Robert Foley (academic)

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Robert Foley
University of Durham
University of Cambridge
ThesisHuman palaeoecology: an analysis of regional artefact density in the Amboseli Basin, Southern Kenya (1975)

Robert Andrew Foley,

University of Durham. He has been a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, since 1987, and Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution at the University of Cambridge since 2003.[1]

Early career

Foley was born on 18 March 1953 in Sussex, England, to Nelson and Jean Foley.[1][2] He was educated at Ardingly College and Peterhouse, Cambridge where he earned an MA and PhD in archaeology. While an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge, he was a member of the University of Cambridge Archaeological Field Club (AFC).[3]

Academic career

From 1977 to 1985, Foley was a

Professor of Human Evolution.[1][5]

Research

Foley has carried out research in many aspects of evolutionary theory, human evolution, prehistory and more recently human evolutionary genetics. His early work was on the

hominin diversity. This approach was summarized in two books – Another Unique Species, and Humans Before Humanity.[citation needed
]

Since the 1990s, Foley has collaborated with Marta Mirazón Lahr on research relating to the evolution of modern humans and their diversity. Their work has argued for multiple dispersals of early humans out of Africa, and the use of the ‘southern route’. Their approach has emphasized the role of geographical factors in shaping human evolution, and a central role for dispersals as the process by which diversity evolves.[9][10][11]

He has co-led expeditions and archaeological excavations with Mirazon Lahr in the Solomon Islands, the Central Sahara, and Kenya, particularly in the Turkana Basin. In Turkana, Foley and Mirazon Lahr study the late Quaternary record of human occupation in the basin, and have recently described a group of 10,000 year-old skeletons from the site of Nataruk that died as part of conflict between hunter-gatherer bands.[12]

In the last decade, Foley has been involved in several aspects of evolutionary psychology and linguistics, exploring questions related to the evolution of human cognition, human language and its use as a mechanism is the evolution of society and social boundaries.[citation needed]

He has an h-index of 51 according to Google Scholar.[13]

Honours

In 2007, Foley was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA).[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c "FOLEY, Prof. Robert Andrew". Who's Who 2015. A & C Black. November 2014. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  2. ^ "Interview with Professor Robert Foley, Part 1". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021. Retrieved 18 March 2015.
  3. ^ The Archaeological Field Club. "Alumni". archaeology.uk.com.
  4. ^ "Features of the Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies". University of Cambridge. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  5. ^ "Fellows of King's College, Cambridge". King’s College. Retrieved 26 December 2012.
  6. ^ Foley, R. A. (1981). "Off-site Archaeology and human adaptations in Eastern Africa". Cambridge Monographs in African Archaeology. 5.
  7. PMID 19805433
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  8. doi:10.1006/jhev.1994.1017
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  9. S2CID 86086352
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  10. PMID 9881525
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  11. doi:10.1016/0047-2484(92)90085-n
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  12. S2CID 4462435
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  13. ^ "Robert A. Foley". Google Scholar. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  14. ^ "British Academy Fellows – FOLEY, Professor Robert". British Academy. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 26 December 2012.

Selected publications

External links

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