ABSTRACT
Studies in the history of archaeology tend to favor a heroic male fieldworker. This approach unfortunately eschews the work done by archaeologists in other academic areas, such as in the museum, in the library, and in the classroom. In fact, coursework, museum collections, and the classroom were crucial to training future archaeologists for their careers in the field, as collectors, and as teachers. This chapter highlights the classroom training of archaeologists in the early twentieth century by focusing on the Egyptology program at University College London (UCL). I explore part of the career of Margaret Alice Murray (1863–1963; fig 8.1), who spent much of her life training students in the classroom. It was her organization and consolidation of the first two-year training program in archaeology at UCL that produced graduates who became famous field archaeologists.
