Dorothy Garrod
✓ Source-basedstableBritish archaeologist and first female Professor at the University of Cambridge (1892-1968)
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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA 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.
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Garrod in 1928 standing with George and Edna Woodbury of the American School of Prehistoric Research
Display of material excavated by Dorothy Garrod, Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, Cambridge, March 2022. Objects relate to Mount Carmel excavations.
Garrod at the International Symposium on Early Man, Philadelphia, March 1937Awards 6
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Alberto ManguelAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers
Carlo SforzaAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Toulouse
Robin DunbarAlso won Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Nélida PiñonAlso won honorary doctor of the University of Poitiers
Sue BlackAlso won Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandAbout this person
Country
United KingdomCategory
Academics
Type
Academic
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1892 to 1968 · aged 76
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