Dorothy Garrod in words and pictures.

Dorothy Garrod in words and pictures. During the last year an archive has come to light which is ofinestimable in��es��ti��ma��ble?adj.1. Impossible to estimate or compute: inestimable damage.See Synonyms at incalculable.2. value to prehistorians: the unpublished papers of the lateDisney Professor of Archaeology The Disney Professorship of Archaeology, also known as the Disney Chair is a professorship in the University of Cambridge. It was endowed with a donation of ��1,000 by John Disney in 1851, followed by a further ��3,500 in a bequest at his death. in the University of Cambridge, DorothyA.E. Garrod, are intact and available for study in the library of theMusee des Antiquites Nationales, St Germain-en-Laye, France.The initiative which led to this discovery was taken by one of us(PJS PJsor PJ's or pj's ?pl.n. InformalPajamas.[p(a)j(ama)s, pl. of pajama.] ) in the course of research for her Ph.D thesis on the developmentof prehistory prehistory,period of human evolution before writing was invented and records kept. The term was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851. It is followed by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to as an academic subject at Cambridge. Dorothy Garrod wasappointed to the Disney Chair in 1939, the first prehistorian, and thefirst woman, to be elected to a professorship at Cambridge. At that timeshe was Director of Studies in Archaeology & Anthropology at NewnhamCollege, and had directed the excavation of Palaeolithic andEpipalaeolithic sites in Gibraltar, Western Judaea, Southern Kurdistan,Mount Carmel in Palestine (for which she is most renowned) and Bulgaria.After retirement she continued excavating in Lebanon and in France. Hereshe had discovered, with her close friend and companion the Frenchpre-historian Suzanne Cassou de Saint Mathurin, the Magdalenianrockshelter Angles-sur-l'Anglin with its superb sculptured frieze.Dorothy Garrod died in 1968, bequeathing her library to Newnham College.It seemed that her papers had not survived: a widely believed myth arosethat they had been destroyed, perhaps burnt possibly even by ProfessorGarrod herself.In the course of interviewing Professor Garrod's staff andformer students PJS began to question this myth. PGB PGB Persoonsgebonden Budget (Dutch)PGB Prueba General de BachilleratoPGB Precision Guided Bomb (Royal Air Force, UK)PGB Partido de la Gente del BarPGB Permanent Guide BasePGB Propeller Gear Box , a friend ofSuzanne de St Mathurin in her later years, offered to talk to heracquaintances in France. One of these, Mme Genevieve Pincon, rememberedthat there was Garrod material among St Mathurin's bequest on herdeath in 1991 to the Museum at St Germain, which already held and has ondisplay fragments of the sculptures from Angles sur l'Anglin.Neither the staff at the Museum nor the archaeological public was thenaware that an archive existed within an archive.As St Mathurin's legacy was curated, the treasure from a thirdlife was revealed. Germaine Henri-Martin, excavator ex��ca��va��torn.An instrument, such as a sharp spoon or curette, used in scraping out pathological tissue.excavator (eks´k - with her father ofthe Middle and Upper Palaeolithic site of La Quina in Charente, hadcompleted the trio of prehistorians christened in France withaffectionate respect 'Les Trois Graces'. These three friendssuccessively left each other the carefully accumulated remains of theirmemories and of their moments of complicity through their worldly goods,the documents and objects from the shared passion of their lives,archaeology.PJS and JC (who is working with Professor Ofer Bar-Yosef of HarvardUniversity on a study of Dorothy Garrod as a pioneer of Palaeolithicarchaeology in Palestine in the inter-war years) have now had theopportunity of spending a total of six (PJS) and three (JC) days at theMusee des Antiquites Nationales. In this time approximately two-thirdsof the Garrod archive were examined. It is an overwhelming experience.Any visitor wishing to study particular aspects of her work in depthshould be prepared to spend as long, or longer. An inventory has beenmade of the huge collection and a typed provisional catalogue isavailable: it is thanks to this work by Anne Bertrand, prehistorian,that the archive is now accessible.There are 15 boxes of Garrod's documents, stored alongsidesimilar boxes containing the St Mathurin and Henri-Martin archives. Thistouching awareness at the Museum that the Three Graces should thusremain together has a practical aspect also: the librarians believe thatas the entire collection is curated, more Garrod papers will be foundamong those of her two friends. There are three separate photographalbums, and loose packets of photographs are also contained in some ofthe Garrod boxes. These record her excavations, her excavationcolleagues and workers, her friends, her travels, and her cat, and datefrom the early 1920s until shortly before her death. A selection fromthe hundreds of prints is reproduced here. It should of course berealized that comparatively few photographs include Dorothy Garrodherself, since most of them were taken by her.Among the documents are many original handwritten hand��write?tr.v. hand��wrote , hand��writ��ten , hand��writ��ing, hand��writesTo write by hand.