British archaeologist, the first woman president of the Oxford Archaeological Society. In 1961, under the Jordanian rule, she began what would be seven years of excavations in Jerusalem. In her excavations she employed a new stratigraphic method, involving trenches cut along the steep slopes of Jerusalem, and carefully recorded her work. She was able to establish for the first time a historic framework for the city over its 3800 years of existence. Since her death, three volumes on her Jerusalem expedition were published. Using the new methods of modern archaeology, Kenyon was able to answer questions brought up by former excavators, though some of her conclusions have been questioned.