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Vernon L. Scarborough
1950 - Present (74 years)
Vernon Lee Scarborough is an American academic anthropologist and archaeologist, known for his research and publications on settlement, land use and water management practices of archaic and Pre-industrial society.
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Graham Connah
1934 - Present (90 years)
Graham Edward Connah was a British-born archaeologist who worked extensively in Britain, West Africa and Australia. Connah was born in Cheshire, UK on 11 August 1934, and educated at Wirral Grammar School, and Cambridge University, receiving a PhD in 1959, after which he was a research assistant until 1961. Among his influences were David Clarke and Paul Ashby. In 1961 he obtained a position as archaeologist in the Department of Antiquities, with the Federal Government of Nigeria. He next served as a research fellow, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria in 1964; then s...
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Stephen A. Tyler
1932 - 2020 (88 years)
Stephen A. Tyler was an American anthropologist and Herbert S. Autrey Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Linguistics at Rice University. He is known for his works on cultural anthropology. Life Tyler was born in Hartford, IA in 1932.
Go to ProfileWayne Marshall is an American ethnomusicologist college professor at the Berklee College of Music His scholarship focuses on the musical and cultural production of the Caribbean and the Americas, and their circulation in the wider world, with particular attention to digital technologies. He is currently writing a book on music, networked media and transnational youth culture. He co-edited and contributed to the book Reggaeton and has published in journals such as Popular Music and Callaloo, while writing for popular outlets including The Wire and the Boston Phoenix. Marshall holds a Ph.D. fro...
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Theresa A. Singleton
1952 - Present (72 years)
Theresa A. Singleton is an American archaeologist and writer who focuses on the archaeology of African Americans, the African diaspora, and slavery in the United States. She is a leading archaeologist applying comparative approaches to the study of slavery in the Americas. Singleton has been involved in the excavation of slave residences in the southern United States and in the Caribbean. She is a professor of anthropology at Syracuse University, and serves as a curator for the National Museum of Natural History.
Go to ProfileChristine Hastorf is an archaeologist and is currently Professor in the Anthropology department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research focuses on agriculture, political complexity, gender, archaeobotany, and the archaeology of the Andes.
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Polly Hill
1914 - 2005 (91 years)
Polly Hill was a British social anthropologist of West Africa, and an Emeritus Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge. Life and career Hill came from a family of distinguished academics – her father, A. V. Hill, had earned a Nobel prize in physiology and her mother Margaret Hill was a leading social reformer. Hill's maternal grandfather was economist John Neville Keynes, and maternal uncles were economist John Maynard Keynes and surgeon Geoffrey Keynes. Her brothers were the physiologist David Keynes Hill and the oceanographer Maurice Hill, while her sister Janet married the immunologist John Herber...
Go to ProfileJeffrey Charles Long is an American genetic anthropologist who has been a tenured professor in the department of anthropology at the University of New Mexico since 2009, and a professor in the department of biology there since 2013. Before joining the University of New Mexico, Long taught at the University of Michigan Medical School; Before that, he worked at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism. Long is a member of the American Society of Human Genetics. In April 2010, he presented a study at a meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists which found evidence that early humans interbred with Neanderthals.
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Angelos Delivorrias
1937 - 2018 (81 years)
Angelos Delivorrias was a Greek archeologist who was the director of Benaki Museum for 41 years and a member of the Academy of Athens. Career Graduate in the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Thessaloniki, Angelos Delivorrias graduated from the University of Freiburg in Germany in 1956. In 1965 he was appointed to the Greek Archaeological Service and served at the National Archaeological Museum. In 1973, he graduated from the University of Sorbonne at the École pratique des hautes études. A year later he was assigned the direction of the Benaki Museum in Athens, where he recommended immediately a radical regeneration that was completed after 27 years.
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Aileen Fox
1907 - 2005 (98 years)
Aileen Mary Fox, Lady Fox, was an English archaeologist, who specialised in the archaeology of south-west England. She notably excavated the Roman legionary fortress in Exeter, Devon, after the Second World War.
