In 1917, Hawes went to Corfu with supplies for soldiers wounded in World War I. In 1910, Smith college bestowed on her an honorary degree. She excavated many more Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the Aegean and became a recognized authority on the area. The report of her findings was published in 1908 by the American Exploration Society. In 1902, she described her discovery during a national lecture tour and was the first woman to speak before the Archeological Institute of America.
She was the first woman to direct a major field project, her crew consisted of over 100 workers. Between 19, while on leave of absence from Smith, she returned to Crete where she discovered and excavated a Minoan town at Gournia, dating to the Early Bronze Age, over 3,000 years ago.
In 1900, she returned to the United States and started teaching Greek and Greek archeology at Smith College. This was a very brave move, since Crete was just emerging from the war and was far from being safe. Frustrated by lack of support, she took the remainder of her fellowship and went on her own in search of archeological remains on the island of Crete. She asked her professors to be allowed to participate in the school's archeological fieldwork, but instead she was being encouraged to become an academic librarian. During her stay in Greece she also served as a volunteer nurse in Thessaly during the Greco-Turkish War. After working as a teacher for four years, she started graduate work at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Greece. and graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1882 (1892?). She was born Octoin Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Harriet Boyd Hawes was the first archeologist to discover and excavate a Minoan settlement. A bureaucratic blunder by BOA.still no relief fo.ĭistinguished Women of Past and Present.More on Australian Aboriginal Astronomical Symbolism.
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