María Carlota Sempé (6 December 1942 – 1 February 2024) was an Argentine archaeologist, teacher and scientific researcher who specialised in the pre-Hispanic cultures of Northwest Argentina, the Littoral and urban heritage cemeteries.

For 45 years she has researched in the Hualfín and Abaucán valleys of the province of Catamarca, contributing with the systematization of 21 sites of indigenous cultural development, the definition of the Saujil and Abaucán cultures and a hundred dates in both valleys that confirm the temporal location of those developments.

[5] Sempé was director of the Ceramic Analysis Laboratory of the FCNYM-UNLP and of the Center for Scientific and Cultural Heritage, FACEN, UNCatamarca where she was a member of the academic committees of the Master in Conservation and Environmental Management, of the PhD in Sciences Mention Environment.

Sempé published articles in national and international journals, congresses, and books co-authored with his research groups: Azampay.

Sempé was a member of the Iberoamerican and Argentinian networks of Valorization and Management of heritage cemeteries.