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Africa

The homeland of our lineage, Africa encompasses a fossil hominin record across the last 6 million years or more. The genetics of African populations give us insights into the evolutionary history of humans across the last few hundred thousand years.

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Gertrude Caton Thompson within the history of archaeology in Africa

As I read through the 20th-century archaeologist's memoirs, I find the flavor of the field in the 1920s and 1930s.

Gertrude Caton Thompson portrait