Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Women of the Field, Defining the Gendered Experience / Margaret Cool Root -- Jane Dieulafoy, 1851-1916 / Eve Gran-Aymerich -- Esther B. Van Deman, 1862-1937 / Katherine Welch -- Margaret Alice Murray, 1863-1963 / Margaret S. Drower -- Gertrude L. Bell, 1868-1926 / Julia M. Asher-Greve -- Harriet Boyd Hawes, 1871-1945 / Vasso Fotou and Ann Brown -- Edith Hayward Hall Dohan, 1879-1943 / Katherine Dohan Morrow -- Hetty Goldman, 1881-1972 / Machteld J. Mellink and Kathleen M. Quinn -- Gertrude Caton-Thompson, 1888-1985 / Margaret S. Drower -- Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, 1892-1968 / Ofer Bar-Yosef and Jane Callander -- Winifred Lamb, 1894-1963 / David W. J. Gill -- Theresa B. Goell, 1901-1985 / Donald H. Sanders with David W. J. Gill -- Kathleen Kenyon, 1906-1978 / William G. Dever -- Conclusion -- Glossary -- Contributors -- Index -- Maps -- Illustrations.
Biographies of twelve often-overlooked woman archaeologists.