Aleks Pluskowski is a Professor of Archaeology at the University of Reading. His areas of research include the environmental archaeology of medieval Europe, especially zooarchaeology, ecology, biodiversity and human-animal relations.
Go to Profile#1952
Robert N. Zeitlin
1935 - Present (89 years)
Robert Norman Zeitlin is an American professor emeritus of anthropology at Brandeis University. He has a B.A. in psychology from Cornell University, a B.S. in aeronautical engineering from Boston University, an M.A. in anthropology from City University of New York, and a M.Phil. and Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University.
Go to Profile#1953
Sarah Colley
1901 - Present (123 years)
Sarah Colley is an honorary research fellow in the University of Leicester, school of Archaeology and Ancient History. She was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2011. Colley is interested in using modern digital communication technology and applies them to enhance researches in the field of archaeology. Because of that interest, she is currently working with Penelope Allison on the development of digital research resources in the Kinchega Archaeological Research Project.
Go to Profile#1954
Ruth Cernea
1934 - 2009 (75 years)
Ruth Fredman Cernea was an American cultural anthropologist, who dedicated virtually all her field research and writings to the analysis of Jewish culture and symbols, in various settings. Biography Born in Philadelphia in 1934, Ruth Fredman Cernea got her BA degree in English literature from Temple University, created and raised a family, and returned to Temple University to complete her graduate studies. After gaining a doctorate in cultural anthropology, she became the Director for Publications and Research at the national headquarters of the Hillel Foundation for Jewish Campus Life .
Go to ProfileLynley A. Wallis is an Australian archaeologist and Associate Professor at Griffith University. She is a specialist in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction through the analysis of phytoliths. Education Wallis obtained her PhD from the Australian National University . Her PhD thesis titled Phytoliths, Late Quaternary Environment and Archaeology in Tropical Semi-arid Northwest Australia demonstrated the suitability of phytolith analysis to questions of palaeoenvironmental interest in the tropical semi-arid areas and, subsequently, produced the first detailed late Quaternary terrestrial vegetation...
Go to Profile#1956
Giulio Magli
1964 - Present (60 years)
Giulio Magli is an Italian astrophysicist and archaeo-astronomer working primarily on the relationship between the architecture of ancient cultures and the sky. Biography After receiving a PhD in Mathematical Physics at the University of Milan, Magli developed his academic career at the Politecnico of Milan, where he became full professor of Mathematical Physics in 2005. Since 2009, he has taught a course on archaeoastronomy, first ever such course offered in an Italian University.
Go to Profile#1957
Leila Badre
1943 - Present (81 years)
Leila Badre is a Lebanese archaeologist and director of the Archaeological Museum of the American University of Beirut. Biography Badre was born in Beirut and attended the "Dames de Nazareth" high school there. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. in Archaeology at the American University of Beirut and then went on to complete a doctorate at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her thesis, entitled "Anthrophomorphic figurines in Bronze Age Syria" was completed in 1976, published in 1980 and has become a reference book on the subject. She has also lectured at the Louvre, Institute of the Ara...
Go to Profile#1958
Donna Schwartz-Barcott
Donna Schwartz-Barcott is an American nurse and anthropologist. She is a professor of nursing at University of Rhode Island. Schwartz-Barcott earned a B.S. in nursing from University of Washington. She completed an M.S. in public health and an M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her 1978 dissertation was titled National family planning programs in developing nations: a theoretical and empirical examination of the adoption process. She is married to T. P. Barcott. They have a son, Rye Barcott.
Go to ProfileTamsin O'Connell is an archaeological scientist based at the University of Cambridge. Her work has pioneered the use of isotope analysis in archaeology, specifically diet and climate in human and animal tissues.
Go to Profile#1960
Caroline Wickham-Jones
Caroline Rosa Wickham-Jones MA MSocSci FSA HonFSAScot MCIfA was a British archaeologist specialising in Stone Age Orkney. She was a lecturer at the University of Aberdeen until her retirement in 2015.
