Bertha "Birdie" Parker

Field of Study: Archeologist

Achievements: 1930 found the skull of a giant sloth next to early human tools: proof that ancient Indigenous peoples had existed alongside the extinct animal; published several important papers, including ethnographic explorations of California tribes like the Maidu, Yurok, Pomo and Paiute, always careful to include the names of the Native men and women she interviewed, an unusual practice at the time;