Bones and Bodies - Morris, Alan G
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This is an accessible account of the establishment of the scientific discipline of biological anthropology. The author takes readers back over the past century of anthropological discovery in South Africa and uncovers the stories of individual scientists and researchers who played a significant role in shaping perceptions of how peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern, came to be viewed and categorised both in the public imagination and the scientific literature. -- Description adapted from back cover.

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This is an accessible account of the establishment of the scientific discipline of biological anthropology. The author takes readers back over the past century of anthropological discovery in South Africa and uncovers the stories of individual scientists and researchers who played a significant role in shaping perceptions of how peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern, came to be viewed and categorised both in the public imagination and the scientific literature. -- Description adapted from back cover.
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Autorenporträt
Alan G. Morris is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town. Professor Morris has published extensively on the origin of anatomically modern humans, and the Later Stone Age, Iron Age and historic populations of Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa, as well as forensic anthropology. He has an additional interest in South African history and has published on the history of race classification, the history of physical anthropology in South Africa and on the Canadian involvement in the Anglo-Boer War. His current research is on ancient DNA in African populations and the history of physical anthropology in South Africa.