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Joe Caldwell was a prominent figure in Georgia archaeology. In 1937, Caldwell began work at the Irene site in Chatham County, Georgia. This work was done as part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Caldwell's workforce was made up of nearly all African-American women.
Gussie White (30 January 1889 – 23 January 1953) [1] was an American archaeologist, civil rights activist, and Works Progress Administration employee, [2] [3] who in that role was one of the few named Black women (of at least 87 total) [4] involved in the excavation of the Irene Mound (a significant site of Georgia prehistory).
Theresa A. Singleton is an American archaeologist and writer who focuses on the archaeology of African Americans, the African diaspora, and slavery in the United States.She is a leading archaeologist applying comparative approaches to the study of slavery in the Americas. [1]
The first meeting of the Society of Black Archaeologists SBA took place at the annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) in Baltimore, Maryland, in 2012. In 2019, SBA held its annual meeting at the 2019 Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology in St. Charles, Missouri. [1]
Black Feminist Archaeology is relatively new within the discipline of archaeology, and has been predominantly led by Black women in historical North American contexts. [32] It focuses on the intersection between race, gender, and class in the interpretation of the American archaeological record, and rejects the separation or prioritization of ...
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"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.
Whitney Battle-Baptiste is an American historical archaeologist of African and Cherokee descent. She is an associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University.