Philip Betancourt

Philip P. Betancourt (born 1936 as Felipe Pablo Andreas Betancourt) is an American archaeologist, author, and a specialist in the Aegean Bronze Age. He is the Laura H. Carnell Professor of Art History and Archaeology at Temple University and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania in the Graduate Group in the Art and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World and the Department of the History of Art. He currently serves as the Director of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory. Betancourt received his Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007.

Betancourt's sons are author and publisher John Gregory Betancourt, and artist and critical theorist Michael Betancourt.