Editing List of archaeologists (section)

==B==
*[[Churchill Babington]] (1821–1889) English; classical archaeology
*[[Leila Badre]] (born 1943) Lebanese
*[[Paul Bahn]] (born 1953) English; prehistoric art (rock art), Easter Island
*[[Geoff Bailey]] (born 19??) English; paleo-economy, shell middens, coastal archaeology, Greece
*[[Senake Bandaranayake]] (1938–2015) Sri Lankan; South Asia
*[[Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier]] (1840–1914) American; American South-West, Mexico
*[[Ranuccio Bianchi Bandinelli]] (1900–1975) Italian; Etruscans & art
*[[Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay]] (1885–1930) Indian; Mohenjo-daro, Harappa culture
*[[Edward B. Banning]] (born 1955) Canadian; Near Eastern archaeology, archaeological survey
*[[Luisa Banti]] (1894–1978) Italian; Etruscology
*[[Taha Baqir]] (1912–1984) Iraqi; deciphered Sumero-Akkadian mathematical tablets, Akkadian law code discoveries, Babylonia, Sumerian sites
*[[Pessah Bar-Adon]] (1907–1985) Israeli; Israel ([[Bet Shearim]], [[Tel Bet Yerah]], [[Nahal Mishmar hoard]])
*[[Ofer Bar-Yosef]] (1937–2020) Israeli; Palaeolithic, Neolithic
*[[Gabriel Barkay]] (born 1944) Israeli; Israel (Jerusalem, burials, art, epigraphy, Iron Age glyptics, Ketef Hinnom)
*[[Graeme Barker]] (born 1946) British; Italian Bronze Age, Roman Libya, landscape archaeology
*[[Philip A. Barker|Philip Barker]] (1920–2001) British; excavation methods, historic England
*[[John C. Barrett]] (1949–2024) British; archaeological theory, European prehistory
*[[Alessandro Barsanti]] (1858–1917) Italian; Egypt (Zawyet El Aryan) 
*[[Diane Barwick]] (1938–1986) Australian; Aboriginal culture and society<ref>"Mapping the Past: An Atlas of Victorian Clans 1835–1904", Part 1, ''Aboriginal History'' 1984, 8(2):100–131</ref>
*[[George Bass (archaeologist)|George Bass]] (1932–2021) American; underwater archaeology
*[[Thomas Bateman (antiquary)|Thomas Bateman]] (1821–1861) English; England (Derbyshire)
*[[Leopoldo Batres]] (1852–1926) Mexican; Meso-America (Teotihuacan, Monte Albán, Mitla La Quemada, Xochicalco)
*[[Bayar Dovdoi]] (1946–2010) Mongolian; Mongolia
*[[Mary Beaudry]] (1950–2020) American; eastern U.S., Scotland, Caribbean, gastronomy
*[[Sergei Beletzkiy]] (1953–2022) Russian; Medieval Russia
*[[Anna Belfer-Cohen]] (born 1949) Israeli; Upper Palaeolithic and Epipalaeolithic Levant
*[[Gertrude Bell]] (1868–1926) English; adventurer and Middle Eastern archaeologist, formed the Baghdad Archaeological Museum (now Iraqi Museum)
*[[Harry Charles Purvis Bell]] (1851–1937) British; first Commissioner of Archaeology in Ceylon
*[[Peter Bellwood]] (born 1943) Australian; Southeast Asia and the Pacific; origins of agriculture and resulting cultural, linguistic and biological developments (worldwide)| interdisciplinary connections between archaeology, linguistics and human biology<ref name=PeterBellwoodANU>[http://archanth.anu.edu.au/staff/professor-peter-bellwood Professor Peter Bellwood] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140214144751/http://archanth.anu.edu.au/staff/professor-peter-bellwood |date=2014-02-14 }}, School of Archaeology and [[Anthropology]] of the Australian National University.</ref>
*[[Giovanni Battista Belzoni]] (1778–1823) Italian/Venetian; Egypt
*[[Erez Ben-Yosef]] (born 19??) Israeli; archaeometallurgy
*[[Norbert Benecke]] (born 1954) German; zooarchaeology
*[[Crystal Bennett]] (1918–1987) British; Jordan
*[[James Theodore Bent]] (1852–1897) British; eastern Mediterranean, Africa, Arabia. 
*[[Dumitru Berciu]] (1907–1998) Romanian; South-Eastern and Central Europe, [[Geto-Dacians]], [[Thracians]], [[Celts]]
*[[Sofia Berezanska]] (1924–2024) Ukrainian; Bronze Age
*[[Lee R. Berger|Lee Berger]] (born 1965) U.S.; paleo-anthropology