Go to Profile#1961
Marek Zvelebil
1952 - 2011 (59 years)
Marek Zvelebil, FSA was a Czech-Dutch archaeologist and prehistorian. Biography The son of Indologist Kamil Zvelebil, Zvelebil left his birth city of Prague with his family in 1968 following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The family first lived in the United States before returning to Europe and settling in the Netherlands. Zvelebil however studied in Oxford, England, and went on to gain a BA in archaeology from the University of Sheffield and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of the last students of Grahame Clark. Marek then taught at the University of Sou...
Go to Profile#1962
Walter Minchinton
1921 - 1996 (75 years)
Walter Edward Minchinton, FRHistS was a British historian and academic. He was Professor of Economic History at the University of Exeter from 1964 to 1986. Life Minchinton was the son of Walter Edward Minchinton and his wife Annie Border Minchinton. A graduate of the London School of Economics, the younger Minchinton served as an officer in the Second World War and in 1948 was appointed to an assistant lectureship at University College Swansea; he was promoted to a full lectureship in 1950, and then to be a senior lecturer in 1959. In 1964, the University of Exeter established its Economic History Department, and appointed Minchinton as its head; he served in that capacity until 1984.
Go to Profile#1963
Vladas Žulkus
1945 - Present (79 years)
Vladas Žulkus is a Lithuanian archaeologist. In October 2002 he was elected rector of Klaipėda University. Biography Žulkus started his career as an archaeologist in the Institute for Monument Preservation in Klaipėda. From 1969 till 1990 he was fellowship of the institute and investigated mainly the old town and the castle ruin in Klaipėda. In 1988, after studying in Institute of Archaeology of the USSR Academy of Sciences, he defended his doctoral thesis on Klaipėda and the region in the 11th - 17th centuries. In 1990 Žulkus became a director of the History Museum of Lithuania Minor. Two y...
Go to Profile#1964
Philip A. Barker
1920 - 2001 (81 years)
Philip Arthur Barker was a British archaeologist who was most famous for his work on excavation methodology. Education He left school with no qualifications and served in the RAF during the Second World War before he trained as a teacher. He taught Art at the Priory Grammar School for Boys, Shrewsbury and established a flourishing archaeological society at the school, which conducted a large number of excavations in the area, including a section of the town walls at Roushill in Shrewsbury.
Go to Profile#1965
Kate Clark
1962 - Present (62 years)
Kate Clark is a museum director and archaeologist. She was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 2000. Clark was Director of Sydney Living Museums between 2008 and 2013 and the CEO of Cadw from 2014. Before that, she also worked for English Heritage, the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Council for British Archaeology, and the Ironbridge Gorge Museum.
Go to Profile#1966
Arthur Dale Trendall
1909 - 1995 (86 years)
Arthur Dale Trendall, was a New Zealand art historian and classical archaeologist whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Greek ceramic vessels at Apulia and other sites earned him international prizes and a papal knighthood.
Go to Profile#1967
Jan Matthew Schoffeleers
1928 - 2011 (83 years)
Jan Mathijs Schoffeleers , who published many of his works in English as Jan Matthew Schoffeleers or Matthew Schoffeleers was a Dutch missionary and member of the Montfort Fathers order who became an important figure in African research as an anthropologist of African religion, particularly that in Malawi, where he spent around 16 years, first as a missionary and then as a lecturer. He continued his academic career later as reader and professor in religious anthropology in the Netherlands, continuing to concentrate on African themes.
Go to Profile#1968
Johannes Müller
1960 - Present (64 years)
Johannes Müller is a German prehistoric archaeologist. Currently, he is Professor at Kiel University . He has achieved a high international reputation in the field, as he has repeatedly initiated or played a major role in developing great research projects, such as the Priority Programme SPP 1400, the Excellence Initiative "Graduate School: Human Development in Landscapes", the Collaborative Research Centre CRC 1266 and the Cluster of Excellence ROOTS. Judging by the interdisciplinary character of these projects, the number of universities and research institutes from different countries invo...
Go to Profile#1969
Marijke van der Veen
1967 - Present (57 years)
Marijke van der Veen, is a Dutch archaeobotanist and Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester. Biography Van der Veen studied History and Archaeology at the University of Groningen. During this time she worked together with Jan Lanting on the Bronze Age barrow landscape, and their circular post settings, at the Hooghalen-estate in the Dutch province of Drenthe. At the University of Sheffield, she studied for a MA in Economic Archaeology and a PhD in Archaeobotany. Following her PhD, Van der Veen worked at Durham University as the English Heritage advisor for environmental archaeology in northern England.
Go to Profile#1970
Nükhet Sirman
1951 - Present (73 years)
Nükhet Sirman is a Turkish social anthropologist. She earned a doctorate degree from Britain's University College London in 1988, and since 1989, she is a professor of anthropology at the Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, Turkey. She has done academic analysis of the feminist movement in Turkey and introduced the concept of "familial citizenship" in the academic realm.
Go to Profile#1972
João Lopes Filho
1943 - Present (81 years)
João Lopes Filho is a Cape Verdean anthropologist, historian, university professor, novelist and an investigator. A specialist in the largest studies and works of appreciation of the Cape Verdean Creole, a Central-Western Atlantic African Creole, he was born in Santa Catarina in Santiago.
Go to ProfileCarol Palmer is a British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and botanist. She is currently Director of the British Institute in Amman, an Honorary Fellow at Bournemouth University, and a part of the Thimar collective. Her primary research interests are in rural societies in the Arab world, changes in the practices of food production on the landscape and in society, and ethnobotany. She collaborates as Project Partner of the INEA project, which aims to examine archaeological site usage using phytolithic and geochemical evidence. She has also been a part of the Antikythera Survey Proje...
Go to Profile#1974
Patrice Brun
1951 - Present (73 years)
Patrice Brun is a French archaeologist, a professor at Pantheon-Sorbonne University where he teaches European early history as well as theories and methods of archeology. His main focus encompasses the 6,500-year BCE in Europe, from the advent of the Agro-pastoral economy to the State in a major part of the continent, with an emphasis on recent Protohistory, i.e., Bronze and Iron Ages. He greatly contributed to large-scale data collected from region-level excavation campaigns.
Go to Profile#1975
Jack Golson
1926 - Present (98 years)
Jack Golson was a British-born Australian archaeologist who carried out extensive field work in Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. Life and career Jack Golson was born in Rochdale, England on 13 September 1926. He studied history and archaeology at Cambridge University. In 1954, he lectured at the archaeology department of Auckland University in New Zealand where he began studies on pre-history in the Pacific Islands. Golson also worked towards improving standards and methods of archaeology in New Zealand and organised the New Zealand Archaeological Association.
Go to ProfileJada Benn Torres is an American genetic anthropologist and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Vanderbilt University. She serves as Director of the Laboratory of Genetic Anthropology and Biocultural Studies. Her research considers the genetic ancestry of African and Indigenous people
Go to Profile#1977
Peter Geschiere
1941 - Present (83 years)
Peter Lein Geschiere is a Dutch anthropologist, Africanist and Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He studied at the Free University of Amsterdam obtaining a MA in history in 1967, a MA in anthropology in 1969, and a PhD in anthropology in 1978. Geschiere performed field work in Tunisia, Zaire, French- and English-speaking Cameroon and Senegal , and was a lecturer and senior lecturer at the Free University of Amsterdam. Then he held a professorship in Non-Western History at Erasmus University Rotterdam and was a researcher at the African Studies Centre Leiden .
