Meet the ICArEHB Team
Coordinating Committee
João Cascalheira
DIRECTOR
I am interested in prehistoric hunter-gatherer adaptations, specifically in how these are related to processes of climate and environmental change
Célia Gonçalves
Adaptations to Coastal environments
Mobility and Settlement, Patterns Spatial Analysis, Predictive Modelling, Geographical Information Systems
Hugo Rafael Oliveira
Emergence and Evolution of food producing societies
Plant Domestication and the Origins of Agriculture
Erich C. Fisher
History of Archaeological Science
Archaeoinformatics, Africa, Coastal Adaptations
Ana Gomes
Prehistoric behavior and dispersals in Africa
Diatom species and their ecology, Paleoenvironmental reconstructions, Geoarchaeology
Anna Rufà
DYNAMICS OF PALEOLITHIC PEOPLE IN EURASIA
Small prey taphonomy, with special attention on leporids and birds
Susana Carvalho
Primate Models for Hominin Evolution
Hominin origins & adaptations through primatology, archaeology & paleoanthropology; Equal Milestone Science
Administration and Strategy
Godefroy Devevey
Science Strategy Officer
Funding, development, strategy and support operation.
Catarina Marques
Administration and Communication
Daily management of the Centre,.Science Communication
Researchers
Alvise Barbieri
Researchers
Geoarchaeology, Geomorphology, reconstruction of past landscapes and environments
Ana Avila de Melo
Researcher
Archaeometallurgy, History of Archaeology
António Valera
researcher
Neolithic and Chalcolithic archaeology, funerary practices
Carli Peters
Researcher
ZooMS and palaeoproteomics to study human-animal interactions in the past
Carlos Duarte Simões
researcher
Interactions between past human societies and the environment
Ceren Kabukcu
researcher
Archaeobotany, Palaeoecology, Palaeolithic plant use, Origins of agriculture
Cláudia Costa
researcher
Zooarchaeology and Archaeology from prehistoric complex societies
Eduardo Paixão
researcher
Lithic Technology, use Wear, Residue analysis
Emily Hallinan
researcher
Technology and landscape use in the southern African Stone Age
Flora Schilt
researcher
Prehistoric hunter gatherers, pyrotechnology, and archaeological contexts in tropical environments
Frederico Tátá Regala
researcher
Zooarchaeology, Speleology
Gina Buckley
researcher
Prehistoric human mobility and migration through stable and radiogenic isotope analyses and radiocarbon dating
Hussein Kanbar
researcher
Environmental geochemistry
Javier Sánchez Martínez
researcher
Lithic technology, diachronic changes in stone tools, Upper Paleolithic
Jeffrey Rose
researcher
Modern human dispersals and desert adaptations
João Marreiros
researcher
Early hominn technological evolution, especially how stone tools were designed
Jonathan Haws
researcher
Human land-use and decision-making as part of a socio-natural process
João Luís Cardoso
researcher
History of Archeology, Geoarchaeology, Zooarchaeology
Li Li
researcher
Reconstructing hominin behavior from the lithic record
Lucía Cobo Sánchez
researcher
Hominin subsistence behaviour, taphonomic and spatial analysis of faunal remains
Lucy Evangelista
researcher
Physical Anthropology
Maria Ana Correia
researcher
Study of human beings in a transdisciplinary framework, focusing on the study of the human past as means to understand our present and future
Maria João Martins
researcher
Paleobiology, ecosystems dynamics and evolution
Marina Évora
researcher
Osseous industry, Hunter-Gatherers, Zooarchaeology
May Murungi
researcher
Reconstructing past vegetation cover and past human-environment interactions during the Quaternary in eastern and southern Africa through phytolith analysis
Milena Carvalho
researcher
Reconstructing human ecology during the late Pleistocene in Iberia; Human responses to climatic and environmental change
Nuno Bicho
Researcher and ualg Vice-Rector for Research and culture
Paleolithic and Mesolithic: times of change and transition; and on coastal human adaptations
Patricia Monteiro
researcher
Firewood explotation during Prehistory
Pedro Horta
Researcher
Evolution of hominin adaptation and migration strategies
René Bobe Quinteros
researcher
Evolution of African ecosystems and the ecology of human origins
Ricardo Godinho
researcher
The evolution of skull form and function in fossil hominins and modern humans
Rita Dias
researcher
Zooarchaeology, Ichthyological remains and seasonality studies
Rui Machado
researcher
Bioinformatics, big data analysis and molecular biology
