Jane Boit Patten

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Jane Boit-Patten (born June 8, 1869 in Providence , Rhode Island , † December 6, 1964 in Natick , Massachusetts ) was an American biologist and botanist . She accompanied Harriet Ann Boyd , the first woman to lead archaeological digs, on her first dig.

Life

Jane Boit-Patten was the daughter of Joseph Hurlburt Patten and Elizabeth Greene Boit. She had an older sister, Eliza, and a younger brother, William Samuel. She studied biology at Smith College in Northampton and operated from 1896 to 1900 at the Polytechnic in Dresden botanical studies.

In April 1900 she met Harriet Boyd-Hawes , a fellow student in Athens , to support them with excavations and to study the flora of Crete herself . On April 10th, they went to Crete by ship and visited the most important excavations on the island. After that, on the advice of Arthur Evans , they went to Kavousi to begin digging. The excavations were successful and interesting finds had been made. The following year Jane Patten was indispensable in Dresden, so Blanche Emily Wheeler took her position in the 1901 campaign.

From 1901 to 1906, Jane Patten worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and from 1906 to 1917 she was a teacher of biology and botany at Simmons College in Massachusetts. She died in Natick in 1964 and was buried on the North Burial Ground in Providence, Rhode Island.

Works

  • Spring Flora of the Kavoúsi Region in Gournia, Vasiliki and other prehistoric cities on the Isthmus of Hierapetra, Crete; excavations of the Wells-Houston-Cramp expeditions 1901, 1903, 1904 , the American exploration Society, Free Museum of science and art, 1908
  • Jane Boit Patten, Percy G. Stiles: On the influence of neutral salts upon the rate of salivary digestion. in American Journal of Physiology , Vol. XVII, No. 1, September 1, 1906, p. 26 (online)

literature

  • Mary Allsebrook, Annie Allsebrook: Born to rebel: the life of Harriet Boyd Hawes . Oxbow, Oxford 2002, ISBN 1-84217-041-4 .
  • Vasso Fotou, Ann Brown: Harriet Boyd Hawes, 1871-1945 in Getzel M. Cohen, Martha Sharp Joukowsky: Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists . University of Michigan Press, 2006. ISBN 0-472-03174-0 , pp. 198-273
  • Excavations at Kavousi, Crete, 1900 , 1901

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ HA Boyd: Excavations at Kavousi, Crete, in 1900, AJA 5 (1901), p. 126 ( online )
  2. ^ Marshall Joseph Becker, Philip P. Betancourt, Richard Berry Seager: pioneer archaeologist and proper gentleman , 1997, p. 14.
  3. ↑ Transactions of the Department of archeology, Free museum of science and art, University of Pennsylvania, pp. 15, 16, 26, 29. ( online )
personal data
SURNAME Patten, Jane Boit
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boit-Patten, Jane (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American botanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH December 6, 1964
Place of death Natick , Massachusetts