Ralph Stefan Solecki (October 15, 1917 – March 20, 2019) was an American archaeologist.

[1] Solecki was born in Brooklyn, New York in October 1917,[2] the son of Polish immigrants – Mary (nee Tarnowska), a homemaker, and Casimir, an insurance salesman.

His best-known excavations were at the Neanderthal site at Shanidar Cave, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

His publications include early works on aerial photography and photo-interpretation as well as two volumes on Shanidar (1971, 1972).

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