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 | Harvard University |
| Thesis | (1979) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Anthropologist |
| Sub-discipline | Paleoanthropologist and Paleolithic archaeologist |
| Institutions | George Washington University, Smithsonian Institution |
| Website | anthropology |
Alison S. Brooks is an American paleoanthropologist and archaeologist whose work focuses on the Paleolithic, particularly the Middle Stone Age of Africa.[1] She is one of the most prominent figures in the debate over where Homo sapiens evolved and when.[1]