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Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano
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I obtained my PhD in geoarchaeology at the University of Tuebingen in January 2023 and am currently a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at the University of the Algarve, Portugal within the Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour (ICArEHB). My current project (MicroAsh) focuses on reconstructing pyrotechnologies used by Middle and Later Stone Age hunter-gatherers in northern Malawi. More broadly, I am interested in the recursive relationship between prehistoric foragers and their environments. Through the interdisciplinary nature of my work I collaborate with specialists from various fields and have published in high impact journals such as Nature, Science Advances, and Quaternary Science Reviews. I see research in the lab and behind the computer as only one part of my job. Fieldwork, teaching and outreach are an integral part of my career since many years as well, both in the countries where I have been based as a researcher (Germany, Portugal) and in the field (e.g., Malawi).
Atividades
Atividades
2023/05/08 - Presente. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. How fire became our best friend: the beginnings and evolution of pyrotechnology in prehistory.
Guest lecture within the course “Human Evolution”. Amsterdam University College.
Guest lecture within the course “Human Evolution”. Amsterdam University College.
2023 - Presente. Outro júri / avaliação. Guest editor of a special issue of Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology entitled "Prehistoric Humans and Eroding Landscapes" ISSN 2813-432X
Research Topic: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/53499/prehistoric-humans-and-eroding-landscapes.
Research Topic: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/53499/prehistoric-humans-and-eroding-landscapes.
2022/11/28 - Presente. Membro de comissão. Member of ICArEHB Outreach Committee. Membro. Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano.
2015 - Presente. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Scientific Research (full module). . Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2013 - Presente. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Scientific Research for Master Students (full teaching module).
Philosophy of science, theories in archaeology, research design, and critical discussion of scientific articles with comments and replies (as in Current Anthropology)
. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
Philosophy of science, theories in archaeology, research design, and critical discussion of scientific articles with comments and replies (as in Current Anthropology)
. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2022/12 - 2023/04/30. Organização de evento. Organization of the 4th Virtual Micromorphology workshop (ViMi4) including design of the website and logo, sending out circulars and personal invitations, scheduling the program, and creation of an online platform for participants. https://sites.google.com/view/vimi4/program?authuser=0 (2023). Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano.
Revisão ad hoc de artigos em revista. Geoarchaeology (08836353, 15206548). Wiley.
2021 - 2022. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Human Impact on Ecosystems (lecture within a course series on on “Environmental Changes, Human Behavior, and the Preservation of Cultural Heritage", offered by Alvise Barbieri). Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano.
2021/10/12 - 2021/10/17. Participação em evento. Participation in the international science festival "Festival Internacional de Ciência (FICA)" in Oeiras, Portugal for the general public and school classes, introducing them to the functioning of the polarizing microscope, roviding interactive games for all ages, information stands, and presentations on different aspects of archaeology and geoarchaeology. . Festival. Festival Internacional de Ciência (FICA). Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano.
Revisão ad hoc de artigos em revista. Catena (0341-8162). Elsevier.
2021 - 2021. Organização de evento. Organization of the conference of Developing International Geoarchaeology (DIG), including production and publication of a program and book of abstracts, and moderating sessions. https://dig2021.icarehb.com/wp/ (2021). Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano.
2021 - 2021. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Soils and Preservation in Prehistoric open-air sites and Tropical Environments (lecture within a course on Site Formation Processes offered by Vera Aldeias). Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano.
Revisão ad hoc de artigos em revista. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports ( 2352-409X). Elsevier.
2018 - 2018. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Introduction to Scientific Archaeology: Stratigraphy and Dating (single lecture within a course series of Prof. Miller). Introduction to Scientific Archaeology (Bachelor). Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2018 - 2018. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Case Studies in Micromorphology Seminar . Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2017 - 2018. Participação em evento. Assisting in text-writing and development of an interactive exhibition by Alvise Barbieri "Hidden landscapes of the Ice Age: science to experience and touch”. Exposição. Hidden landscapes of the Ice Age: science to experience and touch. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; Prehistory Museum in Blaubeuren, Germany.
