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Claire Smith (archaeologist)
Claire Smith , (born 15 July 1957) is an Australian Archaeology, archaeologist specialising in Indigenous archaeology, symbolic communication and rock art. She served as Dean (research), Dean (Research) of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University in 2017-2018 and, prior to that, as head of the Department of Archaeology. She served two terms as president of the World Archaeological Congress from 2003 to 2014 and greatly increased the organization's size and visibility. Among her many publications is the ''Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology'' (Springer 2014, 2020). Education and career Smith obtained a bachelor's degree in archaeology from the University of New England (Australia), University of New England in 1990, and a PhD from the same university in 1996. Her doctoral thesis was an Ethnoarchaeology, ethnoarchaeological study of Indigenous Australian art, Australian Aboriginal art. She also wrote a book called, "Decolonizing Indigenous Arc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Gero
Joan Margaret Gero (26 May 1944 – 14 July 2016) was an American archaeologist and pioneer of feminist archaeology. Her research focused on gender and power issues in prehistory, particularly in the Andean regions of Argentina and Peru. Biography Gero was born in New York City on 26 May 1944. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in English Literature in 1968, before receiving an M.Ed from Boston College in 1970. The next two years were spent teaching socioeconomically disadvantaged groups with the Teacher Corps. In 1972 Gero studied archaeology during a summer course in Oxford, excavating at an Iron Age site in Wiltshire. In 1974 Gero began graduate studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, with Martin Wobst, gaining a Phd in Anthropology in 1983. Gero taught at the University of South Carolina from 1983 to 1997. With Margaret Conkey she co-edited the groundbreaking 1991 volume ''Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory'', reprinted six t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |