Lorena Mirambell

Lorena Emilia Mirambell y Silva (15 March 1935 – 1 November 2025) was a Mexican archaeologist who specialised in prehistory in Mexico. A 1975 Guggenheim Fellow, she was researcher emeritus of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and was president of the Council of Archaeology from 1989 to 1992.

Life and career Mirambell was born in Mexico City on 15 March 1935. She later served as president of the federal government's Council of Archaeology from 1989 to 1992.

Mirambell's academic work focuses on prehistory, including the Late Pleistocene era. El Universal called this and other visits to Pleistocene paleontological sites like Rancho La Amapola "a watershed for prehistory in Mexico". Other contributions include the methodology of stone tools - including from places like East Asia, Indonesia, and Australia.

Mirambell died on 1 November 2025, at the age of 90.