{"id":6222,"date":"2025-05-02T09:32:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=6222"},"modified":"2025-05-02T09:33:39","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T09:33:39","slug":"the-bilnas-archive-unearthing-the-legacies-of-female-archaeologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2025\/05\/02\/the-bilnas-archive-unearthing-the-legacies-of-female-archaeologists\/","title":{"rendered":"The BILNAS Archive: Unearthing the Legacies of Female Archaeologists"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farchiveshub.jisc.ac.uk%2Fsearch%2Flocations%2Ff79a64aa-8226-3d06-9dcf-6329c351546a&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C347e9fb8b3c34816501e08dd894ee27a%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638817694106183149%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=RP6QTLETL4ICz%2BMsE9up69%2BjdKBylczTf%2FqE6DwHVhs%3D&amp;reserved=0\">British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies Archive<\/a>\u00a0is based here at the University of Leicester. This <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk\/2025\/03\/03\/the-bilnas-archive-unearthing-the-legacies-of-female-archaeologists\/\">blog posting<\/a> highlights some online materials relating to several key women archaeologists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A key example is Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (1906 \u2013 1978), after whom a building on campus was recently named.  The BILNAS Archive holds the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiveshub.jisc.ac.uk%2Fdata%2Fgb3432-bilnas%2Fd5&amp;data=05%7C02%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C347e9fb8b3c34816501e08dd894ee27a%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C638817694106221346%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=7CGZL3Fqv6QksgwJxgRaElF4ScBcTt1%2FXn%2FzK74lMIk%3D&amp;reserved=0\">records of Kenyon\u2019s work<\/a>\u00a0at the site of Sabratha, a key Punic and Roman trading port on the Libyan Coast. There, alongside John Bryan Ward-Perkins, she refined stratigraphic excavation techniques to establish a chronological framework for the site. <br>It is possible to <a href=\"https:\/\/archaeologydataservice.ac.uk\/archives\/collections\/view\/1006907\/metadata.cfm\">consult the files and photographs<\/a>, and reports done by the entire team at the excavations. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies Archive\u00a0is based here at the University of Leicester. This blog posting highlights some online materials relating to several key women archaeologists. A key example is Dame Kathleen Mary Kenyon (1906 \u2013 1978), after whom a building on campus was recently named. The BILNAS Archive holds the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[732],"tags":[862,1033,811,810,99],"class_list":["post-6222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","tag-archaeology","tag-libya","tag-maghreb","tag-north-africa","tag-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6223,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6222\/revisions\/6223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}