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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA (5 May 1892 – 18 December 1968) was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period.

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Dorothy Garrod, c. 1913, while at Newnham College, Cambridge
Born	(1892-05-05)5 May 1892 London
Died	18 December 1968(1968-12-18) (aged 76) Cambridge
Nationality	British
Alma mater	Newnham College, Cambridge, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Known for	The Upper Paleolithic of Britain; The Stone Age of Mount Carmel,
Scientific career
Fields	archaeology
Institutions	British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem, Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Influences	Robert Ranulph Marett Abbé Breuil

Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA (5 May 1892 – 18 December 1968) was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period. She held the position of Disney Professor of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge from 1939 to 1952, and was the first woman to hold a chair at either Oxford or Cambridge.

Early life and education

Garrod was the daughter of the physician Sir Archibald Garrod and Laura Elizabeth Smith, dau

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Dorothy Garrod

Praise has been heaped upon paleoanthropologist Lee Berger for hiring a number of women for crucial roles in the excavation of Homo naledi in South Africa, but archaeologist Dorothy Garrod beat him to that gender-equalizing trick by the better part of a century. Starting in 1929, she oversaw excavations at Mount Carmel, Palestine, and hired many local women to do the fieldwork. She appreciated their work, as well as the fact that their wages helped support their families. In 1996, Mary Kitson Clark, the last of those women still living, then aged 92, remembered Garrod as "small, dark, alive!"

From A Pioneer of Prehistory: Dorothy Garrod and the Caves of Mount Carmel at Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford

Garrod was born in England in 1892. In the First World War, her father, Sir Archibald Garrod, was stationed in Malta as the director of war hospitals. Dorothy Garrod spent time in Malta after the Great War, and developed in interest in archaeology. By that time, she had already studied history at Newnham College, Cambridge. Returning to England from Malta, she enroll

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First in Her Field (Work)

The pioneering archaeologist Dorothy Garrod was elected to the Disney Chair of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge on 6 May 1939. She was the first woman to be a professor either there or at Oxford; women were still not admitted to full degrees at Cambridge, despite having been educated there since 1869. Her election brought matters to a head: women won full equality in 1948.

Garrod was also the first prehistorian – she specialised in the paleolithic era – to hold the chair at a time when archaeology was struggling to establish itself as an academic discipline; many still thought it little more than a hobby. Yet within a decade, Garrod, who disliked academic politics, had also won full degree status for archaeology at the university.