Dr Dorothy Lunt celebrated

It was with great pleasure at our AGM on 18^th April that we were able to give this year’s Presidential Award to Dr Dorothy Lunt. This Award is given at the end of each Presidential term to a member of the society who has furthered the study of and rendered conspicuous services to archaeology in Scotland. Dorothy has been a member of GAS since 1953-54 session (!!) and was President from 1991 to 1994 (only our second even woman President), serving the society with distinction and donating the current Presidential Medal. Aside from her service to GAS, Dorothy had a very successful career as a lecturer in dentistry at the University of Glasgow, and was able to combine this skill set with archaeology. Her analysis of teeth from excavations ranging from prehistoric to medieval, in sites across Scotland and beyond, were seminal in her approach to dental palaeopathology of archaeological and forensic material. Her PhD research, completed in 1966, was published in the Journal of Dental Research, and her research expertise helped lay the foundation for the chemical analysis of teeth so common in archaeology today. You can read more about Dorothy’s time at the University of Glasgow here.