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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On the other hand, in Europe and the United States, there has been a huge increase in the number of women archaeologists. Obviously, during the colonial period, most of the archaeologists were men, ...

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 ...