2013 - 2015. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Introduction to Geoarchaeology (single lectures within a course series of Prof. Miller). Introduction to Geoarchaeology (Bachelor). Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2013 - 2013. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Training in Micromorphology . Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2012 - 2012. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Tutor in the laboratory training for “Introduction to Scientific Archaeology – Geoarchaeology and Archaeometry”. Introduction to Scientific Archaeology (Bachelor). Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2004 - 2006. Curso / Disciplina lecionado. Teaching assistant (violin) . Violin (Konzertfach) (Bachelor). Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
Projetos
Projetos
2011 - Presente. Tübingen-Iranian Stone Age Research Project (TISARP). Investigador. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2023 - 2024. SHARP - Testing hypotheses on the transition from Neanderthals to H. sapiens at the Paleolithic site of Sesselfelsgrotte ($96,021.00). Investigador.
2021/09/01 - 2023/08/31. Pyrotechnologies of Middle and Later Stone Age foragers in central Africa: a micro-contextual approach (two years, €147,815.04), MSCA-IF-EF-ST. Investigador responsável. Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano.
2020/09/01 - 2021/08/31. FLAME – Fire among Anatomically Modern Humans and Neandertals as revealed from Archaeological Microstratigraphic Evidence. Bolseiro de Investigação. Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.
2019 - 2021. Fieldwork in the Luangwa valley, Zambia (CAN$14,000.00), Out of a Research Team Support Program grant . Bolseiro de Integração na Investigação.
2020 - 2020. Late Pleistocene environments and hunter-gatherer adaptations in the Kasitu Valley of Malawi (one year, deferred because of pandemic, $25,000). Investigador. Yale University.
2019 - 2019. Ice Age hunter-gatherer adaptations in the Kasitu Valley of northern Malawi (one year, $30,000). Investigador.
2017 - 2017. Social and biological dynamics in the Later Stone Age of northern Malawi (one year, $20,000). Investigador. Emory University.
2014 - 2017. A Geoarchaeological Investigation of Middle Stone Age Human Response to Environmental Change on the Shores of Lake Malawi (€176,820.00) , €176,820 . Bolseiro de Doutoramento. Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
2016 - 2016. Reconstructing ancient lifeways and population structure in Central Africa: Archaeology and ancient DNA in the highlands of Malawi (one year, $5,000), Program for Enhancement of Research . Investigador.
2016 - 2016. Early human cultural diversity and adaptive responses to resource stress in the Middle Stone Age of Central Africa (one year, $30,000), Emory University Research Committee grant. Investigador. Emory University.
2012 - 2016. Testing Models of Middle Stone Age Site Formation, Technological Change, and Response to Climatic Variability ($20,000, one year), post-doc research grant for fieldwork, J. Thompson. Investigador.
2011 - 2013. The Emergence of Early Modern Human Behaviour and Technology in Central Africa (three years, $420,000), Discovery Projects Grant and Australian Postdoctoral Fellowship. Investigador. The University of Queensland.
Produções
Online Database https://paleofire.eu . ICArEHB, UALG.
Reference collection of marine resources in thin section. ICArEHB, UALG.
Burke, A.; Bisson, M.; Schilt, F.; Tolan, S.; Museba, J.; Drapeau, M. S. M.; Aleman, J. C.; Peros, M. C.. 2023. "The archaeological potential of the northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia: The Luwumbu basin". PLOS ONE, 18 (3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0269209
Barbieri, Alvise; Schilt, Flora; Pasda, Kerstin; Mayr, C.; Godinho, R.M.; Posth, C.; Preusser, F.; et al. Autor correspondente: Barbieri, Alvise. 2023. "Exceptionally rich late Neanderthal occupation of Sesselfelsgrotte in the German Jura: different behaviour or different preservation?". Trabalho apresentado em International Union for Quaternary and Archaeological Sediments, apresentado por Barbieri, Alvise, Rome, Itália,2023.
Massilani, D.; Schilt, Flora; Morley, M.; Mentzer, S.M.; Thompson, J.C.; Davis, J.; Nkhata, T.; et al. Autor correspondente: Massilani, D.. 2023. "A sampling strategy to maximize the yield of ancient DNA from archaeological sediments". Trabalho apresentado em International Union for Quaternary and Archaeological Sediments, apresentado por Massilani, D., Rome, Itália,julho, 2023.
Schilt, Flora; Aldeias, Vera; Wright, D.K.; Nkhata, T.; Bertacchi, A.; Cerezo-Román, Jessica I.; Kaliba, P.; Thompson, J.C.. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2023. Pyrotechnologies of Middle and Later Stone Age foragers in Malawi – a micro-contextual approach with controlled heating experiments. Em International Union for Quaternary and Archaeological Sediments.
