Lorena Emilia Mirambell y Silva (born 15 March 1935) is a Mexican archaeologist specialising in prehistory in Mexico.
A 1975 Guggenheim Fellow, she is researcher emeritus of Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia and was president of the Council of Archaeology from 1989 to 1992.
[1] She joined the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia (INAH), where she in 1963 obtained her master's degree in anthropological sciences and became a researcher.
[2] In 1967, she was sent to the Tlapacoya archaeological site to lead an excavation, where it was confirmed by radiometric dating that humans lived in the Americas circa 24,000 BP.
[5] El Universal called this and other visits to Pleistocene paleontological sites like Rancho La Amapola "a watershed for prehistory in Mexico".