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Pierre Salama
1917 - 2009 (92 years)
Pierre Salama was a French historian and archaeologist, specialist of Roman roads in Africa as well as milestones. An epigrapher, numismatist, he was also a specialist of historical geography. Publications 1948: Le réseau routier de l'Afrique romaine, Comptes rendus de l'Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, ;1949: Carte du réseau routier de l'Afrique romaine; nouv. éd. 2010 ;1951: Les voies romaines de l'Afrique du Nord1987: Bornes milliaires d'Afrique proconsulaire2000: Le Sahara pendant l'Antiquité classique, Gamal Mokhtar [under the dir. of], Histoire générale de l'Afrique, vol.
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Pierre Demargne
1903 - 2000 (97 years)
Pierre Demargne was a French historian and archaeologist. Biography Pierre Demargne went to school at l'École normale supérieure, where he took and passed the agrégation de lettres exam. He conducted his first research in Anatolia, more specifically in the south coast of Turkey. In 1951, he initiated a series of archaeological excavations at the ancient capital of Lycia, Xanthos, which was occupied from the 7th century BCE by the Lycians, Greeks, Romans and Byzantines for more than a thousand years. His discoveries from Xanthos, including monumental and funeral architecture and inscriptions...
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Mark de Rond
2000 - Present (24 years)
Mark de Rond is Professor of Organizational Ethnography at Cambridge University . He studies people by living with them under similar conditions so as to better understand how they experience, and develop meaningful relations to the world around them. His fieldwork has included stints with war surgeons in Afghanistan, elite rowers in Cambridge, biochemists in Oxford, comedians in London and Edinburgh, and peace activists on a protest march from Berlin to Aleppo. It also includes an effort to row the length of the Amazon River so as to learn, first-hand, how collaboration unfolds and how proble...
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Gerald F. Schroedl
1945 - Present (79 years)
Gerald F. Schroedl is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tennessee. He specializes in Southeastern United States and Caribbean prehistoric and historic archaeological sites. He is an authority on Cherokee prehistory and the archaeology of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina.
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Peter Garlake
1934 - 2011 (77 years)
Peter Storr Garlake was a Zimbabwean archaeologist and art historian, who made influential contributions to the study of Great Zimbabwe and Ife, Nigeria. Life Garlake began his career in African art and archaeology as a Nuffield Research Student, British Institute in Eastern Africa from 1962 to 1964, carrying out excavations at Manekweni in Mozambique.
Go to ProfileJulian Daryl Richards is a British archaeologist and academic. He works at the University of York, and is director of the Archaeology Data Service , and Internet Archaeology. He is also the director of the Centre for Digital Heritage at the university, and contributed to the founding of The White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities. His work focuses on the archaeological applications of information technology. He has participated in excavations at Cottam, Cowlam, Burdale, Wharram Percy, and Heath Wood barrow cemetery.
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Peter Levi
1931 - 2000 (69 years)
Peter Chad Tigar Levi, FSA, FRSL was a British poet, archaeologist, Jesuit priest, travel writer, biographer, academic and prolific reviewer and critic. He was Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford .
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Linda Marie Fedigan
1949 - Present (75 years)
Linda Marie Fedigan, is a professor and Canada Research Chair in Primatology and Bioanthropology at the University of Calgary, Alberta. In addition, Fedigan is also the Executive Editor of the American Journal of Primatology and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Prior to accepting her current position, Dr. Fedigan was a professor at the University of Alberta, teaching anthropology from 1974 until 2001. She is internationally recognized for over 30 years of contribution to the study of primate life history, reproduction, socioecology and conservation and is considered a major author...
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Kathleen Musante DeWalt
Kathleen Musante DeWalt is an American academic who served as director of the Center for Latin American Studies – University of Pittsburgh and a Professor of Anthropology. She became Assistant Professor in the University of Kentucky Department of Behavioural Science in 1978, receiving her PhD from the University of Connecticut in 1979. She was promoted to Associate Professor at Kentucky in 1984, and full Professor in 1992. In September 1993, she moved to the University of Pittsburgh, serving as Chair of the Department of Anthropology from 1995 to 1996 and Associate Dean from 1996 to 1999. In ...
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Alan Boraas
1947 - Present (77 years)
Alan S. Boraas is a professor of anthropology at Kenai Peninsula College in Alaska. He is known for his research into the culture, history, and archaeology of the peoples of the Cook Inlet area of Alaska, and in particular has worked closely with the Dena'ina people of the Kenai Peninsula. He is an adopted honorary member of the Kenaitze Indian Tribe, and is helping the tribe develop a program to teach the Dena'ina language.
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Monique Scheer
1967 - Present (57 years)
Monique Scheer is an American-German historical and cultural anthropologist and professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany, where she also serves as Vice-President for International Affairs and Diversity.
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Barbara Harrell-Bond
1932 - 2018 (86 years)
Barbara Elaine Harrell-Bond was an American-born British social anthropologist in the field of refugee studies. Early life and education Barbara Elaine Moir was born on 7 November 1932, daughter of postman Elmer Edwin Moir and nurse Irene , and raised in Aberdeen, South Dakota. She attended Asbury College in Kentucky where she studied music and later taught music, and met her future husband, Nathan Harrell-Bond. When he won a scholarship to Mansfield College, Oxford for a doctorate in psychology, she began studying anthropology at the Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford in 1965 where she earned an M.Litt.
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Miyako Inoue
1962 - Present (62 years)
Miyako Inoue is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. She received her PhD from Washington University in St. Louis in 1996. She is a prominent linguistic anthropologist who combines a concerted focus on social theory with a rigorous analysis of language in social life. Inoue teaches linguistic anthropology and the anthropology of Japan.
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Peter Hiscock
1957 - Present (67 years)
Peter Dixon Hiscock is an Australian archaeologist. Born in Melbourne, he obtained a PhD from the University of Queensland. Between 2013 and 2021, he was the inaugural Tom Austen Brown Professor of Australian Archaeology at the University of Sydney, having previously held a position in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University.
Go to ProfileKatherine Ann Spilde is an American anthropologist. She is a professor and endowed chair of the Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming at San Diego State University, specializing in government-owned casino gambling models and Tribal Government Gaming.
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Reimar Schefold
1938 - Present (86 years)
Reimar Schefold , is professor emeritus of cultural anthropology and sociology of Indonesia at Leiden University. His special interests are thematic symbolic anthropology, cultural materialism, vernacular architecture, and social change among ethnic minorities. He has lectured and written about diversity and commonality amongst the inhabitants of the islands off the coast of West Sumatra.
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Claude Nelson Warren
1932 - 2021 (89 years)
Claude Nelson Warren was a California Desert anthropologist and specialist in early humans in the Far West and was instrumental in defining the San Dieguito and La Jolla cultural complexes. His Ph.D. dissertation proved that Native Americans lived in the San Diego coastal area 10,000 years ago, much earlier than previously thought. He also had an interest in the history of anthropology.
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Kieran Egan
1942 - 2022 (80 years)
Kieran Egan was an Irish educational philosopher and a student of the classics, anthropology, cognitive psychology, and cultural history. He has written on issues in education and child development, with an emphasis on the uses of imagination and the stages that occur during a person's intellectual development. He has questioned the work of Jean Piaget and progressive educators, notably Herbert Spencer and John Dewey.
Go to ProfileKeith M. Dobney is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in bioarchaeology and palaeopathology of human and animal remains. Since 2020, he has been Head of the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiries at the University of Sydney. He previously worked at the Institute of Archaeology, the University of York, the University of Durham, the University of Aberdeen, and the University of Liverpool.
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Paul A. Shackel
1959 - Present (65 years)
Paul A. Shackel is an American anthropologist and a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the Department of Anthropology in 1996 after working for the National Park Service for seven and a half years. His research interests include Historical Archaeology, Civic Engagement, Social Justice, African Diaspora, Labor Archaeology, and Heritage Studies. He teaches courses in Historical Archaeology, The Anthropology of Work, Archaeology of the Chesapeake, and Method and Theory in Archaeology.
