Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod (1892 - 1968) was a British archaeologist who was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the Palaeolithic period.
Born in Oxford, she attended Newnham College, Cambridge. Between 1925 and 1926 she excavated in Gibraltar and in 1928 led an expedition through South Kurdistan.
Following this, she held excavations at Mount Carmel in Israel where, working closely with Dorothy Bate, she demonstrated a long sequence of Lower Palaeolithic and later occupation in the caves of Tabun, El Wad and Es Skhul .
After holding a number of other academic posts she was made Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge in 1939, a post she held until 1952, aside from a gap towards the end of the Second World War when she served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force.
In 1965, she was awarded the CBE. Her publications include The Upper Palaeolithic age in Britain (1926) and (with Bate) The Stone Age of Mount Carmel (1937).
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