Graciela Salicrup
Graciela Salicrup trained as an architect and then worked as an archaeologist. She became a mathematics undergraduate at the age of 29 and went on to the become a leading topologist.
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Harriet Boyd Hawes
Archeologist Harriet Boyd Hawes became the first woman to lead an archaeological expedition when she discovered the ancient town of Gournia on Crete. In later years she also served as a volunteer nurse during the Greco-Turkish War and World War I.
Caroline D Carley
American archaeologist
Betty Kingman
Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Yelm Kingman was one of the first women to make significant contributions to understanding the archeological past of Rocky Mountain National Park.
Major Charlotte Gower Chapman
American anthropologist and the second female officer to join the US Marine Corps, commissioned with the rank of Captain in 1943.
Alice Rohe
Alice Rohe became a newspaper writer in the 1890s and joined Theta Sigma Phi, the first American journalism professional society for women, when it was established in 1909.
Sallie R Wagner
Sallie R. Wagner was a photographer, author, weaver, and a benefactor and patron of dancer-choreographer Erick Hawkins and his dance company.
Winifred Caywood
During the earliest excavations at Fort Vancouver between 1947 and 1952, at least three women contributed to the project to relocate and interpret the fort.
Dr Frederica de Laguna
Dr. Frederica “Freddy” de Laguna was an influential archeologist and anthropologist who worked extensively throughout Alaska.
Ruthann Knudson
Archeologist who specialized in Paleoindian studies.