Paloma de la Peña Alonso

I am motivated by a desire to learn more about human cultural behaviour during the Pleistocene and by a passion for fieldwork. Particularly I believe that a good archaeological understanding comes from three different branches: exhaustive fieldwork considering stratigraphy and questioning methodologies, archaeological analyses of material culture based on robust experimental programmes, and a strong theoretical background. The principal line of evidence that I have followed to understand cultural behaviour is stone tool analyses, with a strong experimental component. I have mainly work in the Pleistocene Archaeology of the Iberian Peninsula (Early Upper Paleolithic contexts) and Southern Africa (Middle Stone Age contexts).