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Margaret Conkey

American archaeologist, anthropologist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1943 · age 83

Margaret W. Conkey is an American archaeologist and academic, who specializes in the Magdalenian period of the Upper Paleolithic in the French Pyrénées. Her research focuses on cave art produced during this period.

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Awards

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science2020
Huxley Memorial Medal2017

About this person

Conkey is noted as one of the first archaeologists to explore the issues of gender and feminist perspectives in archaeology and in past human societies, using feminist theory to reinterpret images and objects from the Paleolithic Era or the late Ice Age.

Country
United States
Category
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
Living
Dates
Born 1943 · age 83