Carmen Martín-Ramos is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (Department of Archaeology) at the University of Cambridge, with a PhD in Palaeolithic Archaeology from University College London. At Cambridge, she currently leads an externally funded investigation into the singularities that characterise laminar production in the Howiesons Poort technologies, a late Middle Stone Age (70,000-60,000 years ago) industry from South Africa. This project involves a detailed first-hand reassessment of Howiesons Poort lithic collections and temporal modelling approaches (R-based) to define the technological and chronological boundaries of this regional industry. This research will allow further and updated inferences in Homo sapiens tool use, their cognitive capacities and the origins of the so-called modern human behaviour.
Carmen is an archaeologist and Africanist specialising in Human Evolution, Palaeoanthropology, lithic technology and Geoarchaeology. She has also conducted fieldwork in Palaeolithic sites within Spain, the UK, Ethiopia, South Africa and Tanzania. Aside from her works in Palaeolithic archaeology, she is also a big advocate for mental health and well-being in Academia and likes to explore how Prehistory and archaeologists are portrayed in comics, board games and other examples of popular culture.
