List of archaeologists

A

• Charles Conrad Abbott American; advocate of early occupation of Americas
• Kamyar Abdi Iranian; Iran, Neolithic to the Bronze Age
• Aziz Ab'Saber Brazilian; Brazil
• Johann Michael Ackner Transylvanian; Roman Dacia
• Dinu Adameșteanu Romanian-Italian; aerial photography, survey of sites
• James M. Adovasio U.S.; New World, perishable technologies
• Anagnostis Agelarakis Greek; archaeological and physical anthropology
• Yohanan Aharoni Israeli; Israel Bronze Age
• Julius Ailio Finnish; Karelian Isthmus
• Ekrem Akurgal Turkish; Anatolia
• Jorge de Alarcão Portuguese; Roman Portugal
• Umberto Albarella Italian-British; zooarchaeology
• William F. Albright U.S.; Orientalist
• Leslie Alcock English; Dark Age Britain
• Susan E. Alcock American;Greece, Roman provinces
• Miranda Aldhouse-Green British; British Iron Age and Romano-Celtic
• Abbas Alizadeh Iranian; Iran
• Jim Allen, Australian; Australia, South Pacific, Port Essington, Lapita, Polynesian
• Penelope Allison household and Roman archaeology
• Sedat Alp Turkish; Hittitology
• Ruth Amiran Israeli; Tel Arad
• George El Andary Lebanese; site restoration
• Atholl Anderson New Zealand; New Zealand and the Pacific
• David G. Anderson U.S.; eastern North America
• Johan Gunnar Andersson Swedish; China
• E. Wyllys Andrews IV American; Maya
• Manolis Andronicos Greek; Greece
• Carmen Aranegui, Spanish; Valencia and Morocco
• Mikhail Artamonov Russian/Soviet; Khazar
• Khaled al-Asaad Syrian; Palmyra
• J. R. Aspelin Finnish; Scandinavia and the Ural region
• Mick Aston English; popularizer
• Miriam Astruc French; Phoenician-Punic people
• Richard J. C. Atkinson English; England
• Val Attenbrow Australian; Aboriginal stone tools, archaeology of aboriginal Sydney
• Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau French; Black Death/bubonic plague
• Anthony Aveni U.S.; archaeoastronomy
• Nahman Avigad Israeli; Jerusalem, Massada
• Hasan Awad Bedouin; excavator
• Edward R. Ayrton English Egyptologist and archaeologist
• Massoud Azarnoush Iranian; Sassanid archaeology

