Photo credit: Oguz Alyanak
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About MeI am a biological anthropologist working primarily in the areas of paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and domestication. I integrate a broad range of research methodologies to reconstruct the lifeways of Pleistocene humans—namely, Neandertals and early modern humans—and Holocene foraging and food producing peoples. Through my research I examine the complex interplay between human biology, environment, and culture. This biocultural approach emphasizes the contextual analysis of human skeletal remains within their broader archaeological and environmental contexts.
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Research Interests
- Paleoanthropology, bioarchaeology, and dental anthropology
- Virtual anthropology
- Domestication
- Human biological variation and evolutionary medicine/dentistry
- Pleistocene peoples—especially the Neandertals and early modern humans
- Biocultural transitions in prehistory (e.g., Middle to Late Pleistocene morphological transitions and foraging to food production)
- Bioarchaeological approaches to human social identities from the Pleistocene to present day through explorations of body modification, dental wear, age and the life course, embodiment, dietary variation, paleopathology, burial practices, and biological distance among other topics.
Research at CIAS, Universidade de Coimbra
I am currently a researcher at CIAS (Centro de Investigação em Antropologia / Research Centre for Anthropology and Health) in the Department of Life Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. I belong to the Past Cultures and Population research cluster where I am the co-director, with Dr. Dany Coutinho Nogueira, of the Virtual Anthropology Laboratory and a member of the Laboratory of Prehistory directed by Dr. Ana Maria Silva.