Agness Gidna facts for kids

Agness Gidna is a famous Tanzanian scientist. She is a paleontologist, which means she studies ancient life, like fossils. She used to be a Senior Curator of Paleontology at the National Museum of Tanzania. Now, she works for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. There, she helps protect important historical and cultural sites.

Agness Gidna made history as the first Tanzanian woman to earn a doctorate in Physical Anthropology. This field studies human evolution. She is also the first Tanzanian woman to lead research at Olduvai Gorge. Since 2017, she has been a main leader of the Olduvai Palaeoanthropology and Paleoecology Project (TOPPP). This project explores the history of early humans in the area.

What Agness Gidna Does

Agness Gidna studied at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. She also went to universities in Spain, including Complutense University of Madrid and the University of Alcala.

She helped discover a very large ancient site called Luxmanda. This site shows how people lived during the Pastoral Neolithic period in Africa. She also helps lead big international research projects, like the one at Olduvai Gorge.

As a Senior Curator at the National Museum of Tanzania, she helped create two major exhibits. These exhibits were about where humans came from. They were shown at the Olduvai Gorge Museum, which was started by Mary Leakey, and at the National Museum of Tanzania. She has even given tours to important people, like the Vice President of Tanzania in 2017 and the First Lady of Malawi.