ARCHAEOLOGIST

Dorothy Garrod

1892 - 1968

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Dorothy Garrod is the 78th most popular archaeologist (up from 87th in 2019), the 3,055th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,049th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Dorothy Garrod ranks 78 out of 151. Before her are Giuseppe Tucci, Tatiana Proskouriakoff, Peter Wilhelm Lund, Sylvanus Morley, Victor Loret, and Margaret Murray. After her are Halet Çambel, Charles W. Gilmore, William F. Albright, Jean-François Séguier, Joseph Orbeli, and Hugo Winckler.

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Among people born in 1892, Dorothy Garrod ranks 185. Before her are Trafford Leigh-Mallory, Alberto Bayo, Gustav Fehn, George Lawrence Price, Konstantin Fedin, and Kiyonao Ichiki. After her are Erik Adlerz, Fritz Kortner, Alexander Chervyakov, Artur Rodziński, Ugo Betti, and Otto Fahr. Among people deceased in 1968, Dorothy Garrod ranks 134. Before her are Segismundo Casado, Ibrahim Moustafa, Mercedes de Acosta, Panagiotis Pavlidis, Alexander Gelfond, and Joseph Keilberth. After her are Ali Fuat Cebesoy, Leo Huberman, Harold D. Babcock, Jón Leifs, Vasyl Makukh, and Maurice Verdonck.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Dorothy Garrod ranks 3,056 out of 8,785. Before her are A. J. P. Taylor (1906), Tom Ellis (1978), Phil Taylor (1960), Peter Banks (1947), Graham Hancock (1950), and Hayley Mills (1946). After her are Ralph Abercromby (1734), John Profumo (1915), Christopher Eccleston (1964), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), James Francis Stephens (1792), and Joseph Whitworth (1803).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Dorothy Garrod ranks 15. Before her are John O. Westwood (1805), Max Mallowan (1904), Robert Broom (1866), Colin Groves (1942), Alan Gardiner (1879), and James Quibell (1867). After her are Kathleen Kenyon (1906), Dorothea Bate (1878), John Marshall (1876), John Evans (1823), E. A. Wallis Budge (1857), and Mortimer Wheeler (1890).

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