By National Womens History Museum Bertha Parker Pallan is known as the first female archaeologist of Native American descent. In the early 1930s, she helped excavate Gypsum Cave in Nevada: a six-room cave that was once inhabited by the giant ground sloth, which dates back to 8500BC. (Photo: Bertha Parker Pallan at Gypsum Cave c. 1930. Acc. 90-105 - Science Service, Records, 1920s-1970s, Smithsonian Institution Archives).
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