Agness Gidna
Biographic Data
| ID | 170663 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agness Gidna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agness |
| FAMILY NAME | Gidna |
| SIGNATURE | GIDNA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tanzania National Parks |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-4826-4143 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 458 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Paleoenvironment of the Ndutu Bed at Olduvai Gorge in the Context of Middle Stone Age Expansion in Eastern Africa
The study of the Eastern African archaeological record is essential for understanding the origin and evolution of the Middle Stone Age (MSA). However, Olduvai Gorge, one of the primary regions in human evolution studies, has few sites associated with the MSA. The zooarchaeological and taphonomic study of two MSA sites, Victoria Cabrera Site (VCS) and Dorothy Garrod Site (DGS), allows us to understand the dynamics of accumulation of faunal assembl…
New excavations at Nasera Rock (Tanzania)
International audience
Automated SEM-EDS mineralogical characterisation of archaeological pottery from Luxmanda and Mumba Rockshelter, Tanzania
Lithic technology from level 22 at Nasera (Tanzania)
Exploring the Middle Stone Age lithic technology at DGS, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Olduvai Gorge, nestled between the East African Rift Valley and the Mozambique Belt, is key to understanding human evolution. Even though extensive archaeological and palaeoanthropological findings have been unearthed here since the 1930s, the Middle Stone Age in this area has nonetheless received less attention than the Oldowan or the Acheulean. This paper presents the lithic technology analysis of Dorothy Garrod Site (DGS), a newly-documented M…
Conclusions
Reconstructing Olduvai
On leopards, hyenas and Greek gods
Misiam is a modern palimpsest created by the action of leopards and, to a lesser degree, hyenas found in Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). • A recent study by Yravedra and Linares-Matás on a smaller fraction of the assemblage mischaracterizes the previous complete study. • These authors conducted research without having any of the Tanzanian permits required. • Yravedra and Linares-Matás argue that Misiam in a single depositional and resedimented assembla…
Reassessing the role of carnivores in the formation of FLK North 3 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
FLK North (FLK N) (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) is one of the best examples of a palimpsest where felids, hyenids and hominins made use of the same space without or with minimal interaction between hominins and the other two carnivores. Felids have been interpreted as the main accumulators and carcass consumers followed by frequent hyenid intervention. The presence of hominins at this site has been documented through the discovery of stone too…
The Dorothy Garrod Site
Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) is a key site for the study of human evolution as well as the origin of modern humans and the Middle Stone Age (MSA). In this study, we present a new MSA location named Dorothy Garrod Site (DGS), found in the main branch of Olduvai Gorge. The site has only one archaeological level, located stratigraphically in the Upper Ndutu. Although it has not yet been possible to radiometrically date it, it has yielded numerous archae…
Detecting and mapping the 'ephemeral
Common assumptions about the ephemeral archaeological signature of pastoralist settlements have limited the application of geophysical techniques in the investigation of past herding societies. Here, the authors present a geophysical survey of Luxmanda, Tanzania, the largest-known settlement documented for the Pastoral Neolithic era in eastern Africa (c. 5000-1200 BP). The results demonstrate the value and potential of fluxgate gradiometry for th…
Grinding-stone features from the Pastoral Neolithic at Luxmanda, Tanzania
The initial spread of food production in eastern Africa is associated with livestock herding during the Pastoral Neolithic. Recent excavation at Luxmanda, Tanzania, a site dating to c. 3000 BP, revealed circular installations of lower grinding stones and numerous handstones. This discovery, unprecedented for this era, challenges previous ideas about pastoralist mobility and subsistence
Recent discoveries on the evolution of early human behavior at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
Geochemical and physical characterization of lithic raw materials in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Victoria Cabrera Site
The river that never was
Who ate OH80 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)? A geometric-morphometric analysis of surface bone modifications of a Paranthropus boisei skeleton
Taphonomic analysis of the level 3b fauna at BK, Olduvai Gorge
The meta-group social network of early humans
Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
The later Holocene spread of pastoralism throughout eastern Africa profoundly changed socio-economic and natural landscapes. During the Pastoral Neolithic (ca. 5000–1200 B.P.), herders spread through southern Kenya and northern Tanzania—areas previously occupied only by hunter-gatherers—eventually developing the specialized forms of pastoralism that remain vital in this region today. Research on ancient pastoralism has been primarily restricted t…
A new approach to raw material use in the exploitation of animal carcasses at BK (Upper Bed II , Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
