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Kathleen Kenyon's years active
Kenyon’s most famous excavation/discovery is Jericho’s past through the stratigraphy technique she learned from Sir Mortimer Wheeler. She discovered what led to Jericho’s downfall, and that the biblical stories of Jericho could not have happened the way they were narrated. Kenyon is also known for her refinement of the box grid excavation method, which was originally developed by Sir Mortimer Wheeler. -
Ian Hodder's year of Ph.d
He has explored the effects of non-positivistic methods in archaeology. Him and his team record
their own individual interpretation of the site. He looks at the social and economic organization
of one of the world’s earliest societies. The project has three aims- to place the art from the site
in its full environmental, economic and social context, to conserve the paintings, plasters and
mud walls, and to present the site to the public -
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Rosemary Joyce's years of Ph.D
She looked into remains and artifacts from Central America and Mexico including households and ceramics to create theories about gender and sex roles in early cultures. Her research demonstrated that women held some positions of power but were not publicly displayed in such positions. She also notes a “fluid gender spectrum” during the time. She also discusses the sexualization of both men and women in Mayan culture and artwork/sculptur -
Theresa Singleton's year of Ph.D
Theresa Singleton is an archaeologist focusing her research mainly in Africa, the Caribbean, and the US. She received her PHD from University of Florida in 1980. She focuses on slavery in the US. She is known for exploring slave homes in the US and the Caribbean. Her writings include The Archaeology of Slavery and Plantation Life and Slavery Behind the Wall: An Archaeology of a Cuban Coffee Plantation. She is a professor at Syracuse and curates for the National Museum of Natural History. -
Julia Hendon year of Ph.D
Julia Hendon received her Ph.D in 1987. The majority of their fieldwork was done in Honduras. She also conducted field work in Guatemala, Belize, England, and Arizona. Their academic focuses are archeology, anthropology, technology, and pedagogy. She wrote Houses in a Landscape: Memory and Everyday Life in Mesoamerica, which looks at 3 Prehispanic Honduran societies and conducts an archeological study of social memory through these societies. -
Meredith Chesson year of Ph.D
Has led expeditions of the Dead Sea Plain, Italy, and Ireland, investigating and understanding how people lived their daily lives in the past. She also focuses on relating archaeological findings to modern day gender studies. -
Tiffiny Tung year of Ph.D
Tiffany Tung is an anthropological bioarcheologist, focusing on paleopathology. She looks at society’s influence on health outcomes for populations in the Peruvian Andes. Tung particularly focuses on how imperialism and colonialism has impacted communities. She got her Ph.D. from UNC Chapel Hill and is currently teaching at Vanderbilt.