Editing List of archaeologists (section)

==M==

*[[Ma Chengyuan]] (1927–2004) Chinese; authority on [[ancient Chinese bronzes]]
*[[Robert Alexander Stewart Macalister]] (1870–1950) Irish; Palestine, Celtic archaeology
*[[Burton MacDonald]] (1939–c. 2022) Canadian; biblical archaeology
*[[Eve MacDonald]] (born 19??) Canadian; classical archaeologist
*[[John MacEnery]] (1797–1841) Irish; Paleolithic
*[[Richard MacNeish]] (1918–2001) American; Canada, Iroquois (U.S./Canada), Meso-America, discovered origins of maize
*[[Aren Maeir]] (born 1958) Israeli; Ancient Levant, Israel, Philistines
*[[Mai Yinghao]] (1929–2016) Chinese; archaeology of the [[Nanyue]] kingdom in [[Guangzhou]]
*[[Yousef Majidzadeh]] (born 1938) Iranian; Jiroft culture (Iran)
*[[Sadegh Malek Shahmirzadi]] (1940–2020) Iranian; ancient Persia (Iran)
*[[Alexis Mallon]] (1875–1934) French; Levantine prehistory
*[[James Patrick Mallory]] (born 1945) Irish-American; Indo-European origins, proto-Celtic culture
*[[Max Mallowan]] (1904–1978) British; Middle East
*[[John Manley (archaeologist)|John Manley]] (born 1952) British; Roman Britain
*[[Joyce Marcus]] (born 19??) American; Latin America
*[[Auguste-Édouard Mariette]] (1821–1881) French; Egypt
*[[Spyridon Marinatos]] (1901–1974) Greek; Greece, Mycenaeans
*[[Alexander Marshack]] (1918–2004) American; Paleolithic era
*[[Fiona Marshall]] (born 19??) American;zooarchaeology and ethnoarchaeology
*James A. Marshall (died 2006) American; eastern North American earthworks<ref>"The James A. Marshall Collection" 2009. ''Echoes'' 48(4):2. [http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/echoes/im/09e.pdf ''Echoes''] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140408225042/http://ww2.ohiohistory.org/echoes/im/09e.pdf |date=2014-04-08}}</ref>
*[[John Marshall (archaeologist)|John Hubert Marshall]] (1876–1958) British; Indus Valley Civilization, Taxila, Crete
*[[Pamela Marshall (archaeologist)|Pamela Marshall]] (born 19??) British? buildings archaeologist and castellologist
*[[Marjan Mashkour]] (born 19??) Iranian; zooarchaeology of Europe and Middle East
*[[J. Alden Mason]] (1885–1967) American; New World archaeology
*[[Ronald J. Mason]] (1929–2023) Upper Great Lakes<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mason-ronald-j-1929 |title=Mason, Ronald J. 1929- &#124; Encyclopedia.com |access-date=2019-07-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190708154524/https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mason-ronald-j-1929 |archive-date=2019-07-08 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Gaston Maspero]] (1846–1916) French; Egypt
*[[Therkel Mathiassen]] (1892–1967) Danish; Arctic region
*[[Peter Mathews (archaeologist)|Peter Mathews]] (born 1951) Australian; Maya hieroglyphs 
*[[Galina Ivanovna Matveeva]] (1933–2008) Russian; Central Russia/Volga region<ref>{{Citation |last=Salugina |first=Natalia P. |title=Matveeva, Galina I. |date=2014 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1058 |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology |pages=4708–4710 |editor-last=Smith |editor-first=Claire |place=New York, NY |publisher=Springer |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_1058 |isbn=978-1-4419-0465-2 |access-date=2022-08-02}}</ref>
*[[Alfred P. Maudslay]] (1850–1931) British; Mayans
*[[Valerie Maxfield]] (born 19??) British? Roman archaeology
*[[Sally Kate May]] (born 1979) Australian; indigenous rock art
*[[Amihai Mazar]] (born 1942) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
*[[Benjamin Mazar]] (1906–1995) Israeli; Israel, Biblical archaeology
*[[Eilat Mazar]] (1956–2021) Israeli; Jerusalem, Phoenicians
*[[Gaby Mazor]] (born 1944) Israeli; Bet She'an (Israeli)
*[[August Mau]] (1840–1909) German; Pompeii
*[[Sally McBrearty]] (1949-2023) American; Palaeolithic archaeology
*[[Isabel McBryde]] (born 1934) Australian; "Mother of Australian Archaeology," axe sourcing studies<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0651b.htm |title=The Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia |access-date=2019-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180411190437/http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0651b.htm |archive-date=2018-04-11 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Charles McBurney (archaeologist)|Charles McBurney]] (1914–1979) British; Britain (Upper Paleolithic), Libya, Iran, cave art
* [[Anna Marguerite McCann]] (1933–2017) American; Underwater Archaeology
*[[Fred McCarthy (archaeologist)|Fred McCarthy]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://australianmuseum.net.au/fred-mccarthy |title=Australia Museum, 'Fred McCarthy' |access-date=2019-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150214115242/http://australianmuseum.net.au/fred-mccarthy |archive-date=2015-02-14 |url-status=live }}</ref> (1905–1997) Australian; Australia's Aborigines<ref>[http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/docs/findingaids/MS3513.pdf Kate Kahn (1993): "Frederick David McCarthy: a bibliography". Records of the Australian Museum, Supplement 17: 1-5] {{webarchive| url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140212055916/http://www.aiatsis.gov.au/collections/docs/findingaids/MS3513.pdf |date=12 February 2014}}</ref>
