Gournia
The American archaeologist Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes (1871-1945) had been granted permission to excavate on Crete in 1900. She began excavations at Gournia in 1901. She had graduated from Smith College nine years earlier, in 1892, with a B.A. in Classics. She received an M.A. from Smith in 1901, and taught there from 1900 until 1905. She married in 1906. From 1920 until her retirement in 1936, she taught Ancient Art at Wellesley College.
Plan of the Town of Gournia
Plan of the Palace at Gournia
Stepped Street in the Town of Gournia
Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes
Harriet Ann Boyd Hawes photographed with her excavation team in 1908. She is standing in the second row on the right next to Edith Hayward Hall Dohan (1877-1943), another woman archaeologist with a B.A. from Smith (1899) and a Ph.D. in classical archaeology from Bryn Mawr College (1906).
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