Writing About Fossils Found by Men by Lydia Pyne 

Gertrude Caton-Thompson, Women's Networks, and Racial Politics in Great Zimbabwe by Leila A. McNeill

This month historian and author Lydia Pyne writes about her experience researching and writing her latest book Seven Skeletons. Leila writes about networks of women archaeologists and the racial politics of archaeology in colonial Africa. 

Image credit: Taung child, 2013. Collection of the University of Witerwatersrand (Wikimedia Commons | CC SA 4.0)