This is a list of archaeologists – people who study or practise archaeology, the study of the human past through material remains.
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Peter Bellwood (born 1943) Australian; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide)| interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology
Chuck Meide (born 1971) American; maritime and underwater archaeology; discovered the shipwrecks La Belle (1686), Storm Wreck (1782), and Anniversary Wreck (ca. 1760s-1800)
James Mellaart (1925–2012) British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük
Paul Mellars (1939–2022) British; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
Wang Zhongshu (1925–2015) Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology
Graeme K. Ward (born 1943) Australian; Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art
Hannah Wormington (1914–1994) American; American Southwest and Paleo-Indians
Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
↑Australian archaeologist: collected papers in honour of Jim Allen, Jim Allen, Atholl Anderson, Tim Murray Coombs Academic Pub., the Australian National University, 2000 - Social Science
↑J. Allen, (1984). "In Search of the Lapita Homeland: Reconstructing the Prehistory of the Bismarck Archipelago". Journal of Pacific History (19/4): 186–187.
↑"Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans 1835–1904", Part 1, Aboriginal History 1984, 8(2):100–131
↑Виноградов, Ю. А. (2018) "ПАМЯТИ И. Б. БРАШИНСКОГО. К 90-летию СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ" [ To the memory of I. B. Brashinsky.
On the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary ], TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE Nо. 18, pp. 175-181. DOI: 10.31600/2310-6557-2018-18-175-181
↑William Culican: The first merchant venturers: the ancient Levant in history and commerce, 1928–1984, London Thames & Hudson, 1966; William Cullican: The Medes and Persians (Ancient peoples and places series, vol. 42), London Thames and Hudson, 1965; William Culican and John Taylor: Fossil Beach cement works, Mornington, Victoria: an essay in industrial archaeology, Deception Bay, Queensland, Refulgence Publishers, 1972.
↑Kidd, D. (1994). "The Gotlandic Collection of James Curle of Melrose (1862–1944)". Journal of the History of Collections. 6: 87–101. doi:10.1093/jhc/6.1.87.
↑Bedford; etal. (2014). "Barry Lee Fankhauser – A Dedicated Fastidious Scientist and keen party man (1943–2014)". Archaeology in New Zealand. 57 (1): 15–24.
↑Dirk Mahsarski, Dirk (2009) "Herbert Jankuhn (1905–1990). Ein deutscher Prähistoriker zwischen nationalsozialistischer Ideologie und wissenschaftlicher Objektivität." Doctoral dissertation, Göttingen.
12"Dr Estelle Lazer". ABC Brisbane. 2009-11-05. Archived from the original on 10 March 2010. Retrieved 23 March 2010.
↑In Memoriam: William A. Longacre | UA@Work (arizona.edu)
↑William Longacre Obituary (2016) - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Daily Star (legacy.com)
↑Kolltveit, Gjermund and Riitta Rainio. 2020. The Archaeology of Sound, Acoustics & Music: Studies in Honour of Cajsa S. Lund, Publications of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology, Vol. 3. Ekho: Berlin.
↑Bierbrier, Morris L (2012). Who Was Who in Egyptology, 4th edition. Egypt Exploration Society, London. p.244. ISBN978-0856982071.
↑First People: the Eastern Kulin of Melbourne, Port Phillip and Central Victoria.
↑Armaly, Fareed; Haldimann, Marc-André; Khoudary, Jawdat; Humbert, Jean-Baptiste; Sadeq, Moain (2008). "Crossroads and Contexts: Interviews on Archaeology in Gaza"(PDF). ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu. Institute for Palestine Studies. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
↑"PAOLO BIAGI". corpora.tika.apache.org. Retrieved October 24, 2024.
↑Rosenfeld, A.; Smith, C. (1997). "Recent developments in radiocarbon and stylistic methods of dating rock art". Antiquity. 72 (272): 405–11. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00085008. S2CID163762357.
↑Pai, Hyung Il (2000). Review: Constructing "Korean" Origins: A Critical Review of Archaeology, Historiography, and Racial Myth in Korean State-Formation Theories. Harvard University Asia Center. p.135. ISBN9780674002449.
↑McEgan, Janine (2014). 'Ward, Graeme K' in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology edited by Claire Smith. NY, NY: Springer. pp.7686–7689. ISBN978-1-4419-0465-2.
↑"ICAZ Newsletter"(PDF). alexandriaarchive.org. International College of Archaeozoology. 2021. pp.6–8. Retrieved October 24, 2024.