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Saddened to learn of the passing of the great Danish Egyptologist, Lise Manniche (1943-2022), author of a vast number of wideranging publications on Egyptian archaeology, art, and culture, including the ground breaking SEXUAL LIFE IN ANCIENT EGYPT (KPI, 1987). Vale!
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New post on Marcelle Werbrouck, who made numerous contributions to Egyptology throughout the 20th century trowelblazers.com/2022/09/14/mar with thanks to and for their patience!
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While the author acknowledges the almost mandatory centering of the male perspective given the predominance of their letters &c in archives, would have liked to have seen a stronger emphasis on agency of Miss Deuel (a different title perhaps and lede photo).
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A thoroughly disturbing yet fascinating read on a case of #sexualharassment in #anthropology dating to 1913. Yes, you read that right. "Hunting Miss Deuel", by James E. Snead in El Palacio elpalacio.org/2022/09/huntin #metooanthropology
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Helena, his wife, was also with him at the time of discovery. She, their daughter Helen, and family friend and highly respected botanist and photographer Mary Vaux (who married Charles in 1914, after Helena had died) camped and excavated alongside Charles. trowelblazers.com/2014/05/09/bur
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The Burgess Shale is one of the most well-preserved fossil sites on Earth. It was discovered #onthisday 113 years ago, on August 30th 1909, by Charles D. Walcott.
Image: Walcott Quarry of the Burgess Shale (Middle Cambrian), British Columbia. Public domain.
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Marie Tharp created some of the world’s first maps of the ocean floor and played an essential role in the acceptance of the theory of plate tectonics.
shares more about her incredible life and legacy: bit.ly/30gQu1T
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Does anyone recognise this female #archaeologist, ? She is shown excavating a #Roman bathhouse at De Meern in #Utrecht, #Netherlands, in 1940
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A new paper is out. Dorothy Garrod Site is a new MSA site in Olduvai Gorge.
download here: doi.org/10.1007/s12520
@IDEAolduvai @UNEDprehistoria @FundacionPalarq @Biblioteca_UNED
@JuanHMarin @IreneSMeg @dmartinperea @D_Uribelarrea @RaquelAsia14 @AGidna
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This book will be packed with TrowelBlazers, Tufnell was deeply embedded in the network of women working in archaeology at the time
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Join Professor of Extragalactic Physics, Carole Mundell () at this online event tonight celebrating trailblazing women astronomers:
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Also re: last tweet and the FANTASTIC 'Alan Carr's Adventures with Agatha Christie' it was lovely to see my 'Bone Detectives' co-host @Raksha_Digs discussing Agatha's incredible archaeology career. Watch it if you didn't! I'm on Ep 3 Aug 28th, 9pm, More 4
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We love a good Wiki edit-a-thon! Please consider registering and contributing to this event!
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RSVP for our @Wikipedia edit-a-thon w @WhoseKnowledge on Aug 31st celebrating #UN Intnl Day for People of African Descent. #VisibleWikiWomen is a campaign to make Black, Brown, Indigenous & Trans women visible on Wiki & the broader internet.
RSVP: 500womenscientists.org/wiki
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Here are other women the Technology page mentions who currently lack their own page: Economist environment editor Catherine Brahic (), with over 50 potential wikilinks; statistician activist Joyce Huesemann, with 30; & archaeologist Paola Villa, with over 25.
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Several other women mentioned on the Technology page didn't yet have a wikipedia page. One who stood out was the archaologist Harriet Crawford, so I bashed together a page for her. (Again, it could do with some love – and an image – from !)
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So what could be done to improve the situation? The Technology page did in fact mention one woman with an existing wikipedia page, though without a link to it: the Africanist archaeologist Ann B. Stahl. Stahl's page could do with some love (and an image): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_B._St.
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“Evidently the late Neolithic concept of the ideal woman was one with her mouth shut. If there is any analogy with modern Hacılar, one can sympathise”
Mellaart cleverly summing up smug misogynistic and colonial privilege in two short sentences.
