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"Mud, muck, ooze upon the floor, torn tents and thunder – all were forgotten as the sherry bottle was opened"
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Dorothy Garrod
Dorothy Garrod
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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA 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.
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"Europe was only after all a peninsula of Africa and Asia"
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"j’aime mieux écrire que discuter de vive voix [I much prefer to write than discuss aloud]"
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"You crawl on your stomach for hours … climbing up yawning abysses (lighted only by an acetylene lamp …) and get knocked on the head by stalactites and on the legs by stalagmites, and in the end arrive at all sorts of wonders; bison modelled in clay, and portraits of sorcerers, and footprints of Magdalenian man."
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