Timothy Canessa started his doctoral studies at the University of Vienna today! - Welcome to Vienna and the PalArch Group!

Timo is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Prehistoric and Historical Archaeology funded by a Gibraltar Goverment Scholarship from 2023 to 2026. He is also part of the Doctoral School of Historical and Cultural Studies.

His research interests are:

• Palaeolithic Archaeology
• Lithic Technology
• Mobility and Settlement Organisation
• Site Formation Processes
• Archaeological Theory

His PhD research aims to understand the idiosyncratic pattern of modern human settlement in the Iberian Peninsula through the lithic artefact assemblages attributed to the Early Upper Palaeolithic. He is interested in the relationship between, on the one hand, mobility and lithic technological strategies and, on the other hand, the character and composition of these lithic artefact assemblages. As a starting point, he will explore whether expedient technology was a feature of human occupation during this time and if this has any bearing on the “indeterminate” nature of some Early Upper Palaeolithic assemblages.

Check out the publication of his Master dissertation:

Canessa, T. (2021). Mobility and settlement strategies in southern Iberia during the Last Glacial Maximum: Evaluating the region’s refugium status. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 37, p. 102966. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.102966