Lewis Binford
I'm going to write about Lewis Binford, who was born in 1930 and died in 2011. He was a american archaeologist known that established The New Archaeology also called Processual Archaeology (movement arose in the '60). He contributed in other fields of study like the etnology and the antropology, because he considered that were neccesary for understanding of the past. Additionally he used the natural sciences for archaeological investigations.
He studied the alive populations and your materials cultures for to have a complete vision from the archaeological records. He decided to start etnografic fieldworks with the Niunamiut in Alaska (eskimos) for understand the Paleolithic lithic industry developed in Europe.
Binford is my favorite archaeology because he generated multidisciplinary studies that included to the antropology, etnology, experimental archaeology, and others. Also he produced correlations between behaviour and material culture for understanding the past societies.