Famous prehistorians
archaeologist who is engaged in prehistory
101 people
Rudolf Virchow
1821
– 1902
· Age 80
Deceased
Marija Gimbutas
1921
– 1994
· Age 73
Deceased
Louis Leakey
1903
– 1972
· Age 69
Deceased
Vere Gordon Childe
1892
– 1957
· Age 65
Deceased
Mary Leakey
1913
– 1996
· Age 83
Deceased
John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury
1834
– 1913
· Age 79
Deceased
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
1788
– 1865
· Age 76
Deceased
Oscar Montelius
1843
– 1921
· Age 78
Deceased
Colin Renfrew
1937
– 2024
· Age 87
Deceased
Raymond Dart
1893
– 1988
· Age 95
Deceased
Dorothy Garrod
1892
– 1968
· Age 76
Deceased
Mortimer Wheeler
1890
– 1976
· Age 85
Deceased
Henri Breuil
1877
– 1961
· Age 84
Deceased
Mikhail Mikhaylovich Gerasimov
1907
– 1970
· Age 62
Deceased
Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet
1821
– 1898
· Age 77
Deceased
Ole Worm
1588
– 1654
· Age 66
Deceased
William Stukeley
1687
– 1765
· Age 77
Deceased
Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes
1788
– 1868
· Age 79
Deceased
Donald Johanson
1943
· Age 82
Alive
André Leroi-Gourhan
1911
– 1986
· Age 74
Deceased
L
Lewis Binford
1931
– 2011
· Age 79
Deceased
Gustaf Kossinna
1858
– 1931
· Age 73
Deceased
Ian Hodder
1948
· Age 77
Alive
Édouard Lartet
1801
– 1871
· Age 69
Deceased
Anne Stine Ingstad
1918
– 1997
· Age 79
Deceased
Source: Wikidata Q17488316