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Amy Bogaard
1972 - Present (52 years)
Amy Bogaard FBA is a Canadian archaeologist and Professor of Neolithic and Bronze Age Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Education Bogaard earned a PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2002, supervised by Glynis Jones.
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Luisa Accati
1942 - Present (82 years)
Luisa Accati Levi is an Italian historian, anthropologist and feminist public intellectual. She taught ethnology and modern history at the University of Trieste. She was born in Turin. After finishing her studies at the University of Turin and in Paris, she turned to the research of the historical anthropology of rural societies in Northern Italy. She has published monographs on the rural religiosity and on witch trials in the region of Friuli, and on family relations in urban and semi-urban communities in 19th century Udine. Her major contributions are in the study of the cult of Mary and it...
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Innocent Pikirayi
1963 - Present (61 years)
Innocent Pikirayi is Professor in Archaeology and Head of the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Pretoria. He works on the state and societies in southern Africa. Pikirayi was amongst the first Zimbabweans to train in archaeology after Zimbabwean independence.
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Stewart Ainsworth
1951 - Present (73 years)
Stewart Ainsworth is a British archaeological investigator who is regularly seen on Time Team the Channel 4 archaeological television series he joined in 1995. He has since appeared in over two hundred episodes.
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Otfried Deubner
1908 - 2001 (93 years)
Otfried Deubner was a German classical archaeologist and diplomat. During World War II, Otfried Deubner worked as a linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office .
Go to ProfileRafi Greenberg is a senior lecturer in archaeology at Tel Aviv University. Greenberg is the leading critic of the archaeological digs now underway at the Ophel, in Jerusalem. Greenberg founded an organization called An Alternative Archaeological Tour of Ancient Jerusalem, to present his views of the ancient finds in the area of the Ophel. He explained to a reporter that "Archeology is all about interpretation. The findings don't speak for themselves, archeologists speak for them."
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Martin Aitken
1922 - 2017 (95 years)
Martin Jim Aitken FRS was a British archaeometrist. Aitken was born in Stamford, Lincolnshire, and studied physics at Wadham College, Oxford. He was a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. He was Professor of Archaeometry at the University of Oxford from 1985 until he retired in 1989.
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Anthony Snodgrass
1934 - Present (90 years)
Anthony McElrea Snodgrass FBA is an academic and archaeologist noted for his work on Archaic Greece. Biography Born to William McElrea and Kathleen Snodgrass, he gained his M.A. and D.Phil in 1963. He is Emeritus Professor in Classical Archaeology at the University of Cambridge and a specialist in Archaic Greece. He is a Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research. He chairs the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.
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David Ridgway
1938 - 2012 (74 years)
David Ridgway was a British scholar of Italian archaeology and the Etruscans. Life Born in Athens, Greece, Ridgway studied Classics at University College London under Professors Webster, Skutsch and Robertson. After graduating in 1960 he went on to post graduate studies in European and Mediterranean Archaeology in Oxford under Professor C.F.C. Hawkes. From 1968 he taught first as Lecturer and subsequently Reader in Archaeology and finally as Reader in Classics at the University of Edinburgh, where his wife Francesca Romana Serra Ridgway was an honorary fellow for years. Ridgway and his wife ...
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Leon Stover
1929 - 2006 (77 years)
Leon Eugene Stover was an anthropologist, a Sinologist, and a science fiction fan, who wrote both fiction and nonfiction. He was a scholar of the works of H. G. Wells and Robert A. Heinlein and an occasional collaborator with Harry Harrison.
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Bruce Granville Miller
Bruce Granville Miller is a Canadian academic. He currently serves as a Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology and was Graduate Program Chair of the Anthropology Graduate Studies Committee in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia.
