John Garstang (May 5, 1876 - September 12, 1956, Beirut) was a British archaeologist of the ancient Near East, especially Anatolia and the southern Levant.

Garstang is remembered as one of the excavators of the site of ancient Jericho (Tell es-Sultan) in the period 1930-1936.

He served as the Director of the Department of Antiquities in the British Mandate of Palestine between 1920 and 1926, as well as filling the position of Head of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.

Later, in 1947, Garstang founded the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, acting as its first director.

Further reading

• William Foxwell Albright, "John Garstang in Memoriam", Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 144 (1956), pp.7-8.

1876 births | 1956 deaths | British archaeologists