Archaeology, Environment, & Society
I went up to Little River Canyon National Preserve on Saturday while waiting to close on my house. The canyon and falls are lovely, and I also saw a lizard, a submerged historic quern stone, evidence of controlled burning, and only two ticks (that I know of..).
By Brenna Hassett, Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Rebecca Wragg Sykes, and Tori Herridge
Stories of pioneering women in the “digging” sciences have been skewed toward those who were White, wealthy, and networked. The TrowelBlazers project aims to reset our imagination—and our future.
For Women’s History Month, it has become traditional to rifle through the great names of the past, pluck out a few that strike the imagination and have the appropriate gender marker, and dust them off for a new audience. We should know—we run the TrowelBlazers project, a largely community-sourced archive of biographies of women in the “digging” sciences: archaeology, geology, and palaeontology.
This might just be my best attempt yet at an Icelandic layer cake!
Wishing you all the best for the holidays and the oncoming year.
