Wendy Matthews FSA is a British archaeologist and academic, specialising in Neolithic and Bronze Age Near Eastern archaeology and Geoarchaeology.

[1] Matthews received a MA at the University of Edinburgh, then completed her doctoral thesis, The micromorphology of occupational sequences and the use of space in a Sumerian city at Cambridge University in 1992.

[2] Following her PhD she held a postdoctoral research position at Cambridge and the British Institute in Ankara.

[3] Matthews' research has been key in the development of archaeological sediment micromorphology, particularly applied to buildings and occupation sequences, and she is known for her work at the Çatalhöyük UNESCO World Heritage Site in Turkey.

[4] Matthews is a co-director of the Central Zagros Archaeological Project.