In forensic death investigations and archaeological excavations, commingled and displaced human remains present significant challenges for the successful recovery and identification of the deceased. Commingling occurs when bones from multiple individuals are mixed, as in mass graves or shared ...
Parchments are a writing material made from treated animal skins used for centuries to record important writings such as legal documents. In Europe and West Asia, it was the main writing surface from around the 4th century to around the 15th century. Understanding the origin, making and ...
Across the western Mediterranean, from Iberia to North Africa, medieval societies faced the combined pressures of climate variability and political transformation. The emergence of Islam in the 7th century, followed by Arab and Berber conquests, brought new crops, irrigation techniques, and ...
The main goal of this PhD project is to understand how climatic and environmental changes during the Middle Stone Age to Late Stone Age transition influenced the ecology of large herbivores and, in turn, shaped human subsistence strategies in eastern Africa. Using the long archaeological sequence ...
The ERC-funded RIFT-TO-RIM Consolidator project aims to fill the gaps in understanding the pathways of modern human dispersals from Africa into Eurasia, and ultimately to Sahul, by ~60,000 years ago. One of the project's principal objectives is the discovery and analysis of new modern human ...