[Back-formation from handwritten.]Adj. 1. field notes,notebooks, site plans and section drawings from excavations in Palestineat Shukbah and Mount Carmel (mainly El-Wad and Tabun) during the years1928 to 1934, plus additional documentation on lithics from these sites,notes on their distribution, and typological notes on lithic lith��ic?1?adj.Consisting of or relating to stone or rock.Adj. 1. lithic - of or containing lithium2. lithic - relating to or composed of stone; "lithic sandstone" collectionsfrom her own and other sites; records of the excavation (with James H.Gaul and Bruce Howe) at Bacho Kiro, Bulgaria, in 1938 and a diary of thesurvey in Anatolia which preceded it; also diaries and documentation onthe Lebanese sites Abri Zumoffen, Ras el-Kelb, Adlun and Bezez. Draftversions of published papers and correspondence from many distinguishedcontemporaries are there, and much else besides, too numerous to mentionhere.The documents on individual sites are sometimes spread among severalboxes of assorted material: the effect of this is the sudden finding ofunexpected treasures. A heart-stopping moment for one of us (JC) was therealization that a small bundle of handwritten notes tied with blackstring was headed 'Shukba 1928', Garrod's first record ofthe site in the Wadi en-Natuf which inspired the name for theEpipalaeolithic culture she found there.'4th April,' she writes in her blessedly clear and legiblehandwriting, 'Drew plan of cave. 5th April. Trench started againstE. wall . . . At 70cm. depth found skeleton of child, 165 cm. from wall.It lay on its side with legs drawn up and hands behind head . . .',the first Natufian burial of so many later found. Students of any sitewith which Dorothy Garrod was associated can be assured of similarexperiences and be confident of finding primary source material.(1)Researchers who are unable to travel to France should know that thePitt Rivers Museum The Pitt Rivers Museum is a museum displaying the archaeological and anthropological collections of the University of Oxford. The museum is located to the east of the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, and can only be accessed through that building. , Oxford, also holds a collection of DorothyGarrod's photographs, originally stored in a handsome leatherhatbox embossed 'D.G.' in gold lettering. The majority are thenegatives of the print collection held at the M.A.N. As negatives theyare quite hard to examine, but those from each original roll of film arekept together with Garrod's own 'shotlists'. There is acomputer catalogue in preparation?Acknowledgement. All photographs reproduced in this article arerephotographed from the originals in the Fonds Suzanne Cassou deSaint-Mathurin de la Bibliotheque du Musee des Antiquites Nationales deSaint-Germain-en-Laye. ([C] Photo Man. L. Hamon.)1 In practical terms, formal requests to consult the archive shouldbe addressed to the Director, Dr. Patrick Perin, Musee des AntiquitesNationales, B.P. 3030, 78103 St. Germain-en-Laye, France. Telephone (33)1.34.51.53.65, Fax (33) 1.34.51.73.93. A form will be returned to theapplicant requesting dates and details of the planned study. Oncepermission is granted, the Museum, housed in the Chateau of St. Germain,is easily reached: it is walking distance from the R.E.R. station (lineA1 from Paris), or the Museum can advise on accommodation in thispleasant town if that is preferred to commuting from Paris. The Libraryis open every weekday, from 9.00 am to 12 noon, and 1.00 to 5.00 pm.Readers are required to leave during the lunchtime closure. TheConservateur de la Bibliotheque du M.A.N., Madame Bouron, is availableon the same telephone and fax numbers as the Director. She and herstaff, proud to be the guardians of such precious material, welcomereaders with great friendliness. Photocopying of documents is allowed,but must be done by the busy Library staff and thus only a limitedamount is possible. A working knowledge of French is a great advantage.2 The collection is available by appointment on Thursdays and Fridaysonly. Application for permission to see the material should be made inwriting, in the first instance, to Dr Elizabeth Edwards, AssistantCurator, Pitt Rivers Museum, School of Anthropology & MuseumEthnography, University of Oxford, South Parks Road South Parks Road is a road in Oxford, England. It runs east-west past the main Science Area of the University of Oxford, where many of the science departments are located. , Oxford OX1 3PP.Telephone 01865 270927, Fax 01865 270943, e-mail:elizabeth.edwards@prm.ox.ac.ukReferencesCATON-THOMPSON, G. 1969. Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod 1892-1968,Proceedings of the British Academy 55: 338-61.GARROD, D.A.E. 1929. Excavations in the Mugharet el-Wad, near Athlit.April-June 1929, Palestine Exploration Fund The Palestine Exploration Fund is a British society, it is often simply known as the PEF. HistoryFounded in 1865 by a group of Biblical archaeologists and clergymen, the most notable of these were the Dean of Westminster Abbey, Arthur P. Quarterly Statement 62:220-22.GARROD, D.A.E. & D.M.A. BATE bate?1?tr.v. bat��ed, bat��ing, bates1. To lessen the force or intensity of; moderate: "To his dying day he bated his breath a little when he told the story". 1937. The Stone Age of Mount CarmelI. Oxford: Clarendon Press.HUBLIN, J.-J., C. 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