About Eleanor Scerri
I am an archaeological scientist and the head of the Human Palaeosystems Group at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Germany. My research group is exploring the articulation between material culture, genetics and biogeography to further theoretical, methodological and scientific advances in the field of human evolution and the roots of the Anthropocene. To do this, my research programme combines primary fieldwork with a range of different modelling approaches using palaeoecological and genetic data, in order to test different hypotheses about human evolution and the growth and impact of the human niche.
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