*[[Folke Bergman]] (1902–1946) Swedish;  [[Xiaohe Tomb complex]] in China

*[[Andrea Berlin]] (born 19??)  U.S.;  Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman East; ceramics
*[[Gerhard Bersu]] (1889–1964) German; Europe (England etc.)
*[[Charles Ernest Beule]] (1826–1874) French; Greece
*[[Paolo Biagi]] (born 1948) Italian; Eurasian Mesolithic and Neolithic, Pakistan prehistory
*[[Geoffrey Bibby]] (1917–2001) British; Arabia
*[[Penny Bickle]] (born 19??) British; bioarchaeology, Neolithic
*[[Clarence Bicknell]] (1842–1918) British; cataloged petroglyphs at [[Vallée des Merveilles]], France
*[[Martin Biddle]] (born 1937) British; medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain
*[[Manfred Bietak]] (born 1940) Austrian; Egypt
*[[Fereidoun Biglari]] (born 1970) Iranian Kurdish; Paleolithic
*[[Lewis Binford]] (1930–2011) American; U.S., France, theory
*[[Hiram Bingham III|Hiram Bingham]] (1875–1956) U.S.; discovered Machu Picchu
*[[Flavio Biondo]] (1392–1463) Italian; Rome
*[[Avraham Biran]] (1909–2008) Israeli; Near East (Israel (Tel Dan))
*[[Caroline Bird (archaeologist)|Caroline Bird]] (born 19??) Australia; heritage and indigenous studies research
*[[Judy Birmingham]] (born 1932) Australian; historical archaeology in Australia,<ref>Australian Pioneer Technology. Sites and Relics (1979), (Birmingham et al.), Heinemann Educational Australia, {{ISBN| 0-85859-185-5}}</ref> Irrawang pottery, Tasmania
*[[Glenn Albert Black]] (1900–1964) U.S.; US Mid-West
*[[Carl Blegen]] (1888–1971) U.S.; Troy
*[[Elizabeth Blegen]] (1888–1966) U.S.; Greece, educator
*[[Frederick Jones Bliss]] (1857–1939) U.S.; Palestine
*[[John Boardman (art historian)|John Boardman]] (1927–2024) British; Classical archaeology, especially Greek architecture
*[[Jean Boisselier]] (1912–1996) French; Khmer, Southeast Asia
*[[Nicole Boivin]] (born 19??) Canadian; migration out of Africa, long-distance maritime trade
*[[Larissa Bonfante]] (1931–2019) U.S.; Etruscans
*[[Giacomo Boni (archaeologist)|Giacomo Boni]] (1859–1925) Italian; Roman architecture
* [[Ludwig Borchardt]] (1863–1938) German; Egypt ([[Amarna]])
*[[François Bordes]] (1919–1981) French; paleolithic, typology, knapping
*[[Barbara Borg]] (born 1960) German; Classical archaeology
*[[Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes]] (1788–1868) French; France
*[[Stephen Bourke]] (born 19??) Australian;<ref name=CBRL>{{cite web| publisher=British Institute Amman | title=Honorary Fellows | url=http://www.bi-amman.org.uk/honorary.html | access-date=2010-02-03 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100227042027/http://www.bi-amman.org.uk/honorary.html | archive-date=27 February 2010 }}</ref> [[Pella, Jordan|Pella]]
*[[Jole Bovio Marconi]] (1897–1986) Italian; Neolithic Sicily
*[[Sandra Bowdler]] (born 1947) Australian; Australian Indigenous archaeology, pre-neolithic East and Southeast Asia
*[[Harriet Boyd Hawes]] (1871–1945) American; Greece and Crete; Minoan 
*[[Richard Bradley (archaeologist)|Richard Bradley]] (born 1946) British; prehistoric Europe (especially Britain)
*[[Linda Braidwood|Linda Schreiber Braidwood]] (1909–2003) U.S.; Near East
*[[Robert John Braidwood]] (1907–2003) U.S.; Turkey

