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Sofia received a Bachelor of History from the Autonomous University of Madrid, a Master of Palaeontology from the Complutense University of Madrid, a Master of Osteoarchaeology from the University of Edinburgh and a PhD in Prehistoric Archaeology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her research line addresses the study of human subsistence strategies through the analysis of fauna assemblages, mainly on Pleistocene-early Holocene periods. She is interested in applying taphonomic criteria and methods to study faunal assemblages to discern between non-human predators and human generated accumulations. She has a wide experience on the analysis of Neanderthal and AMH zooarchaeological assemblage. Additionally, she has experience on fieldwork recording techniques and post-fieldwork data processing (GIS). Her PhD research addresses the analysis of faunal remains from Wallacean Islands, mainly dominated by fish remains, reconstruction of human remains and the application of geometric morphometric techniques to the analysis of fish vertebrae. She is involved in Sue O’Connor ARC’s Laureate Project ‘From Sunda to Sahul: Understanding Modern Human Dispersal, Adaptation and Behaviour en route to Australia’
Areas of expertise
- Archaeological Science
- Animal Systematics And Taxonomy
- Zoology
- Archaeology
Research interests
Hominid subsistence strategies; Taphonomy; Zooarchaeology; Island Southeast Asia, Europe, Africa archaeology; Faunal analysis; Neanderthals-AMH lifestyle; Geometric morphometric; GIS; Human behaviour; Bone tools
Groups
- Researcher, Biodiversity
- Researcher, Indigenous peoples, cultures and knowledges
- Researcher, Adaptation, livelihoods and development in Asia and the Pacific
- Mora, R, Martinez-Moreno, J, Roy, M, Benito, A, Polo, A, Samper Carro, S, C, 2016, 'Contextual, technological and chronometric data from Cova Gran: Their contribution to discussion of the Middle-to-Upper Paleolithic transition in northeastern Iberia', Quaternary International, pp. 1-14.
- Samper Carro, S.C. O'Connor, S., Louys, J. et al. 2015, 'Human maritime subsistence strategies in the Lesser Sunda Islands during the terminal Pleistocene-early Holocene: New evidence from Alor, Indonesia', Quaternary International, vol. Online Early Version, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2015.07.068
- Samper Carro, S, Louys, J, Hawkins, S et al 2015, 'A geometric morphometric approach to shape variation in fish vertebrae for taxonomic and habitat identification', International Council for Archaeozoology, Fish Remains Working Group ICAZ/FRWG 2015, ed. S. Gabriel, S.J.M Davies, A. M Costa, Conference Organising Committee, online.
- Samper Carro, S, O'Connor, S & Louys, J 2014, 'Determining human subsistence strategies in insular environments: zooarchaeological insights from Wallacea Islands', International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences IUPPS 2014, ed. N.Amano, A.Borel, A.Purnomo, International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, ONLINE.
- Mora, R, Martinez-Moreno, J, Roda, X, De la Torre, I, Benito, A, Roy, M, Samper Carro, S,C, Vega, S, Pizarro, J, Plasencia, J, 2014, 'The Mousterian site of Roca dels Bous (Lleida, Pre-pyrenees)', in Sala R. Roberts, Eudald Carbonell (ed.), Pleistocene and Holocene hunter-gatherers in Iberia and the Gibraltar strait: the current archaeological record, Burgos Universidad de Burgos Fundacion Atapuerca, Spain, pp. 159-162.
- Samper Carro, S & Martinez-Moreno, J 2014, 'Who let the hyenas out? Taphonomic analysis of the faunal assemblage from GL-1 of Cova del Gegant (Sitges, Spain)', Quaternary International, vol. 330, pp. 19-35.