Schilt, Flora; Miller, C.E.; Wright, D.K.; Mentzer, S.M.; Choi, J.-H.; Mercader, J.; Moss, P. ; et al. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2023. "Interpreting multi-scale data from Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer landscapes: examples from open-air sites in northern Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em International Union for Quaternary and Archaeological Sediments, apresentado por Schilt, Flora, Rome, Itália,julho, 2023.
Schilt, Flora. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2023. The micromorphological identification of termite activity in ashy-anthropogenic and natural sediments from northern Malawi.
Bisson, M.; Burke, A.; Drapeau, M.S.M.; Schilt, Flora; Aleman, J. C.; Peros, M.; Museba, J.; et al. Autor correspondente: Bisson, M.. 2023. Sitwe 23, an early MSA locality in the northern Luangwa Valley, Zambia.
Schilt, Flora; Stahlschmidt, M.. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2023. On interpreting human activity from the sedimentary record using geoarchaeological methods (for a special issue in "Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences").
2023. "Geoarchaeological Investigations of Late Pleistocene Physical Environments and Impacts of Prehistoric Foragers on the Ecosystem in Northern Malawi and Austria.". Doutoramento. http://dx.doi.org/10.15496/publikation-76811
Lipson, Mark; Sawchuk, Elizabeth A.; Thompson, Jessica C.; Oppenheimer, Jonas; Tryon, Christian A.; Ranhorn, Kathryn L.; de Luna, Kathryn M.; et al. 2022. "Ancient DNA and deep population structure in sub-Saharan African foragers". Nature, 603: 290-296. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-04430-9
Schilt, Flora; Miller, Christopher E.; Wright, David K.; Mentzer, Susan M.; Mercader, Julio; Moss, Patrick; Choi, Jeong-Heon; et al. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2022. "Hunter-gatherer environments at the Late Pleistocene sites of Mwanganda's Village and Bruce, northern Malawi". Quaternary Science Reviews, 292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2022.107638
Thompson, J.C.; Davis, J.; Wright, D.K.; Kaliba, P.; Bertacchi, A.; Schilt, Flora; Welling, M.; et al. 2022. Malawi Ancient Lifeways and Peoples Project – 2019-2021 Project Report. Unpublished report submitted to Malawi Department of Monuments and Museums.
Jessica C. Thompson; David K. Wright; Sarah J. Ivory; Jeong-Heon Choi; Sheila Nightingale; Alex Mackay; Flora Schilt; et al. Autor correspondente: Jessica C. Thompson. 2021. "Early human impacts and ecosystem reorganization in southern-central Africa". Science Advances, 7 (9776): 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abf9776
Flora Cecilia Schilt; Aldeias, Vera; Jessica C. Thompson; Wright, David K.; Kaliba, Potiphar. Autor correspondente: Flora Cecilia Schilt. 2021. A micro-contextual approach to pyrotechnologies of Middle and Later Stone Age foragers in central Africa. Presenting the new MicroAsh project. . Em Developing International Geoarchaeology .
Flora Cecilia Schilt; David K. Wright; Jessica C. Thompson; Christopher Miller; Susan M. Mentzer; Elizabeth Gomani-Chindebvu; Kaliba, Potiphar. Autor correspondente: Flora Cecilia Schilt. 2021. "From wetland to terrestrial landscape: interpretation of open-air MSA sites in Malawi using micromorphology and stable isotopes of pedogenic carbonates. ". Trabalho apresentado em Society of Africanist Archaeologists , apresentado por Schilt, Flora, Oxford, Reino Unido,14 de setembro, 2021.
Bertacchi, A.; Cerezo-Román, Jessica I.; Thompson, J.C.; Stock, J.; Kennet, D.; Schilt, Flora; Gomani Chindebvu, E.. Autor correspondente: Bertacchi, A.. 2020. "A Partial Cremation from the Later Stone Age of Northern Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em American Association of Physical Anthropologists, apresentado por Bertacchi, A., Los Angeles, Estados Unidos,2020.
