Archaeology 1A - People

Images of key figures in the field of archaeology

Mary Helen Schmidt, aerial photography of sites

Sir Mortimer Wheeler, box grid excavation method, brought archaeology to the public

Christian Thomsen, three age system

W.F. Libby, radiocarbon dating

Charles Darwin, on the Origin of Species, evolution

Pitt Rivers, father of fieldwork, full recording of sites

Heinrich Schliemann, blew up Troy

Sophia Schliemann wearing the jewels of Helen of Troy

Jacquetta Hawkes, research on neanderthals

Vere Gordon Childe, anti-facist marxist political ideas, collection of more than 5,000 artefacts, oasis hypothesis

Kathleen Kenyon, box grid method of excavating, Jericho and Jerusalem

Honor Frost, documentation of marine heritage

Gustaf Kossinna, settlement archaeology, cultural evolution

Christopher Hawkes, ladder of inference, ranking the inferences that can be made in archaeology by the ease in which they can be made

Lewis Binford, middle range theory, pattern recognition in the archaeological record, links human behavior and natural processes

Ian Hodder, excavations at Catalhoyuk, each excavator records their own interpretations, encourages reflexivity

Carl Linnaeus, binomial nomenclature

Antoine Poidebard, aerial photography, finding underwater sites, push the study of maritime archaeology into the middle east

Jacques Cousteau, invents new diving equipment and methods, first underwater excavation

Emile Gagnan, invents new diving equipment and methods

Flinders Petrie, sequence dating to create relative chronology, pottery style can be distinctive of time period

Robert Braidwood, hilly flanks hypothesis, advances in human knowledge and technology with favorable ecological conditions led to domestication

Andrew Sherratt, secondary products revolution