Katherine started following the work of Abbe Macbeth, National Institutes of Health, National Institutes of Mental Health.
Katherine started following the work of Attila Kreiter, Hungarian National Museum, National Heritage Protection Centre.
Katherine started following the work of 2 people.
Washington University in St. Louis
Graduate Student, Anthropology
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Fiona Marshall
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About
My dissertation is an ethnoarchaeological study of material culture made and used by Samburu pastoralists in north-central Kenya. My research focus is on pottery, and I examine relationships between mobility, subsistence, and the materiality of both everyday and ceremonial life.
I am also currently the ceramicist for the Later Prehistory of West Turkana project, based at Stony Brook University and the Turkana Basin Institute. We are examining monumental “pillar sites” built by the first pastoralists in eastern Africa c. 4500bp, and I am particularly interested in the specialized production of “Nderit” pottery found at the sites. In previous years I’ve been the laboratory director for the Pemba Archaeological Project in Tanzania, and other survey and excavation experience has taken me from historical sites in Virginia to pastoralist sites in Turkmenistan.
