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American women archaeologists

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Marija Gimbutas
Lithuanian-American archaeologist
Tatiana Proskouriakoff
American Mayanist scholar (1909-1985)
Natacha Rambova
American film personality and fashion designer (1897-1966)
Nancy Dupree
American archaeologist (1927–2017)
Alice Cunningham Fletcher
American ethnologist
Miriam Lichtheim
Israeli egyptologist (1914-2004)
Frederica de Laguna
American ethnologist, anthropologist, and archaeologist (1906–2004)
Sarah Parcak
American archaeologist and egyptologist
Zelia Nuttall
American archaeologist and anthropologist (1857-1933)
Iris Love
American archaeologist (1933-2020)
Sara Yorke Stevenson
American archaeologist and egyptologist
Margarete Bieber
German-American art historian (1879–1978)
Merle Greene Robertson
American Mesoamericanist (1913-2011)
Blanche Wheeler Williams
Archeologist and teacher (1870–1936)
Anna Marguerite McCann
American art historian and archaeologist (1933–2017)
Hetty Goldman
American archaeologist (1881–1972)
Linda Schele
American mesoamericanist
Harriet Boyd-Hawes
American archaeologist (1871–1945)
Virginia Grace
American archaeologist
Helene J. Kantor
American archaeologist
Theresa Goell
American archaeologist (1901-1985)
Bertha Parker Pallan
American archaeologist (1907-1978)
Agnes Baldwin Brett
American numismatist and archaeologist
Joyce Marcus
American archaeologist
Margaret Conkey
American archaeologist, anthropologist
Caroline L. Ransom
American egyptologist and classical archaeologist
Mabel Lang
American archaeologist and classical scholar (1917–2010)
Elizabeth Thomas
American egyptologist (1907–1986)
Joan Breton Connelly
archaeologist and academic
Amanda Adams
author and archaeologist
Mary Hamilton Swindler
American archaeologist and classical art scholar
Kara Cooney
American egyptologist
Betty Meggers
anthropologist, archaeologist, and director of the Latin American Archaeology Program at the National Museum of Natural History (1921–2012)
Alison Frantz
American archaeologist and photographer
Patty Jo Watson
American archaeologist (1932–2024)
Margaret Thompson
American numismatist (1911-1992)
Jodi Magness
American Biblical scholar
Cynthia Irwin-Williams
archaeologist (1936-1990)
Anabel Ford
archaeologist from the United States specializing in Mayan culture, also discovered the El Pilar site
Renée Friedman
American egyptologist
Helen Heffron Roberts
American ethno-musicologist (1888–1985)
Anna Curtenius Roosevelt
American archaeologist
Edith Porada
American art historian
Carol Meyers
American feminist biblical scholar (1942- )
Kathleen O'Neal Gear
American writer
Esther Boise Van Deman
American archaeologist (1862-1937)
Rosemary Joyce
American anthropologist and social archaeologist
Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski
American archaeologist (1910-2007)
Joyce White
American archaeologist
Jean MacIntosh Turfa
American Etruscologist and archaeologist
Dorothy Burr Thompson
American classical archaeologist and art historian at Bryn Mawr College and a leading authority on Hellenistic terracotta figurines (1900–2001)
Emily Vermeule
American archaeologist (1928-2001)
Hannah Marie Wormington
American archaeologist (1914–1994)
Elizabeth Blegen
American archaeologist (1888-1966)
Nancy Thomson de Grummond
American classical archaeologist and religious studies scholar
Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell
American historian and writer on archaeology (1845-1888)
Lynne C. Lancaster
American Roman archaeologist
Lucy Talcott
American archaeologist (1899-1970)
Amy C. Smith
professor of classical archaeology
Christina Warinner
archaeological geneticist