Alana Kathleen Cordy-Collins (5 June 1944 – 16 August 2015) was Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Diego.
In addition to her professorship, she was director of the David W. May Indian Artifacts Gallery and curator of the collection.
She was also a former curator of the Latin American collections at the San Diego Museum of Man.
The excavation of the Dos Cabezas pyramid in 1997-2002 revealed treasure-filled tombs with a surprising amount of metalwork and ceramics, as well as a family of “giants” – mummies of men who would have stood about 6 feet tall, compared with the typical Moche, who averaged between 4-foot-10 and 5-foot-6.
The noblemen suffered from Marfan syndrome, an inherited form of gigantism.