Eleanor Scerri (pictured) was recently awarded a PhD in the Archaeology of Human Evolution at the University of Southampton, the UK. Her doctoral thesis, entitled The Aterian and its Place in the North African Middle Stone Age, was supervised by Prof. Clive Gamble.

Dr Scerri’s doctoral research was funded by the Royal Anthropological Institute and developed novel techniques of archaeological analysis which have provided new evidence concerning the emergence of recognisably modern behaviour among the earliest Homo Sapiens. Her research is available as a number of publications in leading peer-reviewed archaeological journals.

Dr Scerri’s current postdoctoral research is being conducted at the University of Oxford, where she is working with the European Research Council-funded Palaeodeserts project.

Her research was awarded the prestigious Fellowship Writing Prize from the University of York last June. She will start a Fyssen Fellowship at the University of Bordeaux this month.

Dr Scerri is also the principal investigator of the Senegal Prehistory project, which is exploring early human behaviour and evolution between two biogeographic boundaries in West Africa.

Dr Scerri read her first degree in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Malta.

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