Marjorie Ferguson Lambert (1908–2006) was an American anthropologist and archaeologist, who primarily studied Native American and Hispanic cultures in the American Southwest. Her most known archeological excavation was the dig at Paa-ko located on the Galisteo Basin. She was a curator of the Museum of New Mexico from 1937 to 1969 and published numerous papers regarding the cultures of the Puebloan peoples. Her work was acknowledged for its technical detail and cultural sensitivity by the Society for American Archaeology and the New Mexico Office of Cultural Affairs. Early life Marjorie Elizabeth Ferguson was born on June 13, 1908 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Interested in archaeology since high school, she did not think of it as a profession until she attended lectures by Edgar Lee Hewett and Sylvanus Morley, who convinced her that to understand humanity one had to understand the past. She attended Colorado College between 1926 and 1930 earning a BA in sociology. She was then offered a researching and teaching fellowship at the University of New Mexico, which she began in the summer of 1930. Women were not taught excavation techniques, as a means of dissuading them from pursuing a career in archeology and Ferguson, who had received the only fellowship in the anthropology department faced the discrimination and tension her gender caused in the male-dominated field. She completed her master's degree with a thesis entitled The Acculturation of Sandia Pueblo in 1931. Career In 1932, Ferguson married George Tichy and though they lived together for less than a year, she would remain married to him for eighteen years. That same year, she began teaching at the University of New Mexico and served on the staff of the Maxwell Museum. She taught anthropology and served as field supervisor of the archeological field studies for the university. Between 1931 and 1936, she supervised digs at the Puaray, Kuaua, Giusewa sites. Ferguson became known for her systematic and meticulous excavations and began working at the Paa-ko site, the one most associated with her work, in 1935. She took over the site from two male colleagues in 1936 and successfully completed the project. Suspicion that the laborers would refuse to work for a woman were unfounded. In 1937, when Hewett retired from the University of New Mexico, he hired Ferguson as the Curator of Archeology at the Museum of New Mexico of the School of American Archaeology in Santa Fe. The