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{{Short description|Kenyan paleoanthropologist and curator}}
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'''Emma Mbua''' (born 1961) is a Kenyan paleoanthropologist[[Paleoanthropologist]] and a [[curator]], who wasis the first eastEast African woman to work as a [[paleoanthropologist]].▼
| name = Emma Mbua
| birth_date = 1961
| citizenship = Kenya
| alma_mater = University of Hamburg
University of Liverpool
| occupation = Paleoanthropologist
}}
 
▲'''Emma Mbua''' (born 1961) is a Kenyan paleoanthropologist and curator, who was the first east African woman to work as a paleoanthropologist.
 
== Career ==
Mbua's was born in 1961. Her career began in 1979 when she began work at the [[National Museums of Kenya]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=Emma Mbua {{!}} TrowelBlazers|date=13 November 2020 |url=https://trowelblazers.com/emma-mbua/|access-date=2021-03-11}}</ref> She applied for a role there after finishing her A-Levels at [[Lugulu GirlsHigh School]].<ref name=":1">Thang'wa, Josephine. "[https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA02578301_246 The evolution of East Africa's first African woman palaeoanthropologist.]" ''Kenya Past and Present'' 32.1 (2001): 72-75.</ref> After co-authoring academic papers for several years, she was began an MPhil qualificationWhile at the UniversityNational of Liverpool in 1993.<ref name=":1" /> She completed her doctorate at the UniversityMuseum of Hamburg with [[Gunter Brauer]] in 2001Kenya, inEmma whichwas shestationed studied the transition ofat [[homo erectusPaleontology|palaeontology]] tolaboratory modernfor humans.<reftwo name=":1"years />before Sheshe was the first woman from East Africamoved to have a career as a paleoanthropologist.<ref name=":1" /> She has worked at a number of different sites during her career including at Turkana and Sibiloi National Park.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mutu|first=Kari|date=2015|title=Kenya: Scientist Finds Early Human Fossils Near Nairobi|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201505201565.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She is principle investigator on the [[Kantishuman Fossilorigins Site]], which she was awarded grants from the [[Leakey Foundation]] and the [[Wenner Gren Foundation|Wenner-Gren Foundation]], as well as the National Geographic Society, (2018) and Paleontological Scientific Trust (PAST) in 2011, to run excavations atsection.<ref name=":0">{{Cite webjournal|titlelast1=GranteeJosephine Spotlight: Emma Mbua|url=https://leakeyfoundation.org/grantee-spotlight-emma-mbua/|access-date=2021-03-11|website=The Leakey Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite webThangwa|title=Mbua, Emma Nguvi {{!}} The Wenner-Grenevolution Foundation|url=http://www.wennergren.org/grantees/mbua-emma-nguvi-0|access-date=2021-03-11|website=www.wennergren.org}}</ref>of ThereEast Mbua and her team excavated a carnivore hotspot as well a canine tooth and a forearm bone from [[Australopithecus afarensis|''Australopithecus'Africa's ''afarensis'']]''.''<reffirst name=":0" /> In her role at National Museums Kenya, she gave author [[Bill Bryson]] a behind-the-scenes tour of the collections, which featured in his book ''African Diary.''<ref>{{Citewoman web|date=2018-01-05|title=Bill Bryson's African Diarypalaeoanthropologist|url=https://wwwjournals.barnesandnobleco.comza/readoutsdoi/bill-brysons-african-diary10.10520/AJA02578301_246|access-date=2021-03-11|websitejournal=B&NSabinet ReadoutsAfrican Journals|languagepages=en-US72–75}}</ref>
 
In 1985, she began an MPhil qualification at the University of Liverpool in 1993. She completed her doctorate at the [[University of Hamburg]] with [[Günter Bräuer]] in 2001, in which she studied the transition of [[homo erectus]] to modern humans. She is the first woman from East Africa to have a career as a paleoanthropologist.<ref name=":1" />
== Publications ==
 
