I am a researcher in the Department of Paleoanthropology. I received my PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. My research interest is the evolution of human behavior, adaptation, and culture from the Middle Pleistocene until the early Holocene. I have specialized in the analysis of the stone artifact record and conducted fieldwork in a number of Paleolithic sites in Europe, northern Africa, and southwest Asia. I am directing the Ain Difla project in Jordan and survey and excavations of the Stone Age landscape in North Butana in Sudan. The first project investigates hominin adaptations to changes in the paleoenvironment of the Dead Sea area from 150,000 until 50,000 years ago and the emergence of new technologies towards the end of this period. The second project explores the diversity of strategic and opportunistic hominin landscape use in the broader Saharan Nile region from the late Early Stone Age to Neolithic, primarily by integrating behavioral ecology and experimental and agent-based modelling approaches to archaeological record formation. I am also involved in a new project of renewed excavations of Contrebandiers Cave and the cave of Dar es-Soltan 2 in Morocco.
I am a researcher in the Department of Paleoanthropology. I received my PhD in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. My research interest is the evolution of human behavior, adaptation and culture from the Middle Pleistocene to the early Holocene. I specialize in the analysis of stone artifact archives and have conducted fieldwork at a number of Paleolithic sites in Europe, North Africa and Southwest Asia. Currently, I lead the Ain Difla project in Jordan and the Stone Age landscape surveys and excavations in northern Butana, Sudan. The first project studies hominin adaptations to changes in the paleoenvironment of the Dead Sea region from 150,000 to 50,000 years ago, and the emergence of new technologies towards the end of this period. The second project explores the diversity of strategic and opportunistic landscape use by hominins in the wider Saharan Nile region, from the Late Early Stone Age to the Neolithic, principally by integrating behavioral ecology and experimental and agent-based modeling with the formation of the archaeological record. I am also involved in a new project involving renewed excavations of the Contrebandiers cave and the Dar es-Soltan 2 cave in Morocco.
