Medina Lubisia

Doctorante

Pôle Afrique - Histoire et archéologie africaines

Coordonnées

Adresse: Laboratoire TRACES UMR 5608 Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès Maison de la Recherche 5, allées Antonio MACHADO 31058 Toulouse Cedex 9
Mail: medinalubisia@gmail.com

Corps

Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès

Discipline(s)

ARCHEOLOGIE

Thèmes de recherche

For my PhD, I will be examining manuports from the Oldowan and Acheulean of West Turkana, Kenya (thesis title: The origins of human behaviour: the contributions of manuports in the Oldowan and Acheulean of West Turkana, Kenya). This research will be significant in addressing questions on hominin cognition, by investigating how, why, and when hominins discarded/abandoned artefacts on the landscape. My goal is to expand the existing methodology and provide a framework from which manuports (which have often been neglected) can be studied to provide additional insights on hominin behaviours. This study draws on the work done on the western shore of the modern Lake Turkana by the West Turkana Archaeological Project (WTAP) over the last three decades.

Activités / CV

I am a PhD student at the University of Toulouse-Jean Jaurès. I’m also the co-director of the West Turkana Archaeological Project (WTAP) along with Prof. Sonia Harmand. I hold a Bachelor of Arts (Anthropology) degree from the University of Nairobi and Master of Science in Human Evolutionary Biology from Turkana University College (Constituent college of Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology). Prior to joining the doctoral school, I was working at the Turkana Basin Institute (Marsabit and Turkwel) in Kenya from the Fall of 2019 to Spring 2025 as a Teaching Assistant, Field School Coordinator and a Resident Academic Director.