Assistant Professor Elisabeth Hildebrand
Ph.D. 2003, Washington University in St. Louis
Research Interests:
Elisabeth Hildebrand's research interests include early herding and plant cultivation in northeast Africa, and the interplay between subsistence strategies and social organization during prehistoric times. She has conducted two long-term projects in southwest Ethiopia: ethnoarchaeological research on plant domestication among the Sheko, and the first archaeological survey of the headwaters of the Omo River. She is currently doing excavation and paleoethnobotany in southwest Ethiopia and northern Sudan.
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