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) (1918 in Westminster, London – 1982) was an English geologist, archaeologist, anthropologist and author.
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.