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= Marion Stirling Pugh = Marion Stirling Pugh née Illig (May 12, 1911 - April 24, 2001) was an American archaeologist who studied Latin America. She was affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.

Life and Career
Marion Stirling Pugh (née Illig) was born on May 12, 1911 in Middletown, New York. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from Rider College in 1930, and moved to Washington, DC the next year. While working at the Bureau of American Ethnology as a secretary from 1931-1933, Stirling Pugh took night classes at George Washington University.

Stirling Pugh married Matthew Stirling, archaeologist and Chief of the Bureau of American Ethnology, in 1933. They went on many research expeditions to Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, and Costa Rica sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the National Geographic Society. Stirling Pugh won the National Geographic Society's Franklin L. Burr Award in 1941 with Matthew Stirling and photographer Richard Hewitt Stewart for their work.

Stirling Pugh served as President of the Society of Women Geographers twice, as well as President of the board for the Textile Museum in Washington, DC.

Matthew Stirling died in 1975, and Marion Stirling remarried Major General John Ramsey Pugh in 1977. She was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal from the Peruvian Embassy in 1985.

Marion Stirling Pugh died in Tuscon, Arizona on April 24, 2001.

Publications

 * Stirling, Matthew and Marion Stirling. "Finding jewels of jade in a Mexican swamp." National Geographic Magazine 82 (1942): 635-661.
 * Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "Tarqui, an early site in Manabi Province, Ecuador." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 63, Bulletin 196 (1963): 1-28.
 * Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "Archaeological notes on Almirante Bay, Bocas del Toro, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 72, Bulletin 191 (1964): 255-284.
 * Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "The archeology of Taboga, Uraba and Taboguila Islands, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 73, Bulletin 191 (1964): 285-348.
 * Stirling, Matthew and Marion I. Stirling. "El Limon, an early tomb site in Cocle Province, Panama." Bureau of American Ethnology, Anthropological Paper 71, Bulletin 191 (1964): 247-254.