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Paul Mellars
1939 - 2022 (83 years)
Sir Paul Anthony Mellars was a British archaeologist and professor of prehistory and human evolution at the University of Cambridge. Early life and academic career Paul Mellars was born in 1939 in the village of Swallownest near Sheffield. His father, Herbert Mellars, was a miner and a member of the Plymouth Brethren. From the village school, he progressed to Woodhouse, a County Council Grammar School founded in 1909 in the West Riding of Yorkshire, which his mother Elaine had also attended. Mellars obtained his MA, PhD and ScD degrees at the University of Cambridge, where he was a student at Fitzwilliam College.
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Sheppard Frere
1916 - 2015 (99 years)
Sheppard Sunderland Frere, CBE, FSA, FBA was a British historian and archaeologist who studied the Roman Empire. He was a fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. Biography The son of Noel Gray Frere, of the Colonial Service, and his wife Agnes , Sheppard "Sam" Frere was born in 1916. He was educated at Lancing College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was a master at Epsom College from 1938–41, and became classics master and housemaster at Lancing College from 1945 to 1954, when he was in charge of the excavations at Canterbury during his summer vacations. He made a number of broadcasts about his work at that time.
Go to ProfileStephen Plog is a notable American archaeologist and anthropologist, who specializes in the pre-Columbian cultures of the American Southwest. As the Commonwealth Professor of Anthropology at The University of Virginia, he currently teaches undergraduate and graduate students, and is working to digitize all the research on the Chaco Canyon through the Chaco Research Archive. On May 1, 2006 he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to the academy is among the highest distinctions for a scientist, and is based on outstanding and ongoing achievements in original research. He ...
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Frederick E. Grine
1952 - Present (72 years)
Frederick Edward Grine is an American paleoanthropologist. He is a Professor of anthropology and anatomical sciences at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He received his bachelor's degree from Washington & Jefferson College, and his Ph.D at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa in 1984.
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Ippei Shimamura
1969 - Present (55 years)
is a Japanese anthropologist who is best known for his ethnographic work on shamanism and ethnic identity among Mongol Buryats, which has won multiple awards. Currently he is a Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Mongolian Studies in the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka. Working for 15 years in the School of Human Cultures at the University of Shiga Prefecture in Hikone, he joined the Minpaku on April Ist in 2020. Between April 2004 and September 2005 he was a research fellow at the National Museum of Ethnology in Osaka and between October 2011 and March 2012 he was a visiting schola...
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Timothy W. Potter
1944 - 2000 (56 years)
Timothy William Potter was a prominent archaeologist of ancient Italy, as well as of Roman Britain, best known for his focus on landscape archaeology. Potter was educated at March Grammar School in March, Cambridgeshire, where his father Cedric Potter was headmaster. He followed his brother Christopher to Trinity College, Cambridge, where he read anthropology and archaeology, graduating with a 2:1 in 1966 and obtained his Ph.D. in 1974; his Ph.D. thesis was entitled Archaeological Topography of the Central and Southern Ager Faliscus. In the 1980s Potter excavated at Stonea, a Roman settlemen...
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Alireza Shapour Shahbazi
1942 - 2006 (64 years)
Alireza Shapour Shahbazi was a prominent Persian archaeologist, Iranologist and a world expert on Achaemenid archaeology. Shahbazi got a BA degree in and an MA degree in East Asian archaeology from SOAS. Shahbazi had a doctorate degree in Achaemenid archaeology from University of London. Alireza Shapour Shahbazi was a lecturer in Achaemenid archaeology and Iranology at Harvard University. He was also a full professor of archaeology at Shiraz University and founded at Persepolis the Institute of Achaemenid Research in 1974. After the Islamic revolution, he moved to the US, firstly teaching ...
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Emory Kemp
1931 - 2020 (89 years)
Emory Leland Kemp was the founder and director of the Institute for the History of Technology and Industrial Archaeology at West Virginia University. There, he was Chair and Professor of Civil Engineering at the Benjamin M. Statler College of Engineering & Mineral Resources, and a professor of history in the Eberly College of Arts and Sciences. Until his death, he served as Professor Emeritus for the Department of History at West Virginia University.
