DIRECTORS
Elisabeth Hildebrand
Elisabeth is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. Research interests include early herding and plant cultivation in northeast Africa, and the interplay between subsistence strategies and social organization during prehistoric times.
John Shea
John is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Stony Brook University. His research interests include paleolithic archaeology and paleoanthropology of the Near East, Africa, and Europe; early hominin adaptive radiations; origin of modern humans; Neandertals; lithic technology; and experimental archaeology.
ASSOCIATED RESEARCHERS
Veronica Waweru
Veronica holds a PhD from the University of Connecticut and is a research affiliate of the National Museums of Kenya. She has participated in research projects at Lukenya Hill, the Kinangop plateau, Baringo and East Turkana (Kenya). Her research focuses on the timing of domestication in East Africa, radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dating.
