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Sonia Mary Cole

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Citizenship
  
British

Died
  
1982

Role
  
Geologist


Name
  
Sonia Cole

Institutions
  
British Museum

Institution
  
British Museum

Books
  
The Prehistory of East Africa

Fields
  
Anthropology, Archaeology, Geology

Sonia Mary Cole (née Myers) (1918 in Westminster, London – 1982) was an English geologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and author.

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Biography

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.

Cole is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon.

Works

  • 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

    Sonia Mary Cole Wikipedia