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Dorothy Garrod

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Gender Female
Death56 years ago
Date of birth May 5,1892
Zodiac sign Taurus
Born Oxford
United Kingdom
Date of died December 18,1968
DiedCambridge
United Kingdom
Parents Archibald Garrod
Field Archaeology
Job Archaeologist
Education Newnham College, University of Cambridge
Known forThe Upper Paleolithic of Britain; The Stone Age of Mount Carmel
BooksThe Stone Age of Mount Carmel: Excavations at the Wady El-Mughara. [Report of the Joint Expedition of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and the American School of Prehistoric Research, 1929-1934] Vol. I.
Grandparents Alfred Baring Garrod
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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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