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Books written by or about female archaeologists, or books in which a woman contributed significant content but may not have been credited due to the era in which it was published.
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Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble
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Marilyn Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 2,130 ratings
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Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists
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Getzel M. Cohen (editor)
4.67 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Tales from the Queen of the Desert
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Grit-Tempered: Early Women Archaeologists in the Southeastern United States (Ripley P. Bullen Series)
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Nancy Marie White (Editor)
4.60 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Joey Kelly and the Astonishing Discovery of Veiled Lake (Joey Kelly Adventure Series Book 1)
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Robert Rovegno (Goodreads Author)
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Born to Rebel: The Life of Harriet Boyd Hawes
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Ladies of the Field: Early Women Archaeologists and Their Search for Adventure
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Gournia, Vasiliki, and Other Prehistoric Sites on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete: Excavations of the Wells-Houston-Cramp Expeditions 1901, 1903, 1904
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The Decoration of the Tomb of Per-neb
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Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom
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The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Vol 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation and Commentary
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A Forest of Kings: The Untold Story of the Ancient Maya
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Studies in Ancient Furniture: Couches and Beds of the Greeks, Etruscans and Romans
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Creek Country: The Creek Indians and Their World
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4.25 avg rating — 48 ratings
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House X at Kommos: A Minoan Mansion near the Sea. Part 1: Architecture, Stratigraphy, and Selected Finds (Prehistory Monographs)
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Joseph W. Shaw (Editor)
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 94,
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Early Pottery: Technology, Function, Style, and Interaction in the Lower Southeast
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Rebecca Saunders (Contributor)
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A LM IA Ceramic Kiln in South-Central Crete: Function and Pottery Production
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Stability and Change in Guale Indian Pottery, A.D. 1300-1702
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4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Ancient Shipwrecks
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Bioarchaeology: An Integrated Approach to Working with Human Remains
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4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Bioarchaeology of Violence
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Debra L. Martin (Editor)
4.38 avg rating — 21 ratings
score: 90,
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Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times
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4.30 avg rating — 2,925 ratings
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Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean
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4.53 avg rating — 94 ratings
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The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance
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4.32 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Artifacts of the Spanish Colonies of Florida and the Caribbean, 1500-1800 - Volume 1: Ceramics, Glassware, and Beads
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Spanish St. Augustine: The Archaeology of a Colonial Creole Community
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4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Gender, Households, and Society: Unraveling the Threads of the Past and the Present
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Cynthia Robin (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Chan: An Ancient Maya Farming Community
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Cynthia Robin (Editor)
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score: 83,
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Everyday Life Matters: Maya Farmers at Chan
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Integrating Zooarchaeology and Paleoethnobotany: A Consideration of Issues, Methods, and Cases
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Amber M. VanDerwarker (Editor)
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Trends and Traditions in Southeastern Zooarchaeology (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
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Early and Middle Woodland Landscapes of the Southeast (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
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Alice P. Wright (Editor)
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How to Do Archaeology the Right Way
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People and the Land through Time: Linking Ecology and History
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The Magic School Bus Shows and Tells: A Book About Archaeology
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3.76 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Tomb Painting and Identity in Ancient Thebes, 1419-1372 BCE
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The Tomb Chapel of Menna (TT 69): The Art, Culture, and Science of Painting in an Egyptian Tomb (ARCE)
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Melinda K. Hartwig (Editor)
4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Archaeology for Dummies
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3.99 avg rating — 67 ratings
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Indian Art of Ancient Florida
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Florida's People During the Last Ice Age
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Presidio Santa María de Galve: A Struggle for Survival in Colonial Spanish Pensacola (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
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Judith A. Bense (Editor)
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Archaeology of the Southeastern United States
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4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Transformation of the Southeastern Indians, 1540-1760 (Chancellor Porter L. Fortune Symposium in Southern History Series)
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Robbie Ethridge (Editor)
4.43 avg rating — 14 ratings
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The Search for Nefertiti: The True Story of an Amazing Discovery
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3.93 avg rating — 546 ratings
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Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
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3.88 avg rating — 331 ratings
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Picture Cave: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Mississippian Cosmos (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
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Carol Diaz-Granados (Editor)
4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 64,
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From Chicaza to Chickasaw: The European Invasion and the Transformation of the Mississippian World, 1540-1715
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3.69 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Every Bone Tells a Story: Hominin Discoveries, Deductions, and Debates
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3.72 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Seasonality and Human Mobility Along the Georgia Bight
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Elizabeth J. Reitz (Editor)
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Mission and Pueblo of Santa Catalina de Guale, St. Catherines Island, Georgia: A Comparative Zooarchaeological Analysis
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The Archaeology of Ocmulgee Old Fields, Macon, Georgia
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The First Signs: Unlocking the Mysteries of the World's Oldest Symbols
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The Spanish Missions of La Florida
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Bonnie G. McEwan (Editor)
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community
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Tohopeka: Rethinking the Creek War and the War of 1812
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Marianne Mills (Foreword)
4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Freedom, 25,000 BC: Out From the Shadow of Popocatépetl (Pre-Clovis Archaeological Sites in the Americas Book 1)
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Bonnye Matthews (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Art and Archaeology of Florida's Wetlands
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Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
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Fit for War: Sustenance and Order in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century Catawba Nation (Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series)
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The Archaeology of Food and Warfare: Food Insecurity in Prehistory
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Amber M. VanDerwarker (Editor)
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