page_title: Encarnación Cabré
section_title: Early academic career
hierarchical_section_title: Encarnación Cabré / Biography / Early academic career
caption_attribution_description: Español: Sector II de la Necrópolis de Las Cogotas, en Ávila (España), en 1930. Tomada por la hija de Juan Cabré.
context_page_description: Encarnación Cabré Herreros was a Spanish archaeologist and professor who specialised in prehistory.
  Cabré developed her interests in archaeology at a young age, when she often accompanied her father Juan Cabré, a prominent Spanish archaeologist, on expeditions to Peninsular Spain. She became his main collaborator in his fieldwork, and later published many works with him or on his behalf. In the 1930s, she became a prolific academic in archaeological excavation, documenting her activities in various journal publications and presenting them at international conferences. After the Spanish Civil War, she mostly retired from the field and was forbidden from teaching by the Francoist dictatorship. She returned to the field again in 1975, where she worked for thirty years until the end of her life.
  Cabré is considered to be the first woman in Spain to become a professional archaeologist, and was honoured in a 2018 parliamentary initiative as part of a "group of skilled young women who opened the university to many others and demonstrated that women can successfully enter traditionally masculine disciplines."
context_section_description: Cabré began to work as her father's main collaborator with much of his fieldwork in 1927, when she was seventeen years old. She accompanied him on excavations in Peninsular Spain through her university education and until the Spanish Civil War, later becoming a co-author on the report of their results. She attended the Complutense University of Madrid from 1928 to 1932, where she obtained a degree in history. In September 1929, she attended the IV International Congress of Classical Archaeology in Barcelona, where she presented the only study conducted by a Spanish woman. She also attended the XV International Congress of Prehistoric Archaeology and Anthropology in Portugal in 1930. The same year, her portrait was included in publications by the Portuguese and French press which discussed the modernity of Spanish women.
  Cabré taught as a professor at the University of Madrid and the Instituto-Escuela in Germany and Morocco, as well as on a Mediterranean study cruise hosted by the University of Madrid in 1933. However, the Francoist dictatorship forbade her from continuing her tenure at the University of Madrid. She became the only woman to have begun work on a doctoral thesis in the first three decades of the 20th century which she began after receiving a scholarship from the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios (an institution that managed the Center for Historical Studies). She used the scholarship to attend prehistory and ethnography courses at universities in Berlin and Hamburg in 1934 and 1935. There, she studied under German academics Leo Frobenius, Albert Kiekebusch, and Walter Matthes. From 1934 to 1936, she travelled to France, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Italy, and Switzerland as a part of a pedagogical initiative launched by Spanish government.
caption: The necropolis at Las Cogotas, photographed by Cabré in 1930
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