Olga TufnellFSA (26 January 1905 – 11 April 1985) was a British archaeologist who assisted on the excavation of the ancient city of Lachish in the 1930s. She had no formal training in archaeology, but had worked as a secretary for Flinders Petrie for a number of years before being given a field assignment. Olga then went on to join James Leslie Starkey in the expedition to find Lachish in 1929 and remained part of the team for the following seasons.
When Starkey was killed in 1938, the team finished the season then closed the site. Olga volunteered to write up the report of the dig and spent the following twenty years researching and writing up the majority of the excavation report. Olga's work has been regarded as the "pre-eminent source book for Palestinian archeology". Once the report was published, she turned her attention to cataloguing scarabs and other seals.
Many of Olga Tufnell's original letters and photographs are housed today at the Palestine Exploration Fund in London. Those published from 1927-1938[1] provide insights into dig life and archaeology, as well as the wider socio-cultural, political, and gendered context of colonial life within Mandate-era Palestine.
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Press. ISBN 87-7289-421-0. Ward, W. A. (1984). "Royal-name scarabs". In OlgaTufnell (ed.). Scarab Seals and their Contribution to History in the Early Second...
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archaeological talents quickly became apparent and with James Leslie Starkey and OlgaTufnell, he became one of a band of young archaeologists known as 'Petrie's pups'...
responsible for the event. The second school of thought, represented by OlgaTufnell, Kathleen Kenyon, P. Beck, Moshe Kochavi and Israel Finkelstein, tends...
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period and recording the prenomina of the kings. The archaeologists OlgaTufnell and William A. Ward argue that the name written on the scarab seal of...
Site notes Excavation dates 1966 Archaeologists A. Jirku, A. Kuskhe, OlgaTufnell, Lorraine Copeland, Peter J. Wescombe Condition Ruins Public access Yes...
British School of Archeology. The participants, including archeologist OlgaTufnell, copied tomb inscriptions at Qua-El-Kebi, Egypt. In 1929, Broome returned...
sixteen illustrations in the text, 1906, see plate X no 5, and page 122. OlgaTufnell: Studies on Scarab Seals, vol. II, Aris & Philips, Warminster, 1984,...
Marie Tharp Marguerite Thomas Williams Mabel E. Tomlinson Ruth Tringham OlgaTufnell Annie Ure Blaire Van Valkenburgh Helen Vaughn Michel Mary Vaux Walcott...
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