Graduate Student, Centre for Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO)
Thesis Title: The Aterian of North Africa
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Professor Clive Gamble
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About
My current research is attempting to understand the Aterian technocomplex of North Africa from a relational perspective by conducting the first comprehensive inter-regional comparison of this culture's lithic artefacts. On a greater scale I am interested in its cultural and ecological patterning with other technogroups along the Saharo-Arabian belt.
This project combines my research interests in human dispersals, cultural transmission mechanisms, lithic analysis and semantic ontologies. Thanks to a range of grants, I have been able to travel extensively to collect data and also to conduct experimental archaeology into the uses and effects of different halfting lengths with Aterian points and scrapers (in prep). My further research interests include the emergence of symbolic behaviour and the evolution of culture and cultural diversity.
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