Dr Thembi Russell
Senior Researcher & Curator
Archaeology
University of the Witwatersrand
South Africa
Biography
Dr Thembi Russell is currently working as Senior Researcher & Curator of Archaeology at University of Witwatersrand
Research Interest
I am interested in the spread of food production in southern Africa during the Later Stone Age and its associated archaeology, including rock art. As part of this I am collaborating with Professor James Steele and Dr Fabio Silva to model the large scale dispersal of sub-Saharan Africa’s first farmers. I’ve recently started a project to explore and map indigenous and historic South African place names to try to understand the relations and processes that led to their adoption or rejection by colonizers.
