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Women in archaeology is an aspect of the history of archaeology and the topic of women in science more generally. In the nineteenth century women were discouraged from pursuing interests in archaeology, however throughout the twentieth century participation and recognition of expertise increased.
This is a list of female Egyptologists Name Nationality Description Birth Death Barbara G. Adams: British: 1945-02-19 [1] 2002-06-26 [1] Solange Ashby ...
First female Professor at Cambridge 1892-05-05 1892-04-05 1968-12-18 Dorothy Jean Ray: Anthropologist 1919-10-10 2007-12-12 Dorothy King: American self-described archaeologist and historian 1975 Dorothy Way Eggan: American anthropologist 1901 1965 Dounia Bouzar: French anthropologist, writer and educator 1964 E. S. Drower: British cultural ...
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.
Anna Anderson Morton (1867–1961) [1] [2] was a British Egyptologist and one of a group of women active in that area at that time. [3]She was a student at University College London from 1884 to 1902, where she studied under Flinders Petrie as a member of the group known as the "Petrie Pups" [4] (which also included Mary Brodrick, who collaborated with Morton in co-authoring a dictionary of ...
Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon, DBE, FBA, FSA (5 January 1906 – 24 August 1978) was a British archaeologist of Neolithic culture in the Fertile Crescent. [1] She led excavations of Tell es-Sultan, the site of ancient Jericho, from 1952 to 1958, and has been called one of the most influential archaeologists of the 20th century. [2]
Hetty Goldman (December 19, 1881 – May 4, 1972) was an American archaeologist. She was the first woman faculty member at the Institute for Advanced Study [ 1 ] and one of the first female archaeologists to undertake excavations in Greece and the Middle East .
Caton Thompson assembled an all female expedition for the Zimbabwe excavations, which was the first of its kind. Known since the 16th century, Great Zimbabwe had been previously excavated by James Theodore Bent and David Randall-MacIver and there was debate as to whether the site was the work of Africans (MacIver's view) or of some other ...