandahar art) and southern Africa
* Aileen Fox (1907–2005) British; South West England
* Cyril Fox (1882–1967) English; Wales
* William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) English; Egyptology, methodology
* David Frankel (born 19??) Australian; Cyprus, Syria, Koongine Cave (Australia)
* Barry L. Frankhauser (1943–2014) Australian; archaeometry, residue analysis, Maori earth ovens, sourcing Australian ochres
* Elizabeth French (1931–2021) British; Mycenaean Greece, especially the site of Mycenae, and Mycenaean terracottas
* George Frison (1924–2020) American; Paleoindian archaeology, lithic tools, pale-oarchaeology
* Gayle J. Fritz (born 19??) American; paleo-ethnobotany, agriculture in North America
* Honor Frost (1924–2010) British; maritime archaeology, Mediterranean, stone anchors
* Dorian Fuller (born 19??) American; archaeobotany, domestication

G

* Charles Godakumbura (1907–1977 ) Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) from 1956 to 1967
* Christopher Gaffney (born 1962) British; geophysics
* Vincent Gaffney (born 1958) British; landscape archaeology
* Lamia Al-Gailani Werr (1938–2019) Iraqi; Mesopotamian archaeology
* Antoine Galland (1646–1715) French; numismatics, Middle East
* Thomas Gann (1867–1938) Irish; Mesoamerica, Maya
* Sandor (Alexander) Gallus (1907–1996) Australian; Pleistocene Aboriginal occupation Koonalda Cave South Australia Dry Creek archaeological site Keilor
* Carl Jacob Gardberg (1926–2010) Finnish; director of the Finnish Heritage Agency
* Jean-Claude Gardin (1925–2013) French; Bactria, theory in archaeology, computing in archaeology
* Andrew Gardner (born 19??) British? Roman archaeology
* Percy Gardner (1846–1937) English; classical archaeology
* Yosef Garfinkel (born 1956) Israeli; Israel
* Peter Garlake (1934–2011) Zimbabwean; Zimbabwe
* Dorothy Garrod (1892–1968) British; paleolithic
* John Garstang (1876–1954) British; Anatolia, Southern Levant
* Kathleen O'Neal Gear (born 1954) American; US West; archaeological fiction
* William Gell (1777–1836) English; Classical archaeology
* Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard (1795–1867) German; Rome
* Roman Ghirshman (1895–1979) French; Persian sites in Iran and Afghanistan
* Diane Gifford-Gonzalez American (born 19??) zooarchaeology
* John Wesley Gilbert (1864–1923) first African-American archaeologist; Classical
*Marija Gimbutas (1921–1994) Lithuanian-American; Neolithic & Bronze Age
* Pere Bosch-Gimpera (1891–1974) Spanish-Mexican; prehistoric Spain
* Einar Gjerstad (1897–1988) Swedish; Cyprus and Rome
* Kathryn Gleason (born 1957) American; archaeology of landscape architecture
* Albert Glock (1925–1992) American; Palestinian archaeology
* Franck Goddio (born 1947) French; underwater archaeology, Heracleion (Egypt)
* John Mann Goggin (1916–1963) American; typology, colonial Caribbean
* Lynne Goldstein (born 1953) American; prehistoric eastern North America, mortuary
* Jack Golson (1926–2023) Australian; Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia Savai'i island, Samoa
* Albert Goodyear (born 19??) American; Paleo-Indians
* Alice Gorman (born 1964) Australian; Space archaeology, contemporary archaeology, Indigenous Australian archaeology, stone tools, orbital debris, space as a cultural landscape
* Carlos J. Gradin (1918–2002) Argentine; Patagonian Paleo-Indians
* Ian Graham (1923–2017) British; Mayans
* Boris Grakov (1899–1970) Soviet/Russian; Scythians and Sarmatians
* Elizabeth Caroline Gray (1800–1887) Italy; Etruscans
* Roger Green (1932–2009) American; New Zealand, Pacific Islands
* Raphael Greenberg (born 19??) Israeli?; Israel
* Kevin Greene (born 19??) British; classical archaeology
* J. Patrick Greene (born 19??) British; Medieval England
* Haskel J. Greenfield (born 1953) American; zooarchaeology, Balkans, Middle East
*Canon William Greenwell (1820–1918) British; Neolithic England
* Alan Greaves (born 1969) British; Turkey
* James Bennett Griffin (1905–1997) American; prehistoric eastern North America
* Frances Griffith (born 19??) British; aerial archaeology
* W. F. Grimes (1905–1988) Welsh; London
* Klaus Grote (born 1947) German; Lower Saxony (Germany)
* Nikolai Grube (born 1962) German; Mayan epigraphy
* Raimondo Guarini (1765–1852) Italian; Classical
* Niède Guidon (1933–2025) Brazilian; early humans in Brazil
* Prishantha Gunawardena (born 1968) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka
* Guo Moruo (1892–1978) Chinese; China
*Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882–1973) Swedish; Classical

