GENDER IDENTITY AND INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Channel: European Association of Archaeologists
Date: 12/02/2021

In this paper the history of women in the development of archaeology will be analysed through the prism of interdisciplinarity. An examination will be made on whether interdisciplinarity became an alternative form of access to the discipline and the study of collections, if so, whether this happened in all the different disciplines with which archaeology collaborated. A distinction will be made on the different major periods in the history of archaeology. Attention will also be paid on whether geography and nationality may have been an important factor in the particular ways women engaged in interdisciplinarity. Finally, there will be an assessment on the particular context in which interdiscplinarity in the study of collections took place. After providing a general context the paper will focus on women who were born in the first decades of the twentieth century. Women who will be mentioned in the paper include the palynologists Arlette Leroi-Gourhan (1913 - 2005), Josefina Menéndez Amor (1926 - 1985) and the paleobotanist Maria Hopf (1913 - 2008).


Author(s): Díaz-Andreu, Margarita (ICREA & Universitat de Barcelona)