Lapa do Picareiro Cave: An interview with Archaeologist Grace Ellis

According to a recent article published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Anatomically Modern Humans reached westernmost Eurasia, specifically Portugal, 41,000 to 38,000 years ago, a whopping 5,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Today I am sharing a recent discussion I had with one of the paper’s co-authors, Grace Ellis,. Join us for a conversation about modern human dispersal, spatial analysis, and even Neanderthals.

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The early Aurignacian dispersal of modern humans into westernmost Eurasia
Jonathan A. Haws, Michael M. Benedetti, Sahra Talamo, Nuno Bicho, João Cascalheira, M. Grace Ellis, Milena M. Carvalho, Lukas Friedl, Telmo Pereira, and Brandon K. Zinsious

Ellis, M. Grace, "Anthropogenic landscapes of Amazonia : a spatial analysis of landscape modification and settlement organization at
Macurany, Brazil." (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3169.

Photos
View of the excavation of the early modern human (foreground) and Neanderthal layers (background) in Lapa do Picareiro. Photo by Jonathan Haws.
View of the excavation of the early modern human (foreground) and Neanderthal layers (background) in Lapa do Picareiro. Photo by Jonathan Haws.
View of Lapa do Picareiro looking in from the entrance, Jonathan Haws.
Aurignacian tools discovered in Lapa do Picareiro in central Portugal, Jonathan Haws.

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So excited to have done my first interview, and what a great interviewee- Grace Ellis.