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20th-century American archaeologists

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Marija Gimbutas
Lithuanian-American archaeologist
Mary Leakey
British paleoanthropologist (1913-1996)
James Henry Breasted
American archaeologist, Egyptologist and historian (1865–1935)
William F. Albright
American archaeologist, biblical scholar, philologist, and expert on ceramics (1891-1971)
Sylvanus Morley
American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S. (1883–1948)
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
American Mayanist scholar (1909-1985)
Carl Blegen
American archaeologist (1887–1971)
Frans Blom
Danish Mesoamericanist (1893–1963)
Theodore M. Davis
American lawyer and egyptologist (1837–1915)
William Henry Holmes
American academic, painter and illustrator (1846-1933)
William G. Dever
American archaeologist
Robert John Braidwood
American anthropologist and archaeologist (1907–2003)
George Bass
American underwater archeologist (1932–2021)
Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist and anthropologist (1857-1933)
Frederica de Laguna
American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist (1906–2004)
Iris Love
American archaeologist (1933-2020)
Eric H. Cline
American archaeologist and historian
Ignace Gelb
American historian (1907-1985)
Loren Eiseley
American philosopher (1907-1977)
Edwin R. Thiele
American archaeologist (1895–1986)
Arthur Upham Pope
Art historian (1881–1969)
Cyrus Herzl Gordon
American Near Eastern scholar (1908–2001)
Hetty Goldman
American archaeologist (1881–1972)
Anna Marguerite McCann
American art historian and archaeologist (1933–2017)
Matthew Stirling
American Mesoamericanist (1896–1975)
Frederic Ward Putnam
United States archaeologist, ethnologist and curator (1839–1915)
Blanche Wheeler Williams
Archeologist and teacher (1870–1936)
Neil Asher Silberman
American archaeologist
Jesse Walter Fewkes
American anthropologist (1850-1930)
Linda Schele
American mesoamericanist
Helene J. Kantor
American archaeologist
Gordon Willey
American archaeologist (1913–2002)
Harriet Boyd-Hawes
American archaeologist (1871–1945)
Florin Curta
Romanian-born American historian and archaeologist
Virginia Grace
American archaeologist
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist (1885-1963)
Erich Schmidt
American archaeologist and photographer (1897-1964)
Margaret Conkey
American archaeologist, anthropologist
Agnes Baldwin Brett
American numismatist and archaeologist
Theresa Goell
American archaeologist (1901-1985)
Caroline L. Ransom
American egyptologist and classical archaeologist
Bertha Parker Pallan
American archaeologist (1907-1978)
David Randall-MacIver
American Egyptologist (1873–1945)
Herbert Eustis Winlock
American egyptologist, museum director (1884-1950)
Gottlieb Schumacher
German-American civil engineer, architect, and archaeologist (1857–1925)
G. Ernest Wright
leading Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist (1909-1974)
Ephraim Avigdor Speiser
American archaeologist (1902–1965)
Wahbi al-Hariri
Syrian American artist, architect, archaeologist, and author (1914–1994)
Joan Breton Connelly
archaeologist and academic
Preston Holder
American archaeologist (1907-1980)
Mary Hamilton Swindler
American archaeologist and classical art scholar
Rhys Carpenter
American art historian (1889–1980)
Henry Field
American anthropologist (1902-1986)
Ralph Solecki
American archaeologist (1917–2019)
Alison Frantz
American archaeologist and photographer
Nelson Glueck
American rabbi, academic and archaeologist (1900–1971)
Alfred Raymond Bellinger
American archaeologist and numismatist
John Howland Rowe
American archaeologist (1918–2003)
Bargil Pixner
Italian monk, Biblical scholar and archaeologist (1921-2002)
Helen Heffron Roberts
American ethno-musicologist (1888–1985)