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TEAM MEMBERS

A Collaborative & Diverse Group

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WEI CHU

Post-Doctoral Fellow

The overarching goal of my research is to document how culture and environment relate to our evolutionary foundations through the dual lenses of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology.

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MARIE SORESSI

Full professor and head of the Project

I am fascinated by the fact that we are the only human species on the planet; meanwhile our genus was flourishing for approximately 99% of our evolutionary timeframe. What factors contributed to the growth of anatomically modern Human population in Europe 40,000 years ago? Could it be that building upon local knowledge and local adaptations from humans who have now physically disappeared contributed to the growth of our ancestor population?

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LEONARDO CARMIGNANI

Post-Doctoral Fellow

My research interests are focused on providing new data to the debates surrounding the potential cultural interaction of our closest extinct relatives, Neandertals, and anatomically modern humans.

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IGOR DJAKOVIC

PhD Student

Broadly speaking, I'm interested in the relationship between human migration, interaction, and the diffusion of technological knowledge and practices across the landscape. I am fascinated by macro-scale patterns in lithic technology, and what they can tell us about human connectivity in the deep past.

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VINCENT NIOCHET

PhD student

Human inclusive and exclusive cooperation inspires my research. While widespread ideas and/or regional traditions are the focus of research on the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, I wonder whether our species could have succeeded without having interacted with culturally diverse hominins.

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MICKAEL BAILLET

External collaborator of Microlithec

My PhD research focused on use-wear analysis of the lithic industries produced by the last Neanderthals of southwestern France. Since my post-doctorate, I have focused more on the use-wear study of artefact surface states with the aim of identifying signatures of different post-depositional phenomena, in order to better understand the taphonomic processes affecting Palaeolithic sites.

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MIRIAM ROMERO TOLEDO

Bachelor Student

Passionate about archaeozoology, especially for understanding human activities during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition in Europe.

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AMBER VAN DER HOOFT

Master Student

Passionate about stone tools and lithic technology.

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EXTERNAL COLLABORATORS

VERA ALDEIAS

Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary

JACOBS ZENOBIA

Chief Investigator - ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage

SAHRA TALAMO

Professor at University Bologna. Dipartimento di Chimica "Giacomo Ciamician"

MATTHIAS MEYER

Department of Evolutionary Genetics
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

VIVIANE SLON

Department of Anatomy and Anthropology & Department of Human Molecular Genetics and Biochemistry

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