Jole Bovio Marconi

Jole Bovio Marconi (January 21, 1897 in Rome – April 14, 1986 in Palermo) was an Italian archaeologist who graduated with a degree in the topography of ancient Rome from the Sapienza University of Rome and specialized at the Italian School of Archaeology at Athens. She married her colleague Pirro Marconi,

She devoted herself to writing some publications on the civilization of the Conca d'Oro ('Golden Valley'), the fertile plain among mountains where Sicily's capital city Palermo is situated, and of the Grotta del Vecchiuzzo in Madonie Regional Natural Park. She remained the director of the Archaeological Superintendency of Western Sicily from the 1930s to the 1960s. In 1964, she was awarded the gold medal for merit in culture, art and education by the Ministry of Public Education and was designated a "Commander of the Republic".

In recognition of this work, the archaeologists Jean Guilaine, Sebastiano Tusa, and Primo Veneroso dedicated to her memory the paper La Sicile et l'Europe Campaniforme, with funds from the Collège de France. Later in 1996, ten years after her death, the leadership of the Regional Archeological Museum Antonio Salinas named the prehistoric wing of the museum after her.