Dorothea Bate, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Dorothea Bate

Welsh palaeontologist and archaeozoologist

Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1878

Place of Birth: Carmarthen, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 13-Jan-1951

Profession: zoologist, ornithologist, paleontologist, archaeologist, anthropologist

Nationality: Wales, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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.