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Henri Metzger
1912 - 2007 (95 years)
Henri Metzger was a French archaeologist and Hellenist, a member of the Institut de France. He specialized in pottery of ancient Greece, particularly from Athens, and archaeology in Anatolia, specifically in Lycia.
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Kristina Killgrove
1977 - Present (47 years)
Kristina Killgrove is an American bioarchaeologist, science communicator, and author who primarily covers anthropology and archaeology news and engages in research on ancient Roman skeletons. She is a regular contributor to Live Science and previously to Mental Floss, Science Uncovered, and Forbes. From 2012 to 2018, she was faculty in anthropology at the University of West Florida and she has maintained an affiliation as a research scholar at the Ronin Institute since 2011. She is currently affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Sam Willis
1977 - Present (47 years)
Samuel Bruce Adlam Willis is a British historian, television presenter and writer. He is a visiting Fellow in Maritime and Naval History at the University of Plymouth, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He is the editor of Navy Records Online, the online-publishing branch of the Navy Records Society. Willis has published fourteen books and numerous academic articles on maritime and naval history.
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Branislava Sušnik
1920 - 1996 (76 years)
Branislava Sušnik was a Slovenian-Paraguayan anthropologist. Life and education Branislava Sušnik was born on 28 March 1920 in Medvode, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, currently in Slovenia to the lawyer Jože Sušnik and Karolina née Prijatelj. She attended primary school and classical grammar school in Ljubljana, and in 1937 entered Ljubljana University where she studied prehistory and history at the Faculty of Arts. In 1942, Sušnik completed her doctoral studies in ethnohistory and Ural-Altaic linguistics with the German anthropologist prof. Wilhelm Schmidt in Vienna and began studying the cultures and languages of Asia Minor at the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome.
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Jan Simek
1953 - Present (71 years)
Jan F. Simek is an American archaeologist and educator who was the interim president of the University of Tennessee system from 2009 to 2010. A faculty member in the department of anthropology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Simek's research interests include Paleolithic archaeology, human evolution, quantitative analysis, spatial analysis, archaeology of the southeastern United States, and cave archaeology. He has been involved in the discovery and exploration of numerous “Unnamed Caves”, a naming practice used to protect their location, in the Cumberland Plateau for the past fifteen years.
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José Bengoa
1945 - Present (79 years)
José Bengoa Cabello is a Chilean historian and anthropologist. He is known in Chile for his study of Mapuche history and society. After the 1973 Chilean coup d'état, José Bengoa was dismissed from his work at the University of Chile by the Pinochet regime. He was the principal advocate for the first Social Forum of the ACLU International Human Rights Task Force, during the SubCommission's fifty-fourth session in August 2002. Bengoa had been living in Cajón del Maipo for some time. For medical reasons and concerns, he sometimes returns to his home in Ñuñoa. The anthropologist had been diagnos...
Go to ProfileCarolyn Sargent is a medical anthropologist. She focuses on gender studies and health issues, with interests in reproductive health, managing the health of women in low-income families, and decision making in the medical field. She has done fieldwork in West Africa, Benin, Jamaica and France where she worked on reproductive health, midwifery, prenatal care and migrant fertility patterns.
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Sondra Hale
1937 - Present (87 years)
Sondra Hale is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles ; former Co-editor of the Journal of Middle East Women's Studies and former Co-Chair, Islamic Studies. Her regional interests are in Africa and the Middle East, focusing mainly on Sudan and Eritrea .