  B

• Churchill Babington English; classical archaeology
• Leila Badre Lebanese
• Paul Bahn English; prehistoric art, Easter Island
• Geoff Bailey English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
• Senake Bandaranayake Sri Lankan; South Asia
• Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier American; American South-West, Mexico
• Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli Italian; Etruscans & art
• Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture
• Edward B. Banning Canadian; Near Eastern archaeology, archaeological survey
• Luisa Banti Italian; Etruscology
• Taha Baqir Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
• Pessah Bar-Adon Israeli; Israel
• Ofer Bar-Yosef Israeli; Palaeolithic, Neolithic
• Gabriel Barkay Israeli; Israel
• Graeme Barker British; Italian Bronze Age, Roman Libya, landscape archaeology
• Philip Barker British; excavation methods, historic England
• John C. Barrett British; archaeological theory, European prehistory
• Alessandro Barsanti Italian; Egypt
• Diane Barwick Australian; Aboriginal culture and society
• George Bass American; underwater archaeology
• Thomas Bateman English; England
• Leopoldo Batres Mexican; Meso-America
• Bayar Dovdoi Mongolian; Mongolia
• Mary Beaudry American; eastern U.S., Scotland, Caribbean, gastronomy
• Sergei Beletzkiy Russian; Medieval Russia
• Anna Belfer-Cohen Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant
• Gertrude Bell English; adventurer and Middle Eastern archaeologist, formed the Baghdad Archaeological Museum
• Harry Charles Purvis Bell British; first Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon
• Peter Bellwood Australian; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments | interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology
• Giovanni Battista Belzoni Italian/Venetian; Egypt
• Erez Ben-Yosef Israeli; archaeometallurgy
• Norbert Benecke German; zooarchaeology
• Crystal Bennett British; Jordan
• James Theodore Bent British; eastern Mediterranean, Africa, Arabia.
• Dumitru Berciu Romanian; South-Eastern and Central Europe, Geto-Dacians, Thracians, Celts
• Sofia Berezanska Ukrainian; Bronze Age
• Lee Berger U.S.; paleo-anthropology
• Folke Bergman Swedish; Xiaohe Tomb complex in China
• Andrea Berlin U.S.; Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman East; ceramics
• Gerhard Bersu German; Europe
• Charles Ernest Beule French; Greece
• Paolo Biagi Italian; Eurasian Mesolithic and Neolithic, Pakistan prehistory
• Geoffrey Bibby British; Arabia
• Penny Bickle British; bioarchaeology, Neolithic
• Clarence Bicknell British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles, France
• Martin Biddle British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain
• Manfred Bietak Austrian; Egypt
• Fereidoun Biglari Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
• Lewis Binford American; U.S., France, theory
• Hiram Bingham U.S.; discovered Machu Picchu
• Flavio Biondo Italian; Rome
• Avraham Biran Israeli; Near East
• Caroline Bird Australia; heritage and indigenous studies research
• Judy Birmingham Australian; historical archaeology in Australia, Irrawang pottery, Tasmania
• Glenn Albert Black U.S.; US Mid-West
• Carl Blegen U.S.; Troy
• Elizabeth Blegen U.S.; Greece, educator
• Frederick Jones Bliss U.S.; Palestine
• John Boardman British; Classical archaeology, especially Greek architecture
• Jean Boisselier French; Khmer, Southeast Asia
• Nicole Boivin Canadian; migration out of Africa, long-distance maritime trade
• Larissa Bonfante U.S.; Etruscans
• Giacomo Boni Italian; Roman architecture
• Ludwig Borchardt German; Egypt
• François Bordes French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
• Barbara Borg German; Classical archaeology
• Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes French; France
• Stephen Bourke Australian; Pella
• Jole Bovio Marconi Italian; Neolithic Sicily
• Sandra Bowdler Australian; Australian Indigenous archaeology, pre-neolithic East and Southeast Asia
• Harriet Boyd Hawes American; Greece and Crete; Minoan
• Richard Bradley British; prehistoric Europe
• Linda Schreiber Braidwood U.S.; Near East
• Robert John Braidwood U.S.; Turkey
• Iosif Benyaminovich Brashinsky U.S.S.R.; Scythians
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg French; Meso-America
• James Henry Breasted U.S.; Egypt
• Adela Breton British; Mexico
• Eric Breuer Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
• Jacques Breuer Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
• Henri Breuil French; cave art
• Robert Brier U.S.; Egypt paleopathology
• Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
• Srečko Brodar Slovene; Upper Paleolithic
• Mary Brodrick English; Egyptology
• Alison S. Brooks American; Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa
• Myrtle Florence Broome English; Egyptology, illustrator
• Don Brothwell British; paleopathology
• Frank Edward Brown American; Mediterranean
• Elizabeth Brumfiel U.S.; Mesoamerica
• Caitlin E. Buck British; statistics, radiocarbon dating
• Hallie Buckley New Zealand; bioarchaeology
• Sue Bulmer American; New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
• James Burgess Scottish; 19th-century India
• Heather Burke Australian; historical archaeology, field methods
• Aubrey Burl British; British megalithic monuments
• Les Bursill Australian; Dharawal people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra
• Karl Butzer U.S.; environmental archaeology
• Ernst Boetticher : Prussian amateur archaeologist

  C

• Errett Callahan American; experimental archaeology
• Frank Calvert English; Troy
• Raissa Calza Ukrainian; Italy
• Elizabeth Warder Crozer Campbell American; California
• Scott Cane Australian; Australia, desert people of Australia
• Luigi Canina Italian; Italy
• Gheorghe I. Cantacuzino Romanian; Romania
• Bob Carr American; Florida historic Indians
• Maureen Carroll British; Roman archaeology
• Martin Carver British; Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, Sutton Hoo
• Howard Carter English; Egypt
• Alfonso Caso Mexican; Mexico
• Gertrude Caton Thompson English; Egyptm
• Helena Cehak-Holubowiczowa Polish; Poland
• C. W. Ceram German; popularizer
• Dilip Chakrabarti Indian; South Asia
• John Leland Champe American?; Great Plains
• Jean-François Champollion French; Egypt
• Kwang-chih Chang Chinese/Taiwanese; China
• Doris Emerson Chapman British; prehistory
• Arlen F. Chase American; Mesoamerica
• Diane Zaino Chase American; Mesoamerica
• George Henry Chase American; Heraion of Argos
• Alfredo Chavero Mexican; Mexico
• Maurice Chehab Lebanese; archaeology Lebanon
• Chen Mengjia Chinese; China
• Chen Tiemei Chinese; scientific archaeology and radiocarbon dating
• Chen Xingcan Chinese; China, history of Chinese archaeology
• John F. Cherry Welsh; Aegean prehistory
• Vere Gordon Childe Australian; Europe / neolithic
• Choe Nam-ju Korean; Silla culture
• Choi Mong-lyong Korean; Korea
• Neil Christie British; Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Leopoldo Cicognara Italian; Italy
• Muazzez İlmiye Çığ Turkish; Sumerology
• Jacques Cinq-Mars Canadian; Yukon, early man in North America
• Amanda Claridge British; Rome
• John Desmond Clark English; Africa
• Grahame Clark British; Mesolith and economy
• Kate Clark industrial archaeology and museum
• Bob Clarke English; Prehistoric and Modern Era
• David Clarke English; theory
• Stephen Clarke Welsh; Wales
• Albert Tobias Clay American; Assyriology
• John Clegg Australian; rock art
• Eric H. Cline American?; Ancient Near East, Aegean prehistory
• Jean Clottes French; European cave art
• Juliet Clutton-Brock English; zooarchaeology
• Fay-Cooper Cole American; U.S. Mid-West
• Bryony Coles British; prehistoric archaeology, wetland archaeology, Somerset Levels, Doggerland
• John Coles British; wetland archaeology, Bronze Age, experimental archaeology
• Donald Collier American; Ecuadorian and Andean archaeology
• John Collis English; Iron Age Europe
• Dominique Collon Belgian; cylinder seals of the Near East
• Sir Richard Colt Hoare English, England
• Margaret Conkey American; Upper Paleolithic France
• Robin Coningham British; South Asian archaeology and archaeological ethics
• Diane Atnally Conlin American; Roman art and architecture
• Joan Breton Connelly American; Cyprus, Greek art, female agency
• Niculae Conovici Romanian; Romania, amphorae
• Graham Connah South Africa; historical archaeology
• Richard Cooke British; Panama, archaeozoology
• Gudrun Corvinus German; India/Nepal/Africa
• Peter Coutts Australian; historical archaeology
• George Cowgill American; Mesoamerica
• O.G.S. Crawford English; aerial archaeology
• Rachel Crellin Manx; metal working, theory, British Isles
• Aedeen Cremin Irish born, Australian. NSW and Canberra
• Luther Cressman American; Paleo-Indians, Oregon
• Roger Cribb Australian; Turkish Kurds and Australian Aborigines
• Ion Horaţiu Crişan Romanian; Geto-Dacians and Celts
• William Culican Australian; Middle East, Australian historical archaeology
• Joseph George Cumming English; Isle of Man
• Vicki Cummings, British; prehistoric archaeologist
• Barry Cunliffe British; Iron Age Europe, Celts
• Ben Cunnington English; prehistoric England
• Alexander Cunningham English; "Father of Indian Archaeology"
• Maud Cunnington Welsh; prehistoric Britain
• William Cunnington English; prehistoric Britain
• James Curle Scottish; Roman Scotland, Gotland
• Florin Curta American; Eastern Europe
• Ernst Curtius German; Greece
• Clive Eric Cussler American; underwater archaeology