James Denbow

James Denbow is a professor of archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught since 1986. His work in African archaeology spans almost forty-five years, with major research activities in the Republic of Congo and Botswana. In Botswana, his work has focused on untangling the prehistoric relationships between hunter-gatherers and early farming and herding societies in the Kalahari. In the 1980s he established the Archaeology Department at the National Museum of Botswana and set up the Antiquities Program for the country. His research in the Congo focuses on the later prehistory on the coast of equatorial Africa.