Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic
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Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic

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Dorothy Garrod and the Progress of the Palaeolithic

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Dorothy Garrod opened many doors; not only was she the first female professor at Cambridge University, but she illuminated - and in some cases initiated - some of prehistoric archaeology's most central issues. The quiet yet self possessed woman was best known as a fieldworker, often venturing into dangerous regions such as Kurdistan. Her first and highly successful excavation revealed fragments of Neanderthal fossils in Gibralter. This volume reviews modern research on this site, as well as exploring other issues which interested the Disney Professor of Archaeology: hominid remains from Mount Carmel; Palaeolithic sites in the Zagros Mountains, Bulgaria and Britain; and the cultural evidence for the beginning of Near Eastern food production, which Garrod called Natufian. Also included are papers concerned with her life, background and published work. The topics' span and continuing relevance are testament to Dorothy Garrod's remarkable character and great achievements.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Foreword – C. Renfrew
  7. Introduction – W. Davies and R. Charles
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. 1. Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod: A Short Biography – W. Davies
  10. 2. Dorothy Garrod’s Application for the Disney Professorship, 1939
  11. 3. The Path not Taken: Dorothy Garrod, Devon and the British Palaeolithic – A. J. Roberts
  12. 4. Some observations on the British Earlier Upper Palaeolithic R. M. Jacobi
  13. 5. Unlocking the Inhospitable – S. Swainston
  14. 6. Garrod and the Belgian Creswellian – R. Charles
  15. 7. Garrod and Glozel: the end of a fiasco – P. G. Bahn and A. C. Renfrew
  16. 8. Gibraltar Palaeolithic Revisited: New Excavations at Gorham’s and Vanguard Caves – C. B. Stringer, R. N. E. Barton, A. P. Currant, J. C. Finlayson, P. Goldberg, R. Macphail and P. B. Pettitt
  17. 9. The Evolution of the Balkan Aurignacian – J. K. Kozlowski
  18. 10. The Levantine Aurignacian: 60 years of research A. Belfer-Cohen and O. Bar-Yosef
  19. 11. The Genesis and Age of Mousterian Palaeosols in the Carmel Coastal Plain, Israel – A. Ronen, A. Tsatskin and S. A. Laukhin
  20. 12. The Impact of Dorothy Garrod’s Excavations in the Lebanon on the Palaeolithic of the Near East – L. Copeland
  21. 13. The Early Upper Palaeolithic in the Zagros Mountains – D. Olzewski
  22. 14. The Zarzian Industry of the Zagros Mountains – G. A. Wahida
  23. 15. “Twisting the Kaleidoscope”: Dorothy Garrod and the “Natufian Culture” – B. Boyd
  24. 16. The Natufian: a Coherent Thought? – F. Valla
  25. 17. Nina Frances Layard, Prehistorian (1853–1935) – S. Plunkett
  26. 18. Nova et Vetera: Reworking the Early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe W. Davies
  27. 19. Bibliography of Garrod’s Published Works