Alanah Woody

Alanah Woody (March 24, 1956 – July 19, 2007) was an American archeologist, anthropologist, professor and executive director of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation, which she co-founded.

She was considered an expert in Native American rock art, such as pictographs and petroglyphs, especially in Nevada, and championed their protection.

[1][2] Woody was born in California's Central Valley to a father who was a hard-rock miner and a homemaker mother.

Her father worked on water tunnels and large construction projects, which caused her family to move often, including to Pakistan, where she lived from the ages of 5 to 13.

To do so, she taught "an army of volunteers" the value of photography, scale drawings and GPS data when recording their findings.