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Details for Professor Joao Zilhao
| Personal details | |
| Name | Professor Joao Zilhao |
| Job title | Research Fellow |
| Department | Department of Archaeology and Anthropology University of Bristol |
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| Qualifications | PhD(Lisbon) |
| Professional details | |
| Keywords | Neanderthals early modern humans upper palaeolithic art Mesolithic Neolithic |
| Areas of expertise | Research Interests · Late Neandertals and Early Modern Humans · Upper Palaeolithic Art and Culture · The Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in Europe Ongoing field projects · Palaeolithic Archaeology of the Almonda Karstic System (Torres Novas, Portugal)- The history of the incision of the underground river left a labyrinthine network of fossil galleries found at different elevations above the spring. · The Middle Palaeolithic sequence of Cueva Antón (Mula, Murcia, Spain)- The remains of human use of the site consist of hearth features, stone tools and animal bones, and are contained in fine sands deposited by low-energy flooding of the shelter by the Mula River. · Upper Palaeolithic rock shelters in the Rambla Perea (Mula, Murcia, Spain)- After two field seasons (2007-2008), the two adjacent rock shelters of Finca de Doña Martina and La Boja revealed stratified Solutreogravettian, Solutrean and Gravettian occupations containing abundant lithics, ornaments, structured features (hearths), and charcoal. |