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= Edith Hall Dohan =

Early life
Edith Hall Dohan (born as Edith Hayward Hall) was born on December 31, 1877 in New Haven, Connecticut. Edith was the second of three children and the youngest daughter. Edith's father, Ely Ransom Hall, was a principal at Woodstock Academy where Edith attended.

With Edith's father, Ely, being a Yale graduate, Ely believed in the importance of a fine education and Christian values. Edith showed a "tomboyish nature" with her love for sports, horseback riding, and bicycle riding.

Gournia, 1904
In February, 1904, Richard Seager sent Edith Hall news via telegram that she was invited to join Harriet Boyd in Gournia as Boyd wished to have a female companion to join her team on excavations in Crete. While working with Boyd, Dohan was to work as Boyd's assistant due to people looking down on a single female working alongside many men.

Hall was able to receive a grant from the American Exploration Society specifically to be in Gournia as Boyd's assistant. This worried Seager due to hearing "she is absent-minded... and she is evidently sharp-tongued too" which might cause Hall to clash with Boyd and potentially not be able to work on her thesis.

Hall and Boyd had never met each other prior to Hall arriving to Gournia, Crete where she would begin her work in 1904. Upon arriving to Crete, Boyd realized that Hall was the ideal candidate for an assistant. Hall came onto the the excavation site with knowledge of the Greek language and her previous studies, of Minoan and Mycenaean pottery designs, which meant she did not need much training compared to other candidates.

Once returning back 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 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.

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 hydrochloric acid to be photographed and placed in scrapbooks documenting their findings.

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 to give more people to work on a "waste dump" area of the digging grounds, Hall worked alone. 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."

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."

Hall's dig ended in the later half of May, 1905. Boyd and Hall shipped their findings to the United States which ended up forming the first Mycenaean and pre-Mycenaean collection to be displayed in America.

Peer Review by Oluwatosin Mosuro
The draft is well written and does a good job explaining the struggles she had to face at the time since she was a woman working amongst men. It also did a good job of taking the reader though her day to day operations. There are some things that are kind of related to the article but not really, like the mention of the unsuccessful dig, while she was there the story didn’t have much to do about her. I would love to know what happens next, did they discover anything, how long did she stay, and things of that sort. Why was she invited to the excavation in the first place? You could also elaborate on her tasks at the dig. All in all this is a good draft. Tmosuro (talk) 15:39, 18 October 2019 (UTC)

Questions
Why did you choose it? What's missing? What do you want to add?

There are quite a lot of time gaps between information. The article jumps from when Edith was born, to her education, to her career. There is not any information other than that and awards she has received. I would add more content filling the gaps, and what led to her wanting to become an archaeologist.

= Article Evaluation = Marie Meurdrac


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Each referenced source is made with a reliable reference. These sources all come from different biographies of women in chemistry and also specifically about Marie Meurdrac.


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