Marion Stirling Pugh | |
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 Veracruz, Mexico, April 15, 1939 | |
| Born | Marion Illig May 12, 1911 |
| Died | April 24, 2001 (aged 89) Tucson, Arizona, US |
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| Children | 2 |
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| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Mesoamerican archaeology |
| Institutions | Bureau of American Ethnology |
Marion Stirling Pugh (née Illig, May 12, 1911 – April 24, 2001)[1][2] was an American archaeologist. She is known for her archaeological expeditions to Tres Zapotes and other sites in Southern Mexico in the 1940s, conducted alongside her husband Matthew Stirling, which according to National Geographic "essentially rewrote Mesoamerican history".[3] Her discovery of a date in the Long Count calendar, corresponding to 32 BCE, on a stela from Tres Zapotes, helped establish the antiquity of the Olmec civilization for the first time.[4] She also served as the president of the Washington Textile Museum, and the Society of Woman Geographers twice (1960–1963 and 1969–1972).
- ^ Duvall, Katie (2019). "Guide to the Matthew Williams Stirling and Marion Stirling Pugh papers, 1876-2004 (bulk 1921-1975)". Smithsonian Online Virtual Archives. Smithsonian Institution.
- ^ "Marion Stirling Pugh, 89". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved May 14, 2020.
- ^ Strochlic, Nina (February 13, 2020). "These 20 women were trailblazing explorers—why did history forget them?". National Geographic. March 2020. Archived from the original on February 19, 2020.
- ^ Pool, Christopher (2007). Olmec Archaeology and Early Mesoamerica. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 246. ISBN 978-0-521-78312-5.