Women's Work by Elizabeth Wayland Barber

Barber), The Dancing Goddesses: Folklore, Archaeology, and the Origins of European Dance (2013), Resplendent Dress from Southeastern Europe: A History in Layers (2013), and Two Thoughts with but a Single Mind: Crime and Punishment and the Writing of Fiction (2013, co-author with P. Her books include Prehistoric Textiles: The Development of Cloth in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages with Special Reference to the Aegean (1992), Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (1995), The Mummies of Ürümchi (1999), When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth (2004, coauthor with Paul T. Her doctoral study at Yale University was supervised by Sydney Lamb, under whom she wrote her dissertation, 'The Computer Aided Analysis of Undeciphered Ancient Texts.' Books She earned her PhD from Yale University in linguistics in 1968.

The computer indices were made via punched cards, a method which was preceded by the work of Alice E. Her thesis used computer indices of the Hagia Triada Linear A texts in an attempt to decipher its signs and symbols. In addition to Lang, she wrote her thesis under Emmett L. Her chief mentor was Mabel Lang from whom she learned Linear B and who advised her honors thesis on Linear A.

She earned a bachelor's degree from Bryn Mawr College in Archaeology and Greek in 1962. She first developed expert sewing and weaving skills under her mother's tutelage. Her family moved to France during her childhood, where she learned French, beginning her interest in linguistics. She became interested in archaeology at a young age because of her love of interdisciplinary sciences.

Wayland Barber was born in 1940, in Pasadena. Barber) is an American scholar and expert on archaeology, linguistics, textiles, and folk dance as well as professor emerita of archaeology and linguistics at Occidental College. American textile archaeologist and writerĮlizabeth Jane 'Betchen' Wayland Barber (also E.

Women's Work by Elizabeth Wayland Barber