H

* Joseph Hackin (1886–1941) French; Afghanistan
* Marie Hackin (1905–1941) French; Afghanistan
* Maya Haïdar Boustani (born 1966) Lebanese; Lebanon
* Robert Hall (1927–2012) American; U.S. Mid-West
* Abdulameer al-Hamdani (1967–2022) Iraqi; Iraq, digital database, artifact rescue
*Osman Hamdi Bey (1842–1911) Ottoman Turkish; Syria and Lebanon
* Yannis Hamilakis (born 1966) Greek; prehistoric Aegean, Greek migration and historical archaeology
* Robert Hamilton (1905–1995) British; Near Eastern archaeology
* Norman Hammond (born 1944) British; Afghanistan, Maya
* Richard D. Hansen (born 19??) American; Meso-America
* Alexander Hardcastle (1872–1933) English; Agrigento, Sicily
* Anthony Harding (born 1946) British; Bronze Age Europe
* Phil Harding (born 1950) British; Britain, flint-knapping
* James Penrose Harland (1891–1973) American; Aegean
* J.C. "Pinky" Harrington (1901–1998) American; U.S. historical archaeology
* Ayman Hassouna (b. 19??) Palestinian; archaeology of Gaza
* Emil Haury (1904–1992) American; Southwestern United States
* Francis J. Haverfield (1860–1919) English; Roman Britain
*Zahi Hawass (born 1947) Egyptian; Egypt
* Christopher Hawkes (1905–1992) English; European archaeology
* Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–1996) English; prehistory of England, Europe, Minoa
* Sonia Chadwick Hawkes (1933–1999) English; European archaeology, early medieval archaeology
* Clarence Leonard Hay (1884-1969) American; Maya civilization
* Lotte Hedeager (born 1948) Danish; Iron Age Scandinavia
* Jakob Heierli (1853–1912) Swiss; prehistoric Switzerland
* Robert Heizer (1915–1979) American; California
* Hans Helbæk (1907–1981) Danish; palaeobotany
* John Basil Hennessy (1925–2013) Australian; Near East
* 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
* Charles Higham (born 1939) British; South East Asia
* Thomas Higham (born 19??) New Zealand; radiocarbon dating
* Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology
* Ida Hill (1875–1958) American; classical archaeology
* Bert Hodge Hill (1874–1958) American; classical archaeology
* Gordon Hillman (1943–2018) British; archaeobotany
* Peter Hinton (born 19??) British; England
* Hermann Hinz (1916–2000) German; Germany (Colonia Ulpia Traiana)
* Yizhar Hirschfeld (1950–2006) Israeli; Israel (Ramat HaNadiv, Qumran)
* Anna-Liisa Hirviluoto (1929–2000) Finnish; Iron Age
* Peter Hiscock (born 1957) Australian; ancient technology
* Ian Hodder (born 1948) English; theory, Catalhoyuk
* Frederick Webb Hodge (1864–1956) American; North American Indians
* Richard Hodges (born 1952) British; Middle Ages
* Birgitta Hoffmann (born 1969); Gask Ridge in Scotland
* Michael A. Hoffman (1944–1990) American; Egyptology
* Alexander Hubert Arthur Hogg (1908–1989) British; hillforts
* Frank Hole (born 1931) American; Near East
* Vance T. Holliday (born 1950) American?; Paleoindian and Great Plains geoarchaeology and archaeology
* Robert Ross Holloway (1934-2022) American; Greek and Roman numismatics, archaeology of Bronze Age Southern Italy and Sicily
* Mads Kähler Holst (born 1973) Danish; Bronze Age and Iron Age wetland sites in Denmark
* Sinclar Hood (1917–2021) British; Knossos
* Jeannette Hope (born 19??) Australian; Western New South Wales
* John Horsley (1685–1732) British; Roman Britain
* Youssef Hourany (1931–2019) Lebanese; Middle East
* Huang Wenbi (1893–1966) Chinese; China
* Huang Zhanyue (1926–2019) Chinese; China from the Han dynasty to the Tang dynasty
* John Hurst (1927–2003) British; English medieval archaeology
* Elinor Mullett Husselman (1900–1996) American; Coptic historian, papyrologist

I

* Richard Indreko (1900–1961) Estonian; Estonia
* Cynthia Irwin-Williams (1936–1990) American; Southwestern archaeology
* Glynn Isaac (1937–1985) South African; African paleoanthropology
* Hideshi Ishikawa (born 1954) Japanese; Japanese and Korean archaeology
* Fumiko Ikawa-Smith (born 1930) Japanese-Canadian; East Asian and Japanese archaeology

J

* Roger Jacobi (1947–2009) British; Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Britain
* Otto Jahn (1813–1869) German; classical world (art)

* Herbert Jankuhn (1905–1990) German; Haithabu (Germany)

* Jean-François Jarrige (1940–2014) French; South Asia
* Jacques Jaubert (born 1957) French; Lower Paleolithic and Middle Paleolithic, lithic technology
*Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) U.S. President; Virginia prehistory
* Arthur J. Jelinek (1928–2022) American; Eurasian Paleolithic
* Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) American; New World
*Llewellyn Jewitt (1816–1886) English; British antiquities
* Donald Johanson (born 1943) American; paleoanthropology, Ethiopia
* Jotham Johnson (1905–1967) American; Minturno (Italy), past president of the Archaeological Institute of America
* Alexandra Jones (born 19??) American; U.S. historical archaeology
* Margaret Ursula Jones (1916–2001) British; Mucking, England
* Rebecca Jones (born 19??) British; Roman Britain
* Rhys Maengwyn Jones (1941–2001) Welsh/Australian; Tasmania
* Martha Joukowsky (1936–2022) American; Middle East (Petra), field methods
* Rosemary A. Joyce (born 1956) American; Honduras
* Chris Judge (born 19??) American; eastern U.S. (Woodland, Mississippian)
* Elsie Jury (1910–1993) Canadian; historical archaeology of Ontario

K

* Lili Kaelas (1919–2007) Swedish; Stone and Bronze Age
* Gilbert Kaenel (1949–2020) Swiss; Iron Age, La Tène culture
* Barbara Kaim (born 1952) Polish; ancient Iran, Parthian and Sasanian periods.
* Eduard von Kallee (1818–1888) German; Germany: found 4 Roman castra on the Limes Germanicus
* Richard Kallee (1854–1933) German; studied 102 Alemannic tombs
* Seifollah Kambakhshfard (1929–2010) Iranian; Iron Age Temple of Anahita
* Johan Kamminga (born 19??); University of Sydney; use-wear and residues
* Panagiotis Kavvadias (1850–1928) Greek; Greece
* Simon Keay (1954–2021) English; Roman Portus, surveys of Roman Spain and Italy
* Phoebe Keef (1898–1978) British; prehistoric archaeology, Sussex
* Bennie Carlton Keel (born 1934) American; Southeast USA, Public Archaeology, Cherokee archaeology
* Alice Beck Kehoe (born 1934) American; North America: early contact
* J. Charles Kelley (1913–1997) American; north-west Mexico
* Arthur Randolph Kelly (1900–1979) American; Southeastern USA
* Robert Laurens Kelly (born 1957) American; Western USA
* Francis Kelsey (1858–1927) American; Middle East, papyrology
* Clyde C. Kennedy (1917–1987) Canadian; Ontario, archaic period
* David L. Kennedy (born 1948) British and Australian; Roman Near East
* Jonathan Mark Kenoyer (born 1952) American; Indus Valley Civilization
* Kathleen Kenyon (1906–1978) English; Britain, Near East (Jericho)
* Alfred V. Kidder (1885–1963) American; southwestern USA, Mesoamerica
* T. R. Kidder (born 1960) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of Southeastern United States
* Kim Won-yong (1922–1993) (south) Korean; Korea
* Karl Frederik Kinch (1853–1921) Danish; Ancient Macedonia, Rhodes, and Roman Greece / Byzantine Greece
* Keith Kintigh (born 19??) American; quantitative archaeology, Southwestern USA archaeology
*Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) German; Egyptian hieroglyphics ("the father of Egyptology")
* Ella Kivikoski (1901–1990) Finnish; Finnish Iron Age
* Kristian Kristiansen (born 1948) Danish; Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies, archaeological theory
* Richard Klein (born 1941) American; paleo-anthropology (Africa, Europe)

* Leo S. Klejn (1927-2019) Belarussian or Russian; theoretical archaeology
* Amos Kloner (1940–2019) Israeli; Talpiot Tomb (Israel), Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine archaeology
* Sir Francis Knowles, 5th Baronet (1886–1953) English; anthropology and prehistory
* Alice Kober (1906–1950) American; Linear B
* Robert Koldewey (1855–1925) German; Near East (Babylon)
* Manfred Korfmann (1942–2005) German; Bronze Age Aegean and Anatolia (Troy)
* Hamit Zübeyir Koşay (1897–1984) Turkish; Early Bronze Age Anatolia
* Paul Kosok (1896–1959) American; Nazca geoglyphs
* Gustaf Kossinna (1858–1931) German; Germany (Neolithic, Aryan concept)
* Raiko Krauss (born 1973) German; prehistory
* Pasko Kuzman (born 1947) Macedonian; Ohrid, North Macedonia
* Elizabeth Kyazike (born 19??) Ugandan; Uganda, slave trade

L

* Robert Laffineur (born ca. 1946) Belgian; Mycenaeanologist
* B. B. Lal (1921–2022) Indian; India
* Peter Lampe (born 1954) German; ancient Phrygia
* Dorothy Lamb (1887–1967) British; classical archaeology
* Luigi Lanzi (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans
* Nancy Lapp (born 1930) American; Near Eastern archaeology, biblical archaeology
* 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??) American?; music archaeology; Mesopotamia
* T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East
*Sir Austen Henry Layard (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud)
* Estelle Lazer (born 19??) Australian; human skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii
* Foss Leach (born 1942) New Zealand; New Zealand
*Louis Leakey (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
*Mary Leakey (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
* Richard Leakey (1944–2022) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
* Edward Thurlow Leeds (1877–1955) British; Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum 19281945
* Anthony J. Legge (1939–2013) British; archaeozoology
* Delphine Philippe-Lemaître (1798–1863) French historian, archaeologist, botanist
* Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander (born 1934) Finnish; Iron Age
* Charles Lenormant (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
* François Lenormant (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist
* Mark P. Leone (1940–2024) American; theory, historical archaeology
* Dana Lepofsky (born 1958) Canadian; paleoethnobotany, Northwest Coast
* 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 1963) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
* Jodie Lewis (born 19??) British; prehistoric archaeology
* Madeline Kneberg Lewis (1901–1996) American; typologist, Illustrator
* Mary Lewis (born 19??) British; bioarchaeologist
* David Lewis-Williams (born 1934) South African; cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art
* Edward Lhuyd (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain
* Li Feng (born 1962) Chinese/American; early China Yinxu and Yangshao culture
* Li Ji (1896–1979) Chinese; China
* Li Xueqin (1933–2019) Chinese; early China
* Mary Aiken Littauer (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history
* Li Liu (born 1953) Chinese/American; neolithic and Bronze Age China, "the father of Chinese archaeology"
* Gary Lock (born 1948) British; computational archaeology, European prehistory
* Georg Loeschcke (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery
* Helen Loney (born 19??) British? prehistoric archaeology and pottery studies
* Samuel Kirkland Lothrop (1892–1965) American; Central and South America and the Caribbean
* Victor Loret (1859–1946) French; Egypt and Southern Africa
* William A. Longacre (1937–2015) American; southwestern USA, "New Archaeology
* Harry Lourandos (born 1945) Australian; hunter-gatherer intensification
*Sir John Lubbock (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist
* Adam Łukaszewicz (born 1950) Polish; Roman period in Egypt, papyrologist
*Rev. William Collings Lukis (1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France
* Cajsa S. Lund ( sv) (born 1940) Swedish; music archaeology
* Frances Lynch (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
* Albert Lythgoe (1868–1934) American; Egyptologist and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

