Winckelmann was a founder of scientific archaeology by first applying empirical categories of style on a large, systematic basis to the classical (Greek and Roman) history of art and architecture.

He played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology.

The first was the rise of scientific archaeology, and the opportunity it offered to discover a 'real' Bronze Age underneath the Homeric poems.

As we have seen, the slow development of scientific archaeology has tended to be shaped by the acceptance of the myth in a way that the writing of history has not.

Nocete, F. and Ruiz, A. (1991): "The dialectic of the Present in the Past in the construction of a scientific archaeology".

It was the first underwater archaeology operation using autonomous diving, opening the way for scientific underwater archaeology.

He is regarded as the associate of Winckelmann and Visconti in establishing scientific archaeology.

It was also Virchow, who was largely responsible for the establishment of an interdisciplinary, scientific archaeology.

This meant, though, that the issue of the antiquity of man was not separable from other debates of the period, on geology and foundations of scientific archaeology.

Bowden, Mark (1984) General Pitt Rivers: The father of scientific archaeology.