Go to Profile#1978
Vladimir Markotic
1920 - 1994 (74 years)
Vladimir Markotic was a Croatian-American anthropologist, archaeologist and cryptozoologist. Biography Markotic was born in Banja Luka. He emigrated to the United States in 1947. He obtained his M.A. Anthropology from Indiana University and a PhD in anthropology from Harvard University . He was a research assistant at Indiana University and a teaching assistant for the Institute of East European Studies. Markotic was a Fellow of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University and a Fellow of the American Anthropological Association.
Go to Profile#1979
Nicolas Coldstream
1927 - 2008 (81 years)
John Nicolas Coldstream, , was an archaeologist and academic specialising in the Ancient Greek pottery of the Geometric Period. He lectured at Bedford College, rising to become Professor of Aegean Archaeology, and then lectured at University College London as Yates Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology. His best known excavation sites are Kythera and Knossos.
Go to Profile#1980
Margareta Steinby
1938 - Present (86 years)
Eva Margareta Steinby FSA is a Finnish classical archaeologist. She was the director of the Finnish Institute in Rome from 1979–1982 and 1992–1994, and Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire at the Institute of Archaeology, University of Oxford from 1994 to 2004. She is best known for her work on the architecture and topography of Rome, especially due to her contributions to the Lexicon Topographicum Urbis Romae .
Go to Profile#1981
Magdalina Stancheva
1924 - 2014 (90 years)
Magdalina Stancheva was a Bulgarian archaeologist and museologist, recognized for her dedication in preserving Sofia's past. As one of the first museologists in the country, she influenced and taught many the scientific principals of conservation. She worked with both the International Council of Museums and UNESCO to designate national preservation sites and was recognized by many awards for her efforts in conserving the cultural history of the country, including the Order of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the National Order Of Labour, and a citation as an Honorary Citizen of Sofia.
Go to Profile#1982
Lisa Sattenspiel
1955 - Present (69 years)
Lisa Sattenspiel is an anthropologist at the University of Missouri known for her work on infectious diseases, their spread and ecology. She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Go to Profile#1983
Rubina Raja
1975 - Present (49 years)
Rubina Raja is a classical archaeologist educated at University of Copenhagen , La Sapienza University and University of Oxford . She is professor of classical archaeology at Aarhus University and centre director of the Danish National Research Foundation's Centre of Excellence for Urban Network Evolutions . She specialises in the cultural, social and religious archaeology and history of past societies. Research foci include urban development and network studies, architecture and urban planning, the materiality of religion as well as iconography from the Hellenistic to Early Medieval periods.
Go to Profile#1984
Richard Cooke
1946 - 2023 (77 years)
Richard G. Cooke was an archaeologist who specialized in the archaeology of Panama and, more generally, the Isthmo-Colombian Area. Cooke was born in Guildford, Surrey, southern England. He studied at Bristol and got his doctorate from the University of London in 1972.
Go to Profile#1985
Roger Jacobi
1947 - 2009 (62 years)
Roger Michael Jacobi was a British archaeologist specialising in Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Britain. Known for his encyclopaedic knowledge of British prehistory, Jacobi authored several key synthetic volumes and worked to catalogue, sequence and reanalyse collections from across Britain and northwestern Europe. Sections of his extensive personal archive were posthumously published as the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Artefact database. He studied archaeology at Jesus College, Cambridge, and held positions at Lancaster University, the University of Nottingham, and the British Museum.
Go to Profile#1986
Martha Macintyre
1945 - Present (79 years)
Martha Macintyre is an Australian anthropologist and historian whose work has focused on studying social change in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia. As of 2021, she is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne.
Go to ProfileAdrian Nigel Goring-Morris is a British-born archaeologist and a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. He completed his PhD there in 1986 and is notable for his work and discoveries at one of the oldest ritual burial sites in the world; Kfar HaHoresh. The earliest levels of this site have been dated to 8000 BC and it is located in the northern Israel, not far from Nazareth.
