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Aren Maeir
1958 - Present (66 years)
Aren Maeir is an American-born Israeli archaeologist and professor in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University. He is director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project.
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David Francis Pocock
1928 - 2007 (79 years)
David Francis Pocock was a British anthropologist whose main field of study was the people and diaspora of the Indian state of Gujarat, and in particular the Patidar community of that state. David Pocock was born on 3 September 1928 in London. After early education at Highbury School, he attended Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he studied English Literature under F. R. Leavis. During the 1950s, he moved to the University of Oxford to take a PhD in anthropology under the guidance of Edward Evans-Pritchard. It was at this time that he began to translate the works of Emile Durkheim and he als...
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Georg Elwert
1947 - 2005 (58 years)
Georg Elwert was a German ethnologist and sociologist who was one of the leading exponents of German development sociology. Career and focus of work Elwert studied ethnology and sociology at the University of Mainz and the Heidelberg University, where he received his doctorate in 1973. From the beginning he linked sociology with ethnology in the tradition of :de:Lorenz Löffler, Richard Thurnwald and Wilhelm Emil Mühlmann. In 1980 he habilitated at Bielefeld University, taught there as assistant professor and then at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and at Yale University in New Haven.
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Jan Pouwer
1924 - 2010 (86 years)
Jan Pouwer was a Dutch anthropologist with a thorough grounding in his profession in terms of fieldwork and theory. He studied Indology and Ethnology at Leiden University under the renowned Jan Petrus Benjamin de Josselin de Jong. He worked as a ‘government anthropologist’ and conducted extensive fieldwork in Netherlands New Guinea , 1951–62. He subsequently served as Professor of Anthropology at Amsterdam, Wellington and Nijmegen Universities, 1962–87.
Go to ProfileCarla Makhlouf Obermeyer is a medical anthropologist and epidemiologist specializing in the study of fertility and HIV. A former associate professor of Population and International Health at Harvard University, Obermeyer was director of the Center for Research on Population and Health at the American University of Beirut as of 2013. She has also worked for the World Health Organization's Department of HIV/AIDS.
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Jerald T. Milanich
1945 - Present (79 years)
Jerald T. Milanich is an American anthropologist and archaeologist, specializing in Native American culture in Florida. He is Curator Emeritus of Archaeology at the Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida in Gainesville; Adjunct Professor, Department of Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Florida; and Adjunct Professor, Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Florida. Milanich holds a Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Florida.
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Marcus Goldstein
1906 - 1997 (91 years)
Marcus S. Goldstein was one of the forefathers of dental anthropology and was also a public health analyst. He was an active researcher with a broad interest in the field of anthropology, writing over one hundred scientific publications during his lifetime.
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George Carr Frison
1924 - 2020 (96 years)
George Carr Frison was an American archaeologist. He received the Society for American Archaeology's Lifetime Achievement Award, the Paleoarchaeologist of the Century Award, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. He was Wyoming’s first State Archaeologist, and was a founder of the University of Wyoming Anthropology Department. He died in September 2020 at the age of 95.
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Leela Dube
1923 - 2012 (89 years)
Leela Dube was a renowned anthropologist and feminist scholar, fondly called Leeladee by many. She had been married to the renowned anthropologist and sociologist LateShyama Charan Dube. Leela Dube was the younger sister of the late classical singer Sumati Mutatkar. Her elder son Late Mukul Dube was an avid photographer. She is survived by her younger son, Saurabh Dube. Known for her work on kinship and in women's studies, she wrote several books including Matriliny and Islam: religion and society in the Laccadives and Women and kinship: comparative perspectives on gender in South and South‑e...
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David J. Meltzer
1955 - Present (69 years)
David Jeffrey Meltzer is an American archaeologist known for his influential studies of Paleoindians and Pleistocene mammalian extinction. According to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, his research on Paleoindians' "varied adaptive strategies has forced a revision of the received wisdom that Pleistocene people were exclusively big-game hunters or were responsible for Pleistocene mammalian extinction."
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Henry T. Wright
1943 - Present (81 years)
Henry Tutwiler Wright is an American archeologist and educator. Wright has had significant contributions to the field of archaeology through his fieldwork, publications, and teaching. He serves as the Albert Clanton Spaulding Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, and Curator of Near Eastern Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is also an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute and a member of the Santa Fe Institute's Science Board.
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Jorun Solheim
1944 - Present (80 years)
Jorun Solheim is a Norwegian social anthropologist and women's studies academic, whose work is centered on gender, culture and modernity. She was lecturer in social anthropology at the University of Oslo from 1971 to 1983, Researcher at the Work Research Institute from 1981 to 2001 and Professor at the Centre for Women's Studies at the University of Oslo from 1994 to 1999. She is currently Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Social Research. In 2007, she became editor-in-chief of Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning. She has a mag.art. degree in social anthropology from 1970.