M

* Ma Chengyuan (1927–2004) Chinese; authority on ancient Chinese bronzes
* Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
* Burton MacDonald (1939–c. 2022) Canadian; biblical archaeology
* Eve MacDonald (born 19??) Canadian; classical archaeologist
* 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
* Mai Yinghao (1929–2016) Chinese; archaeology of the Nanyue kingdom in Guangzhou
* Yousef Majidzadeh (born 1938) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran)
* Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi (1940–2020) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran)
* Alexis Mallon (1875–1934) French; Levantine prehistory
* James Patrick Mallory (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
* Max Mallowan (1904–1978) British; Middle East
* John Manley (born 1952) British; Roman Britain
* Joyce Marcus (born 19??) American; Latin America
* Auguste-Édouard Mariette (1821–1881) French; Egypt
* Spyridon Marinatos (1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans
* Alexander Marshack (1918–2004) American; Paleolithic era
* Fiona Marshall (born 19??) American;zooarchaeology and ethnoarchaeology
*James A. Marshall (died 2006) American; eastern North American earthworks
* John Hubert Marshall (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila, Crete
* Pamela Marshall (born 19??) British? buildings archaeologist and castellologist
* Marjan Mashkour (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology of Europe and Middle East
* J. Alden Mason (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology
* Ronald J. Mason (1929–2023) Upper Great Lakes
* Gaston Maspero (1846–1916) French; Egypt
* Therkel Mathiassen (1892–1967) Danish; Arctic region
* Peter Mathews (born 1951) Australian; Maya hieroglyphs
* Galina Ivanovna Matveeva (1933–2008) Russian; Central Russia/Volga region
* Alfred P. Maudslay (1850–1931) British; Mayans
* Valerie Maxfield (born 19??) British? Roman archaeology
* Sally Kate May (born 1979) Australian; indigenous rock art
* Amihai Mazar (born 1942) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
* Benjamin Mazar (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
*Eilat Mazar (1956–2021) Israeli; Jerusalem, Phoenicians
* Gaby Mazor (born 1944) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli)
* August Mau (1840–1909) German; Pompeii
* Sally McBrearty (1949-2023) American; Palaeolithic archaeology
* Isabel McBryde (born 1934) Australian; "Mother of Australian Archaeology," axe sourcing studies
* Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
* Anna Marguerite McCann (1933–2017) American; Underwater Archaeology
* Fred McCarthy (1905–1997) Australian; Australia's Aborigines
* Aleksandra McClain (born 19??) medieval and church archaeology
* Robert McGhee (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic
* Jacqueline McKinley (born 19??) British; osteoarchaeology
* Betty Meehan (born 1933) Australian; Maningrida, Australia
* Vincent Megaw (born 1934) Australian; Early Celtic Art in Britain ''Early Celtic Art in Britain''
Ruth and Vincent Megaw, p. 29, accessed 16 August 2010
* Betty Meggers (1921–2012) American; South America
* Chuck Meide (born 1971) American; maritime and underwater archaeology; discovered the shipwrecks '' La Belle '' (1686), Storm Wreck (1782), and Anniversary Wreck (ca. 1760s-1800)
* James Mellaart (1925–2012) British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük
* Paul Mellars (1939–2022) British; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
* Michael Mercati (1541–1593) Italian orn in Rome lithics
* Roger Mercer (1944–2018) British; Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles
* Prosper Mérimée (1803–1870) French; French monuments
* Kazimierz Michałowski (1901–1981) Polish; Mediterranean archaeology
* Jerald T. Milanich (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida)
* Walter Minchinton (1921–1996) British; industrial archaeology
*Sir Ellis Minns (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe
* Keneiloe Molopyane (born 1987) South African; biological archaeologist and paleoanthropologist
* Oscar Montelius (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia)
* Pierre Montet (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis)
* Harri Moora (1900–1968) Estonian; Iron Age Baltics
* Andrew M.T. Moore (born 19??) English; neolithic, Middle East
* Clarence Bloomfield Moore (1852–1936) American; southern United States
* Warren K. Moorehead (1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States
* Robert Morkot (born 1957) British? Egyptology
* Sylvanus G. Morley (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
* Ann Axtell Morris (1900–1945) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico
* Earl H. Morris (1889–1956) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico
* Dan Morse (1935–2024) American; Central Mississippi Valley
* Kate Morse (1958–2023) Australian; Western Australia Pleistocene
* Phyllis Morse (Anderson) (born 1934) American; Central Mississippi Valley
* John Robert Mortimer (1825–1911) English; England (barrows)
* Mike Morwood (1950–2013) Australian; Homo floresiensis
* Sabatino Moscati (1922–1997) Italian; Phoenicians
* Amini Aza Mturi Tanzanian; Palaeolithic archaeology
* Keith Muckelroy (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology
* Suʻād Māhir Muḥammad (1917–1996) Egyptian; Egypt
* David Mullin (born 19??) prehistoric archaeology
* William Mulloy (1917–1978) American; Polynesia
* John Mulvaney (1925–2016) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
*Ken Mulvaney (born 19??) Australian; Aboriginal engagement, Burrup Peninsula rock art
* J. T. Munby (Born 1954) English; Britain
* Natalie Munro (born 19??) American; zooarchaeology
*Stephen Munro (born 19??) Australian; engraved fossil shell from Java
* Diana Murray (born 1952); Scottish; Scotland
* Margaret Murray (1863–1963) Anglo-Indian; Egyptologist
*Tim Murray (born 1955) Australian; history of archaeology
* Oscar White Muscarella (1931–2022) American; Persia, Anatolia

* George E. Mylonas (1898–1988) Greek; Greece and Aegean

N

*Nabonidus (6th century B.C.) Babylonian; Babylon," world's first archaeologist"
* Ramachandran Nagaswamy (1930–2022) Indian; south-Indian statues
* Maysoon al-Nahar (born 19??) Jordanian; Palaeoarchaeology of the Southern Levant
* Dimitri Nakassis (born 1975) American; Greece
* Alma Mekondjo Nankela (born 19??) Namibian; Namibia, rock art
* Khaled Nashef (1942–2009) Palestinian; Near East
* Ezzat Negahban (1926–2009) Iranian; Iran
* Sarah Milledge Nelson (1931–2020) American; Korea, Hongshan (China), gender
* Ion Nestor (1905–1974) Romanian; Balkans (Sirmium)
* Ehud Netzer (1934–2010) Israeli; Israel (Herodian architecture)
* René Neuville (1899–1952) French; prehistory of the Southern Levant
* Lisa Nevett (born 1965) British; Greece
* Charles Thomas Newton (1816–1894) British; Classical archaeology
* Constantin S. Nicolăescu-Plopșor (1900–1968) Romania; Romanian prehistory
* Christiane Desroches Noblecourt (1913–2011) French; Egypt (Nubian temples)
* Francisco Nocete (born 1961) Spanish; Spain
* Ivor Noël Hume (1927–2017) British; eastern U.S. seaboard historical archaeology, method and theory of historical archaeology
* Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933) American; Mexico

