Giulia Marciani

Giulia Marciani is a Palaeolithic archaeologist and Junior Assistant Professor at the BonesLab. She is a team member of the ERC-FIRSTSTEPS and collaborator of Prin-Habits and ERC-Last Neanderthal. Her primary research focuses on understanding the role of technology, particularly stone tools, in prehistoric societies, including the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in southern Europe and the first peopling of Brazil. She specialises in lithic analysis using methods such as typology, technology, raw material unit analysis, and techno-functional approaches. Additionally, she has contributed to integrating technological studies with use-wear analysis, experimental flaking, spatial analysis, and recently, cognitive reconstructions through cognigrams.

Giulia earned her Master’s and PhD in Quaternary Science and Prehistory focusing on Levallois and laminar lithic reduction sequences in the Mousterian. From 2018 to 2022, she was a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-SUCCESS, refining the definition of the Uluzzian techno-complex and interpreting variations in stone tools produced by the last Neanderthals and the first Homo sapiens in Italy.