Women in archaeology
By: edited by Cheryl Claassen.
Contributors: Claassen, Cheryl, 1953-
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Women archaeologists -- United States -- Biography; Women archaeologists -- United States
Description: "Pt. 1 of this collection presents a history of women in Americanist archaeology, including a biography of Dorothy Hughes Popenoe who conducted early stratigraphic excavations in Honduras. Pt. 2  focuses on the current status of North American women in Mesoamerican archaeology and problems of gender bias. Valuable discussion of issues, but non-US archaeologists are not covered"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-244) and index.