Dame Kathleen Kenyon has always been a larger-than-life figure,
likely the most influential woman archaeologist of the 20th
century. In the first full-length biography of Kenyon, Miriam Davis
recounts not only her many achievements in the field but also her
personal side, known to very few of her contemporaries. Her public
side is a catalog of major successes: discovering the oldest city
at Jericho with its amazing collection of plastered skulls;
untangling the archaeological complexities of ancient Jerusalem and
identifying the original City of David; participating in the
discipline's most famous all-woman excavation at Great Zimbabwe.
Her development (with Sir Mortimer Wheeler) of stratigraphic
trenching methods has been universally emulated by archaeologists
for over half a century. Her private life--her childhood as
daughter of the director of the British Museum, her accidental
choice of a career in archaeology, her working at bombed sites in
London during the blitz, and her solitary retirement to Wales--are
generally unknown. Davis provides a balanced and illuminating
picture of both the public Dame Kenyon and the private person.
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