Sara Rhodes
researcher
Hunter-gatherer archaeology, microvertebrates, taphonomy
Sol Sánchez-Dehesa Galán
researcher
Lithic technology, knapping learning processes, technical diversity of early hominin
Tomos Proffitt
researcher
Emergence, development and variation of the earliest technologies, experimental archaeological and primate archaeological techniques
Vera Aldeias
researcher
Geoarchaeologist interested in unravelling past human behavior from its sedimentary signatures
Associated Researchers
Alejandra Pascual-Garrido
associated researcher
Chimpanzee plant-based material cultures and tool use behaviours
Ana Abrunhosa
associated researcher
Lithic Raw Materials
António Faustino de Carvalho
associated researcher
Mesolithic-Neolithic transition and early Megalithism in Iberia and western Mediterranean
Aurore Val
researcher
Zooarchaeology and field archaeology, prehistoric human/animal interactions
Camille Lesage
Associated researcher
Lithic technology, techno-economy of lithic raw materials
Carolina Mallol
associated researcher
Geoarchaeology, Microstratigraphy
Cláudia Umbelino
associated researcher
Past Cultures and Populations
Cristina Veiga-Pires
associated researcher
Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology
Cruz Ferro-Vázquez
associated researcher
Soil science, paleoenvironmental reconstruction
Daniel Garcia Rivero
associated researcher
Evolutionary theoretical and methodological approaches to Late Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula and the Southwestern Mediterranean
Darren Fa
associated researcher
Palaeoecology and human evolution, especially linked to the exctinction of the Neanderthals
Darya Presnyakova
associated researcher
Delminda Moura
associated researcher
Coastal morphodynamics
Elodie Freymann
associated researcher
Erella Hovers
associated researcher
Lithics as proxies for organizational decision-making and for cognitive abilites
Juan Gibaja Bao
associated researcher
Lithic Technology
Katarina Almeida-Warren
associated researcher
Archaeology of non-human primates to shed light on the behaviours, technology, and culture of our earliest ancestors
Lukas Friedl
associated researcher
Human evolution, Functional morphology, Bioarcheology
Lynn C. Lewis-Bevan
associated researcher
Maria Dores Cruz
associated researcher
Maria João Valente
associated researcher
Zooarchaeology, particularly the role of animal resources in ancient human diets
Maria Simón Vallejo
associated researcher
Prehistory and archeology in the south of Iberia
Michael Benedetti
associated researcher
Geomorphology, Quaternary geology, and Paleolithic geoarchaeology
Miguel Cortés Sánchez
associated researcher
Middle and Upper Palaeolithic, Palaeolithic symbolism, Coastal adaptation
Mussa Raja
associated researcher
African archaeology, Geoarchaeology, Study of stone tools, Settlement Patterns
Paul Goldberg
researcher
Application of micromorphological techniques to the study of site formation processes at archaeological sites
Pedro Gonçalves
associated researcher
Geoarchaeology, Landscape evolution
Rosalind Gillis
associated researcher
Prehistoric animal husbandry practices, adaptations of European livestock management systems to novel environments
Ruth Taylor
associated researcher
Ceramic Analysis (Archaeology), Petrology of Ceramics and Stone Artifacts, Ceramic Petrography
Sara Cura
associated researcher
Relation of Prehistory with society, Science Communication and History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
Shannon McPherron
associated researcher
Human evolution from the origins of stone tool use to the spread of Homo sapiens
Tiina Manne
associated researcher
Analyses of past diets to understand people’s responses to large-scale climate, environmental and cultural change
Xavier Terradas
associated researcher
Socioeconomic strategies throughout prehistoric times
Ph.D. Students
Adriana Leite
Ph.D. Student
Ancient consumption patterns
Agata Gaszka
Ph.D. Student
Lithic technologies and its role in understanding the technological emergence and development of our earliest ancestors
Ana Catarina Basilio
Ph.D. Student
Chalcolithic-Bronze Age transition
Anastasia Eleftheriadou
Ph.D. Student
Computational archaeology, machine learning, image analysis, GIS, spatial analysis
Beatriz Pinto
Ph.D. Student
Bruno Gambinhas Leal
Ph.D. Student
Remote Sensing, particularly Aerial Archaeology, Geophysics and multispectral imagery
Catarina Santos Coelho
Ph.D. Student