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George R. Fischer
1937 - 2016 (79 years)
George Robert Fischer was an American underwater archaeologist, considered the founding father of the field in the National Park Service. A native Californian, he did undergraduate and graduate work at Stanford University, and began his career with the National Park Service in 1959, which included assignments in six parks, the Washington, D.C. Office, and the Southeast Archaeological Center from which he retired in 1988. He began teaching courses in underwater archaeology at Florida State University in 1974 and co-instructed inter-disciplinary courses in scientific diving techniques. After r...
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Insa Nolte
1969 - Present (55 years)
Insa Nolte is an Africanist and Professor of African Studies in the Department of African Studies and Anthropology at the University of Birmingham. She obtained a first degree in Economics from the Free University of Berlin and graduated from the University of Birmingham with a PhD thesis on the history and politics of Ijebu-Remo , the regional base of the Nigerian Nationalist politician Obafemi Awolowo. After a Kirk-Greene Junior Research Fellowship at St Antony's College, Oxford, she became Lecturer in African Studies at Birmingham University in 2001. She has been Head of Department since 2018.
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Mart Bax
1937 - Present (87 years)
Marten Meile Gerrit "Mart" Bax is a Dutch emeritus endowed professor in political anthropology at the Vrije Universiteit , Amsterdam, the Netherlands. After his retirement, he came into prominence to the wider public in the Netherlands in 2012 due to suspicions of scientific misconduct. In September 2013, these suspicions were confirmed in an official report.
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Isabel Crook
1915 - Present (109 years)
Isabel Crook was a Canadian-British anthropologist, political prisoner, and professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University. Crook conducted anthropological studies in China and played an instrumental role in foreign language education in China.
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Phyllis Morse
1934 - Present (90 years)
Phyllis Morse is an American archaeologist. Biography Anderson was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1934, and attended Crystal Lake Community High, Crystal Lake, Illinois, graduating in June 1952. She became interested in archaeology while studying anthropology at the University of Michigan. In the 1950s there were fewer women at University, let alone any who chose that discipline. She received a BA in anthropology in June 1956 and an MA in anthropology in June 1958 both from Michigan.
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Helene Hagan
1939 - Present (85 years)
Helene E. Hagan, born Helene Coll , is an American anthropologist and Amazigh activist. Biography Hagan immigrated to the United States in 1960. She is the mother of three children. After obtaining a License-es-Lettres from the Faculté des Sciences et des Lettres, University of Bordeaux in France in 1969, she obtained a master's degree in French Literature from Stanford University in 1971. She pursued her doctoral studies in anthropology at Stanford University, California. She is of Berber and Catalan ancestries. Her paternal family name Coll is from the Pyrenees Mountain village of Prats-de...
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Theodore C. Bestor
1951 - 2021 (70 years)
Theodore C. Bestor was a professor of anthropology and Japanese studies at Harvard University. He was the president of the Association for Asian Studies in 2012. In 2018, he resigned as director from the Reischauer Institute following an investigation by Harvard officials that found he committed two counts of sexual misconduct.
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Robert Lemelson
1952 - Present (72 years)
Robert Bush Lemelson is an American cultural anthropologist and film producer. He received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lemelson's area of specialty is transcultural psychiatry; Southeast Asian Studies, particularly Indonesia; and psychological and medical anthropology. He is a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience UCLA, and an adjunct professor of Anthropology at UCLA. His scholarly work has appeared in journals and books. Lemelson founded Elemental Productions in 20...
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Gloria Goodwin Raheja
1950 - Present (74 years)
Gloria Goodwin Raheja is American anthropologist who specializes in ethnographic history. She is the author of several historical works where she explores the concepts of caste and gender in India, colonialism, politics of representation, blues music, capitalism in the Appalachia and other diverse topics. Raheja argues that caste stratification in India was influenced by British colonialism. Monographs on ethnographic history and India have been considered "acclaimed" by the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
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Elizabeth Baldwin Garland
Elizabeth Baldwin Garland was an American archaeologist known for her expertise on Great Lakes prehistory and the archaeology of Michigan. She was the author of a number of scholarly publications. Biography Garland earned a BS in geology from Wellesley College, an MA in Anthropology from Radcliffe College, and a PhD from Harvard in anthropology in 1967.
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