British women archaeologists

The list British women archaeologists includes Alice Roberts, Helen Geake, Mary Leakey, Carenza Lewis and Gertrude Bell. The list consists of 315 members and 3 sublists.

English women archaeologists
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Scottish women archaeologists
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Women archaeologists from Northern Ireland
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Alice Roberts

English academic, TV presenter and author

Overview: Alice May Roberts FRSB (born 19 May 1973) is an English biological anthropologist, biologist, television presenter and author. Since 2012 she has been Professor of the Public Engagement in Science at the ...

Date of birth: 19 May 1973

Age: 51

Nationality: British

Occupation: TV Personality

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 7" (170 cm)

Partner: David Stevens (Married)

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21st-century British women scientists 87T

Bioarchaeologists 10T

English women scientists 27T
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Helen Geake

Archaeologist

Overview: Helen Mary Geake FSA (born 1967) is a British archaeologist and small finds specialist. She was one of the key members of Channel 4's long-running archaeology series Time Team.

Date of birth: 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: British

Occupation: Scientist

Gender: Female

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People associated with the Portable Antiquities Scheme 3T

Green Party of England and Wales parliamentary candidates 37T

Archaeologists appearing on Time Team 16T
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Raksha Dave

Archaeologist and television presenter

Overview: Raksha Dave (born 1977) is an archaeologist and TV presenter.

Date of birth: 1977

Age: 47

Nationality: British

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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Archaeologists appearing on Time Team 20T

Channel 4 presenters 52T

British people of Gujarati descent 48T
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Carenza Lewis

British archaeologist

Overview: Professor Carenza Rachel Lewis FSA FHEA FRSA (born 30 November 1963) is a British academic archaeologist and television presenter.

Date of birth: 30 November 1963

Age: 61

Nationality: British

Occupation: Academic

Gender: Female

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People of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England 32T

Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts 230T

Archaeologists appearing on Time Team 16T
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Mary Leakey

British paleoanthropologist (1913–1996)

Overview: Mary Douglas Leakey, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised Proconsul skull, an extinct ape which is now believed to be ...

Date of birth: 6 February 1913

Date of death: 9 December 1996

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

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British women anthropologists 81T

Members of the Society of Woman Geographers 64T

20th-century American women scientists 967T
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Gertrude Bell

English writer, traveller, political officer, and archaeologist

Overview: Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell, CBE (14 July 1868 – 12 July 1926) was an English writer, traveller, political officer, administrator, and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential ...

Date of birth: 14 July 1868

Date of death: 12 July 1926

Age: 57 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Explorer

Gender: Female

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British women travel writers 106T

Daughters of baronets 142T

English Arabists 10T
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Caroline Sturdy Colls

British forensic archaeologist

Overview: Caroline Sturdy Colls (born 1985) is a Professor of Conflict Archaeology and Genocide Investigation at Staffordshire University specializing in Holocaust studies, identification of human remains, forensic ...

Date of birth: 1985

Age: 39

Nationality: British

Occupation: Academic

Gender: Female

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21st-century British women writers 715T

British women historians 481T

Women archaeologists 569T
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Meave Leakey

Archiologist

Overview: Meave G. Leakey (born Meave Epps on 28 July 1942 in London, England) is a British palaeoanthropologist. She works at Stony Brook University and is co-ordinator of Plio-Pleistocene research at the Turkana ...

Date of birth: 28 July 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

Partner: Richard Leakey (Married)

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British women anthropologists 81T

Archaeologists from London 21T

Foreign associates of the National Academy of Sciences 979T
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Joann Fletcher

British egyptologist

Overview: Joann Fletcher (born 30 August 1966) is an Egyptologist and an honorary visiting professor in the department of archaeology at the University of York. She has published a number of books and academic ...

