* 2006 – Bruce Trigger, Canadian archaeologist ( b. 1937 )

Bruce Trigger, a Canadian archaeologist who produced a seminal study of archaeological theory, identified there as being three main influences upon post-processualism.

Bruce Trigger considered this book to be " a postprocessual showcase and counterpart to New Perspectives in Archaeology ", the 1968 book written by American archaeologist Lewis Binford ( 1931-2011 ) that helped to launch the processual movement.

Bruce Smith, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., who has written on the origins of agriculture, says that evidence has been mounting that the Yangtze was probably the site of the earliest rice cultivation.

Bruce Smith, an archaeologist at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C., who has written on the origins of agriculture, says that evidence has been mounting that the Yangtze was probably the site of the earliest rice cultivation.

The archaeologist Bruce G. Trigger noted that gender archaeology differed from other variants of the discipline that developed around the same time, such as working-class archaeology, indigenous archaeology and community archaeology, in that " instead of simply representing an alternate focus of research, it has established itself as a necessary and integral part of all other archaeologies.

Bruce Graham Trigger, ( June 18, 1937 – December 1, 2006 ) was a Canadian archaeologist, anthropologist, and ethnohistorian.

Robert Bruce Foote ( 22 September 1834 – 29 December 1912 ) was a British geologist and archaeologist who conducted geological surveys of prehistoric locations in India for the Geological Survey of India.

The archaeologist Kenoyer noted that this culture " may only reflect a change in the focus of settlement organization from that which was the pattern of the earlier Harappan phase and not cultural discontinuity, urban decay, invading aliens, or site abandonment, all of which have been suggested in the past.

Andrew Colin Renfrew, Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, Ph. D., FBA, FSA, HonFSAScot ( born 25 July 1937 in Stockton-on-Tees ) is a prominent British archaeologist and highly regarded academic, noted for his work on radiocarbon dating, the prehistory of languages, archaeogenetics, and the prevention of looting at archaeological sites.

His sister was noted archaeologist and art historian Jocelyn Toynbee.

The Institute had been founded in 1937, largely by noted archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler and his wife Tessa, but until 1946 relied primarily upon volunteer lecturers.

The Western study of Nagualism was initiated by noted archaeologist, linguist and ethnologist Daniel Garrison Brinton who published " Nagualism: A Study in Native-American Folklore and History " which chronicled historical interpretations of the word and those who practiced nagualism in Mexico in 1894.

In the original Superboy comics, other noted residents include Professor Phineas Potter ( Lana's uncle ), archaeologist Lewis Lang ( Lana's father ), and the young Lex Luthor.

As the archaeologist Matthew Johnson noted, " Postprocessualists suggest that we can never confront theory and data ; instead, we see data through a cloud of theory.

James Mellaart ( November 14, 1925 – July 29, 2012 ) was a British archaeologist and author who is noted for his discovery of the Neolithic settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey.

Whilst the press were putting forward ideas of saving and preserving the monument where it was, something archaeologists noted as being impossible, English Heritage's chief archaeologist, Geoffrey Wainright, eventually gave the go ahead for a full excavation in March 1999.

As Cornish historian and archaeologist Charles Thomas noted in 1993, " So far, no structure excavated on Island ... can be put forward as a Roman-period settlement, native-peasant or otherwise.

The archaeologist Gary Urton noted in his 2003 book Signs of the Inka Khipu that he estimated " from my own studies and from the published works of other scholars that there are about 600 extant khipu in public and private collections around the world.

This was criticised by academic archaeologist William H. Stiebing Jr., who noted that such myths only developed in the 12th to the 14th centuries CE, over a millennium after Velikovsky claimed that the events had occurred, and that the Aztec society itself had not even developed by the 7th century BCE.

He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded ( often for the first time ) numerous megalithic and other field monuments in southern England, and who is particularly noted as the discoverer of the Avebury henge monument.

* John Obadiah Westwood ( 1805 – 1893 ), English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents

Peter John Ucko FRAI FSA ( 27 July 1938-14 June 2007 ) was an influential English archaeologist, noted for being the Professor Emeritus of Comparative Archaeology and also the former Executive Director of University College London's Institute of Archaeology.

Daniel's maternal grandfather and only living relative, Nick Ballard ( played by Jan Rubeš ), was a noted Dutch archaeologist and too busy to take the orphaned Jackson under his wing.

John Obadiah Westwood ( 22 December 1805 – 2 January 1893 ) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents.

Abbé Charles-Étienne Brasseur de Bourbourg ( 8 September 1814 – 8 January 1874 ) was a noted French writer, ethnographer, historian and archaeologist.

