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[https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-merrick-posnansky by Professor Merrick Posnansky UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE] | [https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-merrick-posnansky by Professor Merrick Posnansky UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE] | ||
Merrick was a pioneering Africanist archaeologist who trained for a short time in Cambridge, undertaking a Diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology with Graeme Clark, before completing a PhD at Nottingham (1956). Merrick went on to highly important roles in Africa including as a warden for prehistoric sites in Kenya, Curator of the Uganda Museum (1958-62), Deputy Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (1962-64), Director of the African Studies programme at Makerere University (1964-67), Professor of Archaeology, University of Legon, Ghana (1967-1977) and Professor of Archaeology, UCLA (1977 to 1994). | Merrick was a pioneering Africanist archaeologist who trained for a short time in Cambridge, undertaking a Diploma in Prehistoric Archaeology with Graeme Clark, before completing a PhD at Nottingham (1956). Merrick went on to highly important roles in Africa including as a warden for prehistoric sites in Kenya, Curator of the Uganda Museum (1958-62), Deputy Director of the British Institute in Eastern Africa (1962-64), Director of the African Studies programme at Makerere University (1964-67), Professor of Archaeology, University of Legon, Ghana (1967-1977) and Professor of Archaeology, UCLA (1977 to 1994). | ||
=====DNA from 41 skeletons hints at first herders in Africa===== | |||
[https://www.futurity.org/herding-africa-skeletons-2075202-2/ by Gregory Filiano-Stony Brook 31/5/19 FUTURITY] | |||
“The origins of food producers in East Africa have remained elusive because of gaps in the archaeological record,” explains Mary Prendergast, a co-first author and professor of anthropology at Saint Louis University in Madrid, Spain “Our study uses DNA to answer previously unsolvable questions about how people were moving and interacting.” | |||
