invisible no more – putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the map

  • Written by: Emilie Dotte-Sarout, ARC DECRA research fellow, The University of Western Australia
invisible no more – putting the first women archaeologists of the Pacific back on the mapMary Elizabeth Shutler in Vanuatu, in the1960s. Permitted to join the first archaeological expedition to New Caledonia in 1952 as a 'voluntary assistant', she was the only French speaker and chief interlocuter with the Kanak people.Family archives, reproduced with the kind authorisation of John Shutler & Susan Arter.

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