* James Mellon Menzies ( 1885 – 1957 ) missionary and archaeologist in China ( 1911 – 1936 ) noted for his pioneering study of late Shang Dynasty ( 1300-1050 B. C.

To that end, he kidnapped noted archaeologist Doctor Kenneth Onishi, who had detected energy emanations from Maximus beneath his city, and had mapped the location of the O-Parts.

His brother Jérémie Jacques Oberlin was a noted archaeologist and philologist.

Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau ( 19 February 1846 – 15 February 1923 ) was a noted French Orientalist and archaeologist.

Among them was the German archaeologist Adolf Furtwängler who noted stylistic problems with the tiara's design and questioned the lack of aging apparent on the artifact.

William Duncan Strong ( 1899 – 1962 ) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist noted for his application of the direct historical approach to the study of indigenous peoples of North and South America.

On a trip to the excavation site at Ur in 1930, she met her future husband, archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan, a distinguished archaeologist, but her fame as an author far surpassed his fame in archaeology.

Cornelius Holtorf, an academic archaeologist, describes an archaeologist as a detective as one of the key themes of archaeology in popular culture.

* Lönnqvist, Minna ( 2008 ) " Kathleen M. Kenyon 1906-1978, A hundred years after her birth, The formative years of a female archaeologist: From socio-politics to the stratigraphical method and the radiocarbon revolution in archaeology ," in Proceedings of the 5th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, Madrid, April 3 – 8, 2006, ed.

There are those in the archaeology community who see maritime archaeology as a separate discipline with its own concerns ( such as shipwrecks ) and requiring the specialized skills of the underwater archaeologist.

During the late 1960s and into the 1970s, archaeologist Kent Flannery began championing the idea that Systems theory could be used in archaeology to attack questions of culture from an unbiased perspective.

Post-processual archaeology however believed that this was incorrect, and instead emphasized that archaeology was subjective rather than objective, and that what truth could be ascertained from the archaeological record was often relative to the viewpoint of the archaeologist responsible for unearthing and presenting the data.

This structuralist approach was first taken from anthropology and applied into forms of archaeology by the French archaeologist André Leroi-Gourhan ( 1911 – 1986 ), who used it to interpret prehistoric symbols in his 1964 work, Les Religions de Préhistoire.

According to archaeologist Sam Lucy, " The agendas of feminist archaeology and post-processualism highlighted the importance of social and political factors on supposedly ' objective ' investigation ".

At the same time he pursued his interest in archaeology both academically and through fieldwork, finding his vocation as a landscape archaeologist.

Academic archaeologist John R. Cole, who chose to refer to such pseudoarchaeological interpretations as " cult archaeology ", rather than biblical, believing that pseudoarchaeology itself had " many of the attributes, causes, and effects of religion.

*' Fringe ' or ' cult ' archaeology examined by professional archaeologist Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews

Takanashi Osamu, an archaeologist from the Amami Islands, Kagoshima Prefecture, criticized the trend of Okinawan archaeology.

Ian Hodder FBA ( born 23 November 1948 in Bristol ) is a British archaeologist and pioneer of postprocessualist theory in archaeology that first took root among his students and in his own work between 1980-1990.

Greek archaeology covers the Hellenistic period as well, frequently compelling the classical archaeologist to examine the Greek influences present in all the areas that were part of Alexander the Great's empire, including much of the Middle East and Egypt.

Michael Shanks ( born 1959 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a British archaeologist who has specialized in Classical archaeology and archaeological theory.

Professor William Francis Grimes ( 31 October 1905 – 25 December 1988 ) was a Welsh archaeologist who devoted his career to the archaeology of London and the prehistory of Wales.

He won a scholarship to study at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he continued his interest in archaeology alongside history, in 1975 taking a course run by the university's archaeologist Glyn Daniel, an expert on the Neolithic.

* Craig Spence ( archaeology ), historian and archaeologist

In 1826 François Pouqueville, French diplomat and archaeologist, who wrote the Voyage en Grèce ; in 1851 Ernst Curtius the German archaeologist and historian who speculated about its location ; in 1879 Julius Smith, the director of Athens Observatory, issuing a study comparing the Aegeion earthquake which occurred 26 December 1861 with an earthquake which might have destroyed Helike ; in 1883 Spiros Panagiotopoulos, the mayor of Aegeion city, wrote about the ancient city ; in 1912 the Greek writer P. K. Ksinopoulos wrote The City of Aegeion Through the Centuries, and in 1939 Stanley Casson, an English art scholar and army officer who studied classical archaeology and served in Greece as liaison officer, addressed the problem.