Harriet Boyd-Hawes
Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes ( Boyd Hawes, born October 11, 1871 in Boston, Massachusetts, † March 31, 1945 in Washington DC) was an American archaeologist. She was the first woman to lead archaeological excavations, and dug from 1901 to 1904 the Minoan town of Gournia on the island of Crete from.
Life
Harriet Ann Boyd was the daughter of Alexander Boyd leather merchant and had four older brothers. Her mother Harriet Fay Wheeler Boyd died when she was a child. After graduating in 1888 at the Prospect Hill School in Greenfield ( Massachusetts), she studied at Smith College in Northampton (Massachusetts ) Classical Studies and reached 1892 degrees Bachelor of Arts.
1896 Harriet Ann Boyd went to Greece and attended the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. In 1897 she went to work during the Greek -Turkish War as a nurse and works in Thessaly and in 1898 during the Spanish- American War in Florida. In 1899 she received the Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellowship Fellowship from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, which was doped with 1000 U.S. dollars.
As a woman, her participation in archaeological excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens was denied and her professor advised her to work as a librarian. But Harriet did not take this back and decided to finance their excavation with the money of their fellowship. So she went to Crete in 1900. Arthur Evans, who worked at Knossos, advised her to dig in Kavousi. Here she discovered during her four-month excavation houses and graves of the Geometric period. She described the excavation finds in her master's thesis and received this 1901 Master of Arts degree from Smith College.
1901 Harriet Boyd went back to Crete and began the excavations in Gournia, where she discovered a Minoan city. 1903 and 1904 they continued the excavations and discovered on the nearby hills Sphoungaras Minoan tombs.
Boyd learned in Crete the British anthropologist Charles Henry Hawes, whom she married on March 3, 1906. On December 3, 1906, her son Alexander was born in August 1910 and Mary Nesbit, under the name Mary Allsebrook with her daughter later wrote a biography of her mother. In February 1910, the family moved to Hanover, New Hampshire. Harriet Boyd Hawes - 1916 was used again as a volunteer nurse in a hospital for cholera and typhoid patients on the island of Corfu. From 1919 to 1936 she lived with her husband in Boston and Cambridge, until they moved into their retirement home, a small farm in Alexandria, Virginia. When Charles Hawes died in 1943, Harriet went into a nursing home in Washington DC where she died on March 31, 1945, of peritonitis.
Works
- Pottery of the prehistoric settlement at GOURNIA and its neighborhood in Crete, University of Pennsylvania, 1905
- Gournia, Vasiliki and other prehistoric cities on the Isthmus of Ierapetra, Crete; excavations of the Wells- Houston - Cramp expeditions in 1901, 1903, 1904, the American Society exploration, Free Museum of Science and Art, 1908
- Crete: the forerunner of Greece, Harper & brothers, 1909
- A Gift of Themistocles: Two famous reliefs in Rome and Boston in the American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 28 (1922 ), pp. 81-82 (online)
- A Gift of Themistocles: The ' Ludovisi Throne ' and the Boston relief. in American Journal of Archaeology, Volume 28 (1922 ), pp. 278-306 (online)
- Cabbages and Peanuts, Saalfield Publishing, 1929 ( children's book with illustrations by remote Bisel Peat ), ASIN B000NL66K4
- Animal Crackers ( Happy Time Stories ), Saalfield Publishing, 1930 ( children's book with illustrations by remote Bisel Peat ), ASIN B00112EGJ2
- Ready - guide: Boston, Cambridge, Brookline; tercentenary. , Marshall Jones Company, 1936, ASIN B0008BDARQ
- Smith college studies in history, Smith College, 1964
- A country called Crete: Minoan and Mycenaean art from American and European public and private collections, Smith College Museum of Art, 1967