David Brainard Spooner

David Brainerd Spooner (February 7, 1879 - January 30, 1925) was an American archaeologist and linguist.

Spooner first went to Japan to the Prefectural College of Omi at Ōtsu, as well as the School of Foreign languages, in Tokyo, and the Imperial University.

Finally, through a Harvard fellowship, he received a Ph.D. from Frederick William University in Berlin, 1906.

As Superintendent, Frontier Circle, he excavated Buddhist sites at Sahri-Bahlol in 1906 and in Takht-i-Bahi in 1907.

[6] He assisted the Archaeological Survey of India Director General, John Marshall.

David Brainerd Spooner discovered the Kanishka Casket in Shah-ji-ki-Dheri.
Excavation under Spooner of Mauryan remains of a wooden palissade at the Bulandi Bagh site, 1912-13.