James Henry Breasted [1865-1935]
American archaeologist J.H. Breasted was the founder of the Oriental Institute in Chicago.
Henri Breuil [1877-1961]
French archaeologist Henri Breuil is known as the "Pope of Prehistory," a Jesuit priest who conducted archaeological research in the Dordogne Valley of France.
Robert Broom [1866-1951]
South African archaeologist Robert Broom specialized in the ancestors of modern humans, including work at Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, and Kromdraai.
Howard Carter [1873-1939]
British archaeologist Howard Carter is probably the second most famous archaeologist ever (right after Indiana Jones) for his 1922 discovery of Tutenkhamen's tomb.
Alfonso Caso [1896-1971]
Mexican archaeologist Alfonso Caso is best known for his work at Monte Alban, Mexico.
Gertrude Caton-Thompson [1899-1986]
English archaeologist Caton-Thompson is probably best known for her work at the Great Zimbabwe site.
V. Gordon Childe [1892-1957]
Australian-born British philosopher and archaeologist V.G. Childe is perhaps best known for his interest and influence in the realm of social evolution theory.
Raymond Dart [1893-1988]
Australian paleontologist Raymond Dart was working at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa when he first investigated the fossil hominid known as the "Taung baby."
Wilhelm Dörpfeld [1853-1940]
German archaeologist William Dorpfeld is best known for his work on Bronze Age sites in the Mediterranean.
Andrew Ellicott Douglass [1867-1962]
American astronomer, who with archaeologist Clark Wissler, invented the dating methodology known as dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating.
Arthur Evans [1851-1941]
British archaeologist Arthur Evans is best known as the excavator of the Bronze Age archaeological site of Knossos.
Dorothy Garrod [1892-1969]
British archaeologist and the first woman ever elected to full professorship at Cambridge, Garrod did most of her excavation work in the middle east.
John Garstang [1876-1956]
British archaeologist, excavated at Jericho, and Sakje-Geuzu and Mersin in Anatolia
Hetty Goldman [1881-1972]
American classical archaeologist, excavated primarily in Asia Minor, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
Fritz Graebner [1877-1934]
German ethnologist who argued that material remains could be used to identify cultural diffusion
Edith Hamilton [1867-1963]
Educator and historian Edith Hamilton had an untold effect on generations of archaeologists
Ales Hrdlicka [1869-1943]
Bohemian-born physical anthropologist, Hrdlicka was a tremendously influential scientist at the Smithsonian Institution
Alfred Vincent Kidder [1885-1963]
American archaeologist A.V. Kidder is primarily known for his work in the American southwest and with Maya sites
Robert Koldewey [1855-1925]
Known primarily as the excavator of Babylon, German archaeologist Robert Koldewey also excavated in Asia Minor, Greece, and Italy
Gustaf Kossinna [1858-1931]
German archaeologist and ethnohistorian Gustaf Kossinna is widely perceived as being a tool of the megalomaniac Adolf Hitler.
Alfred L. Kroeber [1876-1960]
Kroeber was another one of those researchers who had an enormous impact on archaeology, even though it was a relatively minor interest of his.
Winifred Lamb [1894-1963]
Classical archaeologist and museum curator Winifred Lamb conducted work at several sites in the Aegean and Turkey.
Robert Armstrong Stewart Macalister
British archaeologist R.A.S. Macalister spent much of his career excavating in Syro-Palestine sites such as Tell el-Jazari
Bronislaw Malinowski [1884-1942]
The enormously influential Bronislaw Malinowski was born in Cracow, Poland in 1884.
Louis Malleret
French archaeologist Louis Malleret, of the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Oriente (EFEO), conducted excavations in southeast Asia in the 1940s
Sir John Hubert Marshall [1876-1958]
Sir John Hubert Marshall was a British archaeologist of the early twentieth century, who is probably best known for his work in India
Benjamin Mazar [1895-1906]
Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar was a student of William Albright; and one of the leading biblical archaeologists of his day.
Oswald Menghin [1888-1973]
Austrian archaeologist Oswald F.A. Menghin was the head of the University of Vienna Prehistorical Institute during the Nazi occupation.
Eduard Meyer [1855-1930]
German historian Eduard Meyer was a faculty member at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Universität in Berlin, and published an astounding range of materials on the history of antiquity from the oriental and occidental worlds
Jacques Jean-Marie de Morgan [1857-1924]
French civil engineer, geologist and archaeologist Jacques de Morgan was the director of Antiquities in Egypt during the later 19th century
