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Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes (October 11, 1871 – March 31, 1945) was a pioneering American archaeologist, nurse, relief worker, and professor.She is best known as the discoverer and first director of Gournia, one of the first archaeological excavations to uncover a Minoan settlement and palace on the Aegean island of Crete.
Jodi Magness (born September 19, 1956) is an American archaeologist, orientalist and scholar of religion. She serves as the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She previously taught at Tufts University.
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]
It includes archaeologists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. 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.
Leslie E. Wildesen (1944 – 2014) was an American archaeologist best known for her work in policy-making. As the first woman archaeologist in the United States Forest Service and the first regional archaeologist in the Pacific Northwest, she wrote the first guidebook used by a government agency for the management of cultural resources.
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:American archaeologists. It includes archaeologists that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. American women archaeologists.
In her first year at the Museum, in 1936, Wormington supervised and contributed scientific material to the program providing tours to children of the exhibits at the Museum. [5] Ancient Man in North America was the first comprehensive compilation of the Pleistocene and the early Holocene occupations found in North America. This book went ...
In 1927/28 she was the first lecturer in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan. [24] In 1929, Ransom Williams became president of the Mid-West Branch of the American Oriental Society. She was the first woman officer of the AOS. [25] In 1932, she published The Decoration of the Tomb of Perneb. The Technique and the Color ...