The following people have received the title of honorary doctor from the Faculty of Humanities at Lund University for their scholarly contributions and their significance to the subjects at the Department of Archaeology and Ancient History.

Johannes Lepiksaar, Natural History Museum, Gothenburg, Historical Osteology, 1988

Helen Clarke, London, Medieval Archaeology, 1991

Giovanni Colonna, La Sapienza University, Rome, Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, 1993

Rolf Petré, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, Archaeology, 1996

Verner Alexandersson, University of Copenhagen, Historical Osteology, 1998

Hans Andersson, Department of Archaeology and Ancient History, Lund University, Medieval Archaeology, 2000

Richard Bradley, University of Reading, Archaeology, 2002

Torsten Capelle, Prehistorical and Ancient Historical Archaeology, Münster, Archaeology, 2005

Barbara Scholkmann, Eberhard-Karl University, Tübingen, Historical Archaeology, 2007

Nanna Noe Nyegaard, University of Copenhagen, Historical Osteology, 2008

Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen, Bornholm Museum, Rønne, Archaeology and Historical Archaeology, 2009

Ulla Lund Hansen, senior lecturer emerita, Saxo Institute, University of Copenhagen, Archaeology, 2014