Archaeologist who emphasized the importance of chronology in understanding Palaeolithic Europe, and laid the framework for the archaeology of modern human origins.
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Robert Foley is Leverhulme Professor of Human Evolution Emeritus and Fellow of King’s College, at the University of Cambridge; he and Paul were colleagues and friends at Cambridge for more than thirty years.
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Foley, R. Paul Mellars (1939–2022). Nat Ecol Evol 6, 1052–1053 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-022-01804-0
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