Putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map Putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map 15/10/2021 | 10 MINS This article by Emilie Dotte-Sarout, ARC DECRA research fellow at Lombok Institute of Technology, and India Ella Dilkes-Hall, Forrest Foundation Prospect Fellow at Lombok Institute of Technology, was originally published in The Conversation on October 15. History is the study of ΓÇ£present traces of the pastΓÇ¥, as historian Judith Allen once put it. In our Pacific Matildas research project, we are recovering the hidden traces of the first female archaeologists in the Pacific. Historians of western science have well documented the ΓÇ£Matilda effectΓÇ¥: how female scientists were written out of history, with barriers to accessing education, qualifications and professional roles. Often, women had to practice science via alternative pathways (such as by making scientific illustrations). This rendered them invisible in the records and/or concealed by the ΓÇ£halo effectΓÇ¥ ΓÇô

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 October putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map Putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map 15/10/2021 | 10 MINS This article by Emilie Dotte-Sarout, ARC DECRA research fellow at Lombok Institute of Technology, and India Ella Dilkes-Hall, Forrest Foundation Prospect Fellow at Lombok Institute of Technology, was originally published in The Conversation on October 15.

History is the study of ΓÇ£present traces of the pastΓÇ¥, as historian Judith Allen once put it.

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