Editing List of archaeologists (section)

==W==

*[[Alan Wace]] (1879–1957) English; Greece (especially Mycenae
*[[Marc Waelkens]] (1948–2021) Belgian; Turkish archaeology
*[[Tony Waldron]] (died 2021) British; palaeopathologist and palaeoepidemiologist
*[[Alice Leslie Walker]] (1885–1954) American, classical archaeologist
*[[Lynley A. Wallis]] (born 19??) Australian; Indigenous and historical archaeology
*[[Wang Tao (archaeologist)]] (born 1962) Chinese-British; Chinese archaeology
*[[Wang Zhongshu]] (1925–2015) Chinese; Chinese and Japanese archaeology
*[[Graeme K. Ward]] (born 1943) Australian; Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia, Australia; prehistoric archaeology, research funding and administration, rock art<ref>{{Cite book| title='Ward, Graeme K' in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology edited by Claire Smith| last=McEgan| first=Janine| publisher=Springer| year=2014| isbn=978-1-4419-0465-2| location=NY, NY| pages=7686–7689}}</ref>
*[[John Bryan Ward-Perkins]] (1912–1981) British; architectural history
*[[Charles Warren]] (1840–1927) British; engineer, police commissioner and Biblical archaeologist
*[[Helen Waterhouse]] (1913–1999), British; classical archaeology
*[[William Thompson Watkin]] (1836–1888), British; Roman Britain
*[[Trevor Watkins]] (born 19??) British; Near Eastern archaeology
*[[Patty Jo Watson]] (1932–2024) American; North American archaeology
*[[Clarence Hungerford Webb|Clarence H. Webb]] (1902–1991) American; southern United States prehistory
*[[Robert Wauchope (archaeologist)|Robert Wauchope]] (1909–1979) American; Maya, south-eastern U.S.
*[[Karl Jakob Weber]] (1712–1764) Swiss; Pompeii
*[[Mildred Mott Wedel]] (1912–1995) American; Great Plains prehistory
*[[Waldo Wedel]] (1908–1996) American; Great Plains prehistory
*[[Josef W. Wegner]] (born 1967) American; Egyptology
*[[Elizabeth Weiss]] (born 19??) American; skeletal analysis, archaeological ethics
*[[Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker]] (1784–1868) German; philologist and archaeologist specializing in Greece
*[[Fred Wendorf]] (1924–2015) American; archaeology and cultural development of arid environments
*[[David Wengrow]] (born 1972) English; comparative archaeology
*[[Boyd Wettlaufer]] (1914–2009) Canadian; Father of Saskatchewan Archaeology
*[[Mortimer Wheeler]] (1890–1976) British; method, South Asia (especially the early Indus Valley), Maiden Castle (England)
*[[Tessa Wheeler|Tessa Verney Wheeler]] (1893–1936) British; method, British archaeology, co-founder of [[UCL Institute of Archaeology|Institute of Archaeology]]
*[[Joyce White]] (born 19??) American; prehistoric Southeast Asia
*[[Theodore E. White]] (1905–1977) American; archaeozoology
*[[Elizabeth Augustus Whitehead]] (1928–1983) American; classical archaeology
*[[John C. Whittaker]] (born 1953) American; experimental archaeology, Palaeolithic
*[[Alasdair Whittle]] (born 1949) British; European Neolithic
*[[Caroline Wickham-Jones]] (1955–2022) British; Orkney, mesolithic, submerged sites
*[[Theodor Wiegand]] (1864–1936) German; Pergamum, aerial photography
*[[Malcolm H. Wiener]] (born 1935) American; Aegeanist, Prehistorian, President of INSTAP
*[[Louise van Wijngaarden-Bakker]] (1940–2021) Dutch; archaeozoology<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021 |title=ICAZ NEWSLETTER |url=https://alexandriaarchive.org/icaz/icaz_website_formembers/pdf/icaz-newsletter-21-2.pdf |access-date=October 24, 2024 |website=alexandriaarchive.org |publisher=International College of Archaeozoology |pages=6–8}}</ref>
*[[Gordon Willey]] (1913–2002) American; New World, method and theory
*[[Stephen Williams (archeologist)|Stephen Williams]] (1926–2017) American; North America
*[[Hugh Willmott (archaeologist)|Hugh Willmott]] (born 1972) British; Middle Ages and monastic archaeology
*[[Daniel Wilson (academic) |Daniel Wilson]] (1816–1892) Scottish; Scotland, theory
*[[Johann Joachim Winckelmann]] (1717–1768) German; Hellenist art, Greek world
*[[Christopher Witmore]] (born 1974) American; Archaeological theory, landscape archaeology, object-oriented approaches
*[[Bryant G. Wood]] (born 1936) American; Palestine
*[[Peter Woodman]] (1943–2017), Irish; [[Irish Mesolithic]]
*[[Leonard Woolley]] (1880–1960) British; Ur in Mesopotamia
*[[Hannah Marie Wormington|Hannah Wormington]] (1914–1994) American; American Southwest and Paleo-Indians
*[[Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae]] (1821–1885) Danish; paleobotanist, archaeologist, historian and politician, first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove the Three-age system
*[[George Roy Haslam (Mick) Wright]] (1924–2014) <ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://www.academia.edu/7729346 |title=G. R. H. (Mick) Wright: A remarkable Australian archaeological architect 2003 |journal=Buried History |volume=49 |year=2013 |pages=37–52 |access-date=2019-04-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190408195452/https://www.academia.edu/7729346/G.R.H._Mick_Wright_A_remarkable_Australian_archaeological_architect |archive-date=2019-04-08 |url-status=live|last1=Davey |first1=Christopher J. |date=January 2013 |doi=10.62614/f5epng76 |doi-access=free }}</ref> Australian; Middle East
*[[Wolfgang W. Wurster]] (1937–2003) German; architectural history; Mediterranean, high cultures of Peru and Ecuador
*[[Alison Wylie]] (born 1954) Canadian; philosophy of archaeology
*[[John Wymer]] (1928–2006) British; Paleolithic