*[[Aleksandra McClain]] (born 19??) medieval and church archaeology
*[[Robert McGhee (archaeologist)|Robert McGhee]] (born 1941) Canadian; Arctic
*[[Jacqueline McKinley]]  (born 19??) British; osteoarchaeology
*[[Betty Meehan]] (born 1933) Australian; [[Maningrida]], Australia
*[[Vincent Megaw]] (born 1934) Australian;<ref name="Megaw">{{Cite book |last=Megaw |first=J. V. S. |title=Art of the European Iron Age: a study of the elusive image |publisher=Adams & Dart |date=1970 |page=173}}</ref> Early Celtic Art in Britain <ref name="megaw">[https://books.google.com/books?id=HXpwRkQybekC&dq=%22witham+shield%22+museum&pg=PA59 ''Early Celtic Art in Britain''], Ruth and Vincent Megaw, p. 29, accessed 16 August 2010</ref>
*[[Betty Meggers]] (1921–2012) American; South America
*[[Chuck Meide]] (born 1971) American; maritime and underwater archaeology; discovered the shipwrecks [[La Belle (ship)|'' La Belle '']] (1686), Storm Wreck (1782), and Anniversary Wreck (ca. 1760s-1800)
*[[James Mellaart]] (1925–2012) British; discoverer of Çatalhöyük
*[[Paul Mellars]] (1939–2022) British; Neanderthals, European mesolithic
*[[Michael Mercati]] (1541–1593) Italian [born in Rome]; lithics
*[[Roger Mercer]] (1944–2018) British; Neolithic and Bronze Age British Isles
*[[Prosper Mérimée]] (1803–1870) French; French monuments
*[[Kazimierz Michałowski]] (1901–1981) Polish; Mediterranean archaeology 
*[[Jerald T. Milanich]] (born 19??) American; U.S. south-east (Florida)
*[[Walter Minchinton]] (1921–1996) British; industrial archaeology
*Sir [[Ellis Minns]] (1874–1953) British; eastern Europe
*[[Keneiloe Molopyane]] (born 1987) South African; biological archaeologist and paleoanthropologist
*[[Oscar Montelius]] (1843–1921) Swedish; seriation, Europe (Scandinavia)
*[[Pierre Montet]] (1885–1966) French; Lebanon, Egypt (Tanis)
*[[Harri Moora]] (1900–1968) Estonian; Iron Age Baltics <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Harri+Moora |title=Harri Moora |access-date=2019-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729200145/http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Harri+Moora |archive-date=2013-07-29 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Andrew M.T. Moore]] (born 19??) English; neolithic, Middle East
*[[Clarence Bloomfield Moore]] (1852–1936) American; southern United States
*[[Warren K. Moorehead]] (1866–1939) American; prehistoric eastern United States
*[[Robert Morkot]] (born 1957) British? Egyptology
*[[Sylvanus G. Morley]] (1883–1948) American; Mesoamerica, especially Maya
*[[Ann Axtell Morris]] (1900–1945) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico
*[[Earl H. Morris]] (1889–1956) American; southwestern U.S. and Mexico
*[[Dan Morse (archaeologist)|Dan Morse]] (1935–2024) American; Central [[Mississippi River|Mississippi Valley]]
*[[Kate Morse]] (1958–2023) Australian; [[Western Australia]] [[Pleistocene]]
*[[Phyllis Morse]] (Anderson) (born 1934) American; Central Mississippi Valley
*[[John Robert Mortimer]] (1825–1911) English; England (barrows)
*[[Mike Morwood]] (1950–2013) Australian; [[Homo floresiensis]]
*[[Sabatino Moscati]] (1922–1997) Italian; Phoenicians
*[[Amini Aza Mturi]] Tanzanian; Palaeolithic archaeology
*[[Keith Muckelroy]] (1951–1980) British?; maritime archaeology
*[[Suʻād Māhir Muḥammad]] (1917–1996) Egyptian; Egypt 
*[[David Mullin]] (born 19??) prehistoric archaeology
*[[William Mulloy]] (1917–1978) American; Polynesia
*[[John Mulvaney]] (1925–2016) Australian; "Father of Australian archaeology"
*Ken Mulvaney (born 19??) Australian;<ref>[http://australianarchaeology.com/the-bruce-veitch-award/ken-mulvaney-bv/ Bruce Veitch Award for Excellence in Indigenous Engagement Australian Archaeology Association] {{webarchive| url=https://archive.today/20141206225616/http://australianarchaeology.com/the-bruce-veitch-award/ken-mulvaney-bv/ | date=6 December 2014}}</ref> Aboriginal engagement, [[Burrup Peninsula]] rock art
*[[J. T. Munby]] (Born 1954) English; Britain
*[[Natalie Munro]] (born 19??) American; zooarchaeology
*Stephen Munro (born 19??) Australian; engraved fossil shell from Java<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://au.ibtimes.com/australian-archaeologist-dr-stephen-munro-discovers-earliest-human-engravings-discovered-400000-year |title=Australian Archaeologist Dr Stephen Munro Discovers Earliest Human Engravings Discovered on 400,000-Year-Old Fossilised Shell |access-date=2019-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402090654/http://au.ibtimes.com/australian-archaeologist-dr-stephen-munro-discovers-earliest-human-engravings-discovered-400000-year |archive-date=2015-04-02 |url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Diana Murray]] (born 1952); Scottish; Scotland
*[[Margaret Murray]] (1863–1963) Anglo-Indian; Egyptologist
*[[Tim Murray (archaeologist)|Tim Murray]] (born 1955) Australian; history of archaeology
*[[Oscar White Muscarella]] (1931–2022) American; Persia, Anatolia

*[[George E. Mylonas]] (1898–1988) Greek; Greece and Aegean