Alejandra Pascual-Garrido

Research Interests

Archaeology of the perishable; Primate technology and culture; Tool use behaviours; Raw material studies

Short Bio

I am an interdisciplinary researcher interested in the evolution, maintenance, and population-specific variation of plant-based material cultures among wild chimpanzees. I combine archaeological methods with ethological approaches to reconstruct technological behaviour from wild primate species. Supported by The Leakey Foundation, I investigate the archaeological signatures and social and ecological contexts of plant-based technologies of wild chimpanzee populations in west Tanzania

Associated Researcher, PALEO (Primate Adaptations, Landscapes & Evolutionary Origins) group, CIBIO

CIBIO – Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos
Universidade do Porto
Campus de Vairão
Rua Padre Armando Quintas, nº 7
4485-661 Vairão
Portugal

Associated Researcher, ICArEHB

Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB)
FCHS, University of Algarve
Campus de Gambelas
8005-139 Faro
Portugal

Researcher, University of Oxford

School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography
University of Oxford
64 Banbury Road
OX2 7PN
Oxford
United Kingdom

alejandra.pascual-garrido@anthro.ox.ac.uk

ORCID: 0000-0002-1903-6236