Sonia Mary Cole

Sonia Mary Cole
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, Westminster, London[2] - 1982) was an English geologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and author.

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.[3]

Cole is most remembered for her work Races of Man, which drew heavily from Carleton Coon.[4]

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