# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lawrence-stager
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:19:49.451Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lawrence-stager"
name: "Lawrence Stager"
slug: "lawrence-stager"
description: "Lawrence E. \"Larry\" Stager was an American archaeologist and academic, specialising in Syro-Palestinian archaeology and Biblical archaeology. He was the Dorot Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University and was Director of the Harvard Semitic Museum. Beginning in 1985 he oversaw the excavations of the Leon Levy Expedition to Ashkelon, the Philistine port city."
tagline: "American archaeologist (1943–2017)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Academic"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1943-01-05"
deathDate: "2017-12-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             7.714285714285714
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  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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sources:
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    title: "Lawrence Stager"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "لاورينس ستاجير"
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    title: "Lawrence E. Stager"
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    title: "Lawrence Stager"
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    title: "לורנס סטייגר"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump