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to give more people to work on a "waste dump" area of the digging grounds, only Hall, a first year student Leslie Shear and another woman named Miss Boyle worked on the site. In the early weeks of digging at her new site, she discovered thousands of shards of pottery, but after several weeks, Hall discovered there was not a correlation between depth and age and finding that the shards she had been uncovering dated back to around 2000 B.C. Spending more time on this dig site, Hall was able to recover "twenty thousand vase fragments, but only five joints were made."
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11:00... Hall would return at 3:00 and stay until sunset... followed by a swim in the sea before dinner, would conclude her day." Hall and Boyd would have other obligations due to being women in their dig group. They would need to participate in local events such as attending weddings or funerals in order to gain favor of the locals to be able to dig for future years.
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After spending time at Boyd's dig site, Hall asked Boyd if she could have her own dig site. Boyd obliged, and gave Hall a site that was thought to be unimportant land in the main digging sites. Following her procedures of recording place and depth at her old digging site. Since Boyd could not afford
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Once returning to their original dig site, Boyd hired "about one hundred local men" to work alongside Boyd and Hall to help. While the workers were digging throughout the day, Hall's day consisted of "arriving to the field by 7:30 A.M., her and Boyd would direct men until they broke at around
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On December 31, 1877, Dohan was born as Edith Hayward Hall in New Haven, Connecticut. Edith's father was Ely Ransom Hall, a teacher. Edith's mother was Mary Jane (new Smith). Edith was the second of three children with a father who attended
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On May 12, 1915, Dohan married Joseph M. Dohan, a lawyer and gentleman farmer. Dohan's children were David Hayward Warrington Dohan and Katharine Elizabeth Dohan. In 1939, Dohan's daughter Katharine Elizabeth Dohan married Sir
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in 1910 and 1912. Her time teaching at Mount Holyoke College came to an end in 1912 but Hall would return in 1913 to give a guest presentation. In 1912, Dohan became the assistant curator of the Mediterranean Section at the
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to become a part time instructor. In 1920, Dohan became a consultant for the Penn Museum and later in 1930 she became the associate curator. In 1942, Dohan became the curator at the
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From all of the findings at Hall's dig site, she "received an invitation to present her findings at the International Archaeological Congress in Athens in early 1905."
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During Hall's time at the dig site, she would have to take notes on where any object was found, how deep they were underground, and clean them in
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Hall then attended Smith College in Northampton, MA. Her classes included Greek, Latin, and Mathematics. In 1899, Dohan received her B.A. from
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Edith attended Woodstock Academy in Woodstock, Connecticut along with her brother and sister where her father Ely Hall was the principal.
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in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. During her time at Bryn Mawr she was awarded the Mary E. Garrett Fellowship. Hall applied for the
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While attending Bryn Mawr Hall was awarded the Mary E. Garrett Fellowship. Hall was also awarded the
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which ended up forming the first Mycenaean and pre-Mycenaean collection to be displayed in America.
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In February, 1904, Richard Seager sent Edith Hall news via telegram that she was invited to join
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Hall's dig ended in the later half of May, 1905. Boyd and Hall shipped their findings to the
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Hall was able to receive a grant from the American Exploration Society specifically to be in
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designs, which meant she did not need much training compared to other candidates.
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came to an end in 1905. In 1906, Dohan earned a PhD in classical archaeology from
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In 1908, Dohan started her career as an instructor of classical archaeology at
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as Boyd wished to have a female companion to join her team on excavations in
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and pre-Mycenaean collection to be displayed in America. Hall later wrote
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Edith Hall Dohan; University of Pennsylvania. University Museum (1942).
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Crete beyond the palaces : proceedings of the Crete 2000 Conference
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to be photographed and placed in scrapbooks documenting their findings.
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Edward T. James; Janet Wilson James; Paul S. Boyer, eds. (1971).
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University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
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Hall and Boyd had never met each other prior to Hall arriving to
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Dohan's 1907 dissertation focused on art in Bronze Age Crete.
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Notable American Women, 1607–1950: A Biographical Dictionary
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in her early career that most notably brought the first
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Dohan later went on to do noteworthy work on ancient
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Index

Edith Hayward Hall Dohan
Edith Hall
Bryn Mawr College
Harriet Boyd
Mycenaean
Crete
Bronze Age
Yale University
Smith College
Bryn Mawr College
Agnes Hoppin Memorial Fellow
American School of Classical Studies in Athens
American School of Classical studies
Bryn Mawr College
Harriet Boyd
Gournia
Crete
Gournia
Gournia
Minoan
Mycenaean pottery
hydrochloric acid
United States
Mount Holyoke College
Penn Museum
Penn Museum
Bryn Mawr College
University Museum at University of Pennsylvania
Greece
Crete

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