Archaeologist Louisa Daggers has embarked upon what she hopes will be ground-breaking research into the diet of prehistoric Guyanese.
Daggers is one of nine faculty members who were given grants this year by the Ministry of Education (MoE), under the World Bank-funded US$10M Science and Technology Support Project’s Education Quality Improvement Programme. The project is expected to provide 40 grants over the next five years in support of more applied research towards meeting the critical needs of the Low Carbon Development Strategy (LCDS).
Daggers, a former Administrator at the Walter Roth Museum and current lecturer in the Department of Language and Cultural Studies, at the Faculty of Education and Humanities, is intent upon her quest to “set the benchmark of Guyana’s carbon footprint 7,000 years ago and