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== V == Laima Vaitkunskienė (born 1936) Lithuanian; Medieval Lithuania Heiki Valk (born 1959) Estonian; Medieval Estonia Ron Vanderwal (1938–2021), Australian; Torres Strait, New Guinea Parviz Varjavand (1934–2007) Iranian; ancient Iran (Persia) Peter van Dommelen (born 1966), Dutch; Western Mediterranean and Phoenician-Punic archaeology William Jones Varley (1904–1976) British; English Iron Age hill forts Miloje Vasić (1869–1956) Serbian; Neolithic archaeological culture: Vinča culture Roland de Vaux (1903–1971) French; Biblical archaeology: Dead-Sea Scrolls Marius Vazeilles (1881–1973) French; Gallo-Roman archaeology, Merovingian archaeology Bruce Veitch (1957–2005) Australian; Mitchell Plateau and Pilbara Western Australia; Bruce Veitch Award Alan Vince (1952–2009) British; British ceramics Zdenko Vinski (1913–1996) Croatian; Croatia Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902) German; Pomeranian hill-forts Dominique Vivant Denon (1747–1827) French; Egyptian art Ida von Boxberg (1806–1893), German archaeologist Alexandru Vulpe (1931–2016) Romanian; Hallstatt

== W == Alan Wace (1879–1957) English; Greece (especially Mycenae Marc Waelkens (1948–2021) Belgian; Turkish archaeology Tony Waldron (died 2021) British; palaeopathologist and palaeoepidemiologist Alice Leslie Walker (1885–1954) American, classical archaeologist Andrew Frederic Wallace-Hadrill (born 1951) British, classical archaeologist (Pompeii) Lynley A. Wallis (born 19??) Australian; Indigenous and historical archaeology Wang Tao (archaeologist) (born 1962) Chinese-British; Chinese archaeology Wang Zhongshu (1925–2015) Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology Graeme K. Ward (born 1943) Australian; Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art John Bryan Ward-Perkins (1912–1981) British; architectural history Charles Warren (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist Helen Waterhouse (1913–1999) British; classical archaeology Michael R. Waters (born 19??) American; geoarchaeology, early Americans William Thompson Watkin (1836–1888), British; Roman Britain Trevor Watkins (born 19??) British; Near Eastern archaeology Patty Jo Watson (1932–2024) American; North American archaeology Clarence H. Webb (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory Robert Wauchope (1909–1979) American; Maya, south-eastern U.S. Karl Jakob Weber (1712–1764) Swiss; Pompeii Mildred Mott Wedel (1912–1995) American; Great Plains prehistory Waldo Wedel (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory Josef W. Wegner (born 1967) American; Egyptology Elizabeth Weiss (born 19??) American; skeletal analysis, archaeological ethics Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece Fred Wendorf (1924–2015) American; archaeology and cultural development of arid environments David Wengrow (born 1972) English; comparative archaeology 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) Tessa Verney Wheeler (1893–1936) British; method, British archaeology, co-founder of Institute of Archaeology Joyce White (born 19??) American; prehistoric Southeast Asia Theodore E. White (1905–1977) American; archaeozoology Elizabeth Augustus Whitehead (1928–1983) American; classical archaeology John C. Whittaker (born 1953) American; experimental archaeology, Palaeolithic Alasdair Whittle (born 1949) British; European Neolithic Caroline Wickham-Jones (1955–2022) British; Orkney, mesolithic, submerged sites Theodor Wiegand (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography Malcolm H. Wiener (born 1935) American; Aegeanist, Prehistorian, President of INSTAP Louise van Wijngaarden-Bakker (1940–2021) Dutch; archaeozoology Gordon Willey (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory Audrey Williams (1902-1978) Stephen Williams (1926–2017) American; North America Hugh Willmott (born 1972) British; Middle Ages and monastic archaeology Daniel Wilson (1816–1892) Scottish; Scotland, theory Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world Christopher Witmore (born 1974) American; Archaeological theory, landscape archaeology, object-oriented approaches Bryant G. Wood (born 1936) American; Palestine Peter Woodman (1943–2017), Irish; Irish Mesolithic Leonard Woolley (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia Hannah Wormington (1914–1994) American; American Southwest and Paleo-Indians Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system George Roy Haslam (Mick) Wright (1924–2014) Australian; Middle East Wolfgang W. Wurster (1937–2003) German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador Alison Wylie (born 1954) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology John Wymer (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic

== X == Xia Nai (1910–1985) Chinese; China Xu Xusheng (1888–1976) Chinese; discoverer of the Erlitou culture

== Y == Yigael Yadin (1917–1984) Israeli; Masada, Hazor Yang Jianhua (born 1955) Chinese; Mesopotamia, eastern Eurasia Yusra (20th century) Palestinian; Tabun, Neanderthals

== Z == Inger Zachrisson (born 1936); Swedish; Sami people since the Iron Age Louise Zarmati (born 1958) Australian; Archaeology in schools; women in archaeology; Australia, Crete, Cyprus Melinda A. Zeder (born ca. 1952) American; zooarchaeology Robert N. Zeitlin (born 1935) American; Mesoamerica (Zapotec), ancient political economies Zhao Kangmin (1936–2018) Chinese; discoverer of the Terracotta Army Zheng Zhenduo (1898–1958) Chinese; China Zheng Zhenxiang (1929–2024) Chinese; discoverer of the Tomb of Fu Hao Irit Ziffer (born 1954) Israeli; symbols in ancient art Andreas Zimmermann (born 1951) German; Neolithic (LBK) Ezra B. W. Zubrow (born 1945) American; theory, GIS, demography, ecology, Circumpolar R. Tom Zuidema (1927–2016) Dutch; Incas Vladas Žulkus (born 1945) Lithuanian; Lithuania (Klaipėda, underwater archaeology) Marek Zvelebil (1952–2011) Czech; European Stone Age

== See also == List of Russian archaeologists

== External links == ABC GNT History, Australian Archaeologists

== References ==