Marion Stirling Pugh

Marion Stirling Pugh
Veracruz, Mexico, April 15, 1939
Born	Marion Illig (1911-05-12)May 12, 1911 Middletown, New York, US
Died	April 24, 2001(2001-04-24) (aged 89) Tucson, Arizona, US
Known for	Excavations at Tres Zapotes Establishment of the antiquity of the Olmec civilization
Board member of	Society of Women Geographers Textile Museum (George Washington University)
Spouses	Matthew Stirling (1933–1975) John Ramsey Pugh (1977–1994)
Children	2
Awards	Franklin L. Burr Award, National Geographic Society (1941) Gold Medal, Society of Women Geographers (1975)
Academic background
Education	Rider College George Washington University
Academic work
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).