*[[Iosif Benyaminovich Brashinsky]] (1928–1982) U.S.S.R.; Scythians <ref>Виноградов, Ю. А.  (2018) "ПАМЯТИ И. Б. БРАШИНСКОГО. К 90-летию СО ДНЯ РОЖДЕНИЯ" [ To the memory of I. B. Brashinsky.
On the occasion of the 90th birth anniversary ], ''TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE FOR THE HISTORY OF MATERIAL CULTURE'' Nо. 18, pp. 175-181. DOI: 10.31600/2310-6557-2018-18-175-181 </ref>

*[[Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg]] (1814–1874) French; Meso-America
*[[James Henry Breasted]] (1865–1935) U.S.; Egypt
*[[Adela Breton]] (1849–1923) British; Mexico
*[[Eric Breuer]] (born 1968) Swiss; Roman/Medieval chronology
*[[Jacques Breuer]] (1956–2024) Belgian; Roman and Merovingian Belgium
*[[Henri Breuil]] (1877–1961) French; cave art
*[[Robert Brier]] (born 1943) U.S.; Egypt paleopathology
*[[Patrick M.M.A. Bringmans]] (born 1970) Belgian; Palaeolithic Archaeology and Paleoanthropology
*[[Srečko Brodar]] (1893–1987) Slovene; Upper Paleolithic
*[[Mary Brodrick]] (c. 1858–1933) English; Egyptology
*[[Alison S. Brooks]] (born 19??) American; Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa
*[[Myrtle Florence Broome]] (c. 1888–1978) English; Egyptology, illustrator
*[[Don Brothwell]] (1933–2016) British; paleopathology
*[[Frank Edward Brown]] (1908–1988) American; Mediterranean  
*[[Elizabeth Brumfiel]] (1945–2012) U.S.; Mesoamerica
*[[Caitlin E. Buck]] (born 1964) British; statistics, radiocarbon dating
*[[Hallie Buckley]] (born 19??) New Zealand; bioarchaeology
*[[Susan Bulmer|Sue Bulmer]] (1933–2016) American; New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
* [[James Burgess (archaeologist)|James Burgess]] (1832–1916) Scottish; 19th-century India<ref>{{cite news |last1=Apte |first1=Pradeep |title='त्यांची' भारतविद्या : सर्वसमावेशक 'अँटिक्वेरी'… |url=https://www.loksatta.com/vishesh-news/head-of-the-department-of-archeology-the-indian-antiquary-benevolent-institution-akp-94-2464160/ |access-date=15 May 2021 |work=[[Loksatta]] |date=7 May 2021 |location=[[Pune]] |language=mr-IN}}</ref>
*[[Heather Burke]] (born 1966) Australian; historical archaeology, field methods<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=305&book=9781865088624 |title=The Archaeologist's Field Handbook<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2019-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141213073750/http://www.allenandunwin.com/default.aspx?page=305&book=9781865088624 |archive-date=2014-12-13 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[Aubrey Burl]] (1926–2020) British; British megalithic monuments
*[[Les Bursill]] (1945–2019) Australian; [[Dharawal]] people, Sutherland Shire, Illawarra<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.lesbursill.com/ |title=The Archaeology of The Dharawal People of NSW |last=Bursill |first=Les |date=8 January 2007 |website=lesbursill.com |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726195652/http://www.lesbursill.com/|archive-date=26 July 2018 |url-status=usurped |access-date=8 April 2019}}</ref>
*[[Karl Butzer]] (1934–2016) U.S.; environmental archaeology
*[[Ernst Boetticher]] (1842–1930): Prussian amateur archaeologist