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Where did Margaret Mead conduct her first fieldwork?

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Svante Paabo stands smiling with one hand on a Neanderthal skeleton model in front of a blue Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology banner. — Anthropology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology director Svante Pӓӓbo posing with a model of a Neanderthal skeleton.

Margaret Mead conducted her first field season in Oceania in 1925, specifically in Samoa. During this expedition, she gathered the research material for her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa (1928).12