Primatology, ethology and human evolution
Cláudia Relvado
Ph.D. Student
Diet, health and mobility in Portuguese Neolithic / Chalcolithic populations
Daniel Martins
Ph.D. Student
Paleoenvironmental changes and their impact on human adaptation and behaviour through geoarchaeology and palaeobotany
Daniela Maio
PH.D. Student
Analysis of mobility and settlement patterns during Middle and Upper Paleolithic using Geographic Information System (GIS)
Degsew Zerihun
Ph.D. Student
Plant and Human Culture, Paleobotany
Elena Skosey-LaLonde
PH.D. Student
Experimental biogeochemical and ethnohistorical approaches to interpret coastal environment and social resilience in Holocene southeastern Africa and the western Indian Ocean World
Emmanuela Rabajoli
Ph.D. Student
Ethology, Behavioural Ecology, Evolutionary behaviour
Guillermo Alfonso Alzate
Ph.D. Student
Geoarchaeologist exploring the behavior and interactions between human groups and the environment during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition
Helena Reis
Ph.D. Student
Lithic analysis, Mesolithic and Neolithic periods
Humphrey Nyambiya
Ph.D. Student
Archaeozoology, Environmental Archaeology, Palaeoproteomics
İnci Nurgül Özdoğru
Ph.D. Student
Reconstructing paleoclimate and past human-environment interactions
Joana Belmiro
Ph.D. Student
Upper Paleolithic, Lithics
João Varela
PH.D. Student
Archaeology of the Paleolithic and Neolithic
Jovan Galfi
Ph.D. Student
Hunter-gatherer archaeology, Lithic technology
Leonor Filipe
Ph.D.Student
Zooarcheology and Mesolithic
Miguel Soares Remiseiro
Ph.D. Student
Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in Iberia using micromorphological and geoarchaeological methods
Nolan Ferar
Ph.D. Student
Evolution of lithic technology and knapping behaviors, and how these can shed light on cultural and cognitive evolution in the hominin lineage
Nompumelelo
Maringa
Ph.D. Student
Reconstructing the environment from thousands of years ago with the use of animal fossils recovered from archaeological cave sites
Osama Samawi
Ph.D. Student
Lithic technologies and past adaptive strategies by hunter-gatherers
Osman Karrar
Ph.D. Student
Technology, palaeogeography and landscape use in the Sudanese Stone Age
Roxane Matias
Ph.D. Student
Anthracology, Archaeobotany
Sarah Marie Foley
PH.D. Student
Hominin interactions with their environment
Sofia Kouki
PH.D. Student
Computational methods for micromorphological analysis
Takalani Dubayi
PH.D. Student
Valentina Lubrano
Ph.D. Student
Zooarchaeology and taphonomy to provide new data to discover Neanderthal behaviour
William Chase Murphree
Ph.D. Student
Sedimentary signature for late Neanderthal and Modern Human fire use in late Pleistocene Europe
Youssef Djellal
Ph.D. Student
Lithic technology, use-wear analysis on stone tools
Master Students
Chafim Belson Braga
Master Student
Human evolution and adaptation
Judite Artur Nhanombe
Master Student
Reconstitution of paleoenvironment
Miguel Costa
Master Student
Funerary remains and prehistoric mandibles from Central Europe
Milton Chirindza
Master Student
Paleoenvironment, Analysis of biomarkers and geochemistry
Patrícia Simão
Master Student
Anthropology and Prehistoric Archaeology
Stela Gujamo
Master Student
Archaeological heritage
Associated Students
Alexandre Coelho Mateus
Associated Student
Environmental changes on aquatic coastal systems in Mozambique
André Santana
Associated Student
Geoarchaeology, Microarchaeology, Pyrotechnology
David Nora
Associated Student
Paleolithic archaeology, understanding how different raw materials influence human decision-making
Grace Ellis
Associated Student
Landscape archaeology, ancient land use practices, and human-environment interactions in the precolumbian tropics and paleolithic Portugal
Jacinto Mathe
Associated Student
Intersection of Human Evolution, Osteology, Taphonomy, and Conservation Paleobiology
João Coelho
Associated Student
Geospatial Paleontology; Paleoecology, and the Miocene of Gorongosa
Leandro Infantini
Associated Student
Underwater Archaeology and Geographic Information System in Archaeology (GIS)
Megan Beardmore-Herd
Associated Student
Primatology, behavioural ecology, human evolution
Rassina Farassi
Associated Student
Sofia Fonseca
Associated Student
African Archaeology, Cultural cooperation, Heritage
Sophie Berdugo
Associated Student
Social learning of stone tool use in chimpanzees to shed light on cultural transmission in our early human ancestors