The first women archaeologists in history were Victorian-era adventurers who felt most at home when farthest from it.’ This was the opening line of Amanda Adam’s book Ladies of the field, which ...

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This paper reviews the accomplishments of British, South African, and American women Africanist archaeologists who worked between the 1860s and the 1960s. Despite their many significant contributions ...

A prehistoric mass grave in Serbia reveals that more than 77 people—mostly women and children—were deliberately killed in a brutal act of violence about 2,800 years ago. Genetic evidence suggests the ...

Introduction : women of the field, defining the gendered experience / by Margaret Cool Root -- Jane Dieulafoy, 1851-1916 / by Eve Gran-Aymerich -- Esther B. Van Deman, 1862-1937 / by Katherine Welch - ...