Junius Bouton Bird (b. September 12, 1907, Rye, New York- d. April 2, Spuyten Duyvil, New York), was an American archaeologist who was appointed curator of South American Archaeology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1934. His contributions to the study of ecology, climate, and pre-Columbian archaeology earned him several awards including The Viking Fund Medal for Archaeology (1956) and The Order of "El sol de Peru" (1974). In 1961 he was elected as the president of the Society for American Archaeology.