O

* Hugh O'Neill Hencken (1902–1981) American; Iron Age Europe
* Kenneth Oakley (1911–1981) English; fluorine dating, exposed Piltdown Man hoax
* Jérémie Jacques Oberlin (1735–1806) Alsatian; Biblical archaeology, philology
* Alexandru Odobescu (1834–1895) Romanian; history of archaeology
* Neil Oliver (born 1967) Scottish; popularizer and television presenter: northern Europe
* Akinwumi Ogundiran (born 1966); Nigerian-American archaeologist; Yoruba people; African studies
* Katsuhiko Ohnuma (born 1944) Japanese, Lithic expert, flintknapper, prehistorian, (Syria, Iraq, Iran)
* Bjørnar Olsen (born 1958) 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
* Jocelyn Orchard (1936–2019) British Trinidadian; Near Eastern archaeology, Oman
* Marthe Oulié (1901–1941) French; Crete*Tahsin Özgüç (1916–2005) Turkish; Assyria

P

*Athanasios Papageorgiou (archaeologist), Athanasios Papageorgiou (1931–2022) Greek Cypriot; Cyprus
*Senarath Paranavithana (1896–1972) Sri Lankan; Sri Lanka, Archeological Commissioner in 1940
*Sarah Parcak (born 1972) American; Egypt, remote sensing
*Bertha Parker Pallan, Bertha Parker (1907–1978) Abenaki, Seneca; Southwest US archaeology and ethnology
*Barbara Parker-Mallowan (1908–1993) English; Assyriology, epigraphy
*André Parrot (1901–1980) French; ancient Near East
*Hermann Parzinger (born 1959) German; Scythians
*Vasile Pârvan (1882–1927) Romanian; classical archaeology (Hitria)
*Timothy Pauketat (born 1961) American; Mississippian culture, Medieval studies
*Deborah M. Pearsall (born 1950) American; paleo-ethnobotany (phytoliths)
*Mike Parker Pearson (born 1957) English; Neolithic British Isles, archaeology of death and burial
*Richard J. Pearson (born 1938) Canadian; Pacific
*Pei Wenzhong (1904–1982) Chinese; China
*William Pengelly (1812–1894) British; England, paleolithic
*Francis Penrose (1817–1903) British; classical
*Peter N. Peregrine (born 1963) American; Mississippian culture, cross-cultural studies
*Gregory Perino (1914–2005) American; Woodland period, Woodland, and Mississippian cultures in Illinois and Oklahoma
*John Shae Perring (1813–1869) British; Egyptian pyramids
*Hilda Petrie (1871–1957) British; Egyptology
*William Matthew Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) British; Egypt, methodology, ceramic typology
*Stewart Perowne (1901–1989) British; Imadia and Beihan
*Alejandro Peschard Fernández (born 19??) Mexican; Meso-America
*Philip Phillips (archaeologist), Philip Phillips (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States
*Alexandre Piankoff (1897–1966) Russian; Egypt
*Stuart Piggott (1910–1996) British; neolithic, Europe (especially Britain)
*John Pinkerton (1758–1826) Scottish; theory of Gothic superiority, Scottish proto-history
*Philip Piper (born 1966) British–Australian; zooarchaeology and palaeoecology of Southeast Asia
*Dolores Piperno (born 1949) American; archaeobotany, maize, Panama
*Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827–1900) British; Britain (especially Dorset), method
*Kyriakos Pittakis (1798–1863) Greek; Greece
*Nikolaos Platon (1909–1992) Greek; Minoan Crete
*Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908) British-American; photographer and antiquarian specializing in Pre-Columbian high cultures
*Ina Plug (born 1941) South African; archaeozoology
*Aleks Pluskowski (born 19??) environmental archaeology; medieval Europe
*Natalia Polosmak (born 1956) Russian; Siberia: Altay: Pazyryk culture
*Cristian Popa (born 19??) Romanian; Coţofeni culture
*Rachel Pope (born 19??) British; Iron Age Europe
*Reginald Stuart Poole (1832–1895) English; Egypt (hieroglyphics and numismatics)
*Gregory Possehl (1941–2011) American; South Asia, Indus Valley Civilization
*Timothy W. Potter (1944–2000) British; Classical archaeology
*Timothy Potts (born 1958) Australian; Middle East and Mediterranean
*Gary Presland (born 19??) Australian; Aboriginal landscapes in Victoria
*Tatiana Proskouriakoff (1909–1985) Russian-American; Mayan hieroglyphs
* Francis Pryor (born 1945) British; Bronze (Flag Fen, England) and Iron Ages

