Crawford Hallock Greenewalt Jr. (June 3, 1937 – May 4, 2012) was an American classical archaeologist at the University of California, Berkeley who made contributions to the study of Lydia through his excavations at Sardis.
[1] While an undergraduate at Harvard, Greenewalt worked at the Sardis excavation, where he became known for his ability to crawl through the narrow tunnels constructed by earlier tomb robbers.
[2] After graduating in 1959, Greenewalt joined the Sardis excavation as a staff photographer.
[1][2] In 1976 he was made the field director of the excavation, a position he held until 2007 when he turned it over to Nicholas Cahill.
[1] In 1993 he was awarded the Henry Allen Moe Prize in Humanities by the American Philosophical Society for his paper "When a Mighty Empire Was Destroyed" and for his work on reconstructing the history of Lydia.