Date of birth: 30 August 1966

Age: 58

Nationality: British

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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British Egyptologists 53T

Academics of the University of York 173T

British archaeologists 456T
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Stephanie West

British scholar in classics and ancient history

Overview: Stephanie West, FBA (née Pickard) is a British classical scholar specialising in the study of Homer, Herodotus, and Lycophron.

Nationality: British

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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Women classical scholars 334T

Fellows of the British Academy 2,073T

Classical archaeologists 230T
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Lorraine Copeland

British archaeologist

Overview: Lorraine Copeland (born Elizabeth Lorraine Adie, 1921–April 2013) was an archaeologist specialising in the Palaeolithic period of the Near East. She was a secret agent with the Special Operations Executive ...

Date of birth: 1921

Date of death: 1 May 2013

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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Copeland family 5T

British Special Operations Executive personnel 166T

2013 deaths 9,323T
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Roya Arab

British singer

Overview: Roya Arab (born 1967, in Tehran, Iran) is a UK-based Iranian musician and archaeologist. Besides music, Roya has a passion for all things Iranian/Persian, past and present.

Date of birth: 1967

Age: 57

Nationality: Iranian

Occupation: Musician

Gender: Female

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Iranian women archaeologists 2T

20th-century British women singers 37T

21st-century British women singers 43T
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Joyce Tyldesley

British archaeologist and Egyptologist

Overview: Joyce Ann Tyldesley (born 25 February 1960) is a British archaeologist and Egyptologist, academic, writer and broadcaster who specialises in the women of ancient Egypt.

Date of birth: 25 February 1960

Age: 65

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

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People educated at Bolton School 81T

English Egyptologists 69T

Women archaeologists 601T
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Dorothy Garrod

First female Professor at Cambridge

Overview: Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA (5 May 1892 – 18 December 1968) was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period. She held the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology ...

Date of birth: 5 May 1892

Date of death: 18 December 1968

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: English

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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British women scientists 360T

People associated with the Pitt Rivers Museum 18T

Archaeologists of the Near East 67T
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Lady Hester Stanhope

British archaeologist

Overview: Lady Hester Lucy Stanhope (12 March 1776 – 23 June 1839) was a British aristocrat, adventurer, antiquarian, and one of the most famous travellers of her age. Her archaeological excavation of Ashkelon ...

Date of birth: 12 March 1776

Date of death: 23 June 1839

Age: 63 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Socialite

Gender: Female

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People from Chevening, Kent 12T

19th-century travelers 7T

English political hostesses 15T
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Claire Barratt

Industrial archaeologist, steam engineer and television presenter

Overview: Claire Barratt (born 1974) is an English industrial archaeologist, steam engineer and television presenter.

Date of birth: 1974

Age: 50

Nationality: British

Occupation: Anthropologist

Gender: Female

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British mechanical engineers 120T

Women archaeologists 569T

English civil engineers 292T
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Carol Palmer

British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and botanist

Overview: Carol Palmer is a British anthropologist, environmental archaeologist and botanist. She is currently Director of the British Institute in Amman, an Honorary Fellow at Bournemouth University, and a part ...

Nationality: British

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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Sally Foster

Scottish archaeologist and senior lecturer at the University of Stirling

Overview: Sally M. Foster FSA FSA Scot is a Scottish archaeologist and senior lecturer at the University of Stirling. She specialises in the archaeology of Scotland, particularly the Picts and their neighbours in ...

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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Lindsay Allason-Jones

20th and 21st-century British archaeologist

Overview: Lindsay Allason-Jones, OBE, FSA, FSA Scot is a British archaeologist and museum professional specialising in Roman material culture, Hadrian's Wall, Roman Britain, and the presence and role of ...

Nationality: British

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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Susan Sherratt

British archaeologist (born 1949)

Overview: Susan Sherratt FSA FSA Scot (born 26 September 1949) is Reader in Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. Her research focuses on the archaeology of the Bronze and Early Iron Ages of ...

Date of birth: 26 September 1949

Age: 75

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Archaeologist

Gender: Female

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