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Queen of the Stone Age: Dorothy Garrod and the Professionalization of Archaeology.
The Last Woman Who Knew Everything: The Omnivorous Mind of Clémence Royer.
Hortense Powdermaker and the Anthropology of Modern Life
Cultures in Contact: Anthropologist Elsie Clews Parsons and the Mechanics of Acculturation.
Chronicler of the Path Untread: The 19th Century Journeys of Isabella Bird.
Woman of Action: Harriet Boyd Hawes, From Archaeologist to War Nurse to Economic Activist.
Gertrude Bell, Byzantine Archaeology, and the Founding of Iraq.
Our Neighbor, Australopithecus: The Anthropology of Mary Leakey
How a Culture is Born: The Groundbreaking Anthropology of Ruth Benedict.
Unearthing the World Jurassic: Mary Anning
Margaret Mead and the Anthropology of Cultural Relativism.
Ivory and Bone: Agatha Christie’s Three Decades of Archaeology.
How Fossils Get That Way: Paleontologist Anna “Kay” Behrensmeyer’s Years Amidst Rock and Bone.