Collection
Deep History and Community Joy: Making the Connections
Editors
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Kathryn Ranhorn
Kathryn Ranhorn is an anthropologist with academic and applied experience in Pleistocene archaeology, site preservation, and cultural heritage. She holds a Ph.D. in Hominin Paleobiology (2017) from George Washington University and a BA in Anthropology from the University of Florida. With support from the Leakey Foundation, the Wenner Gren Foundation, and the Fulbright-Hays fellowship program, she has examined lithic technology in Late Pleistocene eastern Africa and recently co-created a collaborative deep history research project in Kondoa, Tanzania.
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Asmeret Mehari
She is currently working as an independent researcher. Her research focuses on community engagement in archaeology in African countries. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida and a BA in Archaeology from the University of Asmara. In the last decade, her research interest centered on ethnography and the history of archaeology in East Africa. She has conducted ethnographic and archival research on the development of archaeological practices and pedagogies in Tanzania and Uganda. Her earlier research specifically explored prehistoric ceramics from the greater Asmara area in Eritrea, dating to 2400 to 2800 years ago.