The use of innovative techniques such as micro‐photogrammetry and geometric morphometrics may have a major impact on the differentiation of cut marks made with different raw materials and, thus, link butchering processes with stone tool reduction sequences. This work focuses on a sample of cut‐marked bones from the Bell's Korongo (BK) site (Upper Bed II , Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), which is an emblematic early Pleistocene site where a large faunal…
An experimental lion-to-hammerstone model and its relevance to understand hominin-carnivore interactions in the archeological record
Patterns of bovid long limb bone modification created by wild and captive leopards and their relevance to the elaboration of referential frameworks for paleoanthropology
A new methodological approach to the taphonomic study of paleontological and archaeological faunal assemblages
A method for reconstructing human femoral length from fragmented shaft specimens
A study of dimensional differences of tooth marks (pits and scores) on bones modified by small and large carnivores
On meat eating and human evolution
A new methodological approach to the taphonomic study of paleontological and archaeological faunal assemblages
Autochthony and orientation patterns in Olduvai Bed I
Patterns of bovid long limb bone modification created by wild and captive leopards and their relevance to the elaboration of referential frameworks for paleoanthropology
Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
The later Holocene spread of pastoralism throughout eastern Africa profoundly changed socio-economic and natural landscapes. During the Pastoral Neolithic (ca. 5000–1200 B.P.), herders spread through southern Kenya and northern Tanzania—areas previously occupied only by hunter-gatherers—eventually developing the specialized forms of pastoralism that remain vital in this region today. Research on ancient pastoralism has been primarily restricted t…
A cautionary note on the use of captive carnivores to model wild predator behavior
Pastoral Neolithic sites on the southern Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania
As part of a larger project examining the introduction of herding into northern Tanzania, surveys and excavations were conducted at the southern edge of the Mbulu Plateau, documenting the presence of Narosura ceramics dating to the early third millennium BP, as well as a Later Stone Age occupation dated via ostrich eggshell to the tenth millennium BP. This marks the southernmost extent of the Pastoral Neolithic in eastern Africa. The paucity of s…
An experimental lion-to-hammerstone model and its relevance to understand hominin-carnivore interactions in the archeological record
The river that never was
Who ate OH80 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)? A geometric-morphometric analysis of surface bone modifications of a Paranthropus boisei skeleton
Victoria Cabrera Site
Detecting and mapping the 'ephemeral
Common assumptions about the ephemeral archaeological signature of pastoralist settlements have limited the application of geophysical techniques in the investigation of past herding societies. Here, the authors present a geophysical survey of Luxmanda, Tanzania, the largest-known settlement documented for the Pastoral Neolithic era in eastern Africa (c. 5000-1200 BP). The results demonstrate the value and potential of fluxgate gradiometry for th…
The meta-group social network of early humans
The Dorothy Garrod Site
Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) is a key site for the study of human evolution as well as the origin of modern humans and the Middle Stone Age (MSA). In this study, we present a new MSA location named Dorothy Garrod Site (DGS), found in the main branch of Olduvai Gorge. The site has only one archaeological level, located stratigraphically in the Upper Ndutu. Although it has not yet been possible to radiometrically date it, it has yielded numerous archae…
Geochemical and physical characterization of lithic raw materials in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Exploring the Middle Stone Age lithic technology at DGS, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
Olduvai Gorge, nestled between the East African Rift Valley and the Mozambique Belt, is key to understanding human evolution. Even though extensive archaeological and palaeoanthropological findings have been unearthed here since the 1930s, the Middle Stone Age in this area has nonetheless received less attention than the Oldowan or the Acheulean. This paper presents the lithic technology analysis of Dorothy Garrod Site (DGS), a newly-documented M…
Taphonomic analysis of the level 3b fauna at BK, Olduvai Gorge
Reassessing the role of carnivores in the formation of FLK North 3 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
FLK North (FLK N) (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) is one of the best examples of a palimpsest where felids, hyenids and hominins made use of the same space without or with minimal interaction between hominins and the other two carnivores. Felids have been interpreted as the main accumulators and carcass consumers followed by frequent hyenid intervention. The presence of hominins at this site has been documented through the discovery of stone too…
A cautionary note on the use of captive carnivores to model wild predator behavior
Autochthony and orientation patterns in Olduvai Bed I
A study of dimensional differences of tooth marks (pits and scores) on bones modified by small and large carnivores
