Dorothy Garrod
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Professor Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod (5 May 1892–18 December 1968) was a British archaeologist of the Palaeolithic Period in the Levant, the Middle East, Britain and worldwide. Garrod was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the Palaeolithic period.
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Childhood and Education
Her father was Sir Archibald Garrod, the physician.
Born in Oxford, she attended Newnham College, Cambridge.
Early Career
Between 1925 and 1926 she excavated in Gibraltar and in 1928 led an expedition through South Kurdistan.
Excavations in the Levant
Following this, Garrod conducted excavations at Mount Carmel in Israel where, working closely with Dorothy Bate, she demonstrated a long sequence of Lower Palaeolithic and later occupation in the caves of Tabun, El Wad and Es Skhul.
After holding a number of other academic posts, Garrod was appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge in 1939, holding the chair until 1952, aside from a gap at the end of the Second World War when she served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
Awards and Honours
In 1965, she was awarded the CBE.
Publications
- [1926], The Upper Palaeolithic age in Britain, 1926.
- [1937], (with Bate) The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, 1937.
External links
- "From ‘small, dark and alive’ to ‘cripplingly shy’: Dorothy Garrod as the first woman Professor at Cambridge" - article: Pamela Jane Smith, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, 2005.
