Nautilus Feature: 'Digging for Our Origins in the Bone Beds of an African Park'
Work by Professor Susana Carvalho profiled in new article
Susana Carvalho's work in Gorongosa National Park, Mozambique, offers a rare glimpse of the environment that may have been home to the last common ancestor of chimps and humans.
For the paleoanthropologists looking to fill out the pages of humanity’s family album, a cache of ancient teeth unearthed over the past few years at Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique could be like sepia-toned photos from the old neighborhood.
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Susana Carvalho is a primatologist, palaeoanthropologist and archaeologist. She is a Professor of Paleoanthropology in the Anthropology Department and a Fellow at St. Hugh's College and a pioneer of the field of Primate Archaeology. She leads the Primate Models for Behavioural Evolution Lab at the University of Oxford.
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