A5031618479- Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
- African history and culture analysis
- Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
- Colonialism, slavery, and trade
- Diverse Musicological Studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Museums and Cultural Heritage
- Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
- Archaeological Research and Protection
- Gut microbiota and health
- Agriculture and Rural Development Research
- Oral microbiology and periodontitis research
- Eurasian Exchange Networks
- Salivary Gland Disorders and Functions
- Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
- Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
- Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration
- Crafts, Textile, and Design
- ICT in Developing Communities
- African cultural and philosophical studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
2010-2025
University of South Florida
2020-2024
Characterizing genetic diversity in Africa is a crucial step for most analyses reconstructing the evolutionary history of anatomically modern humans. However, historic migrations from Eurasia into have affected many contemporary populations, confounding inferences. Here, we present 12.5× coverage ancient genome an Ethiopian male ("Mota") who lived approximately 4500 years ago. We use this to demonstrate that Eurasian backflow came population closely related Early Neolithic farmers, had...
Significance The microbiome plays key roles in human health, but little is known about its evolution. We investigate the evolutionary history of African hominid oral by analyzing dental biofilms humans and Neanderthals spanning past 100,000 years comparing them with those chimpanzees, gorillas, howler monkeys. identify 10 core bacterial genera that have been maintained within lineage play biofilm structural roles. However, many remain understudied unnamed. find major taxonomic functional...
ABSTRACT Archaeologists continue to describe Stone Age women as home bound and their lithic technologies unskilled, expedient, of low quality. However, today a group Konso make, use, discard flaked stone tools process hides, offering us an alternative the man‐the‐toolmaker model redefining Western “naturalized” gender roles. These are skilled knappers who develop expertise through long‐term practice apprenticeship. Their technology demonstrates that individual's level skill age visible in...
The heat treatment of rocks to improve their fracture qualities for stone tool production is a key technological innovation Pleistocene humans. Because the intentionality and technicality this transformative process are often associated with cognitive prowess, topic has attracted considerable archaeological research interest worldwide. Yet, few ethnographic examples, assumptions about almost always based upon laboratory experiments. Here we report contemporary Konso craft specialists from...
We report the first large-scale palaeoproteomics research on eastern and southern African zooarchaeological samples, thereby refining our understanding of early caprine (sheep goat) pastoralism in Africa. Assessing introductions is a complicated task because their skeletal similarity to endemic wild bovid species sparse fragmentary state relevant archaeological remains. Palaeoproteomics has previously proved effective clarifying attributions materials, but few comparative protein sequences...
This article focuses on our collaboration with the Boreda of southern Ethiopia to document ways in which their cultural heritage knowledge is entwined Ochollo Mulato, one nine tangible senior ancestral landscapes or Bayira Deriya. Through interface between oral traditions, life histories, and archaeological record, we grew increasingly aware descendant community's wide range alternative but equally valid memories attachments lands. Articulated through landscape at demonstrated us various...
In this paper, I present Ethiopia's Boreda lithic practitioners’ perception of knapping stone as a living vital being and how it informs their selection colourful stones transmission knowledge to apprentices. particular, practitioners select which are perceived exhibit evidence vitality in the form light choose particular colours for association with transformation community identity. Furthermore, elders use these attributes assist apprentices learning identify good-quality parent material,...
ABSTRACT A select group of Boreda women in southern Ethiopia bolster their sense prestige and dignity as mothers leaders through ancestral landscapes, Bayira Deriya . These conveyed knowledge to me endowed with the responsibility share it only after my longitudinal commitment becoming a listening cultural apprentice mother. Importantly, wisdom taught an alternative way perceiving motherhood gender justice led significant scientific discovery for world.