Dorothy Garrod

Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod
Dorothy Garrod, c. 1913, while at Newnham College, Cambridge
Born(1892-05-05)5 May 1892
London, England
Died18 December 1968(1968-12-18) (aged 76)
Cambridge, England
Alma materNewnham College, Cambridge,
Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
Known forThe Upper Paleolithic of Britain;
The Stone Age of Mount Carmel,
Scientific career
Fieldsarchaeology
InstitutionsBritish School of Archaeology in Jerusalem,
Newnham College,
University of Cambridge

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.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Smith, Pamela. "From 'small, dark and alive' to 'cripplingly shy': Dorothy Garrod as the first woman Professor at Cambridge". www.arch.cam.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
  2. ^ Smith, Pamela Jane (1996). "Dorothy Garrod, first woman Professor at Cambridge". Antiquity. 74 (283): 131–136. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00066230. S2CID 163187954.
  3. ^ "First Cambridge woman professor appointed". The Glasgow Herald. 6 May 1939. Retrieved 14 August 2016.