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It's not just Palaeolithic female figurines which have inspired trash interpretations - here is James Mellart's 1961 take on the remarkable pieces he excavated from Neolithic Hacılar, Anatolia
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It's not just Palaeolithic female figurines which have inspired trash interpretations - here is James Mellart's 1961 take on the remarkable pieces he excavated from Neolithic Hacılar, Anatolia
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Just came across this painting of Ali es Suefi by Winifred Brunton
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Or that Hilda Petrie's sister, Amy Urlin, worked on the 1899 excavation at Abydos?
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Fun fact! Did you know that a young Mary Leakey was invited by Gertrude Caton-Thompson to illustrate 1934's 'The Desert Fayoum'?
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First off, here's a larger version of my network diagram - I focused around Hilda Petrie, and traced connections outwards from her
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I'll be on here sharing some interesting facts and images I found, but if anyone has anything they want to share, feel free to reply.
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Hi! I'm Esme, today's #TrowelTakeover, and I've been researching women in early 20th century Egyptology for my fieldwork at
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Watch our amazing Curator discuss fossil discoveries including Homo Naledi and more!👏🇿🇦👌🌟
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Did you know that Cradle of Humankind has revealed 40% of the world’s human ancestor fossils?
The significant discovery of hundreds of fossils of Homo Naledi - a species of archaic human, has put South Africa firmly on the map.
Watch the full story ow.ly/4oTw50JSaHi
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Join us, on 4 August 2022.
Time: 12h00
Click the link to register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist
For more information contact: tebogop@ditsong.org.za or call 0124922729/1358
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TrowelBlazers, your mission today: let your keenness drive someone 'fairly mad with rage'
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"I am fairly mad with rage, I have got to spoil the cases in which our Anglo-Saxon collection is placed, Miss Layard has upset everybody, she wants to be able to open the cases by herself... you may be thankful she doesn't live in Colchester!"
#TrowelBlazers #NinaLayard
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I’ve occasionally worked on the specimens she studied, and was also very honoured to name a new genus after her in 2015: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs
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Dorothy Rayner (1912-2003). Trailblazer who studied natural sciences at Cambridge in the ‘30s and lectured 1/3 of an entire degree course at Leeds during WW1. She did pioneering work on fossil fish braincases. I was honoured to name a new genus after her (royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10)
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In addition to fossils, museum collections often contain handwritten notes. This is by the phenomenal Dorothy Rayner, written while she was a PhD student at Cambridge in the 1930s. Rayner worked extensively on fossil fish braincases and endocasts and inspired a lot of my research
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Congratulations to Rebecca and Cameron, winners of this year’s Tina Negus Prize for undergraduate research in palaeontology! The prize this year was ’s Otherlands. For more about Tina see trowelblazers.com/2015/03/04/tin via
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Correspondence in the Ipswich Museum records from curator Frank Woolnough to A.G Wright in 1907.
#DifficultWomen #TrowelBlazers
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"I hear she has been pitching a fine tale to Dr Laver about my sins, I shall hope one of these days to tell him the other side, I have done my best to help her, but there is a limit to human endurance"
#TrowelBlazers #NinaLayard
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"I am fairly mad with rage, I have got to spoil the cases in which our Anglo-Saxon collection is placed, Miss Layard has upset everybody, she wants to be able to open the cases by herself... you may be thankful she doesn't live in Colchester!"
#TrowelBlazers #NinaLayard
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For the uninitiated, fancams are short edited videos created by fans of celebrities to show their support for them. This was popularised by #kpop fans, but who says our amazing trowelblazers aren’t superstars in their own right?
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We’ve had all woman crews for the past two weeks. We have some great @trowelblazers energy happening on site. I even had my Trowel Blazers shirt on during our crew photo. 
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Read more about Joan's life and contributions to archaeology here: trowelblazers.com/2022/07/26/joa
Image of Joan (and our first TrowelBlazer dog!) kindly provided by Stephen Loring.
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