Dorothy Garrod played a leading role in the excavations at Mount Carmel, which were the product of a joint effort between the ASPR and the British School of Archaeology at Jerusalem. She worked closely with ASPR affiliates such as Theodore McCown and Hallam Movius Jr. Twelve field seasons at Mount Carmel yielded groundbreaking archaeological discoveries that remain critical to our understanding of prehistory and the origins of our species. In 1937, Garrod published The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, and the next year, she continued her collaboration with the ASPR in her excavation of the Bacho Kiro cave in Bulgaria.
Garrod was born in 1892 in London, and she attended Newnham College at the University of Cambridge, where she studied classics and history before archeology was available as a subject of study. After a brief break from academics following her graduation, she continued her scholarly career in 1921 at the University of Oxford where she pursed (and later obtained) a Bachelor’s of Science and a graduate diploma in Anthropology. Later in her life, after her work at Mount Carmel and elsewhere, she returned to Oxford and served as the Disney Professor of Archaeology. She was the first woman to hold the position of chair at Oxford University.