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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Contents

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

• See also
• References

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,^[1] (born 19??) Australian; Australia, South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita,^[2] 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^[3]
• 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 biology^[4]
• 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,^[5] 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;^[6] 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 ^[7]
• 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^[8]
• Heather Burke (born 1966) Australian; historical archaeology, field methods^[9]
• Aubrey Burl (1926–2020) British; British megalithic monuments
• Les Bursill (1945–2019) Australian; Dharawal people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra^[10]
• 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,^[11] 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)^[12]
• 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^[13][14]
• 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

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• 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^[15]
• 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^[16]
• 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;^[17] 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^[18]
• 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 (1936-2025) 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 ^[19][20]
• 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;^[21] archaeometry, residue analysis, Maori earth ovens,^[22] 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^[23]
• 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^[24]
• 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 ^[25][26]
• 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) ^[27]
• 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
• Lothar Kilian (1911–2000) German; Balts, Germans, proto-Indo-European homeland
• 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
• 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
• Kristian Kristiansen (born 1948) Danish; Bronze Age Europe, heritage studies, archaeological theory
• 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^[28] (born 19??) Australian; human skeletal remains discovered at Pompeii^[28]
• 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 1928–1945
• Anthony J. Legge (1939–2013) British; archaeozoology^[29]
• 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"^[30]
• 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^[31][32]
• 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 ^[33]
• Frances Lynch (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
• Albert Lythgoe (1868–1934) American; Egyptologist and a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art^[34]

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^[35]
• 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^[36]
• 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^[37]
• 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^[38]
• Charles McBurney (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
• Anna Marguerite McCann (1933–2017) American; Underwater Archaeology
• Fred McCarthy^[39] (1905–1997) Australian; Australia's Aborigines^[40]
• 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;^[41] Early Celtic Art in Britain ^[42]
• 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 [born 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 ^[43]
• 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;^[44] 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^[45]
• 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 (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 (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, 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 (1900–1994) American; theory, eastern and central United States
• Alexandre Piankoff (1897–1966) Russian; Egypt^[46]
• 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^[47]
• 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 (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 (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 J. Rogers (1890–1960) American; California
• 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 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
• Sadeq, Moain (Mohammedmoin) (born 1955) Palestinian; Palestine and the Gulf region^[48][49]
• 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 (1953–2014) German; Göbekli Tepe, Turkey
• Alain Schnapp (born 1946) French; Classical archaeology: iconography of Greek vases ^[50]
• 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 (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
• Bong-geun Sim (born 1943) South Korean; Korea
• Elizabeth Simpson (born 1947) American; Ancient Near East, Anatolia
• Frederic Slater (c. 1880–1947) Australian; Aboriginal place names
• Claire Smith (born 1957) Australian; Indigenous archaeology, rock art^[51]
• Grafton Elliot Smith (1871–1937) Australian; (anatomist) hyperdiffusionist view of prehistory
• 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 ^[52][53]
• 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 (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 (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 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 (born 1965) American; Mayan epigraphy
• George E. Stuart (1935–2014) American; Mayan archaeology^[54]
• 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^[55]
• 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^[56]
• Timothy Lee Sutherland (born 195?) English; Conflict and Battlefield Archaeology^[57]
• 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^[58]
• 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 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 (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
• John Arthur Thompson (1913–2002) Australian;^[59] Old Testament scholar and 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 (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 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^[60]
• Parviz Varjavand (1934–2007) Iranian; ancient Iran (Persia)
• Peter van Dommelen (born 1966), Dutch; Western Mediterranean and Phoenician-Punic archaeology
• William Jones Varley (1904–1976) 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;^[61] Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia; Bruce Veitch Award^[62]
• 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^[63]
• 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
• Michael R. Waters (born 19??) American; geoarchaeology, early Americans
• 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 H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory
• 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 Verney Wheeler (1893–1936) British; method, British archaeology, co-founder of 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^[64]
• Gordon Willey (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory
• Stephen Williams (1926–2017) American; North America
• Hugh Willmott (born 1972) British; Middle Ages and monastic archaeology
• 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 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) ^[65] 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 (20th century) Palestinian; 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^[66][67]
• 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 (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