Dorothea Bate, English palaeontologist and archaeozoologist (died 1951)

Dorothea Bate

Welsh palaeontologist and archaeozoologist

Dorothea Minola Alice Bate, also known as Dorothy Bate, was a Welsh palaeontologist and 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.