Francesco d'Errico | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

Francesco d’Errico is a CNRS Director of Exceptional Class at the University of Bordeaux, France and Professor at the Centre for Early Sapiens Behaviour, University of Bergen, Norway. His academic interests focus on the evolution of human cognition, the emergence of symbolic cultural practices in Africa and Eurasia, and the application of innovative analytical techniques to the study of past material culture. He has conducted archaeological and ethnoarchaeological research in Europe, South Africa, Namibia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Morocco, Ukraine and China. An author of hundreds of articles in peer reviewed journals, he has been ranked between 2014 and 2021 among the 1% most cited researchers on the planet in his field. He has been awarded two large ERC grants to investigate the origin of modern cultures and the evolution of numerical cognition.

URLs:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_d%27Errico

https://www.uib.no/en/persons/Francesco.d'Errico_1

Primary Areas of Expertise:

Archaeology, Art, Computational Sciences, Ethnoarchaeology, Evolution, Mathematics

Symposium Speaker

Listed here are the 2 symposium sessions for which this person is a speaker.

Date	Media	Session	Symposium
2024-02-09		A multistep evolutionary scenario for the culturalization of the human body	Body Modification: Anatomy, Alteration, and Art in Anthropogeny
2024-02-09		Question & Answer Session and Closing Remarks	Body Modification: Anatomy, Alteration, and Art in Anthropogeny