Research Interests

I’m an archaeologist interested on unravelling and understanding early hominn technological evolution, with special fascination on how stone tools were designed, produced, and used. My main interests are focused on the study of why, how, and what for humans transform their technological system and what can those changes tell us about past human behavioral dynamics. What I also found intriguing is also how the technological choices made in the past guided us to what we are today. So, in order to investigate this topic, I focus on three main lines of study: 1) understanding when the design and production of stone tools change over time, 2) the association between tool design and tool used, and ultimately, 3) why humans change the way they design and used their tools, and what does this tell us about changes on the evolution of human behavior. So, to address these questions my methodological approach combines different discipline such as, techno-typological analysis, raw material characterization and use-wear analysis (i.e. traceology) and experimental replication.