Open Lecture
Giovedì 3 aprile 2025 – ore 18.00

Towards a More Gender-Balanced History of Archaeology. Integrating Women into the Discipline’s Past

MARGARITA DIAZ-ANDREU
ICREA Research Professor
ICREA, University of Barcelona

Archaeology has long been shaped by narratives that marginalize women’s contributions, reinforcing a gender imbalance in the discipline’s history. This paper explores the reasons behind this and the strategies for integrating women into archaeology’s past, highlighting their roles as researchers, fieldworkers, and intellectual contributors. By re-examining historical records, reassessing key figures, and adopting inclusive methodologies, we can construct a more equitable disciplinary history. Drawing on case studies and feminist historiography, I will argue that a gender-balanced perspective enriches our understanding of archaeology’s development and challenges entrenched biases in the field.

Margarita Díaz-Andreu is an ICREA research professor, based at the University of Barcelona. She has been working in the fields of gender studies and the history of women in archaeology for the last three decades. She has contributed to these fields with edited books such as Excavating Women. The History of Women in European Archaeology (1998) and Voces in Crescendo (2022) and has recently published articles such as “The History of Gender Archaeology” in the Oxford Handbook of the History of Archaeology and “The Matilda Effect in archaeology. Recovering women for the history of the discipline” in theRoutledge Handbook of Gender Archaeology. She is currently leading the ArqueólogAs/Herstory project (www.ub.edu/arqueologas), which has compiled about two hundred biographies of women in the history of Spanish archaeology. She has also supervised several doctoral theses in this research field.

La conferenza fa parte del convegno Etruscologia al femminile

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