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Grete Mostny
1914 - 1991 (77 years)
Grete Mostny was a Jewish Austrian who became a leading Chilean anthropologist. She was born in Austria but had to leave because of the rise of the Nazis. She went to Belgium to complete her studies before leaving for Chile. At the end of the war she was invited back to Austria but she preferred to become a naturalised Chilean. She led a number of archaeological investigations and the Chilean National Museum of Natural History.
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Geoffrey Irwin
1941 - Present (83 years)
Geoffrey Irwin is a professor of archaeology at the University of Auckland. He was a professor of anthropology at the University of Auckland until he retired in 2008. He is the author of The Prehistoric Exploration and Colonization of the Pacific .
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Peter Gow
1958 - 2021 (63 years)
Peter G Gow was a social anthropologist, renowned for his work in Amazonia. He was a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews and has previously taught at the London School of Economics.
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Russell Tuttle
1939 - Present (85 years)
Russell Howard Tuttle is a distinguished primate morphologist, paleoanthropologist, and a four-field trained Anthropologist. He is currently an active Professor of Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology, History of Science and Medicine at the University of Chicago. Tuttle was enlisted by Mary Leakey to analyze the 3.4-million-year-old footprints she discovered in Laetoli, Tanzania. He determined that the creatures that left these prints walked bipedally in a fashion almost identical to human beings. He currently lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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Ronald J. Clarke
1944 - Present (80 years)
Ronald John Clarke is a paleoanthropologist most notable for the discovery of "Little Foot", an extraordinarily complete skeleton of Australopithecus, in the Sterkfontein Caves. A more technical description of various aspects of his description of the Australopithecus skeleton was published in the Journal of Quaternary Science.
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Vernon Reynolds
1935 - Present (89 years)
Vernon Reynolds is a British biological anthropologist known for his research on chimpanzee behavior and as founder of the Budongo Conservation Field Station. He has been described as "...one of a trio of pioneers who founded field studies of chimpanzees in the 1960s."
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Ronald C. Simons
1935 - Present (89 years)
Ronald C. Simons is a psychiatrist and anthropologist best known for his work on latah, a culture-bound syndrome found predominantly in Malaysia and Indonesia. He has written on culture-bound syndromes more generally. He is professor of psychiatry and adjunct professor of anthropology at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. His short documentary film , "Latah: A Culture-Specific Elaboration of the Startle Reflex" is a classic within medical anthropology.
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Adeline Masquelier
1960 - Present (64 years)
Adeline Marie Masquelier is a Professor of Anthropology at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Biography She received her baccalaureate in biology and physics at Centre St. Marc, in Lyon, France , her B.A. in Zoology , and M.A. in Anthropology . She also received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1993 studying under the prominent Africanist and Anthropologist Jean Comaroff, and has done her field work among the people of rural Niger in the Hausa town of Dogondoutchi. Her research focuses have included spirit possession, reformist Islam, Bori religious practices, twinship, witchcraft, the pathology of consumption, medical anthropology, and gender.
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Richard J. Smith
1948 - Present (76 years)
Richard Jay Smith, an American anthropologist, is Ralph E. Morrow Distinguished Professor of Physical Anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis. He is now Dean of the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
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Beatrice Medicine
1923 - 2005 (82 years)
Beatrice Medicine was a scholar, anthropologist, and educator known for her work in the fields of Indigenous languages, cultures, and history. Medicine spent much of her life researching, teaching, and serving Native communities, primarily in the fields of bilingual education, addiction and recovery, mental health, tribal identity, and women's, children's, and LGBT community issues.
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Irma McClaurin
1950 - Present (74 years)
Irma P. McClaurin is an American poet, anthropologist, academic, and leadership consultant. She was the first female president of Shaw University, and is the author or editor of several books on topics including the culture of Belize, black feminism, African-American history, and her own poetry.
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Joel Sherzer
1942 - 2022 (80 years)
Joel Fred Sherzer was an American anthropological linguist known for his research with the Guna people of Panama and his focus on verbal art and discourse-centered approaches to linguistic research. He co-founded the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Sherzer completed his Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 and thereafter taught at the University of Texas at Austin for his entire career.
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Ellen Diggs
1906 - 1998 (92 years)
Ellen Irene Diggs was an American anthropologist. She was the writer of a major contribution to African American history, Black Chronology: From 4,000 B.C. to the Abolition of the Slave Trade. Biography Diggs was born on April 13, 1906, in Monmouth, to parents Charles Henry and Alice Diggs and raised in a "supportive environment" that fostered her academic pursuits and other ambitions
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Semavi Eyice
1922 - 2018 (96 years)
Mustafa Semavi Eyice was a Turkish art historian and archaeologist, who specialised in the study of Byzantine and Ottoman art in Istanbul. Professor Eyice is widely regarded as the pioneer of Byzantine studies in Turkey.
