Joanne Munga
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Background
Joanne Munga’s research focuses on East African Early Stone Age lithic assemblages to understand hominin behavior through raw material quality and selection.
Education
BA, Archaeology, University of Nairobi, 2011.
MA, Archaeology, University of Nairobi, 2014.
Advisors: David Braun
Research Experience
2012- Present Koobi Fora Field School, Research Staff, Koobi Fora, East Turkana, Kenya.
2014 Baringo Archaeological Survey, Visiting Researcher, Baringo, Kenya.
2014 Elandsfontein Field Course, Western Cape, South Africa.
2012 Primate Archaeology survey of Pliocene beds, Koobi Fora, East Turkana, Kenya.
2010 West Turkana Archaeological Project, Student, West Turkana, Kenya.
2009 Koobi Fora Field School, Student, Koobi Fora, East Turkana, Kenya.
Conference Abstracts
2017 J.U. Munga, D.R. Braun., T. Plummer, Macroscopic investigation of raw material properties: Comparisons with Mechanical Properties Tests. Poster presented at the meeting of the Paleoanthropology Society, Vancouver, Canada.
Distinctions
2017 Lewis N. Cotlow Fund, The George Washington University.
2015 Wenner-Gren, Wadsworth International Fellowship.
