List of Archaeologists - W

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• Marc Waelkens (born 1948) Belgian?; Turkish archaeology
• John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912–1981) British; architectural history
• Charles Warren (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
• Patty Jo Watson (born 1932) American; North American archaeology
• Clarence H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory
• Waldo Wedel (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory
• Fred Wendorf (born 1925) archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
• Josef W. Wegner (born 1967) American; Egyptology
• Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
• Boyd Wettlaufer (1914–2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
• Mortimer Wheeler (1890–1976) British; method; South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England)
• Derrick P. Whitlow (born 1969) Near East archaeology
• Alasdair Whittle (born 19??) European Neolithic
• Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography
• Gordon Randolph Willey (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory
• Stephen Williams (born 19??) American; North America
• Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world
• Leonard Woolley (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia.
• Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
• Wolfgang W. Wurster (1937-2003) German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador
• Alison Wylie (born 19??) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
• John Wymer (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic