Episode Synopsis "Talkin' Tropics Ep. 4: Pamela Akuku"
Pamela Akuku is a PhD student at IPHES, or the Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution) in Tarragona Spain, and the University of Calgary, Canada. Pam is a Kenyan archaeology interested in taphonomy and taxonomy of African Plio-Pleistocene faunal assemblages, mainly at important paleoanthropological sites like Koobi Fora in Kenya and Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania. She received her bachelor of arts in Anthropology from the University of Nairobi and a Masters of Science in Archaeology from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. Pam is currently a PhD student and member of the Oldupai Gorge Stone Tools, Diet and Sociality project where she is studying faunal assemblages from Oldupai Gorge’s (Tanzania) Beds I-IV, and is is comparing faunal remains from Oldupai with studies from other sites of the same age to make inferences on environmental change, hominin behavioural patterns and site formation processes.