Dorothy Garrod
Professor Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod (
5 May,
1892–
18 December,
1968) was a
British archaeologist who was the first woman to hold an
Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the
Palaeolithic period. Her father was
Sir Archibald Garrod, the physician.
Born in
Oxford, she attended
Newnham College, Cambridge. Between
1925 and
1926 she excavated in
Gibraltar and in
1928 led an expedition through South
Kurdistan.
Following this, she held 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 she was made
Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge in
1939, a post she held until
1952, aside from a gap towards the end of the
Second World War when she served in the
Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
In
1965, she was awarded the
CBE. Her publications include
The Upper Palaeolithic age in Britain (1926) and (with Bate)
The Stone Age of Mount Carmel (1937).
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Article about Dorothy Garrod at the University of Cambridge
