Archaeologist Biographies R

Oliver Rackham
British historical ecologist Oliver Rackham has had a long distinguished career, with ecological studies completed in Sardinia, Crete, Texas, Australia and Japan.

Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown [1881-1955]
British anthropologist A. R. Radcliffe-Brown is perhaps best known as one of the proponents of the notion of functionalism.

Keith Sevill Radcliffe Robinson
British archaeologist K.S.R. Robinson worked with Randall MacIver at his excavations at Khami, and then on his own at Great Zimbabwe and the Nyanga Hills of Zimbabwe in the late 1940s and 1950s.

Zdzislaw Rajewski [1907-1974]
Polish archaeologist Zdzislaw Rajewski was one of the archaeologists at Poznań university who excavated at Biskupin.

Johan Georg Ramsauer
Johan Georg Ramsauer was a manager of salt mines in western Austria during the mid-nineteenth century, who conducted systematic archaeological excavation at the classic Iron Age site of Hallstatt.

David Randall-MacIver [1873-1945]
British archaeologist David Randall-MacIver spent much of his latter career excavating in Zimbabwe (then known as Rhodesia)

Hormuzd Rassam [1826-1910]
Hormuzd Rassam, born in Mosul in what is now Iraq, was an Assyriologist who excavated at Nimrud and Nineveh

William L. Rathje [born 1945]
American archaeologist William L, Rathje has conducted some of the most interesting archaeological investigations of the twentieth century

Henry Creswicke Rawlinson [1810-1895]
British archaeologist Henry Creswicke Rawlinson [1810-1895] is known primarily as a linguist of ancient languages, and is considered by some the father of cuneiform.

Paul Reinecke [1872-1958]
German archaeologist Paul Reinecke is best known for his chronology of the European Late Bronze Age, particularly the transition to Iron Age.

George Andrew Reisner [1867-1942]
American Egyptologist George Andrew Reisner excavated at Naga ed-Deir, Quft and Deir el-Ballas as well as at the Old Kingdom cemeteries at the Giza pyramids.

Ernest Renan [1823-1892]
Archaeology was merely a side-line for the French historian and philosopher Ernest Renan, but his primary interest in the origins of Christianity drove him to the archaeological sites of the middle east in the mid-19th century.

Nicholas Revett [1721-1804]
British architect Nicholas Revett is best known for his work with James Stuart.

Colin Renfrew {b. 1937]
The problem with defining British archaeologist Colin Renfrew is not where you start, but rather where you stop.

Robert G. Reynolds
Robert Reynolds is a computer scientist at Wayne State University, who has assisted numerous archaeologists in developing computer simulations of cultural evolution.

John Rhys [1840-1915]
The Victorian period British linguist and mythologist John Rhys was named the first Professor of Celtic Studies at Jesus College, Oxford in 1877.

Claudius James Rich [1787-1820]
Claudius James Rich was an agent of the British East India company in Baghdad when, like so many of the young intelligent men posted to such locations, he became interested in antiquities.

Alois Riegl [1858-1905]
Austrian art historian Alois Riegl was one of the founders of the Wiener Schule der Kunstgeschichte (the Art School of Vienna).

David Rindos [1947-1996]
American archaeologist David Rindos was primarily interested in the origins of agriculture; his 1984 book called the Origins of Agriculture is still considered one of the most important contributions to that study.

Graham Ritchie [1942–2005]
Scots archaeologist Graham Ritchie is best known for his extensive work in arms and armory of Iron Age (Celtic) Scotland.

William A. Ritchie
American archaeologist William Ritchie was the first person to use the word 'Archaic' for prehistoric hunter-gatherer sites in upstate New York

Michael Rix
In 1955, British historian Michael Rix put a name and a definition to the study of surviving elements of the industrial revolution

Frank H. H. Roberts. Jr. [1897-1966]
American archaeologist Frank H.H. Roberts, Jr. was director of the massive American River Basin Surveys conducted by the Smithsonian Institution after World War II; and in at the identification of the Folsom site.

Edward Robinson [1794-1863]
American adventurer and theologian Edward Robinson traveled to the Holy Land of Syria/Palestine in 1837 and 1838.

H. Russell Robinson
H. Russell Robinson was an expert in Roman armor, and published many books on armor from several different civilizations and cultures.

John T. Robinson
South African paleontologist John T. Robinson was an assistant of Robert Broom in the late 1940s, and worked at sites such as Swartkrans, Kromdraai and Sterkfontein.

Walter Edmund Roth [1861-1933]
Pioneer British ethnologist and physician W. E. Roth spent most of his life as an anthropologist studying aborigines in Queensland, Australia.

John Howland Rowe [b. 1918]
American archaeologist John Howland Rowe has spent much of his life studying South American archaeology, linguistics, ethnography, and history.

Marc Armand Ruffer [1859-1917]
British scientist Marc Armand Ruffer was the first truly modern paleopathologist, defining the study itself in 1910.

Clive Ruggles
Professor Clive Ruggles, currently at Leicester University, has arguably done more for the public face of archaeoastronomy than anybody in the world.