may i introduce... some awesome #trowelblazing women?
Good morning. Possibly, good afternoon. This post is actually not so much a me-post as it is a meme-post; I'd like to introduce you to the collective amazingness that is the new trowelblazers.tumblr.com/ . What's that? A midlands plastering company? No! It's ladies. Ladies with trowels. Or, possibly, ladies directing workmen with trowels. source: Illustration by John Kenney, from L. du Garde Peach (1961). Stone Age Man In Britain. A Ladybird Book. Wills & Hepworth Ltd., Loughborough. Reproduced from website. It's a celebration, brief, chipper and ever-so-slightly irreverent, of some of the pioneering women in the trowel-wielding fields: palaeontology, geology, and of course, archaeology. This is a labour of love by a dedicated team ( you'll know them as @toriherridge @lemoustier and @suzie_birch - me you had better have figured out already) who are compiling a fantastic tumblr of some of the forgotten female heroes of our respective discipline