Prof. Francis Boswell Musonda is a Zambian Archaeologist with extensive contributions to African prehistory, heritage preservation and museology. Joined the Livingstone Museum in March 1973 after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Geography. He retired from the service of the National Museums Board in April 2005 at the rank of Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and joined the University of Zambia in November 2005 as Senior Lecturer in the then Department of History. He developed programmes in Archaeology at third and fourth year levels which were later extended to cover first and second year. The archaeology programme was further developed to include postgraduate studies in 2015. In 2014, he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. His research interests include understanding the mechanisms and dynamics that marked the transformation from hunting and subsistence patterns to a food producing one.
Academic Qualifications
1983: Doctor of Philosophy (Anthropology), University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
1976: Master of Arts (African Archaeology), University of Ghana, Legon.
1973: Bachelor of Science (with Education) (Credit), University of Zambia.
Book Chapters
Musonda, F. B. "Coping with Collapse in the 1990s: West African Museums, Universities, and National Heritage." In P. R. Schmidt & R. J. McIntosh (Eds.), Plundering Africa's Past (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996), 179–196.
Journal Articles & Research Papers
Musonda, F. B. "Faunal Remains from Mufulwe Rock Shelter, Zambia, and their Implications". The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 40 141 (1985), 11–18.
Musonda, F. B. "Warthog Hunting at Leopard's Hill Cave, Zambia." The South African Archaeological Bulletin, 40, 141 (1985), 49–53.
Musonda, F. B. "Traditional Wildlife and Soil Conservation Practices in Zambia." Zambia Journal of Science and Technology, 8, 1 (1987), 12–26.
Musonda, F. B. "Late Pleistocene and Holocene Microlithic Industries from the Lunsemfwa Basin, Zambia." African Archaeological Review, 7, 1 (1989), 93–116.
Musonda, F. B. "Cultural and Social Patterning in Economic Activities and Their Implications to Archaeological Interpretation: A Case from the Kafue Basin, Zambia." African Study Monographs, 11, 1 (1990), 51–68.
Musonda, F. B. "The Future of African Archaeology." African Archaeological Review 8, 1 (1990), 3–23.
Musonda, F. B. "Decolonising the Broken Hill Skull: Cultural Loss and a Pathway to Zambian Archaeological Sovereignty." African Archaeological Review, 30, 3 (2013), 271–289.
Musonda, F. B. "Looking Back and Looking Forward: Iron Age Studies in Southern Zambia and Their Contribution to the Understanding of the Tonga." Zambia Social Science Journal, 5, 1 (2014), 15–32.
Musonda, F. B. "100 Years of Archaeological Research in Zambia: Changing Historical Perspectives." African Archaeological Review, 32, 4 (2015), 621–649.
- Hunting and gathering subsistence patterns
- Human adaptations to local environments
- Museum projects in Zambia
Projects