In Search of Traces: Women in Archaeology Since the Late 18th Century

Abstract

Historical-biographical approaches are useful ways of addressing gender issues in the history of science. We present our approaches, methods and sources and demonstrate the potential but also the limitations of historical-biographical research in its respective temporal and social contexts by examining the biographies of selected early female archaeologists. We begin in the late 18th century, when archaeology was just emerging as an independent discipline, and continue into the 21st century.