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Marvin McCormick (Modern Fluters)
From Tony Baker, stories and slides of stone tool maker Marvin McCormick, one of the few flintknappers who could make a Folsom point.

Betty Jane Meggers [b. 1921]
American archaeologist Betty Meggers is probably best known for her extensive work conducted in association with her husband Clifford Evans in the South American continent, including Marajo Island, Brazil, at Rio Napo in Ecuador and on the island of Guyana (then British Guiana).

Archaeologist Machteld Johanna Mellink [1917-2006] - A Passionate Involvement...
International expert on Anatolian archaeology Machteld Mellink was a witty, sensitive, insightful archaeologist and teacher whose friendships with students and colleagues were rich and lifelong.

Robert Armstrong Stewart Macalister [1870-1950]
British archaeologist R.A.S. Macalister spent much of his career excavating in Syro-Palestine sites such as Tell el-Jazari.

Father John MacEnery [1796-1841]
Father John MacEnery was a Roman Catholic priest in the early 19th century.

Richard Stockton MacNeish [1918-2001]
Richard S. MacNeish was a highly influential Mesoamericanist archaeologist.

Bronislaw Malinowski [1884-1942]
The enormously influential Polish anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski's most important contribution to archaeology is the concept of functionalism.

Louis Malleret
French archaeologist Louis Malleret, of the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme-Oriente (EFEO), conducted excavations in southeast Asia in the 1940s

Max Mallowan [1904-1978]
English archaeologist Max Mallowan was a student of Leonard Woolley's, who excavated at Ur, Nimrud, and Nineveh during the 1920s through 1950s

Joyce Marcus
American archaeologist and epigrapher Joyce Marcus has been associated with the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology since 1985

Alexander Marshack [1918-2004]
American independent scholar Alexander Marshack began his professional life as a journalist, but in 1963, a chance introduction to Ice Age art led him into archaeology.

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.

Thomas Robert Malthus [1766-1834]
18th century Englishman Thomas Malthus, while not by any stretch of the imagination an archaeologist, nevertheless affected and still affects archaeological theory

August Mau [1840-1909]
Art historian August Mau was connected with the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut when he studied the paintings at Pompeii.

Ernst Mayr [1904-2005]
German ornithologist and paleontologist Ernst Mayr is probably best known for his seminal work begun in the 1940s combining the works of Charles Darwin and Gregor Mendel.

Benjamin Mazar [1895-1906]
Israeli archaeologist Benjamin Mazar was a student of William Albright

Betty Jane Meggers [b. 1921]
American archaeologist Betty Meggers is probably best known for her extensive work conducted in association with her husband Clifford Evans in the South American continent.

David Meltzer [b. 1955]
Archaeologist and historian David Meltzer has made substantial contributions to the field primarily in his several articles on the history of archaeology.

James Mellaart [born 1925]
British archaeologist James Mellaart is best known for his work at the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük

Oswald Menghin [1888-1973]
Austrian archaeologist Oswald F.A. Menghin was the head of the University of Vienna Prehistorical Institute during the Nazi occupation.

Robert King Merton [b 1910]
Robert King Merton was a sociologist who in 1949 developed "middle range" theory

Barbara Mertz [b. 1927]
American Egyptologist Barbara Mertz is best known for her numerous archaeologically-related novels, including a long-running series on the fictional Egyptologist family of Amelia Peabody and Radcliffe Emerson.

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

Ernst Wilhelm Middendorf [1830-1908]
Ernst W. Middendorf was a German medical doctor whose linguistic and travel reports in the late 19th century contained drawings and descriptions of the cultures of Bolivia and Peru.

René F. Millon
French archaeologist René F. Millon has spent his long time career investigating Teotihuacan in the Valley Mexico.

Yuri Mochanov
Yuri Mochanov is a Russian archaeologist at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

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.

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.

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

Elizabeth Ann Morris [b. 1932]
Although Elizabeth Ann Morris was born to archaeologists Earl and Ann Morris in 1932, she took a while to follow in her parent's footsteps.

Gabriel de Mortillet [1821-1898]
French geologist Gabriel de Mortillet was one of several researchers at the cutting edge of the field of prehistory about the time of Darwin's Origin of the Species.

Michael E. Moseley
Michael E. Moseley is an American archaeologist whose 40+ year career in archaeology has been concentrated primarily on the archaeology of Peru

Mildred Mott Wedel [1912-1995]
American archaeologist Mildred Mott Wedel was a pioneer of ethnohistorical studies in the American midwest.

Nels C. Nelson [1875-1964]
Danish-born archaeologist Nels Nelson was an early 20th century archaeologist in the American southwest.

Rasmus Nyerup [1759-1829]
The frustration of Danish historian Rasmus Nyerup was very important to the development of archaeology as a science.

Alfred Percival Maudslay (1850–1931)
History of the first explorations and archaeological discoveries of the Maya. Refer to this page to learn more about Alfred Percival Maudslay one of the first explorers to visit and record ancient Maya sites