ABSTRACT
‘From Pictures to Stories’ is a historiography of female PhD graduates whose ‘archaeological lives’ crossed at the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Tübingen, during the first 50 years of its existence. Except for single articles (for example Mertens 1992 and Schwarz 1994 on the subject of Egyptology) the results presented here are the first steps towards an historiography of women in German archaeology. Inspired by the ‘ancestors’ row’ made out of photographs on a wall that everyone has to pass on the way to the library at the department (Figure 13.1), we began to ask ourselves who the few women among the great number of men were. Prior to this, we had only come across the name of one of these women. All the others produced large question marks. In general, the history of the department is not a matter of great importance in seminars and lectures. When historical overviews are given, biographies of ‘important’ Tübingen archaeologists are described. The product is a history that does not contain any women at all. While following the traces of the seven women who received their PhDs between 1921 and 1971, we not only got to know some of them, but also learnt of the complex, as yet unrevised history of the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology in Tübingen. ‘Ancestors' row' in the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Tübingen https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9780203981511/0f8402ec-b8ee-4535-a53b-cd5f0dcf890c/content/fig13_1_B.jpg" xmlns:xlink="https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"/>