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Richard J. Pearson
1938 - Present (86 years)
Richard Joseph Pearson is a Canadian archaeologist. He grew up in Toronto and Oakville, Ontario, and graduated with a bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto in 1960. Richard Pearson studied at the University of Hawaii, and Yale University under K.C. Chang, and received his doctorate in anthropology in 1966. Over his career Pearson’s research interests have included the archaeology of Polynesia and East Asia.
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Jean MacIntosh Turfa
1947 - Present (77 years)
Jean MacIntosh Turfa is an American archaeologist and authority on the Etruscan civilization. Jean MacIntosh graduated from Abington High School in Philadelphia and then earned her bachelor's degree at Gwynedd Mercy College. She went on to complete a Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology at Bryn Mawr College in 1974.
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Anthony Aveni
1938 - Present (86 years)
Anthony Francis Aveni is an American academic anthropologist, astronomer, and author, noted in particular for his extensive publications and contributions to the field of archaeoastronomy. With an academic career spanning over four decades, Aveni is recognized for his influence on the development of archaeoastronomy as a discipline in the latter 20th century. He has specialized in the study of ancient astronomical practices in the Americas, and is one of the founders of research into the historical astronomy of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican cultures. He held an endowed chair as the Russell Colga...
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Barend Jan Terwiel
1941 - Present (83 years)
Barend Jan Terwiel is a Dutch-Australian anthropologist, historian and Thai studies scholar. He has written books on ethnology of Tai peoples and Ahom, the history and culture of Thailand as well as historical travel of Europeans to mainland Southeast Asia. He retired in 2007, although he still writes about Thailand, releasing a new edition of his book Thailand's Political History in 2010. He authored 11 articles over 47 years from 1972 to 2019 for Journal of the Siam Society.
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Robert Ballard
1942 - Present (82 years)
Robert Duane Ballard is an American retired Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology: maritime archaeology and archaeology of shipwrecks. He is best known for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989, and the aircraft carrier in 1998. He discovered the wreck of John F. Kennedy's PT-109 in 2002 and visited Biuku Gasa and Eroni Kumana, who saved its crew.
Go to ProfileStephen Quirke is an Egyptologist. He is the current Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology at University College London. He has worked at the British Museum and since 1999 at the Petrie Museum in London. He has published several books, some of them translated into other languages.
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Bjørn Myhre
1938 - 2015 (77 years)
Bjørn Myhre was a Norwegian archaeologist. He was born in Time. He was assigned with the Stavanger Museum from 1965 to 1968, and with Historisk Museum at the University of Bergen from 1968 to 1985. He was appointed professor at the University of Oslo from 1985 to 1993, and served as director of Arkeologisk Museum in Stavanger from 1993 to 1998. His books include Jernalderens bosetningshistorie i Høyland fjellbygd from 1972, and Gårdsanlegget på Ullandhaug from 1980. He was a fellow of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
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Jerry Sabloff
1944 - Present (80 years)
Jeremy "Jerry" Arac Sabloff is an American anthropologist and past president of the Santa Fe Institute. Sabloff is an expert on ancient Maya civilization and pre-industrial urbanism. His academic interests have included settlement pattern studies, archaeological theory and method, the history of archaeology, the relevance of archaeology in the modern world, complexity theory, and trans-disciplinary science.
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Norman Yoffee
1944 - Present (80 years)
Norman Yoffee is a senior fellow of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. He was previously professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Yoffee is the editor of The Cambridge world history volume 3: Early cities in comparative perspective, 4000 BCE–1200 CE.
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Ahmad Hasan Dani
1920 - 2009 (89 years)
Ahmad Hassan Dani FRAS, SI, HI was a Pakistani archaeologist, historian, and linguist. He was among the foremost authorities on Central Asian and South Asian archaeology and history. He introduced archaeology as a discipline in higher education in Pakistan and Bangladesh. Throughout his career, Dani held various academic positions and international fellowships, apart from conducting archaeological excavations and research. He is particularly known for archaeological work on pre-Indus civilization and Gandhara sites in Northern Pakistan.
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Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy
1939 - Present (85 years)
Elizabeth Lapovsky Kennedy was one of the founding feminists of the field of women's studies and is a lesbian historian whose book Boots of Leather, Slippers of Gold: A History of the Lesbian Community documents the lesbian community of Buffalo, New York, in the decades before Stonewall.
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William Robertson Coe II
1926 - 2009 (83 years)
William Robertson Coe II was an American archaeologist and Mayanist academic. He conducted extensive field work on pre-Columbian Maya civilization sites, and published numerous works on the subject.
