Elizabeth Pye

Elizabeth Mary Pye, (born January 1946 ) is a British conservator and academic. She had studied prehistoric archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, under Stuart Piggott, and conservation at the University of London, before becoming a conservator at the British Museum. She was Professor of Archaeological and Museum Conservation at UCL Institute of Archaeology until she retired in 2013: she is now emeritus professor.

Early life Elizabeth's interest in archaeology when she was five years old and given children's books on early people. Later, before university, she was in small local excavations, and then with Henry Cleere at Bardown, and John Alexander from the University of Cambridge. These experiences let her to choose to study archaeology at university.

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