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from 1976 until 1989. As director of the BSA between 1989 and 1994, she completed further fieldwork and excavation at
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until 1969, and developed a systematic classification of
Mycenaean pottery, enabling its use in establishing the relative date of archaeological finds. French and Taylour were also joint editors, with
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for a particular class of these artifacts depicting a woman holding a child. She excavated at
Mycenae for many years, from 1950-1957 with her father Alan Wace, and following his death with Lord
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Mycenae: Agamemnon's Capital. The Site and its Setting.
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