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Department of Human Evolution

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig

phone: +49 (341) 3550 - 350
fax: +49 (0341) 3550 - 399

e-mail: streiber@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de


Curriculum Vitae

Personal Information

Citizenship:Italian
Google Scholar citation list:link
ResearchGate profile: link

Education

2007-2012Ph.D. at the University of Leiden/ MPI-EVA;
entitled:"Refining 14C dating of bone >30,000 BP: Establishing an accurate chronology for the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in France"
Supervisors:Mike Richards& Jean-Jacques Hublin
1994-2001

Master (Laurea) in Scienze Naturali (Natural Science)
at the University of Milan;
entitled: "Le datazioni 14C: Datazioni tradizionali e tecniche di wiggle-matchingapplicate a insediamenti preistorici dell'area Padana’‖"
[Equivalent to B.Sc.+M.Sc.]
Supervisors: Leone Fasani &Bernd Kromer

Professional Experience

2015-Senior research scientist in Radiocarbon:
Head of the radiocarbon team and laboratory
at MPI-EVA Leipzig,
Germany
2012-2014PostDoc (Radiocarbon dating),
Department of Human Evolution,
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA),
Leipzig,
Germany
2002-2007Scientific researcher (Radiocarbon Laboratory Projects),
Heidelberg Akademie der Wissenschaften,
Heidelberg,
Germany

Training

2015 Chronomodel Workshop:
Bayesian chronology training day at Roscoff (Bretragne).
The focus of the workshop was on new model using Bayesian to a better chronological resolution in an archaeological site using 14C and OSL dates
2012INTIMATE Workshop:
Bayesian chronology training day at Oxford.
The focus of the workshop was on Bayesian depositional modeling and discussing different approaches, dataset types and software options (OxCal & Bacon)

Professional Service

Occasional referee for a number of journals including:

  • Journal of Archaeological Science
  • Radiocarbon
  • PNAS
  • Journal of Human Evolution
  • PLOS ONE

Teaching Experience

2013-Introductory classes on Radiocarbon in Archaeology
to postgraduates and first year doctoral students,
as part of the courses of “The Leipzig School of Human Origins”,
an International Max Planck Research School by the University of Leipzig
and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Germany).

Supervision of Graduate Students

2015- PhD student
at Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA),
in Leipzig,
Germany

Languages

  • Italian
  • English
  • French
  • German

Invited Lectures

2016Neanderthals meet Anatomically Modern Human? Radiocarbon vis-a-vis Rolex clock;
ETH Zurich.
2016The radiocarbon approach to Neanderthals in a carnivore den site. A well-defined chronology for Teixoneres cave (Moià, Barcelona, Spain);
IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social,
Tarragona,
Spain.
2014The integrity of the Grotte du Renne (Arcy-sur-Cure, France) Châtelperronian sequence. A radiometric perspective;
Amphithéâtre de l'Institut de Paléontologie Humaine,
Paris.
2012 Neanderthals Re-evaluation;
Department of Geological Sciences,
Stockholm University.
2012Comparison of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition sites in Central France. An accurate chronology;
IPHES, Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social, Tarragona, Spain.

Research Grants

2016-

INQUA: Cross checking of stratigraphic data (CROSSTRAT)

