Agness Gidna
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Agness Gidna is a Tanzanian paleontologist and a former Senior Curator of Paleontology at the
National Museum of Tanzania The National Museum of Tanzania (NMT), (Swahili: ''Makumbusho ya Taifa''), is a consortium of several Tanzanian museums whose purpose is to preserve and show objects from the history and natural environment of Tanzania. The consortium developed fr ...
. She is currently working with Ngorongoro Conservation Area as a Principal Cultural Heritage Officer. She is the first Tanzanian woman to hold a doctorate in Physical Anthropology and she is the first Tanzanian female research director at Olduvai Gorge, where she has been a co-principal investigator of the Olduvai Palaeoanthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP) since 2017.


Career

She graduated from the
University of Dar es Salaam The University of Dar es Salaam (UDSM) (Swahili: ''Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam'') is a public university located in Ubungo District, Dar es Salaam Region, Tanzania. It was established in 1961 as an affiliate college of the University of London. ...
,
Complutense University of Madrid The Complutense University of Madrid (, UCM; ) is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293 (before relocating to Madrid in 1836), it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's ...
(Spain), and the
University of Alcala A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...
(Spain). She is a founder of the largest Pastoral Neolithic site in sub-sahara Africa-(
Luxmanda Luxmanda is an archaeological site located in the north-central Babati District of Tanzania. It was discovered in 2012. Excavations in the area have identified it as the largest and southernmost settlement site of the Savanna Pastoral Neolithic (S ...
Site). She is a co-director of International research projects e.g. the
Olduvai Gorge The Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania is one of the most important paleoanthropology, paleoanthropological localities in the world; the many sites exposed by the gorge have proven invaluable in furthering understanding of early human evo ...
Project. As Senior Curator of Paleontology at the National Museum of Tanzania, she has organized and curated two major exhibitions about human origin in
Olduvai Gorge Museum The Olduvai Gorge Museum () is located in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Northern Tanzania on the edge of the Olduvai Gorge. The museum was founded by Mary Leakey and is now under the jurisdiction of the Tanzanian government's Department of ...
, founded by
Mary Leakey Mary Douglas Leakey, Fellow of the British Academy, FBA (née Nicol, 6 February 1913 – 9 December 1996) was a British paleoanthropologist who discovered the first fossilised ''Proconsul (mammal), Proconsul'' skull, an extinct ape which is now ...
, and the National Museum of Tanzania. She gave tours to Samia Suluhu Hassan, Vice President of Tanzania in 2017 during the inauguration of the new Olduvai Gorge museum and to Monica Chakwera, First Lady of Malawi.


Selected works

* Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Baquedano, E., Pickering, T. R., Mabulla, A. Z., Bunn, H. T., Musiba, C., ... & Gidna, A. O. (2011). New associated hominin remains from BK (Upper Bed II, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania). *Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Baquedano, E., Díez Martín, F., Bunn, H. T., Pickering, T. R., Musiba, C., ... & Arriaza, M. D. C. (2012). La evolución conductual de los primeros Homo erectus (ergaster): estudio arqueológico y paleoecológico de los yacimientos antrópicos del lecho II de la Garganta de Olduvai: informe de la campaña de excavaciones en Olduvai. Año 2010. * *Gidna, A., Yravedra, J., & Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. (January 1, 2013). A cautionary note on the use of captive carnivores to model wild predator behavior: A comparison of bone modification patterns on long bones by captive and wild lions. ''Journal of Archaeological Science, 40,'' 4, 1903–1910. *Gidna, A. O., & Domínguez-Rodrigo, M. (2013). A method for reconstructing human femoral length from fragmented shaft specimens. ''Homo'', ''64''(1), 29–41. *Domínguez-Rodrigo, M., Bunn, H. T., Mabulla, A. Z., Baquedano, E., Uribelarrea del Val, D., Pérez-González, A., ... & Egeland, C. P. (2013). Did Homo erectus consume a Pelorovis herd at BK (Bed II, Olduvai Gorge)?. *Gidna, A. O. (2019). A comparative Study of Frontal Bone Morphology Among Pleistocene Hominin Fossils Group: A Study on Eyasi Hominin (EH6) Frontal Bone. ''Studies in the African Past'', ''12'', 146–159. * *Davies TW, Alemseged Z, Gidna A, et al. (2021) Accessory cusp expression at the enamel-dentine junction of hominin mandibular molars. Peerj. 2021 ;9:e11415. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.11415. PMID 34055484; PMCID: PMC8141287.


References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Women paleontologists Tanzanian curators University of Dar es Salaam alumni Place of birth missing (living people) Complutense University of Madrid alumni Tanzanian women scientists University of Alcalá alumni {{paleontologist-stub