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.
