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The following list features women from the ancient Mediterranean region and adjacent areas who are attested primarily through archaeological evidence. They are notable either as individuals or because the archaeological data associated with them is considered significant.
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [49] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War, becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline. [50]
Sarah Anne Bright (1793–1866) was a 19th-century English artist and photographer who produced the earliest surviving photographic images taken by a woman. Images she had produced were not attributed to her until 2015 when her initials were discovered on a photogram that was previously consigned to an auction at Sotheby's in New York.
A reconstruction by Libor Balák, depicting the reconstruction of the Venus (or Lady) of Brassempouy, from the Western Brassempouy. Although this may be inaccurate due to Europeans having darker skin 23-29,000 years ago [4] Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology in Brno, The Center for Paleolithic and Paleoethnological research.
Authors of the Hedenstierna-Jonson paper stated that "Viking scholars have been reluctant to acknowledge the agency of women with weapons", and that "at Birka, grave Bj 581 was brought forward as an example of an elaborate high-status male warrior grave."
The woman was buried in a 40–60 cm wide pit about 1.20 m deep in a semi-sitting reclining position. Until the 1970s, the skeleton was considered to belong to a man, but is now after long discussion considered female and as burial gifts there was a flint-edged bone point (formerly called bird arrow) and a chisel-like bone tool of split pipe bone of moose, with one end having the bone end ...
Cecile Richards addresses a crowd of demonstrators during a women's march for abortion rights outside the Texas state Capitol in Austin, on Oct. 2, 2021. Credit - Ilana Panich-Linsman—The New ...
[9] [10] It depicts a half-height woman turned toward her right at a three-quarter angle, but with her face turned toward her left. [11] The animal in her arms twists in a similar manner, resulting in considerable contrapposto with the lady, [12] a technique Leonardo explored earlier with the angel in the Virgin of the Rocks. [13]