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Don D. Fowler
1936 - Present (88 years)
Don D. Fowler is an anthropologist and archaeologist in the southwestern United States. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Utah and his PhD from the University of Pittsburgh. As a student, Fowler worked on the Glen Canyon Project, surveying the canyon for archaeological data before the Glen Canyon Dam was finished being built. The Sundance Archaeological Research Fund is just one of the archaeological projects he has directed in the Great Basin. From 1985 to 1987 Fowler was the president of the Society for American Archaeology and from 1988 to 1991 he held a Foundation Professorship from the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Eliot Chapple
1910 - 2003 (93 years)
Eliot Dismore Chapple was an American anthropologist. In 1941, he was one of the founders of the Society for Applied Anthropology, and its first president. His 1942 work with Carleton Coon applied the notion of conditioned learning to understanding the human use of symbols in various cultural contexts. He later invented the Interaction Chronograph to develop this concept. By 1970, he had understood these phenomena as emotional-interactional rhythms and part of fundamental biological rhythmic dynamics. Sociologists including George Herbert Mead developed symbolic interactionism from ideas including Chapple's insights.
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David McKnight
1935 - 2006 (71 years)
David McKnight was a Canadian-British anthropologist and ethnographer who specialized in the anthropology of Australian Aboriginal people, with particular regard to the tribes of the Cape York Peninsula. He conducted over 20 field trips among Aboriginal people in Australia from 1965 to 1999.
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Richard Daugherty
1922 - 2014 (92 years)
Richard Deo Daugherty was an American archaeologist and professor, who led the excavation of the Ozette Indian Village Archeological Site in Washington state during the 1970s. The Ozette Indian Village, which was buried and preserved in a mudslide in the 1700s, has been called "the most significant archaeological dig of the 20th century" in the Pacific Northwest. Daugherty collaborated closely with the Makah during the dig, which uncovered more than 55,000 artifacts.
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Anne Zeller
1947 - Present (77 years)
Anne C. Zeller is a physical anthropologist who specializes in the study of primates. She received her M.A. and Ph.D from the University of Toronto. During her graduate studies she worked on chromosome analysis, comparing chimpanzee and human chromosomes. Anne has undertaken primate field research in Morocco, Gibraltar, Texas, Borneo and Africa. These two types of research combine interests in the physical development of humans from their primate ancestors, and the behavioral patterns of primates which are similar to those found among humans. However, her approach to physical anthropology is ...
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David E. Stuart
1945 - Present (79 years)
David E. Stuart is an American anthropologist, and novelist, and Associate Provost Emeritus at University of New Mexico. He graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College, with a BA in Anthropology and Sociology in 1967, and from University of New Mexico with an MA in 1970 and PhD in 1972 in Anthropology.
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H. B. Nicholson
1925 - 2007 (82 years)
Henry Bigger Nicholson who published under the name H.B. Nicholson, was a scholar of the Aztecs. His major scholarly monograph is Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl: The Once and Future Lord of the Toltecs . Nicholson died of a heart attack on March 2, 2007.
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Renzo Pi Hugarte
1934 - 2012 (78 years)
Renzo Wifredo Pi Hugarte was a Uruguayan scholar, anthropologist, professor, historian and writer. Together with Daniel Vidart he is considered one of the "founding fathers" of anthropology in Uruguay.
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Christian Rätsch
1957 - 2022 (65 years)
Christian Rätsch was a German anthropologist and writer on topics like ethnopharmacology, psychoactive plants and animals. Life Rätsch was born in 1957 in a Bohemian community in Hamburg, Germany. His father was an opera singer, his mother a ballet dancer. He started learning about shamanism and sacred plants at 10 and had his first drug experience at 12.
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Nicholas Toth
1952 - Present (72 years)
Nicholas Patrick Toth is an American archaeologist and paleoanthropologist. He is a Professor in the Cognitive Science Program at Indiana University and is a founder and co-director of the Stone Age Institute. Toth's archaeological and experimental research has focused on the stone tool technology of Early Stone Age hominins who produced Oldowan and Acheulean artifacts which have been discovered across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. He is best known for his experimental work, with Kathy Schick, including their work with the bonobo Kanzi who they taught to make and use simple ston...
Go to ProfileStephanie Moser is an archaeology professor and head of the department at the University of Southampton, England. Her work explores the exhibition and reception of the human past. Moser's research examines visual images from antiquity through the lens of modern anthropology.
