Archaeology, Sexism and Scandal

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The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, ushered a sea change in how archaeologists study material culture—and was once the nexus of one of the vital egregious (and underreported) cases of plagiarism within the history of classical archaeology. Alan Kaiser draws at the private scrapbook that budding archaeologist Mary Ross Ellingson compiled throughout that dig, in addition to her personal correspondence and materials from major university archives, to color an interesting picture of gender, power, and archaeology within the early twentieth century.

Using Ellingson’s photographs and letters as a guide, Kaiser brings alive the excavations led by David Robinson and recounts how the unearthing of private homes—somewhat than public spaces—emerged as a means to examine the day by day of ancient life in Greece. But as Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal clearly demonstrates, a darker story lurks beneath the smiling faces and humorous tales: one where Robinson stole Ellingson’s words and insights for his own, and where fellow academics were complicit within the theft.

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