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.
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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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About
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.