Luna Erreguerena, Pilar
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Other Identifiers
- Las aguas celestiales, 2009:t.p. (Pilar Luna) p. xv (Pilar Luna Erreguerena; Subdirectora de Arqueología Subacuática, INAH)
- Memorias del Congreso Cientifico de Arqueologia Subacuatica ICOMOS, 2001:t.p. (Pilar Luna Erreguerena)
- OCLC, December 16, 2004(hdng. on diss. : Luna Erreguerena, Maria del Pilar)
Wikipedia description:
María del Pilar Luna Erreguerena (1944 – 15 March 2020) was a Mexican underwater archaeologist, pioneer in the field of archaeology, who founded the Division of Underwater Archaeology of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH). She was awarded her undergraduate degree by the National School of Anthropology and History and the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), from which she then obtained her master's degree in Anthropological Sciences. After 1980 she was the head of the Underwater Archeology Area of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico. She was a member, among other associations, of the Consultative Council of Cultural Heritage Underwater of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), as well as member emeritus of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology Society for Historical Archaeology and International Grant Advisor for the National Geographic Society. She was the first Latin American woman and only the second underwater archaeologist to receive the J. C. Harrington Medal and is considered the pioneer of aquatic archaeology in Mexico.
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