Research Interests

​​I am a Paleolithic archaeologist interested in subsistence and socio-ecological adaptations of hominins throughout human evolution. I focus on zooarchaeological and taphonomic analyses and use statistical approaches, including Machine Learning methods and spatial statistics, in order to reconstruct site formation processes as well as hominin and carnivore activity in Paleolithic assemblages. I am also interested in modern hunter-gatherer hunting practices and use agent-based modeling to understand the dynamics of human-animal and human-environment interactions related to foraging and hunting. I have collaborated in several international projects with fieldwork in Tanzania, South Africa, Namibia, Iberia and Germany.