Martha Kayuni

Martha Kayuni
PhD Student
Africa Research Centre

Martha Nchimunya Kayuni is a lecturer in the Department of History and Archaeological Studies at the University of Zambia, where she teaches Archaeology and History. She holds a Master's of Archaeology from the University of Zambia. Currently, she is pursuing a PhD at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany, in collaboration with the University of Cologne, where Prof Dr Anne Haour serves as her supervisor. In her doctoral work, she uses multidisciplinary approaches such as archaeological excavation and survey, zooarchaeology, ZooMS, stable isotope analysis, ethnography, and rock art to examine human-animal-environmental interactions in Zambia. Her other research interests include archaeology, Indigenous Knowledge Systems, paleoenvironments, the impact of Bantu migrations, forager- farmer transitions, and prehistoric land use in Zambia and across Africa.

Figure 1: display of hunting tools during an ethnographic study on hunting strategies
Figure 2: Martha packing a bovid tooth during excavations at Nachikufu, one of her two research sites
Figure 3: Conducting Stable Isotopes lab work at the MPI-GEA, Jena lab
Figure 4: Documenting rock art and training students in the technique