31 Facts About Dorothy Garrod

Dorothy Garrod 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.

Dorothy Garrod was born in Chandos Street, London, and was educated at home.

Dorothy Garrod recalled Fry teaching her, at age nine, in Harley Street with the daughter of Walter Jessop.

Dorothy Garrod entered Newnham College, Cambridge in 1913, where she read ancient and classical history before archaeology was available as a subject, completing the course in 1916.

Dorothy Garrod volunteered with the Catholic Women's League until 1919.

Dorothy Garrod subsequently travelled to Malta, where her father was working as the Head of War Hospitals, and began to take an interest in the local antiquities.

Considerable disagreement exists over the date in which she become a Roman Catholic convert but Dorothy Garrod apparently converted to Catholicism prior to coming up to Cambridge.

On her family's return to England, where they settled in Oxford, Dorothy Garrod read for a graduate diploma in Anthropology in 1921.

Dorothy Garrod was taught by Robert Ranulph Marett, a Reader in Social Anthropology and an experienced excavator.

Dorothy Garrod received a distinction on graduating in 1921, as one among a small number of female students.

Dorothy Garrod had found an intellectual vocation: the archaeology of the Palaeolithic Age.

Dorothy Garrod discovered in this cave in 1925, a second important Neanderthal skull now called Gibraltar 2.

Dorothy Garrod was to find many anomalous skeletons during her ensuring career, but the skull did not fit within the definition of Neanderthal.

Dorothy Garrod was looking for evidence of Palaeolithic people migrating between Upper Mesopotamia and Syria.

In 1929, Dorothy Garrod was appointed to direct excavations at Wadi el-Mughara at Mount Carmel in Mandatory Palestine, as a joint project of the American School of Prehistoric Research and the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem.

Dorothy Garrod coined the cultural label for the late Epipalaeolithic Natufian culture following her excavations at Es-Skhul and El-Wad.

In 1937, Dorothy Garrod published The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, considered a ground-breaking work in the field.

Dorothy Garrod's appointment was greeted with excitement by women students and a "college feast" was held in her honour at Newnham, in which every dish was named after an archaeological item.

From 1941 to 1945, Dorothy Garrod took leave of absence from the university and served in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during the Second World War.

Dorothy Garrod was based at the RAF Medmenham photographic interpretation unit as a section officer.

Where previously prehistory had been considered particularly French or European, Dorothy Garrod expanded the subject to a global scale.

Dorothy Garrod made changes to the structure of archaeology studies, so turning Cambridge into the first British university to offer undergraduate courses in prehistoric archaeology.

On her retirement in 1952, Dorothy Garrod moved to France, but continued to research and excavate.

Dorothy Garrod returned to Aadloun again in 1963, with a team of younger archaeologists, but her health began to fail and she was often absent from the sites.

Dorothy Garrod was the first female professor at Cambridge and was instrumental in changing it into an integrated institution.

Dorothy Garrod worked mainly with women as she lived in a segregated English society.

Dorothy Garrod was often invited to weddings or other celebratory occasions.

Dorothy Garrod was in complete charge of the many long-term excavations at Mount Carmel.

In 1937, Dorothy Garrod was awarded Honorary Doctorates from the University of Pennsylvania and Boston College and a DSc.

Dorothy Garrod was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1952, and in 1965 she was awarded the CBE.

Dorothy Garrod felt it was important that archaeologists travel and therefore left money to found the Dorothy Garrod Travel Fund.