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Alison Brooks
Plant Microfossils in dental calculus demonstrate consumption of plants and cooked foods in Neanderthal diets
A team consisting of IGERT trainee Amanda Henry, and IGERT faculty members Alison Brooks and Dolores Piperno discovered that microfossils of starches from food are preserved for more than 100,000 years in... More »
About Me
I am an archaeologist, palaeoanthropologist who has focussed on the later stages of human evolution. My work has taken me to the Middle east, France, Sweden, China and multiple countries in Africa, including Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, DR Congo, Ethiopia and Kenya. I also worked with and studied San people of southern Africa.Currently I am working on early evidence for larger-scale human social networks and use of symbols in East Africa before 300,000 years ago. I n addition to my teaching at George Washington University, I am a member of the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian, where I also edit a newsletter for teachers, AnthroNotes, on new research in Anthropology.
