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On the other hand, it was within academic archaeology that women first broke the glass ceiling at a number of British universities. Dorothy Garrod was the first woman to hold a chair (in any subject) at either the University of Cambridge or the University of Oxford, having been appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge in 1939. [27]
Scholars have noted its importance in revolutionizing our understanding of ancient women and providing new theoretical frameworks for analyzing them, [1] [2] such as gender archaeology. Archaeological projects regularly uncover surprising information about ancient women on subjects as varied as motherhood [ 3 ] to the historical inspiration for ...
Gertrude Caton Thompson FBA (1 February 1888 – 18 April 1985) [1] was an English archaeologist at a time when participation by women in the discipline was uncommon. Much of her archaeological work was conducted in Egypt.
All women placed in this category should also be categorized under the appropriate category in Category:Archaeologists by nationality and Category:Archaeologists by subfield and any other categories as necessary.
Yusra was a Palestinian woman who worked with the British archaeologist Dorothy Garrod at her excavations at Mount Carmel.Although very little is known of Yusra's life before or after, or even her full name, she was a prominent member of the excavation team between 1929 and 1935.
"Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory" 1991 with Margaret Conkey Joan Margaret Gero (26 May 1944 – 14 July 2016) was an American archaeologist and pioneer of feminist archaeology . Her research focused on gender and power issues in prehistory, particularly in the Andean regions of Argentina and Peru.
Pages in category "American women archaeologists" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 267 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
The biography of the Ivory Bangle Lady has been featured in several books and articles. She is featured in David Olusoga's 2017 book Black and British: A Forgotten History, as well a short film hosted by Olusoga and produced by the BBC, titled Alt History: Black British History We're Not Taught in Schools.