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

Armando Falcucci

Researcher

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

Cláudia Costa

researcher

Zooarchaeology and Archaeology from prehistoric complex societies

Eduardo Paixão

researcher

Lithic Technology, use Wear, Residue analysis

Emanuele Cancellieri

researcher

Lithic technologies in arid landscapes

Emily Coco

researcher

Mobility, dispersals, and archaeological record formation using agent-based modeling

Emily Hallinan

researcher

Technology and landscape use in the southern African Stone Age

Erich C. Fisher

researcher

Archaeoinformatics, Africa, Coastal Adaptations

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

Isaac Oglobin

researcher

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

Jonathan S. Reeves

researcher

Interdisciplinary approaches to the evolution of human behavior

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

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

Rubén Parrilla-Giráldez

researcher

Spectroscopy, Computer Vision and AI applications for Paleolithic research

Sara Rhodes

researcher

Hunter-gatherer archaeology, microvertebrates, taphonomy

Tomos Proffitt

researcher

Emergence, development and variation of the earliest technologies, experimental archaeological and primate archaeological techniques

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

Ceren Kabukcu

associated researcher

Archaeobotany, Palaeoecology, Palaeolithic plant use, Origins of agriculture

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

Elizabeth Velliky

associated researcher

Prehistoric mineral pigments and their role in cultural, cognitive, symbolic, and technological adaptations

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

M. Dores Cruz

associated researcher

African Historical archaeology and Archaeology of the recent past

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

associated 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

Rui Machado

associated researcher

Bioinformatics, big data analysis and molecular biology

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

Sol Sánchez-Dehesa Galán

associated researcher

Lithic technology, knapping learning processes, technical diversity of early hominin

Susana Carvalho

associated researcher

Hominin origins & adaptations through primatology, archaeology & paleoanthropology; Equal Milestone Science

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

William Chase Murphree

associated researcher

Sedimentary signature for late Neanderthal and Modern Human fire use in late Pleistocene Europe

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

Zooarqueology, invertebrates remains

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

Emanuela 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

Youssef Djellal

Ph.D. Student

Lithic technology, use-wear analysis on stone tools

Alexandre Coelho Mateus

Master Student

Environmental changes on aquatic coastal systems in Mozambique

Chafim Belson Braga

Master Student

Human evolution and adaptation

Inês Branco Serrano

Master Student

Social Zooarchaeology and Environmental Archaeology

Judite Artur Nhanombe

Master Student

Reconstitution of paleoenvironment

Matilde Pereira Rodrigues

Master Student

Zooarchaeology, Funerary Archaeology, Human Evolution

Miguel Costa

Master Student

Funerary remains and prehistoric mandibles from Central Europe

Milton Chirindza

Master Student

Paleoenvironment, Analysis of biomarkers and geochemistry

Stela Gujamo

Master Student

Archaeological heritage

Alex Martín

Postgraduate  Student

Bioarchaeology and Social Archaeology of Populations from the European Recent Prehistory

Patrícia Simão

Postgraduate  Student

Anthropology, Human Evolution and Prehistoric Archaeology

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

Lino André

Project Admin

Pedro Coxito

Lab Technician