Dear ALL,
With Autumn's permission, I am forwarding to you the following request.
As a historian, I am a specialist in the history of women
in science not in women in prehistory.
I am hoping that someone in the audience can help.
Thank you,
Pamela
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 14:53:41 -0400
From: David A Brewer <[log in to unmask]>
To: Pamela Jane Smith <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: WOMEN IN BRITISH PREHISTORY
Dear Pamela Smith,
Regrettably I missed your talk at the Cambridge Conference, for I
would like to have met and talked with you about the subject of this
e-mail.
As you may know, I am editing, with two UK collaborators, a volume
on British Women Inventors. As I did with my earlier solo book, MOTHERS &
DAUGHTERS OF INVENTION, I would like to begin in prehistory, applying the
arguments and principles of evidence used by Elizabeth Barber in WOMEN'S
WORK: THE FIRST 20,000 YEARS to one or more prehistoric technologies in the
British case.
Is that, given the artifacts available from sites you know,
possible, or am I being naive?
My collaborators and I will be grateful for any help or suggestions
you can give us--including at least a few references, and at most the
possibility that you could write such a piece for us. It could range from
a think-piece on why this has not been done to date, with some suggested
avenues for research, to a detailed analysis of one site where grave goods,
artifact hordes, or houses provide a basis for hypothesizing what women's
work (and therefore their inventions) may have been.
I will look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely yours,
Autumn Stanley
Independent Scholar
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