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I am an archaeologist and a College Fellow in the Human Evolutionary Biology (HEB) Department at Harvard University. I teach courses related to human evolution, with a focus on technology and cognition. I received my DPhil and MPhil in Palaeolithic Archaeology from The University of Oxford, and my research focuses on how tools, strategies, and biology inform one another on human evolutionary timescales.