Robyn Humphreys is an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape. She recently completed  her PhD in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town. Her research  focuses on heritage policies related to the dead from archaeological sites and the avenues communities can use to make claims to ancestral remains. In relation to this she is embarking on a new project that will explore how anti-colonial movements such as the Non-European Unity Movement engaged with science. She is especially interested in how these organisations engaged with archaeological, biological anthropological and paleoanthropological histories to understand African history.