Gertrude Caton Thompson

Gertrude Caton Thompson FBA (1 ga Fabrairu 1888 - 18 ga Afrilu 1985)  ta kasance masanin kimiyyar Ingilishi a lokacin da mata suka shiga cikin horo ba su da yawa. Yawancin ayyukanta na archaeological an gudanar da su ne a Misira. Koyaya, ta kuma yi aiki a kan balaguro a Zimbabwe, Malta, da Kudancin Arabiya. 

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Gertrude Caton Thompson ga William Caton Thompson da Ethel Gertrude Page a cikin 1888 a London, Ingila. Ta halarci makarantu masu zaman kansu a Paris da Eastbourne, gami da Links School, wanda Miss Hawtrey ke gudanarwa. Sha'awarta ga ilimin kimiyyar tarihi ta fara ne a kan tafiya zuwa Misira tare da mahaifiyarta a 1911, sannan ta biyo bayan jerin laccoci game da Tsohon Girka da Sarah Paterson ta bayar a Gidan Tarihin Burtaniya. Wani gado da aka karɓa a 1912 ya taimaka wajen tabbatar da 'yancin kai na kudi da kuma tallafawa binciken da ta yi daga baya.

Kwarewar farko ta Caton Thompson a fagen ta zo ne a 1915 tana aiki a matsayin mai wanke kwalba a wani tono a Faransa. A lokacin yakin duniya na farko, ta yi aiki ga Ma'aikatar Jirgin Ruwa ta Burtaniya a matsayin wani ɓangare na abin da ta halarci Taron Zaman Lafiya na Paris a 1919. 

 Aiki a Malta 
A cikin 1921, an gayyaci Margaret Murray don tonowa a Borg a Nadur, wani haikalin megalithic kusa da St George's Bay a Malta, ta hanyar Themistocles Zammit .  Wannan aikin ya zama wani ɓangare na bincikenta mafi girma a kudancin Malta, kuma Gertrude Caton-Thompson na daga cikin ƙungiyar mata da ke tare da ita.

Ayyukan Gertrude sun haɗa da binciken wani kogo na prehistoric kusa da haikalin a Ghar Dalam, neman kwanyar Neanderthal a matsayin shaida ga gadar ƙasa tsakanin Malta da nahiyar Afirka. Kodayake ba ta sami shaidar da za ta goyi bayan wannan ka'idar ba, binciken ya samar da wasu sanannun kayan tarihi, kamar tukwane na Bronze Age wanda ya yi daidai da salon Sicilian na wannan lokacin.

 Aiki a Misira 
A cikin shekarun 1920 ta yi aiki a matsayin masanin ilimin kimiyyar tarihi, da farko a Misira don Makarantar Archaeology ta Burtaniya ta Masar, kodayake ta kuma gudanar da aikin gona a Malta. A Misira ta shiga cikin tonowa a wurare da yawa ciki har da Abydos,  El-Badari,  da Qau el Kebir.  Caton Thompson ya yi sha'awar musamman a duk fannoni na Prehistoric Egypt kuma yana ɗaya daga cikin masu binciken tarihi na farko da suka kalli cikakken lokaci daga Palaeolithic har zuwa Predynastic Egypt.Weedman, Kathryn (2001). "Who's "That Girl": British, South African, and American Women as Africanist Archaeologists in Colonial Africa (1860s–1960s)". The African Archaeological Review. 18 (1): 11. doi:10.1023/A:1006793522666. Archived from the original on 16 March 2023. Retrieved 15 November 2024. Caton Thompson ba wai kawai ta sami kayan tarihi da yawa daga Masar ba, ta kuma shirya nune-nunen su a Nunin Masar a Ingila. Yawancin waɗannan abubuwan da aka gano yanzu suna cikin tarin dindindin na Gidan Tarihi na Burtaniya,  tare da ƙananan tarin a Gidan Tarihin Ashmolean a Oxford da Gidan Tarih na Birmingham da Art Gallery."Miss Gertrude Caton-Thompson (Biographical details)". The British Museum. Archived from the original on 23 February 2016. Retrieved 14 October 2015.

 Manazarta 
Rukuni:Mutuwan 1985