Short Bio

I have a Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Archaeology from the University of Porto and a PhD in Archaeology from the University of Algarve in collaboration with the Regional Archaeological Museum of Madrid (Spain) with funding from FCT (Pt) and Wenner-Gren Foundation (USA). Currently, I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at CENIEH (Burgos, Es) working on the project “Tradition, evolution and coexistence in the Palaeolithic technocomplexes of the Middle Pleistocene of the Iberian Peninsula”. I collaborate in various projects in Portugal and Spain and my research focuses on the characterisation and provenance of lithic raw materials from Middle and Late Pleistocene sites in the Iberian Peninsula, with a special interest in rocks of metamorphic and igneous origin. I am interested in the application of geoarchaeology and archaeometry to answer questions related to human behaviour such as the interaction with the available lithic resources in the landscape and technological development and adaptation.