Dr. Shumon T. Hussain

Shumon T. Hussain is a cross-disciplinary archaeologist with a research focus on Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene hunter-gatherer societies, in particular their stone artefact technologies and animal relationships. He is broadly interested in theoretical innovation and synthesis beyond archaeology as a disciplinary specialism, to better integrate data and perspectives across the humanities and sciences vis-à-vis questions of the human deep past, and the epistemology and practice of science. He is currently based at the University of Cologne, Germany, where he is Junior Research Group Leader at the Department for Prehistoric Archaeology and the newly established research hub MESH – Multidisciplinary Environmental Studies in the Humanities.

Shumon is the author of “Contested Deep Pasts: Negotiating the French-Anglophone Divide in Pleistocene Lithic Studies” (Sidestone, 2026) and has published widely on archaeological theory and multispecies archaeology, including “What is Animal Prehistory?” (Animal History, 2025) and the “Paleolithic and Human-Animal Relations” entry in the Oxford Bibliography of Environmental History (Oxford University Press, 2025).