Raphaël Hanon, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow
Evolutionary Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand

Biography

I began archaeology in 2011 by doing an undergraduate degree at the Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris. I started to work on zooarchaeology, the study of the evolution of animal-human interaction through the analysis of animal bones from archaeological sites. Then, I did a master’s degree in Quaternary and Prehistory at the National Museum of Natural History of Paris. Since, I have been working on African sites, and especially on the taphonomy of Plio-Pleistocene zooarchaeological and palaeontological assemblages. It gave me the opportunity to do a PhD on Early Pleistocene hominin subsistence behaviours from South African caves.

Disciplines

Zooarchaeology and taphonomy

Fields of study

Cooper’s Cave, Kromdraai and Gondolin

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