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William Flinders Petrie is another man who may legitimately be called the Father of Archaeology. Petrie was the first to scientifically investigate the Great Pyramid in Egypt during the 1880s.

Archaeology is a field that has had many influential figures over the years, so it is difficult to single out just one archaeologist as the most famous. However, one archaeologist who is widely recognized for his contributions to the field is Howard Carter.

Dorothy Garrod | 1893-1968 No discussion of female archaeologists is complete without the mention of Dorothy Garrod. Garrod was the first archaeologist ever to identify the Middle Stone age, or Mesolithic era that encompassed about 99% of the history of mankind.

Braj Basi Lal, better known as BB Lal was born in 1921, in Jhansi in the United Provinces in British India, and is one of independent Indias most prolific archaeologists. He trained under legendary archaeologist Mortimer Wheeler in 1950-52, on sites like Taxila, Harappa and Sisupalgarh.

The Register of Professional Archaeologists (RPA) is a professional organization of (primarily North American) archaeologists headquartered in Baltimore, MD. Members of the RPA agree to follow a standard code of research ethics and conduct and must be formally approved for membership by a panel of elected colleagues.

There are three main branches of study: prehistoric archaeology (cultures that do not have writing); protohistoric archaeology (cultures that have incomplete records); and historic archaeology (cultures that have well-developed historical records). As such, these branches of archaeology value different types of data.

Howard Carter (9 May 1874 2 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who became world-famous after discovering the intact tomb (designated KV62) of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh, Tutankhamun (colloquially known as King Tut and the boy king), in November 1922.

Tools found in a typical archaeological toolbox include dental picks, trowels, brushes, measuring tapes, line levels, storage bags, pens, and pencils. conjunction with a tape measure that allows for more precise measurements to be taken on an archaeological site.