Q

*Jules Etienne Joseph Quicherat (1814–1882) French; ancient Europe

R

*Wulf Raeck (born 1950) German; classical archaeology, Pergamon, Greek barbarian portrayals
*Philip Rahtz (1921–2011) British; United Kingdom
*José Ramos Muñoz (born 19??) Spanish; Europe, northern Africa
*Sir Andrew Ramsay (geologist), Andrew Ramsay (1814–1891) Scottish; Pleistocene geology, stratigraphy
*Sir William Mitchell Ramsay (1851–1939) Scottish; Asia Minor and New Testament
*Don Ranson (born 19??) Australian; Tasmanian prehistory Kutikina Cave
*Claude Rapin (born 19??) French?; Central Asia
*Charles Rau (1826–1887) American; curator at the Smithsonian
*Katharina C. Rebay (born 1977) Austrian; Bronze & Iron Age Central Europe, mortuary analysis, gender
*William Rathje (1945–2012) 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
*Marion Rawson (1899–1980) American; classical archaeology
*Shahrokh Razmjou (born 19??) Iranian; Achaemenid Archaeology
*Nicholas Reeves (born 1956) British; Egypt
*Ronny Reich (born 1947) Israeli; Jerusalem
*George Reisner (1867–1942) American; Ancient Egypt, Nubia, Palestine
*Colin Renfrew (1937–2024) English; history of language, archaeogenetics
*Caspar Reuvens (1793–1835) Dutch; Roman archaeology in the Netherlands
*Andrew Reynolds (archaeologist), Andrew Reynolds (born 19??) English; Medieval archaeology
*Julian C. Richards (born 1951) English; Stonehenge, popularizer
*Julian D. Richards (born 19??), British; Anglo-Saxons, Viking Age
*Emil Ritterling (1861–1928) German; archaeology
*Uzma Z. Rizvi (born 1973) American; Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology
*Anne Strachan Robertson (1910–1997) Scottish; Numismatics
*Derek Roe (1937–2014) British; paleolithic
*Wil Roebroeks (born 1955) Dutch; The Netherlands
*Malcolm Jennings Rogers, Malcolm J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California
*John Romer (Egyptologist), John Romer (born 1941) British; Egypt, popularizer
*Michael Rostovtzeff (1870–1952) Ukrainian/Russian/American; Greece, Thrace, southern Russia
*Irving Rouse (1913–2006) American; Caribbean and migration
*Katherine Routledge (1866–1935) British; Easter Island
*John Howland Rowe (1918–2004) American; Peru
*Valentine Roux (born 1956) French; ceramic production in the Levant
*Peter Rowley-Conwy (born 1951) British; environmental archaeology
*Martin Rundkvist (born 1972) Swedish; Bronze, Iron, and Middle Ages of Scandinavia.
*Adrian Andrei Rusu (born 1951) Romanian; Medieval archaeology, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology and Art History, Cluj-Napoca, Institute of Archaeology and Art History in Cluj-Napoca
*Simon Rutar (1851–1903) Slovenian; Slovenia
*Alberto Ruz Lhuillier (1906–1979) Mexican; Pre-Columbian Meso-America
*Donald P. Ryan (born 1957) American; Egypt (Valley of the Kings)

S

*Jeremy Sabloff (born 1944) American; Maya
*Moain Sadeq, Sadeq, Moain (Mohammedmoin) (born 1955) Palestinian; Palestine and the Gulf region
*Saad Abbas Ismail (born 1980) Kurdish; International archaeologist, Syria
*Antonio Sagona (1956–2017); Australian; Near East, Caucasus
*Sharada Srinivasan (born 1966) Indian; archaeometallurgy, India
*Roderick Salisbury (born 1967) American; ideology, soil chemistry, GIS, S.E. Europe (Neolithic)
*William T. Sanders (1926–2008) American; Mesoamerica
*Viktor Sarianidi (1929–2013) Uzbekistani; Bronze Age, Central Asia
*Otto Schaden (1937–2015) American; Egypt
*Claude Schaeffer (1898–1982) French; Ugarit
*Michael Brian Schiffer (born 1947) American (born in Canada); behavioural archaeology, method and theory
*Heinrich Schliemann (1822–1890) German; Troy, Mycenae, Tiryn
*Philippe-Charles Schmerling (1790–1836) Belgian; founder of paleontology: antiquity of man
*Klaus Schmidt (archaeologist), Klaus Schmidt (1953–2014) German; Göbekli Tepe, Turkey
*Alain Schnapp (born 1946) French; Classical archaeology: iconography of Greek vases
*Carmel Schrire (born 1941) Australian; Australia, South Africa
*Francesco Scipone (1675–1755) Italian; Etruscans
*Assaad Seif (born 1967) Lebanese; archaeology of Lebanon
*Mercy Seiradaki (1910–1993) English; Knossos
*Ovid R. Sellers (1884–1975) American; Biblical Old Testament
*Gemma Sena Chiesa (1929–2024) Italian; Roman
*Jean Baptiste Louis George Seroux D'Agincourt (1730–1814) French; ancient monumental art
*Veronica Seton-Williams (1910–1992) Australian; Egyptology and prehistory, Near East
*Thomas Sever (born 19??) American?; NASA’s only archaeologist, Maya, South America
*Ruth Shady (born 1946) Peruivan; Peru
*Alireza Shapour Shahbazi (1942–2006) Iranian; Iran
*Michael Shanks (archaeologist), Michael Shanks (born 1959) English; Classical archaeology, theory
*Thurstan Shaw (1914–2013) English; Africa (especially Nigeria)
*Anna Shepard (1903–1971) American; ceramic analysis
*Alison Sheridan (19??) British; Bronze and Neolithic ages
*Andrew Sherratt (1946–2006) English; prehistory
*Susan Sherratt (born 1949) U.K. citizenship; Mediterranean archaeology
*Yoko Shindo (1960–2018), Japanese; Islamic glass
*Sim Bong-geun, Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea
*Elizabeth Simpson (archaeologist), Elizabeth Simpson (born 1947) American; Ancient Near East, Anatolia
*Frederic Slater (c. 1880–1947) Australian; Aboriginal place names
*Claire Smith (archaeologist), Claire Smith (born 1957) Australian; Indigenous archaeology, rock art
*Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937) Australian; (anatomist) Hyperdiffusionism in archaeology, hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory
*Mike Smith (archaeologist), Mike Smith (1955–2022) Australian, Central Australia
*William Robertson Smith (1846–1894) Scottish; Orientalist, Biblical scholar
*Stanley South (1928–2016) American; historical archaeology
*Janet D. Spector (1944–2011) American; North America
*Sarah Speight (born 19??) British; castle studies and medieval archaeology
*E. Lee Spence (born 1947) American; marine archaeology
*Dirk HR Spennemann (born 19??) Australian; futures studies
*Victor Spinei (born 1943) Romanian; medieval cult objects
*Flaxman Charles John Spurrell (1842–1915) English; prehistoric England, Egypt
*Frederick Spurrell (1824–1902) English; English archaeology (Essex and Sussex)
*Dragoslav Srejović (1931–1996) Serbian; Mesolithic Iron Gates culture of the Balkans: Lepenski Vir
*Lady Hester Stanhope (1776–1839) British; Ashkelon
*John Steane (archaeologist), John Steane (1931–2024) British; historic landscape
*Julie K. Stein, (born 19??) American; geoarchaeology and archaeology of shell middens and coastal archaeological sites
*Eunice Stebbens (1893–1992) American; Roman coins
*Louise Steel (archaeologist), Louise Steel (born 19??) British; prehistoric Cyprus
*Paulette Steeves (born 1955) Canadian, Cree, Métis; decolonizing archaeology, Paleo-Indians
*Marc Aurel Stein (1862–1943) Hungarian; Central Asia
*Margareta Steinby (born 1938) Finnish; classical archaeology
*Hans-Georg Stephan (born 1950) German; Medievalist, post-Medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, oven tiles

*Sara Yorke Stevenson (1847–1921) American; Egypt
*Marion Stirling Pugh (1911–2001) American; Mesopotamian archaeology
*James B. Stoltman (1935–2019) American; ceramic analysis, Great Lakes (North America)
*James Stewart (archaeologist), James R. Stewart (1913–1962) Australian; Cyprus and the Ancient Near East
*Joseph Stevens (archaeologist) (1818–1899) British; first curator of Reading Museum
*Eugene Stockton (born 1934) Australian; Middle East, Australia
*David Stuart (Mayanist), David Stuart (born 1965) American; Mayan epigraphy
*George E. Stuart (1935–2014) American; Mayan archaeology
*William Duncan Strong (1899–1962) American; Peru, U.S. Mid-West, California, Honduras, seriation statistics
*Su Bai (1922–2018) Chinese; Chinese Buddhism, grottoes
*Su Bingqi (1909–1997) Chinese; ancient China
*Eleazar Sukenik (1889–1953) Israeli; Dead Sea scrolls
*Sharon Sullivan, Australian heritage conservation
*Pál Sümegi (born 1960) Hungarian; environmental archaeology, Hungary
*Glenn Summerhayes (born 195?) Australian; East Asia and Pacific archaeology, trade and exchange, development of social complexity, archaeometry
*Timothy Lee Sutherland (born 195?) English; Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology
*Rachel Swallow (born 19??) British?; medieval archaeology, landscape archaeology, and castle studies
*Naomi Sykes (born 19??) British?; zooarchaeology
*Jadwiga Szeptycka (1883–1939) Polish; Roman-period Poland

T

*Takaku Kenji (born 19??) Japanese; Korea
*Hamdan Taha (b. 19??) Palestinian; archaeology of Palestine
*Aarne Michaël Tallgren (1885–1945) Finnish; East European Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age
*Zemaryalai Tarzi (1939–2024) Afghan; Afghanistan
*Joan du Plat Taylor (1906–1983) Scottish; maritime archaeology, Cyprus
*Joan J. Taylor (1940–2019) American; British prehistory
*Walter Taylor (archaeologist), Walter Willard Taylor, Jr. (1913–1997) American; theory, Coahuila (Mexico)
*Julio C. Tello (1880–1947) Peruvian; Peru
*Petros Themelis (1936–2023) Greek; Messene
*Alexander Thom (1894–1985) Scottish; engineer, Stonehenge
*Charles Thomas (historian), Charles Thomas (1928–2016) British; Cornish studies
*David Hurst Thomas (born 1945) American; Spanish Borderlands, repatriation
*Julian Thomas (born 1959) British; north-west European Neolithic and Bronze Age
*Dorothy Burr Thompson (1900–2001) American; Hellenistic terracotta figurines
*Homer Thompson (1906–2000) Canadian; Greece
*J. A. Thompson, John Arthur Thompson (1913–2002) Australian; Old Testament scholar and Biblical archaeology, biblical archaeologist
*J. Eric S. Thompson (1898–1975) English; Maya
*Christian Jürgensen Thomsen (1788–1865) Danish; originator of the Three-Age System
*Alan Thorne (1939–2012) Australian; Aboriginal Australian origins and the human genome, Lake Mungo, Kow Swamp
*Carl L. Thunberg (born 1963) Swedish; Viking Age, Nordic Middle Ages
*Christopher Tilley (1955–2024) British; theory, Britain
*Norman Tindale (1900–1993) Australian; mapping Australian tribes
*Tong Enzheng (1935–1997) Chinese; China
*Malcolm Todd (1939–2013) British; classical archaeology
*Alfred Marston Tozzer (1877–1954) American; Mesoamerica (Maya)
*Arthur Dale Trendall (1909–1995) Australian; Greek ceramics at Apulia
*John C. Trever (1916–2006) American; Biblical archaeologist
*Bruce Trigger (1937–2006) Canadian; archaeological theory, comparative civilizations, Huronia, Nubia, Egyptology
*Christos Tsountas (1857–1934) Greek; Greece
*Olena Vasylivna Tsvek (1931–2020) Ukrainian; Trypillia culture
*James Tuck (archaeologist), James Tuck (1940–2019) American; eastern Canadian historical archaeology
*Ronald F. Tylecote (1916–1990) British; founder of archaeometallurgy
*Grigore Tocilescu (1850–1909) Romanian; Dacia
*Henrieta Todorova (1933–2015) Bulgarian; Neolithic Bulgaria, excavations at Durankulak
*Vassilios Tzaferis (1936–2015) Greek–Israeli; biblical archaeology, Byzantine monasticism

U

*Peter Ucko (1938–2007) British; Paleolithic art; archaeological politics
*Luigi Maria Ugolini (1895–1936) Italian; Albania
*Gary Urton (born 1948) American; Andes
*David Ussishkin (born 1935) Israeli; Lachish, Jezreel Valley and Tel Megiddo, Megiddo
*Fadel al-Utol (born 1981) Palestinian; archaeology of the Gaza Strip

