ABSTRACT
Invisible Hands: Women in Bioarchaeology Mary Lucas Powell, Della Collins Cook, Georgieann Bogdan, Jane E. Buikstra, Mario M. Castro, Patrick D. H om e, David R. Hunt, Richard T. Koritzer, Sheila Ferraz Mendon^a de Souza, Mary Kay Sandford, Laurie Saunders, Glaucia Aparecida Malerba Sene, Lynne Sullivan, and John J. Swetnam
Frank Spencer’s monumental compendium, The History o f Physical Anthro pology: An Encyclopedia, Volumes 1 and 2 (1997c), contains approximately 304 primary name entries. Of these, 296 are men and 8 are women. Among the women, only the anatomist and skeletal biologist Mildred Trotter is from the United States; one other was associated with physical anthropology in the Americas (Diaz Ungria, educated in Spain and a cofounder of the Department of Anthropology at the Central University of Venezuela). Have there truly been so few women’s contributions? We beg to disagree.