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Florence M. Hawley
1906 - 1991 (85 years)
Florence May Hawley Ellis was one of the first anthropologists to work extensively on dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating. She conducted archaeological and ethnographic research in the Southwestern United States; and undertook some of the first dendrochronological research in eastern North America in the mid 20th century, examining samples from a number of archaeological sites. She was also highly regarded as a passionate teacher who pushed her students toward greatness by encouraging them to think for themselves and work hard for what they wanted to achieve. Although faced with many challe...
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Jonathan Boyarin
1956 - Present (68 years)
Jonathan Aaron Boyarin is an American anthropologist whose work centers on Jewish communities and on the dynamics of Jewish culture, memory and identity. Born in Neptune, New Jersey, he is married and has two sons. In 2013, he was appointed Thomas and Diann Mann Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, Departments of Anthropology and Near Eastern Studies, Cornell University.
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Helen Safa
1930 - 2013 (83 years)
Helen M. Icken Safa was an anthropologist, feminist scholar and academic. Safa focused her work on Latin American studies and she served as president of the Latin American Studies Association from 1983 to 1985. She taught anthropology and Latin American studies at Syracuse University, Rutgers University and the University of Florida. She received the Silvert Award, the highest honor given by the Latin American Studies Association.
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Christopher Henshilwood
2000 - Present (24 years)
Christopher Stuart Henshilwood is a South African archaeologist. He has been Professor of African Archaeology at the University of Bergen since 2007 and, since 2008, Professor at the Chair of "The Origins of Modern Human Behaviour" at the University of the Witwatersrand. Henshilwood became internationally known due to his excavations in the Blombos Cave, where - according to his study published in 2002 - the oldest known works of humanity had been discovered. Henshilwood and his work have been featured on National Geographic and CNN Inside Africa.
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Svein Bjerke
1938 - Present (86 years)
Svein Bjerke , is a religious historian and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, where he was attached to the Department for the History of Religion for thirty years, part of the time as its head. He belonged to the first Norwegian group of anthropology students, but has since worked with archeological excavations , philological text analyses and traditional anthropological field work. His most well-known work is the doctoral dissertation Religion and Misfortune based on fieldwork in North-Western Tanzania. Bjerke has represented Norwegian Comparative religion in the International A...
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Keith DeVries
1937 - 2006 (69 years)
Keith Robert DeVries was a prominent archaeologist and expert on the Phrygian city of Gordium, in what is now Turkey. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. DeVries earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania. From 1970 to 2004, he taught the latter university. He also worked for its Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in the Mediterranean section.
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John Mulvaney
1925 - 2016 (91 years)
Derek John Mulvaney , known as John Mulvaney and D. J. Mulvaney, was an Australian archaeologist. He was the first qualified archaeologist to focus his work on Australia. Life Mulvaney was born in Yarram, Victoria, on 26 October 1925.
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Alfredo López Austin
1936 - 2021 (85 years)
Alfredo Federico López Austin was a Mexican historian who wrote extensively on the Aztec worldview and on Mesoamerican religion. As an academic teacher, he inspired generations of students, but his influence extends beyond the boundaries of academic life. His sons are Alfredo Xallápil López Luján, well known biologist and informatic and the renowned archaeologist, Leonardo Náuhmitl López Luján.
Go to ProfilePenelope Dransart is an anthropologist, archaeologist, and historian specialising in South American anthropology and the study of castles. Until 2016 she was a Reader at University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She is Honorary Reader at the University of Aberdeen. Dransart was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1998. She has written or edited several books, including Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric: An Ethnography and Archaeology of Andean Camelid Herding .
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Denise Schmandt-Besserat
1933 - Present (91 years)
Denise Schmandt-Besserat is a French-American archaeologist and retired professor of art and archaeology of the ancient Near East. She spent much of her professional career as a professor at the University of Texas. She is best known for her work on the history and invention of writing. While her research is highly cited, it has been controversial among scholars. The controversies, as detailed below, concern the interpretation of early tokens, particularly the complex ones; however, the idea that writing emerged out of the counting, cataloging, management, and transactions of agricultural pro...
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