V

*Laima Vaitkunskienė (born 1936) Lithuanian; Medieval Lithuania
*Heiki Valk (born 1959) Estonian; Medieval Estonia
*Ron Vanderwal (1938–2021), Australian; Torres Strait, New Guinea
*Parviz Varjavand (1934–2007) Iranian; ancient Iran (Persia)
*Peter van Dommelen (born 1966), Dutch; Western Mediterranean and Phoenician-Punic archaeology
*W. J. Varley, William Jones Varley (died 1976) British; English Iron Age hill forts
*Miloje Vasić (1869–1956) Serbian; Neolithic archaeological culture: Vinča culture
*Roland de Vaux (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls
*Marius Vazeilles (1881–1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology
*Bruce Veitch (1957–2005) Australian; Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia; Bruce Veitch Award
*Alan Vince (1952–2009) British; British ceramics
*Zdenko Vinski (1913–1996) Croatian; Croatia
*Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) German; Pomeranian hill-forts
*Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art
*Alexandru Vulpe (1931–2016) Romanian; Hallstatt

W

*Alan Wace (1879–1957) English; Greece (especially Mycenae
*Marc Waelkens (1948–2021) Belgian; Turkish archaeology
*Tony Waldron (died 2021) British; palaeopathologist and palaeoepidemiologist
*Alice Leslie Walker (1885–1954) American, classical archaeologist
*Lynley A. Wallis (born 19??) Australian; Indigenous and historical archaeology
*Wang Tao (archaeologist) (born 1962) Chinese-British; Chinese archaeology
*Wang Zhongshu (1925–2015) Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology
*Graeme K. Ward (born 1943) Australian; Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art
*John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912–1981) British; architectural history
*Charles Warren (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
*Helen Waterhouse (1913–1999), British; classical archaeology
*William Thompson Watkin (1836–1888), British; Roman Britain
*Trevor Watkins (born 19??) British; Near Eastern archaeology
*Patty Jo Watson (1932–2024) American; North American archaeology
*Clarence Hungerford Webb, Clarence H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory
*Robert Wauchope (archaeologist), Robert Wauchope (1909–1979) American; Maya, south-eastern U.S.
*Karl Jakob Weber (1712–1764) Swiss; Pompeii
*Mildred Mott Wedel (1912–1995) American; Great Plains prehistory
*Waldo Wedel (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory
*Josef W. Wegner (born 1967) American; Egyptology
*Elizabeth Weiss (born 19??) American; skeletal analysis, archaeological ethics
*Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
*Fred Wendorf (1924–2015) American; archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
*David Wengrow (born 1972) English; comparative archaeology
*Boyd Wettlaufer (1914–2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
*Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) British; method, South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England)
*Tessa Wheeler, Tessa Verney Wheeler (1893–1936) British; method, British archaeology, co-founder of UCL Institute of Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology
*Joyce White (born 19??) American; prehistoric Southeast Asia
*Theodore E. White (1905–1977) American; archaeozoology
*Elizabeth Augustus Whitehead (1928–1983) American; classical archaeology
*John C. Whittaker (born 1953) American; experimental archaeology, Palaeolithic
*Alasdair Whittle (born 1949) British; European Neolithic
*Caroline Wickham-Jones (1955–2022) British; Orkney, mesolithic, submerged sites
*Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography
*Malcolm H. Wiener (born 1935) American; Aegeanist, Prehistorian, President of INSTAP
*Louise van Wijngaarden-Bakker (1940–2021) Dutch; archaeozoology
*Gordon Willey (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory
*Stephen Williams (archeologist), Stephen Williams (1926–2017) American; North America
*Hugh Willmott (archaeologist), Hugh Willmott (born 1972) British; Middle Ages and monastic archaeology
*Daniel Wilson (academic) , Daniel Wilson (1816–1892) Scottish; Scotland, theory
*Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world
*Christopher Witmore (born 1974) American; Archaeological theory, landscape archaeology, object-oriented approaches
*Bryant G. Wood (born 1936) American; Palestine
*Peter Woodman (1943–2017), Irish; Irish Mesolithic
*Leonard Woolley (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia
*Hannah Marie Wormington, Hannah Wormington (1914–1994) American; American Southwest and Paleo-Indians
*Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
*George Roy Haslam (Mick) Wright (1924–2014) Australian; Middle East
*Wolfgang W. Wurster (1937–2003) German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador
*Alison Wylie (born 1954) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
*John Wymer (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic

X

*Xia Nai (1910–1985) Chinese; China
*Xu Xusheng (1888–1976) Chinese; discoverer of the Erlitou culture

Y

*Yigael Yadin (1917–1984) Israeli; Masada, Hazor
*Yang Jianhua (born 1955) Chinese; Mesopotamia, eastern Eurasia
*Yusra (archaeologist), Yusra (20th century) Palestinian; Tabun Cave, Tabun, Neanderthals

Z

*Inger Zachrisson (born 1936); Swedish; Sami people since the Iron Age
*Louise Zarmati (born 1958) Australian; Archaeology in schools; women in archaeology; Australia, Crete, Cyprus
*Melinda A. Zeder (born ca. 1952) American; zooarchaeology
*Robert N. Zeitlin (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies
*Zhao Kangmin (1936–2018) Chinese; discoverer of the Terracotta Army
*Zheng Zhenduo (1898–1958) Chinese; China
*Zheng Zhenxiang (1929–2024) Chinese; discoverer of the Tomb of Fu Hao
*Irit Ziffer (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art
*Andreas Zimmermann (archaeologist), Andreas Zimmermann (born 1951) German; Neolithic (LBK)
*Ezra B. W. Zubrow (born 1945) American; theory, GIS, demography, ecology, Circumpolar
*R. Tom Zuidema (1927–2016) Dutch; Incas
*Vladas Žulkus (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology)
*Marek Zvelebil (1952–2011) Czech; European Stone Age

See also

*List of Russian archaeologists

External links

ABC GNT History, Australian Archaeologists

References

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