Biography
I am a PhD student in Biological Anthropology, but have been at Cambridge since 2016, completing a BA in Biological Anthropology in 2019 and an MPhil in Biological Anthropological Science in 2020. I focus on the early archaeological record, and what this can tell us about hominin behaviour, and human evolution more broadly.
Research
I am interested in the Early Stone Age of East Africa, particularly in the origins and inter-site variation of the Oldowan and the subsequent reasons for the shift to the Acheulean. This latter topic forms the basis of my PhD research, for which I plan on using a combination of 3D geometric morphometric and experimental data to try and test different explanations for the origins of bifaces.
Key Publications
Clark, J., Linares-Matás, G. In press. The role of landscape knowledge networks in the Early Pleistocene technological variability of East Africa. Archaeological Review from Cambridge 35.2.
Lim, J., Clark, J., Linares-Matás, G. 2020. Subsurface delineation of doline features associated with Pleistocene clay-with-flints deposits in the Chilterns: Implications for British Palaeolithic archaeology. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports 34B: 102665.
Teaching and Supervisions
Supervisor: Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr
Advisor: Professor Robert Foley
