About us
Project leader
Dr Claudio Tennie: junior research group leader ("Tools and Culture among Early Hominins") in the Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Software Work Package
Dr Shannon McPherron: senior researcher in the Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
PhD students
Alba Motes Rodrigo: PhD student working on the stone tool manufacture abilities of great apes. My work is part of the ERC STONECULT project in which we investigate if early stone tools are the product of cumulative culture or if they are best explained by the latent solutions model.
Jordy D. Orellana Figueroa: PhD student of Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Advanced Computer Science graduate from Swansea University. Currently working on computer models for early Hominin lithic production as part of the ERC STONECULT project for the study of the latent solutions model.
William Daniel Snyder: I am a doctoral candidate in the department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology at the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany. My background in higher education began with a B.S. with majors in Anthropology and Human Biology and German Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA, followed by an M.Sc. in Scientific Archaeology from the University of Tübingen. For my PhD work, I will be focusing again on cognitive experimental archaeology of the Lower Paleolithic/Early Stone Age.
Li Li: PhD student in the department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. MS in computer science from University of California, Davis, MA in anthropology from University of Pennsylvania. I am interested in topics related to human evolution. Currently working on controlled experiments to learn about flake formation and hominid behavior as part of the ERC STONECULT project.
Former Members of the Lab
Professor Harold L. Dibble PhD (external collaborator): Francis E. Johnston Term Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania. Professor Dibble sadly passed away in 2018.
Jonathan Reeves: Post-doctoral researcher. My work focuses on using quantitative methods to better understand the link between Early Stone Age stone tool variability and hominin culture and ecology.
