Mark P. Leone

Mark Paul Leone (born 1940) is an American archaeologist and professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park

Leone earned a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1963 at Tufts University. He received a master of arts in 1966 and a doctorate of philosophy in 1968, both from the University of Arizona, in anthropology.

He was an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University from 1968 to 1975 before moving to the University of Maryland as an associate professor from 1976 to 1990. He became a full professor in 1990. He has been the director of the University of Maryland Field School in Urban Historical Archaeology since 1982. Leone's research areas include North American archaeology, historical archaeology and outdoor history museums. In 1976, Leone began teaching at the University of Maryland, where he became the chair of the Department of Anthropology between 1993 and 2003 and chair of the University Senate in 2000 - 2001. Leone began an “Archaeology in Annapolis” project in 1981.

In 2016, Leone was conferred the J. C. Harrington Award.

• Roots of Modern Mormonism. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. 1979. ISBN 0-674-77970-3. 
• Invisible America: Unearthing Our Hidden History. New York: Henry Holt and Company. 1995. ISBN 0-8050-3525-7.  with Neil A. Silberman
• The Archaeology of Liberty in an American Capital: Excavations in Annapolis. Berkeley: University of California Press. 2005. ISBN 0-520-24450-8. 
• Critical Historical Archaeology, 2010, Left Coast Press, ISBN 978-1-59874-396-8