Conference Presentations

2016ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Madrid: S. Talamo, M. Hajdinjak, M. A. Mannino, L. Fasani, F. Welker, F. Martini, F. Romagnoli, R. Zorzin, M. Meyer, J.-J. Hublin. Lifting the veil over the ‘Neanderthal’ mandible from Riparo Mezzena (Monti Lessini, Italy) using direct radiocarbon dating and genetic analyses.
2016ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Madrid: H. Fewlass, S. Talamo, T. Tuna, Y. Fagault, B. Kromer, H. Hoffmann, C. Pangrazzi, J.-J. Hublin, E. Bard. Size matters: new frontiers in radiocarbon bone dating
2016ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Madrid: F. Welker, M. Hajdinjak, S. Talamo, K. Jaouen, M. Dannemann, F. David, M. Julien, M. Meyer, J. Kelso, I. Barnes, S. Brace, P. Kamminga, R. Fischer, B. Kessler, J.R. Stewart, S. Pääbo, M.J. Collins, J.-J. Hublin. Palaeoproteomic evidence identifies archaic hominins associated with the Châtelperronian at the Grotte du Renne
2016ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Madrid: M. Hajdinjak, M. Petr, U. Stenzel, H. Rougier, I. Crevecoeur, P. Semal, M. Soressi, S. Talamo, J.-J. Hublin, I. Gušić, Ž. Kućan, R. Pavao, L. V. Golovanova, V. B. Doronichev, C. Posth, J. Krause, P. Korlević, S. Nagel, B. Nickel, K. Prüfer, J. Kelso, Q. Fu, M. Meyer, S. Pääbo. Genetic analyses of five late Neandertals
2016ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Madrid: Q.Fu,…. Population genetic history of Upper Palaeolithic Europe
2015ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, London: S. Benazzi, V. Slon, S. Talamo, F. Negrino, M. Peresani, S. Bailey, S. Sawyer, D. Panetta, G. Vicino, E. Starnini, M. A. Mannino, P. A. Salvadori, M Meyer, S. Pääbo, J.-J. Hublin. The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
2013Hugo Obermaier-Gesellschaft, 55. Jahrestagung Wien: S. Talamo; J.-J. Hublin; M. Julien, F. David, N. Connet, P. Bodu, B. Vandermeersch, M. Richards. Testing the integrity of the Grotte du Renne (Arcy-sur-Cure, France) Châtelperronian sequence: a radiometric perspective
2013ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution,Vienna: S. McPherron, M. Soressi, M. Lenoir, T. Dogandžić, P. Goldberg, Z. Jacobs, Y. Maigrot, N. Martisius, C. E. Miller, W. Rendu, M. P. Richards, M. M. Skinner, T. E. Steele, S. Talamo, J.-P. Texier. New Data on the Context of the Middle Paleolithic Bone Tools from Abri Peyrony and Pech-de-l’Azé I (France)
2012ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution,Bordeaux: S. Talamo, M.P. Richards, M. Roussel, M. Soressi, J.-J. Hublin. Comparison of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition sites in Central France. An accurate chronology
201221st International Radiocarbon Conference; Paris: S. Talamo, M.P., Richards, M. Roussel, M. Soressi, J.-J. Hublin. Comparison of Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition sites in Southwest France. An accurate chronology
2013ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution,Vienna: S. McPherron, M. Soressi, M. Lenoir, T. Dogandžić, P. Goldberg, Z. Jacobs, Y. Maigrot, N. Martisius, C. E. Miller, W. Rendu, M. P. Richards, M. M. Skinner, T. E. Steele, S. Talamo, J.-P. Texier. New Data on the Context of the Middle Paleolithic Bone Tools from Abri Peyrony and Pech-de-l’Azé I (France)
200920th International Radiocarbon Conference, Hawaii: S. Talamo and M.P. Richards. AMS sample comparison close to the limit of the method. A limit or challenge?
2007ESF (European Science Fondation), Heidelberg: S. Talamo, B. Kromer, M. Friedrich, F. Kaiser, M. Schaub. Radiocarbon sequences from floating European Late Glacial pines – implications for radiocarbon calibration
2004SCIEM 2000, Wien:B. Kromerand S. Talamo Regional 14C gradients between Central Europe and Anatolia – Evidence, Limits and Mechanisms

