ABSTRACT

On 1 April 1929, Dr Dorothy Garrod from Cambridge University awaited a member of her all-female excavation team for the opening season of digging at the Mount Carmel Caves near Haifa in Palestine (Figure 4.1). Over 60 years later, Mary Kitson Clark, who had travelled at her own expense from Girton College, Cambridge, vividly remembered their first meeting at Athlit railway station, about 6 km from the caves. To her relief, Garrod met her embarrassed request to borrow money with complete calm (Kitson Clark 1994).