Donald Freeman Brown (November 26, 1908 – February 21, 2014) was an American archaeologist who pioneered the core boring technique for surveying large archaeological sites, and discovered the location of Sybaris, a 6th-century Greek colony in Southern Italy.
In 1926 he graduated from Classical High School in Springfield and attended Amherst College, and Boston University, and completed the work for his A.B.
It was supposed to be located near the modern town of Sibari in Calabria on the coast of Southern Italy near the Crati and Coscile rivers but eventually was buried by silt.
His archaeological and historical research, along with geological and geographical reconnaissance, led him to believe the city lay now on both sides of the Crati.
Archaeologists had traditionally used a trench system to investigate sites and in the early 1930s the Italian government had excavated two parallel drainage ditches to alleviate the area of its malarial swamp.
With the support of a grant from the Bollingen Foundation, and under the auspices of Dr. G. Iacopi, the Superintendent of Antiquities of Calabria, Brown conducted two campaigns of boring resulting in the partial delineation of the city remains.