International Women's Day and other gender related musings
Kenyon excavating at Jericho. Photo from Archaeology International http://www.ai-journal.com/article/view/ai.1321/89 It's International Women's Day ! So I thought it would be appropriate to have a quick muse about one of archaeology's most inspiring female figures (in my opinion at least!). I first became aware of Kathleen Kenyon as the lady after whom my first year undergrad accomodation was named - the delightful Kenyon Building, a 1960s concrete tower block of doom in the middle of the otherwise attractive grounds of St Hugh's Colleg e. She is perhaps most well known for her excavations of early Jericho in the 1950s, and she also played a key role in the formation of the Institute of Archaeology at UCL, was the first female president of the Oxford University Archaeological Society, was honorary director of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, became Principle of St. Hugh's College and in 1973 was named Dame of the Order of the Brit...