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Ricardo Pozas Arciniega
1912 - 1994 (82 years)
Ricardo Pozas Arciniega was a distinguished Mexican anthropologist, scientific investigator and indigenista. He wrote the classic anthropological works Juan Pérez Jolote, biografía de un tzotzil and Los mazatecos y Chamula, un pueblo indio de los altos de Chiapas.
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Richard Newbold Adams
1924 - 2018 (94 years)
Richard Newbold Adams was an American anthropologist. His parents were Randolph Greenfield Adams and Helen Spiller Adams. He grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Adams served in the United States military during World War II, then pursued postsecondary education, obtaining a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan in 1947, followed by a master's and doctoral degree at Yale University in 1949 and 1951, respectively. He worked in Peru and Guatemala before teaching at Michigan State University starting in 1956. Adams joined the University of Texas at Austin faculty in 1961. He received a Gu...
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Thomas Higham
1966 - Present (58 years)
Thomas Higham is an archaeological scientist and radiocarbon dating specialist. He has worked as Professor of Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford, UK, where he was the Director of the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit in the Research Lab for Archaeology and the History of Art. He is best known for his work in dating the Neanderthal extinction and the arrival of modern humans in Europe. He is Professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Vienna.
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Georges Condominas
1921 - 2011 (90 years)
Georges Louis Condominas was a French cultural anthropologist, known for his field studies of the Mnong people of Vietnam. Biography Condominas was born in 1921 in Haiphong . His father was a French officer in the colonial army and his mother has Chinese, Vietnamese and Portuguese ancestry. He died in the night of Saturday to Sunday 17 July 2011 from a heart attack at the hôpital Broca in Paris where he had been hospitalized for some time.
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Clark Spencer Larsen
1952 - Present (72 years)
Clark Spencer Larsen is co-director of the European History of Health Project, a Distinguished University Professor at Ohio State University, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He earned his B.A. in anthropology from Kansas State University, and his M.A. and Ph.D in anthropology from the University of Michigan. Larsen’s major area of interest and inquiry is bioarchaeology, which is the study of humans through the archaeological record left by their remains. Bioarchaeology can reveal many clues about the health and lifestyle of early humans through the use of tools such as dietary reconstruction and biomechanics.
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Efraín Morote Best
1921 - 1991 (70 years)
Efraín Morote Best was a Peruvian lawyer, anthropologist, and academic administrator. From 1962 to 1968 he served as the Rector of San Cristóbal of Huamanga University in Ayacucho, Perú. He and three of his children became members of Shining Path.
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Edward F. Fischer
1966 - Present (58 years)
Edward F. Fischer is a professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University who writes on political economy, development, and culture. He is a cited expert on well-being, the Maya of Guatemala, and the German social economy.
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Stefan Lehmann
1951 - Present (73 years)
Stefan Lehmann is a German classical archaeologist. Life Stefan Lehmann studied classical archaeology, ancient history, art history and cultural history in Berlin and at the University of Bonn.Stefan Lehmann studied classical archeology, ancient history and art and cultural history at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the University of Bonn. In 1985 he completed his studies with a master's degree and received his doctorate in 1987 in Bonn under Nikolaus Himmelmann with a thesis on the subject of magnificent mythological reliefs from the imperial era. Subsequently, he was curator of the...
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Raymond C. Kelly
1942 - Present (82 years)
Raymond Case Kelly is an American cultural anthropologist and ethnologist who has written on the origin of warfare, and on the basis of social inequality in human societies. Biography Raymond C. Kelly was born February 16, 1942, in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He is the son of Helen Varkala Kelly and Rowland Leigh Kelly. Both attended the University of Chicago. He has two daughters by previous marriages.
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Ellen Dissanayake
1950 - Present (74 years)
Ellen Dissanayake , an American author and scholar focusing on "the anthropological exploration of art and culture". She lives in Seattle, Washington, and is affiliated with the University of Washington.
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Barbara Noske
1949 - Present (75 years)
Barbara Miriam Noske is a Dutch cultural anthropologist and philosopher. She introduced the concept animal–industrial complex in her 1989 book Humans and Other Animals. Academic career Noske holds a MA in socio-cultural anthropology and a PhD in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam. In the 1990s, Noske taught environmental ethics, ecology and ecofeminism at York University in Toronto while a research fellow in the Faculty of Environmental Studies. She then worked as a research fellow at the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Sydney.
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William H. Durham
1949 - Present (75 years)
William H. Durham, a biological anthropologist and evolutionary biologist, is the Bing Professor Emeritus in Human Biology at Stanford University. Education William Durham earned a B.S. at Stanford University in 1971, and graduated from the University of Michigan with a master’s and PhD .
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