Anna graduated from her REAL project PhD at Uppsala University, Sweden, after fieldwork in Amboseli, Kenya, and analyses at the National Museums of Kenya and elsewhere. Anna continued archaeological and heritage-focused research in Tanzania through the ARCC project and is now participating in commercial archaeology in western Canada https://terraarchaeology.com/
Recent publications
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Camara-Brugger SO, Chellman NJ, Muñoz S, Kariuki R, Damber M, Shoemaker A, Ekblom A, Munishi L, Lane P, Marchant R, Heiri O. 2025. Multiple paleofire proxy metrics from tropical lake sediment and soil in the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem. The Holocene 35(9): 926–936. [CC BY 4.0 Open Access] Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/S4ILZT
Courtney Mustaphi CJ, Camara-Brugger SO, Ekblom A, Munishi L, Kariuki R, Shoemaker A, Lane P, Marchant R. 2025. Multiporate Poaceae pollen grains observed in the recent fossil record from the Greater Serengeti Ecosystem and Lake Victoria region. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 333: 105240. Data: https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/JGZTIK
REAL project thesis
Shoemaker A. 2018. Pastoral pasts in the Amboseli landscape: An archaeological exploration of the Amboseli ecosystem from the later Holocene to the colonial period. Phd thesis. Uppsala University.