A method for reconstructing human femoral length from fragmented shaft specimens
On meat eating and human evolution
Pastoral Neolithic sites on the southern Mbulu Plateau, Tanzania
As part of a larger project examining the introduction of herding into northern Tanzania, surveys and excavations were conducted at the southern edge of the Mbulu Plateau, documenting the presence of Narosura ceramics dating to the early third millennium BP, as well as a Later Stone Age occupation dated via ostrich eggshell to the tenth millennium BP. This marks the southernmost extent of the Pastoral Neolithic in eastern Africa. The paucity of s…
Patterns of bovid long limb bone modification created by wild and captive leopards and their relevance to the elaboration of referential frameworks for paleoanthropology
A new methodological approach to the taphonomic study of paleontological and archaeological faunal assemblages
An experimental lion-to-hammerstone model and its relevance to understand hominin-carnivore interactions in the archeological record
A new approach to raw material use in the exploitation of animal carcasses at BK (Upper Bed II , Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
The use of innovative techniques such as micro‐photogrammetry and geometric morphometrics may have a major impact on the differentiation of cut marks made with different raw materials and, thus, link butchering processes with stone tool reduction sequences. This work focuses on a sample of cut‐marked bones from the Bell's Korongo (BK) site (Upper Bed II , Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania), which is an emblematic early Pleistocene site where a large faunal…
Pastoral Neolithic Settlement at Luxmanda, Tanzania
The later Holocene spread of pastoralism throughout eastern Africa profoundly changed socio-economic and natural landscapes. During the Pastoral Neolithic (ca. 5000–1200 B.P.), herders spread through southern Kenya and northern Tanzania—areas previously occupied only by hunter-gatherers—eventually developing the specialized forms of pastoralism that remain vital in this region today. Research on ancient pastoralism has been primarily restricted t…
Recent discoveries on the evolution of early human behavior at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania)
Geochemical and physical characterization of lithic raw materials in the Olduvai Basin, Tanzania
Victoria Cabrera Site
The river that never was
Who ate OH80 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)? A geometric-morphometric analysis of surface bone modifications of a Paranthropus boisei skeleton
Taphonomic analysis of the level 3b fauna at BK, Olduvai Gorge
The meta-group social network of early humans
Grinding-stone features from the Pastoral Neolithic at Luxmanda, Tanzania
The initial spread of food production in eastern Africa is associated with livestock herding during the Pastoral Neolithic. Recent excavation at Luxmanda, Tanzania, a site dating to c. 3000 BP, revealed circular installations of lower grinding stones and numerous handstones. This discovery, unprecedented for this era, challenges previous ideas about pastoralist mobility and subsistence
Reassessing the role of carnivores in the formation of FLK North 3 (Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania)
FLK North (FLK N) (Bed I, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania) is one of the best examples of a palimpsest where felids, hyenids and hominins made use of the same space without or with minimal interaction between hominins and the other two carnivores. Felids have been interpreted as the main accumulators and carcass consumers followed by frequent hyenid intervention. The presence of hominins at this site has been documented through the discovery of stone too…
The Dorothy Garrod Site
Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) is a key site for the study of human evolution as well as the origin of modern humans and the Middle Stone Age (MSA). In this study, we present a new MSA location named Dorothy Garrod Site (DGS), found in the main branch of Olduvai Gorge. The site has only one archaeological level, located stratigraphically in the Upper Ndutu. Although it has not yet been possible to radiometrically date it, it has yielded numerous archae…
Detecting and mapping the 'ephemeral
Common assumptions about the ephemeral archaeological signature of pastoralist settlements have limited the application of geophysical techniques in the investigation of past herding societies. Here, the authors present a geophysical survey of Luxmanda, Tanzania, the largest-known settlement documented for the Pastoral Neolithic era in eastern Africa (c. 5000-1200 BP). The results demonstrate the value and potential of fluxgate gradiometry for th…
Conclusions
Reconstructing Olduvai
On leopards, hyenas and Greek gods
Misiam is a modern palimpsest created by the action of leopards and, to a lesser degree, hyenas found in Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). • A recent study by Yravedra and Linares-Matás on a smaller fraction of the assemblage mischaracterizes the previous complete study. • These authors conducted research without having any of the Tanzanian permits required. • Yravedra and Linares-Matás argue that Misiam in a single depositional and resedimented assembla…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (26 works) · Geography (21 works) · Archaeology (19 works) · Olduvai Gorge (16 works) · Biology (15 works) · Geology (15 works) · Paleontology (15 works) · Taphonomy (12 works) · Ecology (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works)