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Alfred L. Kroeber
American anthropologist (1876–1960)
Edward Robinson
American biblical scholar (1794-1863)
Lewis Binford
American archaeologist (1931-2011)
Nancy Dupree
American archaeologist (1927–2017)
James Patrick Mallory
American archaeologist (born 1945)
Michael J. Harner
American anthropologist (1929–2018)
Edward Herbert Thompson
American mesoamericanist (1857–1935)
Daniel Garrison Brinton
American archaeologist and ethnologist (1837-1899)
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
American archaeologist (1840-1914)
Arthur Kingsley Porter
American art historian (1883–1933)
Charles Waldstein
English archaeologist (1856–1927)
William Libbey
American geographer, academic, sport shooter (1855–1927)
Ian Morris
American historian
Luigi Palma di Cesnola
Italian-American soldier, diplomat and amateur archaeologist; United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill
American writer (1871-1954)
Ephraim George Squier
American archaeologist and newspaper editor (1821–1888)
Frederick J. Bliss
American archaeologist (1859–1937)
Otto Brendel
German-american classical archaeologist (1901-1973)
Joyce Marcus
American archaeologist
William Rathje
American archaeologist (1945-2012)
Mark Lehner
American archaeologist
Alfred Tozzer
American anthropologist (1877–1954)
Betty Meggers
anthropologist, archaeologist, and director of the Latin American Archaeology Program at the National Museum of Natural History (1921–2012)
Frederick Webb Hodge
Anthropologist, archaeologist, historian (1864-1956)
Karl W. Butzer
American geographer
Erik Trinkaus
American paleoanthropologist
Kamyar Abdi
Iranian archaeologist
Samuel Ball Platner
American archaeologist (1863–1921)
Anabel Ford
archaeologist from the United States specializing in Mayan culture, also discovered the El Pilar site
Henry Chapman Mercer
American tile maker, archaeologist, curator and writer, founder of Moravian Pottery and Tile Works (1856–1930)
Arthur Frothingham
American archaeologist (1859-1923)
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
American archaeologist
Carol Meyers
American feminist biblical scholar (1942- )
E. Lee Spence
German anthropologist, photographer, archaeologist, historian, photojournalist and academic
Alessandro Palma di Cesnola
Italian archaeologist (1839–1914)
John Goddard
American adventurer (1924–2013)
Patty Jo Watson
American archaeologist (1932–2024)
Nadia Abu El Haj
American anthropologist (1962-)
Bryant G. Wood
American archaeologist
Jodi Magness
American Biblical scholar
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
American writer
Wilhelm Max Müller
American orientalist (1862–1919)
William Henry Goodyear
American archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator (1846–1923)
Albert Tobias Clay
American archaeologist (1866–1925)
Jean MacIntosh Turfa
American Etruscologist and archaeologist
Dorothy Burr Thompson
American classical archaeologist and art historian at Bryn Mawr College and a leading authority on Hellenistic terracotta figurines (1900–2001)
Joyce White
American archaeologist
Donald P. Ryan
American archaeologist
Robert Sharer
American archaeologist (1940–2012)
Edward Robinson
American archaeologist (1858-1931)
Kent V. Flannery
American archaeologist
George Henry Chase
American archaeologist (1874-1952)
Oscar White Muscarella
American archaeologist (1931–2022)
Howard Butler
American archaeologist (1872-1922)
Henry Williamson Haynes
American archaeologist
Gustav Brühl
American writer
Patrick Edward McGovern
archaeologist
Michael E. Smith
American Mesoamerican archaeologist
Susan D. Gillespie
American academic anthropologist and archaeologist; Mesoamericanist
Gayle J. Fritz
American paleoethnobotanist