Sonia Mary Cole
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Sonia Mary Cole | |
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Born | Sonia Mary Myers 1918 Westminster, London, England |
Died | 1982 |
Citizenship | British |
Fields | anthropology, archaeology, geology |
Institutions | British Museum |
Sonia Mary Cole (née Myers)[1] (1918 in Westminster, London[2] – 1982) was an English geologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and author.
Biography[edit]
Cole worked for the British Museum, and conducted extensive fieldwork in Africa.
She was a close friend and colleague of Mary Leakey, who wrote her obituary.[3]
Cole is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon.[4]
Works[edit]
- An Outline of the Geology of Kenya (1950)
- The Prehistory of East Africa (1954, 2nd Ed. 1958, Rev Ed. 1964)
- Races of Man (1963, 2nd Ed. 1965)
- The Neolithic Age (1970)
- Leakey's Luck (1975)
References[edit]
- ^ http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00672708209511296
- ^ http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=sonia%20m&lastname=syers&eventyear=1918&eventyear_offset=2
- ^ Leakey, M. "Obituary: Sonia Mary Cole", Аzama 17, 1982 : vii-viii. 368
- ^ "Review: Races of Man", Stanley M. Garn, American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 65, No. 6, Dec., 1963, pp. 1410-1411.