Editing List of archaeologists (section)

==L==
*[[Robert Laffineur]] (born ca. 1946) Belgian; Mycenaeanologist
*[[B. B. Lal (archaeologist)|B. B. Lal]] (1921–2022) Indian; India
*[[Peter Lampe]] (born 1954) German; ancient Phrygia 
*[[Dorothy Lamb]] (1887–1967) British; classical archaeology
*[[Luigi Lanzi]] (1732–1810) Italian; Etruscans
*[[Nancy Lapp]] (born 1930) American; Near Eastern archaeology, biblical archaeology
*[[Pierre Henri Larcher]] (1726–1812) French; classical archaeology
*[[Donald Lathrap]] (1927–1990) American; South America, U.S. Mid-West
*[[Jean-Philippe Lauer]] (1902–2001) French; Egypt
*[[Bo Lawergren]] (born 19??) American?;  music archaeology; Mesopotamia
*[[T. E. Lawrence]] (1888–1935) British; adventurer, Middle East
*Sir [[Austen Henry Layard]] (1817–1894) British; Middle East (Kuyunjik and Nimrud)
*[[Estelle Lazer]]<ref name="ABC">{{cite web| url=http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/11/05/2734252.htm| title=Dr Estelle Lazer| date=2009-11-05| publisher=ABC Brisbane| access-date=23 March 2010| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100310053444/http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2009/11/05/2734252.htm| archive-date=10 March 2010| url-status=live}}</ref> (born 19??) Australian; human [[skeleton|skeletal remains]] discovered at [[Pompeii]]<ref name="ABC"/>
*[[Foss Leach]] (born 1942) New Zealand; New Zealand
*[[Louis Leakey]] (1903–1972) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
*[[Mary Leakey]] (1913–1996) British; archaeologist and paleoanthropologist, Africa
*[[Richard Leakey]] (1944–2022) Kenyan; paleoanthropology, Africa
*[[Edward Thurlow Leeds]] (1877–1955) British; Keeper of the [[Ashmolean Museum]] 1928{{ndash}}1945
*[[Anthony J. Legge]] (1939–2013) British; archaeozoology<ref>{{Cite book |last1=ROWLEY-CONWY |first1=PETER |last2=SERJEANTSON |first2=DALE |last3=HALSTEAD |first3=PAUL |title=Economic Zooarchaeology: Studies in Hunting, Herding and Early Agriculture |url=https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctt1s4751q.5 |website=Jstor|doi=10.2307/j.ctt1s4751q.5 }}</ref>
*[[Delphine Philippe-Lemaître]] (1798–1863) French historian, archaeologist, botanist
*[[Pirkko-Liisa Lehtosalo-Hilander]] (born 1934) Finnish; Iron Age
*[[Charles Lenormant]] (1802–1859) French; Egypt, Greece, Middle East
*[[François Lenormant]] (1837–1883) French; Assyriologist
*[[Mark P. Leone]] (1940–2024) American; theory, historical archaeology
*[[Dana Lepofsky]] (born 1958) Canadian; paleoethnobotany, Northwest Coast
*[[André Leroi-Gourhan]] (1911–1986) French; theory, art, Paleolithic
*[[Jean Antoine Letronne]] (1787–1848) French; Greece, Rome, Egypt
*[[Gerson Levi-Lazzaris]] (born 1979) Brazilian; ethnoarchaeology
*[[Carenza Lewis]] (born 1963) British; popularizer; Medieval Britain
*[[Jodie Lewis]] (born 19??) British; prehistoric archaeology
*[[Madeline Kneberg Lewis]] (1901–1996) American; typologist, Illustrator
*[[Mary Lewis (archaeologist)|Mary Lewis]] (born 19??) British; bioarchaeologist
*[[David Lewis-Williams]] (born 1934) South African; cognitive archaeology, Upper-Palaeolithic and Bushmen rock art
*[[Edward Lhuyd]] (1660–1709) Welsh; Britain
*[[Li Feng (sinologist)|Li Feng]] (born 1962)  Chinese/American; early China [[Yinxu]] and [[Yangshao culture]]
*[[Li Ji (archeologist)|Li Ji]] (1896–1979) Chinese; China 
*[[Li Xueqin]] (1933–2019) Chinese; early China
*[[Mary Aiken Littauer]] (1912–2005) American; horses in pre-history
*[[Li Liu (archaeologist)|Li Liu]] (born 1953) Chinese/American; neolithic and Bronze Age China, "the father of Chinese archaeology"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1009254/the-hole-at-the-heart-of-chinese-archaeology|title = The Hole at the Heart of Chinese Archaeology|date = 30 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[Gary Lock]] (born 1948) British; computational archaeology, European prehistory
*[[Georg Loeschcke]] (1852–1915) German; Mycenaean pottery
*[[Helen Loney]] (born 19??) British? prehistoric archaeology and pottery studies
*[[Samuel Kirkland Lothrop]] (1892–1965) American; Central and South America and the Caribbean
*[[Victor Loret]] (1859–1946) French; Egypt and Southern Africa
*[[William A. Longacre]] (1937–2015) American; southwestern USA, "New Archaeology<ref>In Memoriam: William A. Longacre | UA@Work (arizona.edu)<</ref><ref>William Longacre Obituary (2016) - Tucson, AZ - Arizona Daily Star (legacy.com)</ref>
*[[Harry Lourandos]] (born 1945) Australian; hunter-gatherer intensification
*Sir [[John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury|John Lubbock]] (1834–1913) English; terminology, evolution, generalist
*[[Adam Łukaszewicz]] (born 1950) Polish; Roman period in Egypt, papyrologist
*Rev. [[William Collings Lukis]] (1817–1892) British; megaliths of Great Britain and France
*[[Cajsa S. Lund]] ([[:sv:Cajsa S. Lund|sv]]) (born 1940) Swedish; music archaeology <ref>Kolltveit, Gjermund and Riitta Rainio. 2020. ''The Archaeology of Sound, Acoustics & Music: Studies in Honour of Cajsa S. Lund'', Publications of the ICTM Study Group on Music Archaeology, Vol. 3. Ekho: Berlin.</ref>
*[[Frances Lynch]] (born 19??) Welsh; Wales
*[[Albert Lythgoe]] (1868–1934) American; Egyptologist and a curator at the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Bierbrier|first=Morris L|title=Who Was Who in Egyptology, 4th edition|page=244|publisher=Egypt Exploration Society, London |year=2012 |isbn=978-0856982071}}</ref>