Sibylle Mertens-Schaaffhausen
Considered to be the first female archaeologist in Germany
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Amalie Buchheim
Museum’s custos and may be considered the first female archaeologist in a paid position in Germany.
Johanna Mestorf
The first female museum director in a prehistoric collection connected to the University of Kiel.
Marie von Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Austro-Hungarian aristocrat known for her archaeological excavations in Slovenia and Austria in the early 1900s.
Julie Schlemm
German archaeologist
Elvira Fölzer
The first female archaeologist in Germany awarded a PhD, which was also the only way to finish a study program in archaeology at that time.
Dr Dorothy Cross
Dorothy Cross (1906-1972) was an American anthropologist and educator that specialized in pre-contact Native American sites in New Jersey, and the first female New Jersey State Archaeologist.
Alice Dixon Le Plongeon
1800s British archaeologist
Sallie Pierce Harris
Sallie Pierce Harris conducted excavations and research in seven different national monuments in the Southwest, laying the foundation for National Park Service archeology today.
Florence Hawley Ellis
Florence Hawley Ellis broke new ground in archeology through use of dendrochronology, statistical analysis, chemical analysis, ethnohistory, and ethnoarcheology — often, all together.