What can 26,000-year-old animal bones tell us about people?

I’m a zooarchaeologist and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. I study how people’s relationship with animals changed over long periods of time to understand patterns of resilience, innovation, and social complexity.

By combining zooarchaeology with biomolecular and geochemical methods, I trace the ways people navigated climatic changes, large-scale migrations, and cultural transformations over millennia. This approach allows me to explore long-term strategies people developed in the past to help address contemporary issues around things like sustainability, food security, and cultural heritage.