The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.

I quite liked having a baby - I think I won't put it more strongly than that. But I had no intention of allowing motherhood to disrupt my work as an archeologist.

I dug things up. I was curious. I liked to draw what I found.

I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

Once she summed up her carrer simply: 'I dug things up. I was curious. And then I liked to draw what i found