Sheila Nightingale; Schilt, Flora; Jessica C. Thompson; Wright, David K.; Forman, S.; Julio Mercader; Moss, P. ; et al. Autor correspondente: Sheila Nightingale. 2019. "Late Middle Stone Age Behavior and Environments at Chaminade I (Karonga, Malawi)". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 2-3: 258-397. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-019-00035-3
Thompson, J.C.; Zipkin, A.; Wright, D.K.; Schilt, Flora; Ambrose, S.; McGrath, J.; Miller, C.E.; et al. 2018. Malawi Ancient Lifeways and Peoples Project – 2017 Project Report. Unpublished report submitted to Malawi Department of Monuments and Museums.
Wright, D.K.; Thompson, J.C.; Ivory, S.J; Welling, M.; Choi, J.-H.; Cohen, A.; Schilt, Flora; et al. Autor correspondente: Wright, D.K.. 2018. "Large-Scale Anthropogenic Landscape Change in the Middle Stone Age of Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em Paleoanthropology Society, apresentado por Wright, D.K., Austin, Estados Unidos,2018.
Thompson, J.C.; Zipkin, A.; Wright, D.K.; Ambrose, S.; Schilt, Flora. Autor correspondente: Thompson, J.C.. 2018. "Out with a Whimper or a Bang? Hunter-Gatherer Response to the End of the African Humid Period in Northern Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em Society for American Archaeology , apresentado por Thompson, J.C., Washington, Estados Unidos,2018.
Nightingale, S.; Thompson, J.C.; Davis, J.; Schilt, Flora; Choi, J.-H.. Autor correspondente: Nightingale, S.. 2018. "Evaluating the Effects of Human Disturbance on Middle Stone Age Surface Finds from Northern Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em Society for American Archaeology , apresentado por Nightingale, S., Washington, Estados Unidos,2018.
Schilt, Flora; Verpoorte, A.; Ant, W.. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2017. "Micromorphology of an Upper Paleolithic cultural layer at Grub-Kranawetberg, Austria". Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.05.041
Wright, David K.; Jessica C. Thompson; Schilt, Flora; Cohen, A; Choi, J.-H.; Julio Mercader; Sheila Nightingale; et al. Autor correspondente: Wright, David K.. 2017. "Approaches to Middle Stone Age landscape archaeology in tropical Africa". Journal of Archaeological Science, 77: 64-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2016.01.014
Thompson, J.C.; Nightingale, S.; Schilt, Flora; Davis, J.; Zipkin, A.; Welling, M.; Wright, D.K.; et al. 2017. Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project and Malawi Ancient Lifeways and Peoples Project – 2016 Project Report. Unpublished report submitted to Malawi Department of Antiquities.
Thompson, J.C.; Morris, A.; Schilt, Flora; Zipkin, A.; Sirak, K.. Autor correspondente: Thompson, J.C.. 2017. "The Forgotten Significance of the Later Stone Age Sites near Hora Mountain, Mzimba District, Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em Society for American Archaeology , apresentado por Thompson, J.C., Vancouver, Canadá,2017.
Thompson, J.C.; Mackay, A.; Nightingale, S.; Schilt, Flora; Wright, D.K.. Autor correspondente: Thompson, J.C.. 2016. "The central African Middle Stone Age in context: Comparisons of technological adaptations". Trabalho apresentado em Society for American Archaeology , apresentado por Thompson, J.C., Orlando, Estados Unidos,2016.
Nightingale, S.; Thompson, J.C.; Mackay, A.; Schilt, Flora; Gomani Chindebvu, E.. 2016. "Is innovation always the solution? Examining non-specialized lithic technologies of the Malawian Middle Stone Age". Trabalho apresentado em Society for American Archaeology , apresentado por Nightingale, S., Orlando, Estados Unidos,2016.
Barbieri, Alvise; Schilt, Flora. 2016. "Integrating Scales: micro to landscape". Trabalho apresentado em The Geoarchaeological Laboratories Network, apresentado por Barbieri, Alvise; Schilt, Flora, Cambridge, Reino Unido,2016.
Thompson, J.C.; Nightingale, S.; Schilt, Flora; Davis, J.; Zipkin, A.; Mackay, A.; Welling, M.; et al. 2015. Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project – 2014 Project Report. Unpublished report submitted to Malawi Department of Antiquities.