Go to ProfileNaomi Sykes FSA is a zooarchaeologist and is currently the Lawrence Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter. Sykes researches human-animal relations in the past. Biography Sykes' early work studied the zooarchaeology of the Norman Conquest in Britain. Her thesis was completed at 2001 at the University of Southampton. Sykes was previously based at the University of Nottingham, and is currently the Lawrence Professor of Archaeology at the University of Exeter.
Go to Profile#1989
Charles Thomas
1928 - 2016 (88 years)
Antony Charles Thomas, was a British historian and archaeologist who was Professor of Cornish Studies at Exeter University, and the first Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, from 1971 until his retirement in 1991. He was recognised as a Bard of the Cornish Gorseth with the name Gwas Godhyan in 1953.
Go to ProfilePayal Arora is an Indian anthropologist, full Professor and Chair in Technology, Values, and Global Media Cultures at Erasmus University Rotterdam, author and consultant. She is the founder of CatalystLab, an organization that connects academia, business and the public on social issues. Her work focuses on internet usage in the Global South, specifically on digital cultures, inequality and data governance.
Go to ProfileSally M. Foster is a Scottish archaeologist and senior lecturer at the University of Stirling. She specialises in the archaeology of Scotland, particularly the Picts and their neighbours in the early medieval period.
Go to ProfileMalin Holst is a German bioarchaeologist, Director of York Ostoearchaeology Ltd. and a lecturer in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York. Career Malin Holst started working in archaeology in 1987 at the Raunds Area Project. She studied Practical Archaeology in 1991 at the Dorset Institute of Higher Education. She received a BA degree in 1993 from the University of Leicester and received an MSc degree in 1997 from the Universities of Sheffield and Bradford. She has been working in bioarchaeology since 1996.
Go to Profile#1993
Kathleen K. Gilmore
1914 - 2010 (96 years)
Kathleen K. Gilmore was an American archaeologist and specialist on Spanish colonial archaeology. She was the first archaeologist to prove the location of Fort St. Louis, established by the French explorer, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle. She received the J. C. Harrington Award of Society for Historical Archaeology in 1995, the first woman ever honored by the society.
Go to Profile#1994
Edward B. Banning
1955 - Present (69 years)
Edward Bruce Banning is a Canadian archaeologist and professor at the University of Toronto. He was born in Montreal in 1955 but has lived in Toronto for most of his life. His research focuses on the beginnings of village life and political-economic inequality in southwest Asia, especially in the Neolithic, and concentrates on the southern Levant. He has also been very involved in theoretical and methodological research on archaeological survey.
Go to ProfileDr. LuAnn Wandsnider is an American professor who has served as Chair of the Anthropology Department at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln since 2012. Biography Wandsnider received her Ph.D in Anthropology from the University of New Mexico in 1989.
Go to Profile#1996
Alexandra Jones
1977 - Present (47 years)
Alexandra Jones is a historical archaeologist and educator. She is founder and chief executive officer of Archaeology in the Community, "a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that aims to increase awareness of archaeology and history." She worked on the PBS television program, Time Team America, as Field Director of Archaeology for in 2013.
Go to Profile#1998
Andrew Gardner
1973 - Present (51 years)
Andrew Gardner is an archaeologist working in the areas of Roman archaeology and archaeological theory. Education Gardner studied for a BA and MA in Archaeology at UCL. He completed a PhD in 2001 at the UCL Institute of Archaeology.
Go to Profile#1999
Joshua Pollard
1968 - Present (56 years)
C. Joshua Pollard is a British archaeologist who is a professor of archaeology at the University of Southampton. He gained his BA and PhD in archaeology from the Cardiff University, and is a specialist in the archaeology of the Neolithic period in the UK and north-west Europe, especially in relation to the study of depositional practices, monumentality, and landscape. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Go to Profile#2000
Sylvia Hallam
1927 - 2019 (92 years)
Sylvia Hallam, FAHA was an English-born archaeologist who spent most of her academic career in Australia at the University of Western Australia. She is best known as author of Fire and Hearth and as an advocate for the protection of Aboriginal art, particularly at Murujuga in Western Australia.
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