Category
page 1Mesoamerican archaeologists
John Lloyd Stephens
American explorer, writer, and diplomat (1805–1852)
Sylvanus Morley
American archaeologist, epigrapher, Mayanist scholar, and WWI spy for the U.S. (1883–1948)
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
American Mayanist scholar (1909-1985)
Teoberto Maler
German Mesoamericanist (1842–1917)
Désiré Charnay
French archaeologist and photographer (1828–1915)
Leonardo López Luján
Archaeologist
Alfred Maudslay
British explorer and scholar (1850–1931)
Michael D. Coe
American Mesoamericanist (1929-2019)
Edward Herbert Thompson
American mesoamericanist (1857–1935)
Frans Blom
Danish Mesoamericanist (1893–1963)
Juan Galindo
Guatemalan Mesoamericanist (1802–1839)
Alberto Ruz Lhuillier
Mexican mesoamericanist (1906–1979)
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
American archaeologist (1840-1914)
Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist and anthropologist (1857-1933)
Alfonso Caso
Mexican archaeologist (1896-1970)
Thomas Gann
British physician and archaeologist (1867–1938)

Matthew Stirling
American Mesoamericanist (1896–1975)
Ephraim George Squier
American archaeologist and newspaper editor (1821–1888)
Manuel Gamio
Mexican academic (1883–1960)

Frederic Ward Putnam
United States archaeologist, ethnologist and curator (1839–1915)
Alfred V. Kidder
American archaeologist (1885-1963)
Gordon Willey
American archaeologist (1913–2002)
Ian Graham
British Mesoamericanist (1923–2017)
Karl Taube
American Mesoamericanist
J. Eric S. Thompson
English Mesoamerican archaeologist (1898–1975)
Eduardo Matos Moctezuma
Mexican archaeologist
Joyce Marcus
American archaeologist
Antonio de León y Gama
Mexican anthropologist and astronomer
Dorothy Popenoe
English botanist and archaeologist (1899-1932)
Ignacio Bernal
Mexican archaeologist and anthropologist (1910–1992)
Alfred Tozzer
American anthropologist (1877–1954)
John Alden Mason
American archaeological anthropologist and linguist (1885–1967)

Anabel Ford
archaeologist from the United States specializing in Mayan culture, also discovered the El Pilar site
Richard Blanton
American academic

Robert Sharer
American archaeologist (1940–2012)
Norman Hammond
British archaeologist, academic and Mesoamericanist scholar
David H. Kelley
American genealogist (1924-2011)
Pedro Armillas
Spanish Mesoamericanist (1914-1984)
Kent V. Flannery
American archaeologist
Stephen D. Houston
American Mesoamericanist
Herbert Spinden
American anthropologist, archeologist and art historian
Richard Diehl
American archaeologist
Susan D. Gillespie
American academic anthropologist and archaeologist; Mesoamericanist
Marshall Howard Saville
American archaeologist (1867–1935)
Ann Axtell Morris
American archaeologist, artist, and author

Michael E. Smith
American Mesoamerican archaeologist
Felipe Solís Olguín
Mexican mesoamericanist (1944-2009)
Pierre Colas
German Mesoamericanist (1976–2008)