Archaeology, Sexism, and Scandal

A true story of plagiarism, complicity, and a 1930s excavation that “has the arresting immediacy of investigative journalism” ( The Journal of Hellenic Studies ).   The 1931 excavation season at Olynthus, Greece, ushered a sea change in how archaeologists study material culture—and was the nexus of one of the most egregious (and underreported) cases of plagiarism in the history of classical archaeology. In this book, Alan Kaiser draws on the private scrapbook that budding archaeologist Mary