期刊名称：Amphora: A publication of the American Philological Association
出版年度：2008
卷号：7
期号：01
出版社：American Philological Association
摘要：Antecedent, adventuress, or archaeolo -
gist? These were the labels used to
characterize some of the pioneering
women in anthropology and archaeology
in an exhibit at the library of the University
of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology
and Anthropology in 2000. In Breaking
Ground we find twelve biographies of
women who mostly fit in the third category,
ranging in time from the mid 1800s to the
late 1900s. In her introduction to this collection
Margaret Cool Root highlights the
framework of society in which these
women were educated and how the limitations
imposed on them by their own families
and the field of archaeology, just
beginning to emerge at this time as an academic
discipline, affected them individually
and personally. Yet each of them made
important contributions to the areas they
studied, and their lives provide an insight
into how they achieved what they did in
spite of outside obstacles.
