Elinor Wight Gardner

…in Egypt (1921–26), Caton-Thompson and Elinor Wight Gardner began the first archaeological survey of the Al-Fayyūm depression (1924–26 and 1927–28). In Southern Rhodesia (1928–29) she directed stratigraphic studies of the Great Zimbabwe architectural remains that pointed to Indigenous African design and construction during the time of the European Middle Ages.…