Marjaana.kohtamaki@arkeologi.uu.se

I am a PhD candidate in African Archaeology and I began my degree in November 2008.

I have previously studied at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL. My fieldwork experience includes survey and excavation projects in Mozambique, Rwanda, England, Romania and Kenya. I have also travelled and lived in different countries in eastern and southern Africa. I have conducted an ethno-archaeological study of BaTwa potters and pottery production in southern Rwanda as part of my BA dissertation at UCL.

The aim of my PhD thesis is to explore interactions between foragers and farmers in southern Mozambique over time. I conducted a field survey in hinterland and coastal catchments in Maputo Province, southern Mozambique, in 2010 as part of the PhD project. Several new archaeological sites, which range from Mid- to Late Stone Age assemblages to early and later farming communities, were recorded during the survey. This project will be continued in the form of excavations in summer 2011. Mozambican and Swedish archaeology students have participated in the project so as to create research networks between the two countries. An archaeological exhibition will also be opened in the village of Changalane as part of the project.

My main interests lie in ceramics, ethnicity, hunter-gatherers and heritage management in sub-Saharan Africa. I am also a PhD affiliate at CEFO, CEMUS (Centrum för miljö-och utvecklingsstudier) in Uppsala. I know English, Swedish, Finnish and elementary Portuguese.

Publications:

Kohtamaki, M. 2010. An ethno-archaeological study of Twa potters in southern Rwanda, in Azania, Vol. 45, No. 3, December 2010, pp. 298-321.