Mbua has worked at a number of different sites during her career including at Turkana and Sibiloi National Park.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mutu|first=Kari|date=2015|title=Kenya: Scientist Finds Early Human Fossils Near Nairobi|url=https://allafrica.com/stories/201505201565.html}}</ref> She is principal investigator on the [[Kantis Fossil Site]], which she was awarded grants from the [[Leakey Foundation]] and the [[Wenner Gren Foundation|Wenner-Gren Foundation]], as well as the National Geographic Society, (2018) and Paleontological Scientific Trust (PAST) in 2011, to run excavations at.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Grantee Spotlight: Emma Mbua|url=https://leakeyfoundation.org/grantee-spotlight-emma-mbua/|access-date=2021-03-11|website=The Leakey Foundation|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Mbua, Emma Nguvi {{!}} The Wenner-Gren Foundation|url=http://www.wennergren.org/grantees/mbua-emma-nguvi-0|access-date=2021-03-11|website=www.wennergren.org}}</ref> There Mbua and her team excavated a carnivore hotspot as well a canine tooth and a forearm bone from an adult [[Australopithecus afarensis|''Australopithecus'' ''afarensis'']] as well as two juvenile teeth of the same species.<ref name=":0" /> This discovery was the furthest east of the [[Rift valley|Rift Valley]] that remains of Austrolopithecus afarensis had been found.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Emma Mbua – Antrocom|url=http://www.antrocom.net/tag/emma-mbua/|access-date=2021-03-11|website=www.antrocom.net}}</ref> In 2002 she became the Head of and Principal Research Scientist in the Department of Earth Sciences at National Museums Kenya. In 2005 she co-founded the [https://eaappinfo.wordpress.com/ East African Association of Palaeoanthropology and Palaeontology] (EAAPP), to strengthen prehistoric research in the region and unite scholars. As a lecturer at the [[University of Nairobi]] she has many students; she also spent a year as a Senior Lecturer at [[Mount Kenya University]] in 2015.<ref name=":2" />
* Mbua, Emma, Soichiro Kusaka, Yutaka Kunimatsu, Denis Geraads, et al. 2016. Kantis: New Australopithecus Site on the Shoulders of the Rift Valley near Nairobi, Kenya. ''[[Journal of Human Evolution]]'' 94:28-44.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Mbua|first=Emma|last2=Kusaka|first2=Soichiro|last3=Kunimatsu|first3=Yutaka|last4=Geraads|first4=Denis|last5=Sawada|first5=Yoshihiro|last6=Brown|first6=Francis H.|last7=Sakai|first7=Tetsuya|last8=Boisserie|first8=Jean-Renaud|last9=Saneyoshi|first9=Mototaka|last10=Omuombo|first10=Christine|last11=Muteti|first11=Samuel|date=2016-05-01|title=Kantis: A new Australopithecus site on the shoulders of the Rift Valley near Nairobi, Kenya|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248416000208|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|language=en|volume=94|pages=28–44|doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.01.006|issn=0047-2484}}</ref>▼
 
In her role at National Museums of Kenya, she gave author [[Bill Bryson]] a behind-the-scenes tour of the collections, which featured in his book ''African Diary.''<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-01-05|title=Bill Bryson's African Diary|url=https://www.barnesandnoble.com/readouts/bill-brysons-african-diary/|access-date=2021-03-11|website=B&N Readouts|language=en-US}}</ref>
 
== Selected publications ==
 
▲* Mbua, Emma, Soichiro Kusaka, Yutaka Kunimatsu, Denis Geraads, et al. 2016. Kantis: New Australopithecus Site on the Shoulders of the Rift Valley near Nairobi, Kenya. ''[[Journal of Human Evolution]]'' 94:28-44.<ref>{{Cite journal|lastlast1=Mbua|firstfirst1=Emma|last2=Kusaka|first2=Soichiro|last3=Kunimatsu|first3=Yutaka|last4=Geraads|first4=Denis|last5=Sawada|first5=Yoshihiro|last6=Brown|first6=Francis H.|last7=Sakai|first7=Tetsuya|last8=Boisserie|first8=Jean-Renaud|last9=Saneyoshi|first9=Mototaka|last10=Omuombo|first10=Christine|last11=Muteti|first11=Samuel|date=2016-05-01|title=Kantis: A new Australopithecus site on the shoulders of the Rift Valley near Nairobi, Kenya|url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248416000208|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|language=en|volume=94|pages=28–44|doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2016.01.006|pmid=27178456|issn=0047-2484|hdl=2433/209815|hdl-access=free}}</ref>
*Thure E. Cerling, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Emma N. Mbua, Louise N. Leakey, Meave G. Leakey, Richard E. Leakey, Francis H. Brown, Frederick E. Grine, John A. Hart, Prince Kaleme, Hélène Roche, Kevin T. Uno, Bernard A. Wood. Diet of Turkana Basin hominins. ''Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences'' Jun 2013, 110 (26) 10501–10506.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Cerling|first1=T. E.|last2=Manthi|first2=F. K.|last3=Mbua|first3=E. N.|last4=Leakey|first4=L. N.|last5=Leakey|first5=M. G.|last6=Leakey|first6=R. E.|last7=Brown|first7=F. H.|last8=Grine|first8=F. E.|last9=Hart|first9=J. A.|last10=Kaleme|first10=P.|last11=Roche|first11=H.|date=2013-06-25|title=Stable isotope-based diet reconstructions of Turkana Basin hominins|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|language=en|volume=110|issue=26|pages=10501–10506|doi=10.1073/pnas.1222568110|issn=0027-8424|pmc=3696807|pmid=23733966|bibcode=2013PNAS..11010501C|doi-access=free}}</ref>
* Bräuer, Günter, Mbua, Emma. ''Homo erectus'' features used in cladistics and their variability in Asian and African hominids. ''Journal of Human Evolution'' 1992, 22 (2) 79–108.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Bräuer|first1=Günter|last2=Mbua|first2=Emma|date=1992-02-01|title=Homo erectus features used in cladistics and their variability in Asian and African hominids|url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0047-2484%2892%2990032-5|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|language=en|volume=22|issue=2|pages=79–108|doi=10.1016/0047-2484(92)90032-5|issn=0047-2484}}</ref>
 
== References ==
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