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Maurice Taieb
During the 1970s, Tunisia-born French geologist Maurice Taieb explored the entire Afar region of Ethiopia, seeking paleontological remains; one of the sites he identified was the Hadar site.
Walter Willard Taylor [1913-1997]
American archaeologist Walter W Taylor was born in Chicago and studied at Yale.
Myriam Noemi Tarragó
Myriam N. Tarragó is an archaeologist from Argentina, best known for her work on colonial societies in Buenos Aires.
Julio Cesar Tello [1880–1947]
Peruvian archaeologist Julio Tello is considered the father of modern archaeology in Peru, and is probably most associated with the Chavín culture.
Alexander Thom [1894-1985]
Scottish engineer Alexander Thom is best known in archaeological circles for his painstaking recordation of Stonehenge and other megalithic sites in the United Kingdom
Cyrus Thomas [1825-1910]
Cyrus Thomas was an American archaeologist, associated with the Smithsonian Institution, who spent his career studying Native American burial mounds throughout the midwest.
David Hurst Thomas
American archaeologist David Hurst Thomas is probably best known for his series of books called Columbian Consequences
Stephen Thomas
Yacht captain and navigator Stephen Thomas is best known for his participant observation work with Polynesian navigator Mau Piailug and anthropologist Ward Goodenough.
Reginald Campbell Thompson [1876-1941]
British archaeologist and cuneiformist R. Campbell Thompson was an Assyriologist, excavating at Nineveh, Ur, and Carchemish among many other sites.
Thucydides [ca. 460 - 400 BC]
The written work of Greek scholar and historian Thucydides has been an invaluable resource to archaeologists interested in the history of Greece
Donald Thomson [1901-1970]
Australian anthropologist Donald Thomson is perhaps best known among anthropologists for his ethnographic work among the Wik Mungkan of in Cape York, Queensland, Australia.
Titus Tobler [1806-1877]
Swiss explorer, physician and adventurer Titus Tobler was fascinated by the Holy Land of Syria and Palestine.
Nicholas P. Toth
Nicholas Toth is one of the foremost practitioners of experimental archaeology and taphonomy.
Alfred Marston Tozzer [1876-1954]
Alfred Tozzer was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, passionately interested in the Maya civilization.
Bruce G. Trigger
Canadian archaeologist Bruce G. Trigger has had one of those careers that make him difficult to summarize in a brief paragraph.
Erik Trinkhaus
American archaeologist and paleontologist Erik Trinkhaus is probably best known for his work on Neanderthals and archaic and modern Homo sapiens sites.
Margaret E. Ashley Towle [1902-1985]
Margaret Towle was a pioneer ethnobotanist, who in 1961 published the classic book called The Ethnobotany of Precolumbian Peru, providing information on the plants used by cultures of the north coast.
Arthur Dale Trendall [1909-1995]
New Zealander Arthur Dale Trendall was an art historian whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Etruscan ceramic vessels earned him international prizes and a knighthood.
Christos Tsountas [1857-1934]
Greek archaeologist Christos Tsountas was a classical archaeologist who followed Heinrich Schliemann and completed much of the most important investigations at the site of Mycenae
Ruth Tringham
British archaeologist Ruth Tringham's career has been primarily focused on the neolithic and chalcolithic communities of eastern Europe
Edward R. Tufte [b. 1942]
American artist and statistician Edward R. Tufte wrote a book called "the Visual Display of Quantitative Information", published in 1983.
Edward Burnett Tylor [1832-1917]
British anthropologist E.B. Tylor was the quintessential cultural evolutionist.