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Olumide Ojediran is a PhD candidate in Archaeology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, in 2019, and subsequently completed a joint Master of Science in Quaternary Geology, Prehistory, and Bioarchaeology at the Natural History Museum of Paris, and Universität Rovira i Virgili, Spain, in 2023.

As an Africanist archaeologist, Olumide is dedicated to advancing zooarchaeology within Nigerian archaeology. His research explores the intricate interactions between human societies and their animal environments throughout history. He focuses particularly on elucidating the sociopolitical, cultural, dietary, and symbolic roles of animals in pre-colonial West African societies.

While his previous research experience spans Asia and Europe, he is currently investigating the roles of horses in Ede-Ile, a colony of the Oyo Empire, and in Idah, located in the Niger-Benue Confluence region in Nigeria, as part of his PhD pre-dissertation work.