Nightingale, S.; Schilt, Flora; Thompson, J.C.; Davis, J.B.; Wright, D.K.; Choi, J.-H.; Gomani Chindevu, E.. Autor correspondente: Nightingale, S.. 2015. "Lithic technologies of the Malawian Middle Stone Age: building a chrono-spatial framework for early modern human behavior in central Africa". Trabalho apresentado em Paleoanthropology Society Conference, apresentado por Nightingale, S., San Francisco, Estados Unidos,2015.
Schilt, Flora; Mentzer, S.M.; Wright, D.K.; Thompson, J.C.; Miller, C.E.; Gomani Chindebvu, E.. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2015. Micromorphology of Middle to Later Stone Age sites in northern Malawi. Em Paleoanthropology Society.
Schilt, Flora; Mentzer, S.M.; Wright, D.K.; Choi, J.-H.; Thompson, J.C.; Miller, C.E.; Gomani Chindebvu, E.. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2015. "Micromorphology of Middle to Later Stone Age sites at Mwanganda's Village, northern Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em Society for American Archaeology , apresentado por Schilt, Flora, San Francisco, Estados Unidos,2015.
Schilt, Flora; Mentzer, S.M.; Wright, D.K.; Thompson, J.C.; Miller, C.E.; Gomani Chindebvu, E.. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2015. "Reconstruction of the formation of iron-manganese nodule accumulations associated with Middle Stone Age artefacts in a lateritic profile in northern Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em Developing International Geoarchaeology , apresentado por Schilt, Flora, Alghero, Itália,2015.
Thompson, J.C.; Nightingale, S.; Schilt, Flora; Wright, D.K.; Zipkin, A.; Mackay, A.; Miller, C.E.; et al. 2014. Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project – 2013 Preliminary Project Report. Unpublished report submitted to Malawi Department of Antiquities.
Schilt, Flora; Mentzer, S.M.; Wright, D.K.; Choi, J.-H.; Thompson, J.C.; Miller, C.E.; Gomani Chindebvu, E.. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2014. Micromorphology of Middle to Later Stone Age sites at Mwanganda's Village, northern Malawi. Em StEvE meeting for Students in Evolution and Ecology .
Thompson, J.C.; Welling, M.; Wright, D.K.; Schilt, Flora; Mentzer, S.M.; Bravo Foster, M.; Robinson, S.; et al. Autor correspondente: Thompson, J.C.. 2013. "The Later Pleistocene Archaeological Landscape of Karonga, Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em Society for American Archaeology , apresentado por Thompson, J.C., Estados Unidos,2013.
Thompson, J.C.; Zipkin, A.; Nightingale, S.; Wright, D.K.; Choi, J.-H.; Mackay, A.; Welling, M.; Schilt, Flora; Gomani Chindebvu, E.. Autor correspondente: Thompson, J.C.. 2013. New Discoveries of Old Sites: The Legacy of J. D. Clark in Karonga, Malawi. Em Paleoanthropology Society.
Schilt, Flora; Mentzer, S.M.; Wright, D.K.; Thompson, J.C.; Miller, C.E.; Gomani Chindebvu, E.. Autor correspondente: Schilt, Flora. 2013. "Micromorphology of the site of Mwanganda’s Village Area I, northern Malawi". Trabalho apresentado em Developing International Geoarchaeology , apresentado por Schilt, Flora,2013.
Thompson, J.C.; Moor, V. de; Schilt, Flora; Mentzer, S. M.; Bravo Foster, M.; Roinson, S.,; Nightingale, S.; et al. 2012. Malawi Earlier-Middle Stone Age Project – 2012 Preliminary Project Report. Unpublished report submitted to Malawi Department of Antiquities.
Flora Cecilia Schilt; Heydari-Guran, S.; Ghasidian, E.; Miller, C.E.; Conard, N.J.. Autor correspondente: Flora Cecilia Schilt. 2011. Micromorphological Analysis of the Early Upper Palaeolithic Cave Site of Ghar-e Boof, Iran. Em German Working Committee for Geoarchaeology (Arbeitskreis für Geoarchäologie).
Flora Cecilia Schilt; Heydari-Guran, S.; Ghasidian, E.; Miller, C.E.; Conard, N.J.. Autor correspondente: Flora Cecilia Schilt. 2010. Micromorphology of Ghar-e Boof . Em Hugo Obermaier Society for Quaternary Research and Archaeology of the Stone Age.
