Boyd displays pieces of broken Minoan bowls, jars, and vases in 1902. Harriet Boyd-Hawes (October 11, 1871 - March 31, 1945) was a pioneering American archeologist, nurse and relief worker. In 1896 she started graduate work at the American School of Class
Boyd displays pieces of broken Minoan bowls, jars, and vases in 1902. Harriet Boyd-Hawes (October 11, 1871 - March 31, 1945) was a pioneering American archeologist, nurse and relief worker. In 1896 she started graduate work at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and also served as a volunteer nurse in Thessaly during the Greco-Turkish War. She asked to be allowed to participate in the school's archeological fieldwork, but was encouraged to become an academic librarian instead. She took the remainder of her fellowship and went on her own in search of archeological remains on the island of Crete. In 1900 she led an excavation at Kavousi during which she discovered settlements and cemeteries of Late Minoan IIIC, Early Iron Age, and Early Archaic date (1200-600 BC) at the sites of Vronda and Kastro. She accepted a position at Smith College teaching Greek Archaeology and subsequently received her in 1901. She taught at Smith until 1905, but still made frequent trips abroad for archaeological excursions. Between 1901 and 1904, she returned to Crete where she discovered and excavated the Minoan town at Gournia. She was the first woman to direct a major field project in Greece, her crew consisting of over 100 workers. In 1902, she described her discovery during a national lecture tour and was the first woman to speak before the Archaeological Institute of America. During another trip to Crete, she met Charles Henry Hawes, an English anthropologist and archaeologist whom she married in 1906. She excavated many more Bronze and Iron Age settlements in the Aegean and became a recognized authority on the area. In 1910, Smith College bestowed on her an honorary degree. In 1915, she went to Corfu with supplies for soldiers in the Serbian Army wounded in World War I. In 1916, she helped the wounded in France. Between 1920 and her retirement in 1936, she lectured at Wellesley College on pre-Christian art. She died in 1945, at the age of 73.
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