Peggy Piggott
British archaeologist
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Christiane Desroches Noblecourt
Egyptologist who spearheaded an international campaign to save 22 Nubian monuments in Egypt and Sudan, which would have been submerged by the lake created as a result of the construction of the Aswan High Dam.
Gertrude Bell
Gertrude Bell (l. 1868-1926) was an archaeologist, travel writer, explorer, and political administrator.
Dr Josephine Flood
Josephine Flood was an archaeologist whose research highlighted the role of Bogong moths in the lives of Aboriginal people in southern highlands of New South Wales.
Ann Chowning
Ann Chowning was a highly regarded ethnographer particularly well known for her linguistic work, which featured extensive field work in four different Austronesian speaking societies in western Melanesia.
Dr Laila B Haglund
Laila Haglund was an archaeologist who played a significant role in the framing of legislative protection for Aboriginal sites in Australia.
Elizabeth Rawdon
1700s countess of Moira , literary patroness, and antiquarian
Mary Ferguson
1800s Irish antiquarian and biographer
Mary Bailey
Irish aviator
Isabel McBryde
Archaeologist who pioneered the combining of archaeological and ethnographical research, and whose doctoral thesis was the first awarded in Australia based on archaeological fieldwork.