Dorothy Garrod
British archaeologist and first female Professor at the University of Cambridge (1892-1968) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 76
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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1968Died18 December 19681965Commander of the Order of the British EmpireAward1952Fellow of the British AcademyAwardHonorary Doctor of the University of ToulouseAward1950Honorary Doctor of the University of PoitiersAward1892Born5 May 1892
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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
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Academics
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Lived 1892 to 1968 · aged 76
