Dr Sofia Samper-Carro is a Lecturer and Postdoctoral research at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, Archaeology and Natural History department.

Dr Samper-Carro is also a postdoctoral researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. She is an expert on past human behaviour.

Her expertise cover the study of human-animal interactions as well as human response to climatic changes in the past. She is a leader in the application of innovative methods to the study of animal and human bones.


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Articles

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The talking dead: burials inform migrations in Indonesia

If three ancient bodies buried in Indonesia could talk, researchers from The Australian National University (ANU) say they…

25 August 2022



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Rare 8,000 year old child burial reveals secrets of the dead

ANU Archaeologists have discovered a rare child burial dating back 8,000 years on Alor Island, Indonesia. The one-of-its-kind…

3 November 2020



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Fall of the Neanderthals

On the way to the field site at the start of the Pyrenees mountains, there is sometimes the…

27 November 2019



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