SOWUNMI, Prof. M. Adebisi (nee Jadesimi)

Foundation- mem/ current presd. Palynological Association of Nigeria; mem. Bee Research Association of Nigeria; mm: Stratagraphic Committee on the Niger Delta (member. Advisory Board - one of four representatives of Nigerian Universities), and former presd: West African Archaeological Association; mm: World Archaeological Congress, International Association of African Palynology; International Bee Research Association, Systematics Association of Britain; pioneered Palaeoethnobotanical and the setting up of the first UniversityPalynological Laboratory in Nigeria at the University of Ibadan; former presd. Nigerian Association of University Women, Ibadan Branch; mm: National Executive; former Oyo State Co ordinator, "Women inNigeria"; Central Committee of the Genevabased World Council of Churches, 1983-91; ch: Ibadan Committee on the Ecumenical Decade of Churches in Solidarity with Women, 1988-98; Foundation mem. Christians for a New Society, since 1979; dir. Centre for Applied Religion and Education, since 1998. publ: Pollen Morphology in the Palmae with special reference to trends in aperture development. Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 7 (1): 45-53, 1968; Pollen Morphology of the Palmae and its bearing on taxonomy, Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology, 13: 1-80, 1972; A Preliminary Palynological Study in the Rivers State, Nigeria, Oduma 1:13-14, 1972; Pollen grains of Nigerian Plants, I. Wody Species, 1973; co-author. The Age of the Gwandu Formation (Continental Terminal) in North-Western Nigeria as suggested by Sparopollenitic analysis, Savana 4(1): 47-55, 1975: Archaeology's use of Palynology Discovering Nigera's past, Oxford University Press, 1975; The beginnings of Agriculture in West Africa: botanical evidence. Current Anthropology 26 (1): 127-129; Change in Vegetation with time, Systems and Processes, Willey, New York, 1986; Ecological Archaeology in West Africa: The State of the Discipline, Heinemann, Ibadan, 1998. hob: gardening, knitting, listening to Classical indigenous andforeign music, singing, current affairs, reading. off: Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Oyo State, res/ tel/fax: 02-8103303.