List of Archaeologists - B

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• Churchill Babington (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology
• Paul Bahn (born 19?? ) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island
• Geoff Bailey (born 19?? ) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
• Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (1840–1914) American; American South-West
• Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay (1885-1930) Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture
• Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli (1900–1975) Italian; Estruscans & art
• Pessah Bar-Adon (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel (Bet Shearim, Tel Bet Yerah, Nahal Mishmar hoard)
• Gabriel Barkay (born 1944) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy,glyptics in the Iron Age, Ketef Hinnom)
• Philip Barker (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England
• Ofer Bar-Yosef (born 1937) Israeli; Palaeolithic and Neolithic sites
• Thomas Bateman (1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire)
• Leopoldo Batres (1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco)
• Bayar Dovdoi (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia
• Mark Beech (born 1963) English; Arabia
• Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian /?Dutch; Egypt
• Taha Baqir (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
• Lee Berger (born 1965) American; paleo-anthropology
• Gerhard Bersu (1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.)
• Charles Ernest Beule (1826–1874) French; Greece
• Clarence Bicknell (1842–1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at Vallée des Merveilles, France
• Martin Biddle (born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain.
• Fereidoun Biglari (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
• Lewis Binford (1930–2011) American; theory
• Hiram Bingham (1875–1956) American; discovered Machu Picchu
• Flavio Biondo (1392–1463) Italian; Rome
• Avraham Biran (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan))
• Glenn Albert Black (1900–1964) American; US Mid-West
• Carl Blegen (1887–1971) American; Troy
• Frederick Jones Bliss (1857–1939) American; Palestine
• Giacomo Boni (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture
• François Bordes (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
• Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788–1868) French; France
• Richard Bradley (born 1946) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain)
• Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg (1814–1874) French; Meso-America
• James Henry Breasted (1865–1935) American; Egypt
• Eric Breuer (born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
• Jacques Breuer (born ????) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
• Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology & Paleoanthropology
• Don Brothwell (born ????) British; paleopathology
• Elizabeth Brumfiel (born ????) American; Mesoamerica
• Aubrey Burl (born 1926) British?; British megalithic monuments
• Karl Butzer (born 1934) American; environmental archaeology