Conference Posters

2016ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Madrid:
A. Balzeau, V. Aldeias, L. Bruxelles, L. Chiotti, I.  Crevecoeur, C. Daujeard, H. L. Dibble, P. Goldberg, A. Gómez-Olivencia, G.  Guérin, S. Madeleine, S. J.P. McPherron, D. Sandgathe, C. Schwab, S. Talamo, J.-J. Hublin, A. Turq.
New  Data on the Context of the La Ferrassie 8 Neandertal child skeleton (Grand Abri of La Ferrassie, Dordogne, France)
2016ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Madrid:
P. Goldberg, V. Aldeias, A. Balzeau, L. Bruxelles, L.  Chiotti, I. Crevecoeur, H. L. Dibble, A. Gómez-Olivencia, G. Guérin, J.-J.  Hublin, B. Maureille, S. J.P. McPherron, S. Madeleine, D. M. Sandgathe, T. E.  Steele, S. Talamo, A. Turq.
On the  context of the Neanderthal Skeletons at La Ferrassie, France: new evidence on  old data
2015ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, London:
G. Guérin, M. Frouin, C. Lahaye, N. Mercier, P.  Goldberg, V. Aldeias, A. Turq, H. L. Dibble, S. P. McPherron, D. Sandgathe,  J.-J. Hublin, B. Maureille, A. Balzeau, I. Crèvecoeur, A. Gómez-Olivencia, S. Talamo. First chronometric ages for  La Ferrassie Neanderthals LF1 and LF8 and a comparison with the age of LF2.
2014ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution, Florence:
C. Verna, A. Rosas, L. Perez-Criado, J.-P. Faivre, S. Talamo, S. Sawyer, B.  Voeltzel, S. Soriano. The "forgotten" Palaeolithic human remains from  the site of Roc-en-Pail (France). Reassessment of the archaeological context  and taxonomical diagnosis: a new Neandertal humerus
20141839èmes journées  scientifiques de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Montpellier  (France):
C. Verna, J.-P. Faivre, B. Voeltzel, S. Talamo, S. Soriano. Les restes humains du site  paléolithique de Roc-en-Pail (Chalonnes-sur-Loire, 49): 60 ans dans l'oubli
2013ESHE European Society for the study of Human Evolution,Vienna:
N. Zwyns; S. Gladyshev; B. Gunchinsuren; T. Bolorbat; A. Tabarev; T. Dogdanzic;  N. Dörschner; K. Fitzsimmons; D. Flas; C. Gillam; A. Khatsenovich; S.  McPherron; D. Odsuren; C. Paine; K.-E. Purevjal; M. Richards; J. Steward; S. Talamo.
The Upper Paleolithic of the  Ikh Tulberin Gol (Northern Mongolia)
20083rd International Symposium on  Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA3), University of York, York, U.K.:
S.  Talamo and M.P. Richards. Testing pretreatment methods for the radiocarbon  dating of bone collagen.
20083rd International Symposium on  Biomolecular Archaeology (ISBA3), University of York, York, U.K.:
M. Mannino, S. Talamo, R. Di Salvo, V. Schimmenti,  M. Piperno, S. Tusa, A. Tagliacozzo, and M.P. Richards. Preliminary results of  C and N isotope analyses and 14C dating of prehistoric humans and  animals from the Mesolithic-Neolithic site of Grotta dell’Uzzo, Sicily, Italy
2004AGU Fall-session, San Francisco:
S. Talamo, B. Kromer, M. Schaub, S. Remmele, K. F. Kaiser:  Atmospheric Radiocarbon fluctuations in the Late Glacial obtained from  tree-ring chronologies - aspects of rapid climate change
2004Archeometria,  Bressanone:
S. Talamo, B. Kromer, M.  Friedrich. Absolute time frame  for the Early and middle Bronze age lake settlements in Northern Italy -  combining the strength of Dendrochronology and Radiocarbon
2004SCIEM 2000, Wien:
S. Talamo, B. Kromer, P. Kuniholm. Bronze Age time scale in the Eastern Mediterranean
200318th International Radiocarbon  Conference, Wellington:
 S. Talamo and B. Kromer. No evidence of  systematic regional 14C differences between Central Europe and Eastern Mediterranean

Field Experience

2015Sampling missions for 14C dating:
Cavallo cave; Prof. Fabio Martini in Italy
2014Sampling missions for 14C dating:
Grotta dei Santi cave, Dr. Adriana Moroni, in Italy
Gorhams cave with Prof. Clive Finlayson, in Gibraltar
2013Sampling missions for 14C dating:
Vale Boi site, Prof. Nuno Bicho, in Portugal
La Ferrassie site, Dr. Shannon McPherron, in France
Stajnia, Hallera and Komarova caves,
Prof. Mikolaj Urbanowski,
in Poland
2012Sampling missions for 14C dating
IPHES for Teixoneres cave in Spain
2011Sampling missions for 14C dating:
University of Ferrarra for Rio Secco, Grotta Reali and Riparo Tagliente,
Prof. M. Peresani and Prof. C. Peretto,
in Italy
2008-2009Sampling missions for 14C dating:
Le Cottés site,
Prof. Marie Soressi,
in France
2004-2007Sampling missions for 14C dating
in France, Italy, Rumania, and Hungary
during ESF Project of Euroclimate
to extend the radiocarbon calibration by tree rings and to study climate event in the Late Glacial
2003Sampling missions for 14C dating
in Peru
to establish a radiocarbon chronology of Nasca sites
1996-19981) Field work at Castellaro Lagusello,
Verona, Italy:
Director, Leone Fasani.
2) Field work at Grotte du Lazaret,
Nice, France:
Director, Henry De Lumley