List of well-known Old Americanists
This list Altamerikanisten collected that were habilitated for this subject are relevant as authors or have made to American Archeology other significant contributions. Amateurs, autodidacts and other people who are important for ancient American studies but who cannot be regarded as scientists are at the end of a separate list.
B.
- Adolph Bandelier (Swiss, 1840-1914)
- Heinrich Berlin (German, 1915–1988)
- Janet Catherine Berlo
- Carl Gustav Bernoulli (Swiss, 1834–1878)
- Lewis Binford
- Elizabeth Hill Boone
- Theodoor de Booy (American, 1882-1919)
- Daniel Garrison Brinton (American, 1837-1899)
C.
- Alfonso Caso y Andrade (Mexican, 1896-1970)
- Michael D. Coe
- Richard Cooke (Great Britain)
- Luther Sheeleigh Cressman (American, 1897-1994)
D.
- Tom D.Dillehay (American)
G
- Jürgen Golte (German)
- James B. Griffin
- Nikolai Grube (German, * 1962)
H
- Richard D. Hansen (American)
- Klaus Helfrich
K
- Alfred Kidder (American, 1885–1963)
- Viola König (German)
- George Kubler
- Ingrid Kummels (German, born 1956)
L.
- Leonardo López Luján (Mexican, * 1964)
M.
- Sylvanus Griswold Morley (American, 1883-1948)
N
- Karoline Noack
- Zelia Nuttall (American, 1857-1933)
P
- Hanns J. Prem (German, 1941-2014)
- Konrad Theodor Preuss
- Tatiana Avenirovna Proskouriakoff (American, 1909–1985)
R.
- Christian Rätsch (German, * 1957)
- Maria Reiche (German-Peruvian, 1903-1998)
- Markus Reindel
- Johan Reinhard (US-American, * 1943)
- Egon Renner (German)
- Berthold Riese (German, * 1944)
- John Howland Rowe (American, 1910-2004)
S.
- Linda Schele
- Ursula Schlenther (German, 1919–1979)
- Laurette Séjourné (Franco-Mexican, 1914-2003)
- David Stuart (American, born 1965)
T
- Karl Taube
- Walter W. Taylor
- Ursula Thiemer-Sachse (German, * 1941)
- John Eric Sidney Thompson (British)
U
- Max Uhle (German, 1856–1944)
- Maximilian Adolph Uhlemann (German, 1856–1944)
W.
- Gordon Willey (American, 1913-2002)
- Wolfgang W. Wurster (German, 1937-2003)
Amateurs, autodidacts and amateurs
- Hiram Bingham III (American, 1875-1956)
- Frans Blom (Dane, 1893–1963)
- Frederick Catherwood (British, 1799-1856)
- Wilhelm Gustav Dießl (Austrian, 1931–2007)
- Thomas Gann (British, 1867–1938)
- Götz von Houwald (German, 1913–2001)
- Waldemar Julsrud (German, 1875–1964)
- Yuri Walentinowitsch Knorosow (Russian, 1922–1999)
- Augustus Le Plongeon (British, 1826-1908)
- Teobert Maler (German-Austrian, 1842-1917)
- John Lloyd Stephens (American, 1805-1852)
- Johann Friedrich von Waldeck (French, 1766–1875)