Elizabeth Mary Pye, FSA (born January 1946[1]) is a British conservator and academic.

She had studied prehistoric archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, under Stuart Piggott, and conservation at the University of London, before becoming a conservator at the British Museum.

[2][3][4][5] Elizabeth's interest in archaeology when she was five years old and given children's books on early people.

[2] On 3 March 1997, Pye was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA).

[3] In 2015, she was awarded the Conservation and Heritage Management Award by the Archaeological Institute of America for her "groundbreaking efforts to transform the field of objects conservation into a science-based discipline".