 Sibel
Kusimba
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1997
Associate Professor
Dr. Kusimba is an archaeologist interested in prehistoric and historic
African cultures. Her fieldwork in Kenya has examined the lifeways
of hunters and gatherers, the origins of food production and the
development of urban settlements and precolonial East African states.
She currently teaches courses in rise of civilization and African
archaeology and ethnography.
Selected Publications
Kusimba, S. B. 2003. "African Foragers." Journal of Archaeological
Research. Scheduled.
Kusimba, C. M., S. B. Kusimba, and B. Abgaje-Williams. 2003. "Precolonial
African Cities: Size and Density." In Population and Preindustrial
Cities: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, edited by G. Storey. University
of Alabama Press.
Kusimba, C. M., and S. Kusimba. 2003. "East Africa."
In African Archaeology: A Critical Introduction, edited by Ann Stahl.
Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology, Blackwell Press, London.
Kusimba, S. B., and C. M. Kusimba. 2002. "History." In
Darwin in Archaeology: A Handbook of Concepts, edited by John Terrell
and John Hart. Bergin and Garvey, Westport, Ct., pp. 143-160.
Kusimba, S. B., and C. M. Kusimba. 2002. Comparing Prehistoric
and Historic Hunter-gatherer Mobility in Southern Kenya. In Current
Research Themes in Later East African Archaeology, edited by C.
Kusimba and S. Kusimba. MASCA, The University of Pennsylvania Press.
Kusimba, S. B. 2002. "The Early Later Stone Age in East Africa:
Excavations and Lithic Assemblages from Lukenya Hill, Kenya."
African Archaeological Review 18:77-123.
Kusimba, S. B., and Fred H. Smith. 1999. "Acheulean."
In The Encyclopedia of Prehistory, edited by P. Peregrine and M.
Ember, pp. 1-22. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers.
Kusimba, S. B. 1999. "Hunter-gatherer Land Use Patterns in
Later Stone Age East Africa." Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
18:165-200.
Barut, S. 1997. "Later Stone Age Site Use Patterns at Lukenya
Hill, Kenya." Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 13:9-25.
Barut, S. 1995. "Obsidian Source Use at Lukenya Hill, Kenya."
In Aspects of African Archaeology , edited by G. Pwiti and R. Soper.
University of Harare Press, Harare, Zimbabwe, pp. 303-313.
Barut, S. 1994. "Middle and Later Stone Age Lithic Technology
and Land Use Patterns in East African Savannas." African Archaeological
Review 12:44-70.
Contact Information:
Dr. Sibel Kusimba
Department of Anthropology
Stevens Building 102
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL 60115
Voice: 815-753-7035
Fax: 815-753-7027
Email: skusimba@niu.edu
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