dorothy garrod

  • Happy Birthday To Dorothy Garrod, One Of The First Women Archaeologists

    Happy Birthday To Dorothy Garrod, One Of The First Women Archaeologists

    Equipped with only dining hall spoons, the clothes on their backs, and pure archaeological curiosity, undergraduates at Cambridge’s Newnham College in 1939 were given a crash course in field work when their professor, Dorothy Garrod, led them through the excavation of skeletal remains that had been unearthed on campus as a result of air-raid shelter…