Sir Robert Eric Mortimer Wheeler better known as just Sir Mortimer Wheeler, was a British born archaeologist and soldier from in Glasgow, Scotland. He is best known for his discoveries in Britain and India, and for legitimizing archaeology as an actual science through the revolutionizing of excavation methods and interpretation. Wheeler was educated at the University of London, receiving his B. A., in 1910, and an M.A., in 1912 in the subject of archaeology (Dictionary of Historians). Wheeler was also an advocate of documenting the stratigraphic record. He encouraged the use of box-grid excavation techniques, which is when archaeologists leave unexcavated areas between excavation squares, thus leaving some of the original stratigraphy intact.
