- Participated in excavations of a Neolithic Period in England
- Became skilled at making reproduction quality drawings of stone tools
- Attending a university was impossible with her academic record
- Advised by Oxford University to not apply to any universities
- Attended lectures that included archaeology studies at University College and at the London Museum
- Studied under Mortimer Wheeler ( Founder and Honorary Director of the Institute of Archaeology in London)
- Attended many summer excavations
- Trained with Dorothy Liddell for 4 years at a Neolithic site (Pioneer for Anthropology Women)
- 1932 - Entered anthropology field as an illustrator for Caton Thompson's book The Desert Fayoum