Alison S. Brooks
Dr. Alison S. Brooks | |
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| Nationality | American |
| Awards | Médaille d'Honneur of the City of Toulouse, Doctor of Letters honoris causae, and Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Faculty Scholarship, National Academy of Sciences (2020) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Radcliffe College (B.A) Harvard University (M.A ,Ph.D) |
| Thesis | (1979) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropologist |
| Sub-discipline | Paleoanthropologist and Paleolithic archaeologist |
| Institutions | George Washington University, Smithsonian Institution |
| Website | anthropology |
Alison Spence Brooks is an American paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work focuses on the Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa. She is one of the most prominent figures in the debate over where Homo sapiens evolved and when.