Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a British palaeontologist, a pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved. She had little formal education and once commented that her education "was only briefly interrupted by school".

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  • Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a British palaeontologist, a pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved. She had little formal education and once commented that her education "was only briefly interrupted by school". There she remained for fifty years and learned ornithology, palaeontology, geology and anatomy, in the early years often working as a piece-worker. While in Cyprus she also observed (and trapped, shot and skinned) living mammals and birds and prepared a number of other papers, including descriptions of the Cyprus Spiny Mouse (Acomys nesiotes) and a subspecies of the Winter Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes cypriotes). In Cyprus, Bate lodged mostly at Paphos with a District Commissioner called Wodehouse.. In Crete, she got to know the young archaeologists then excavating Knossos and throwing light on the Minoan civilisation. According to The Daily Telegraph Bate also worked with Percy R. Lowe on fossil ostriches in China. In 2005, a 'Dorothea Bate facsimile' was created at the Natural History Museum as part of project to develop notable gallery characters to patrol its display cases. She is thus among other luminaries including Carl Linnaeus, Mary Anning, and William Smith. They tell stories and anecdotes of their lives and discoveries. *On Elephant Remains from Crete, with Description of Elephas creticus (1907) *Excavation of a Mousterian rock-shelter at Devil's Tower, Gibraltar (with Dorothy Garrod, L. H. D. Buxton, and G. M. Smith, 1928) *A Note on the Fauna of the Athlit Caves (1932) *The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, volume 1, part 2: Palaeontology, the Fossil Fauna of the Wady el-Mughara Caves (with Professor Dorothy Garrod, 1937) (en)
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  • Dorothea Minola Alice Bate (en)
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  • Henry Reginald Bate and Elizabeth Fraser Bate, née Whitehill (en)
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  • Dorothea Minola Alice Bate FGS (8 November 1878 – 13 January 1951), also known as Dorothy Bate, was a British palaeontologist, a pioneer of archaeozoology. Her life's work was to find fossils of recently extinct mammals with a view to understanding how and why giant and dwarf forms evolved. She had little formal education and once commented that her education "was only briefly interrupted by school". (en)
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  • Dorothea Bate (en)
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