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Fiona Marshall
(I could find almost nothing about her life when I searched through google) Fiona Marshall got her Ph.D. from the University of California-Berkeley in 1986. She currently is a Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She has conducted ethnoarchaeological research that looked at what might affect body part representation in archaeological sites and alternative food production methods among Okiek people of western Mau Escarpment, Kenya. She also works in conservation projects in Laetoli.

Fiona Marshall works in Neolithic Pastoral sites in eastern Africa. Because she works in Africa, it means that the Neolithic period that she studies is mainly the domestication and herding of animals, mostly cattle. She found that while the rest of the world was going through the Neolithic Revolution, Northern Africa was domesticating cattle. But pastoralism didn't spread throughout all of Africa, it was more sporadic. She also looks at the difference between the archaeological remains left behind by pastoralists and hunger-gatherer groups.

She also looks at bones at her Neolithic sites to see what the people at those sites were eating. She looks at the alternative use of bones in ancient times, such as: alternative uses for bones as food sources. She discovered that the people living at Ngamuriak in Kenya relied more on the nutrients from inside the bones that the meat from the animals they were killing. She also analyses the arrival of specialized pastoralism in East Africa. The specialization may have occurred because of the increased pastoral production opportunities in East Africa at that time.

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Looking great so far! All very well-researched, and you've done a good job with the wikilinks. Here's the notability instruction page for academics:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(academics). Make sure you include info about Dr. Marshall's endowed chair, for example. Otherwise, these are almost ready to move over! You'll also want to add them to the "Women Archaeologists" category. In terms of content, also check out Dr. Marshall's work on the domestication of the donkey. Ninafundisha (talk) 18:51, 27 October 2016 (UTC)