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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.
Elinor Wight Gardner (24 September 1892, in Birmingham – 1980), [1] a geology lecturer at Bedford College, London and research fellow at Lady Margaret Hall, [2] is best known for her field surveys with Gertrude Caton–Thompson of the Kharga Oasis which are now recognized as pioneering interdisciplinary research in Africa.
Gertrude Bell: English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, archaeologist and spy 1868-07-14 1926-07-12 Gertrude Blom: Swiss Mesoamericanists 1901-07-07 1993-12-23 Gertrude Caton–Thompson: British archaeologist 1888-02-01 1985-04-18 Gertrude M. Godden: British academic Gillian Cowlishaw
In mid-1929 Gertrude Caton Thompson concluded, after a twelve-day visit of a three-person team and the digging of several trenches, that the site was indeed created by Bantu. She had first sunk three test pits into what had been refuse heaps on the upper terraces of the hill complex, producing a mix of unremarkable pottery and ironwork.
From 1922 to 1931 the British archaeologists Gertrude Caton-Thompson and Guy Brunton excavated approximately 10,000 tombs from Qau el-Kebir in the south to Matmar in the north, across an area of about 36 km.
Caton-Thompson interpreted 248 feature pits as hearths. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] The hearths of both Kom K and Kom W are slightly older than the mounds, dating from 5680 BCE. [ 9 ] Among the identified feature pits of Kom W, 161 were empty, 55 contained some fragment or sherd of pottery, and 12 held complete ceramic vessels. [ 1 ]
Gertrude Caton Thompson (1888–1985) English; Egyptm; Helena Cehak-Holubowiczowa (1902–1979) Polish; Poland; C. W. Ceram (1915–1972) German; popularizer;
Gertrude Caton Thompson begins excavations at Great Zimbabwe. Dorothy Garrod excavates cave sites in Judea and south Kurdistan. A Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft and University of Pennsylvania team led by Oscar Reuther begins excavations at Ctesiphon. [2] [3] [4] [5]