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I am an Africanist archaeologist with fifteen years of experience in research and fieldwork activities in North and East Africa (from central and Eastern Sahara to Ethiopia). My research focused on the interplay between humans and environment, and on the strategies that humans adopted to cope with the climatic changes. In particular, my interest addresses the emergence of herding in Africa, through the analysis of the archaeological landscape and of the connections between geomorphological features and different sets of archaeological data, including symbolic (rock art) and ceremonial evidence.

After my PhD (2008), I have been Research Fellow at the University of Rome La Sapienza and at the University of Sassari.

I joined the (H)ORIGIN project in 2015, as co-director of the fieldwork in Ethiopia where I am in charge of the Holocene and rock art studies.

Find more about me on Academia and ResearchGate websites.