Michael Edward Moseley (March 28, 1941 - July 8, 2024) was an American archaeologist and anthropologist at the University of Florida.
[1] Moseley was born March 28, 1941 in Dayton, Ohio and died July 8, 2024 in Moquegua, Peru.
He was co-director with Carol J. Mackey of the Chan Chan-Moche Valley Project in Peru, a survey and excavation of urban and pre-urban sites in the Moche Valley, from 1969 to 1975, and was advisor to the Instituto Nacional de Arqueologia in reconnaissance of Tiwanaku and related sites in the north highlands of Bolivia in 1976 and 1978–1979.
He was project director of survey, mapping, and excavation of pre-Hispanic irrigation systems in northern Peru from 1976–1980.
Moseley was a research associate at the University of Chicago from 1980 to 1984 and was curator at the Field Museum of Natural History from 1976 to 1984.