Archaeologist Biographies D-F

Fray Diego Durán [ca. 1537-1588]
Fray Diego Durán was a Spanish clergyman and ethnographer of the Aztec people, who was brought to Mexico as a child, and grew up in the Aztec capital city of Texcoco

Edward Mott Davis [1918-1998]
The career of American archaeologist E. Mott Davis was a broad one, including archaeological work all over the midwest and at Stobi in Macedonia, where he pioneered the Izum flotation technique with A.B. Wesolowsky.

Erich von Däniken [b. 1935]
Swiss hotellier and best-selling author Erich von Daniken has long enraged archaeologists with his racist theories.

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" and identified it as a likely human ancestor.

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

James Deetz [1930-2000]
American archaeologist James Deetz was quite influential in the anthropological study of historic archaeological sites.

Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna [1906-2004]
American ethnologist and archaeologist Frederica de Laguna was influential in the studies of the American northwest and Alaska.

Wilhelm Dörpfeld [1853-1940]
German archaeologist, best known for his work on Bronze Age sites in the Mediterranean.

Andrew Ellicott Douglass [1867-1962]
Andrew Ellicott Douglass was an American astronomer, who with archaeologist Clark Wissler, invented the dating methodology known as dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating.

Fray Diego Durán [ca. 1537-1588]
Spanish clergyman, who was brought to Mexico as a child, growing up in the Aztec capital city of Texcoco.

Mary W. Eubanks [b. 1947]
American paleoethnobotanist Mary Eubanks is located in the biology department at Duke University, where she has conducted some of the most useful studies of corn biology and the origins of agriculture in the Americas.

Sir Arthur Evans [1851-1941]
British archaeologist Arthur Evans is best known as the excavator of the Bronze Age archaeological site of Knossos

Franklin Fenenga [1917-1994]
American archaeologist Franklin Fenenga conducted archaeological research in California and the Great Plains and Missouri River basin.

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

Raymond William Firth [born 1901]
Anthropologist Raymond Firth, a New Zealander, concentrated his research, perhaps not terribly surprisingly, on the Maori peoples of New Zealand

Kent V. Flannery [born 1934]
One of the "young turks" of the New Archaeology, Kent Flannery began his career working on the origins of agriculture with Robert Braidwood

Alice Cunningham Fletcher [1838-1923]
Cuban-born daughter of American citizens, Alice Fletcher was a pioneer in the field of ethnology, and is primarily known for her work among the Omaha and Nez Perce of the American Great Plains.

Sir William Flinders Petrie [1853-1942]
British archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie was one of the pioneers of the science, conducting archaeology primarily in Egypt and Palestine.

Morton H. Fried [1923-1986]
Highly influential American anthropologist Morton Fried argued that civilization must be gained through a series of steps.