Gabriel de Mortillet
French geologist and archaeologist Gabriel de Mortillet was one of those researchers fired up by Charles Darwin.

Charles C. Abbott [1843-1919]
American archaeologist and naturalist, Abbott was of the group of early archaeologists interested in determining the earliest human occupations of the New World

Adolph Bandelier [1840-1914]
Adolph Bandelier was a historian, ethnographer, and novelist in addition to being an archaeologist known for work in the American southwest, Mexico and Peru.

Paul Emile Botta [1807-1870]
French historian and politician Paul Emile Botta is probably most famous for his mis-identification of the site of Khorsabad as Nineveh.

Frank Calvert [1828-1908]
Consular agent and part-time archaeologist Frank Calvert is known as the man who identified the ruins of Hissarlik, Turkey as the real location of ancient Troy.

Jesse Walter Fewkes [1850-1930]
American ethnographer and archaeologist Jesse Walter Fewkes coined the term "ethnoarchaeology"

Charles Darwin [1809-1822]
British naturalist Charles Darwin's theory of evolution was one of the greatest contributions to science yet known.

Hans Hildebrand [1842-1913]
Swedish archaeologist, best known for his evolutionary studies of Bronze and Iron age artifacts.

William Henry Holmes [1846-1943]
American anthropologist, archaeologist, and ethnographer, W.H. Holmes spent much of his career at the Smithsonian Institution

Eduard Lartet [1801-1871]
French paleontologist Eduard Lartet spent a long time searching for conclusive evidence that humans and extinct mammals co-existed.

Austen Henry Layard [1817-1894]
Victorian age British archaeologist, Austen Henry Layard is principally remembered as the discoverer of Nineveh.-

Augustus Le Plongeon [1825-1908]
While Augustus Le Plongeon might rightly be called more "infamous" than famous, his fabulous stereographs of Chichen Itza almost make up for the trouble he caused.

John Lubbock [1834-1913]
John Lubbock was a wealthy English gentlemen of the 19th century who dabbled in archaeology, among lots of other things.

August Mau [1840-1909]
Art historian August Mau was connected with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut when he studied and classified the paintings at the archaeological site of Pompeii

Ernst W. Middendorf
Ernst W. Middendorf was a German explorer in the 19th century, who wandered around South America

Oscar Montelius [1843-1921]
Oscar Montelius was a Swedish antiquarian, whose primary contribution to the study of archaeology was the development of a typology for stone age period artifacts

Lewis Henry Morgan [1818-1881]
The career of pioneer American anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan had of tremendous impact on the beginning studies of archaeology in the Americas