Hannah Olivia Rausch
Doctoral student
Department of Human Origins
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 759
e-mail:
hannah_olivia_rausch@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
- Origins of stone tool use
- Non-human primate tool use and archaeology
- Experimental archaeology and use-wear analysis
- Tool handling
Main supervisors: Dr Lydia Luncz, Dr Shannon McPherron
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| 2023 | MA in Pre-and Protohistoric Archaeology University of Münster, Germany Thesis title: An experimental approach on dynamic Occlusal Fingerprint Analysis to evaluate hominin stone tool use In cooperation with TraCEr at MONREPOS (LEIZA) and Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum Frankfurt |
| 2021 | BA in Archaeology-History-Landscape and Biology University of Münster, Germany |
| 2014 – 2015 | Kinesiology and Physical Education University of Toronto |
Career
| 2021- 2022 | Student trainee (LWL Archaeology) |
| 2019 | Student assistant (Indo-European Studies, University of Muenster) |
Research experience (e.g. fieldwork, internships)
| 2022 | Pech de l’Azé layer 8, France |
| 2020; 2021 | Ilsenhöhle in Ranis, Germany |
| 2019-2023 | Various local excavation campaigns in North-Rhein-Westphalia and Lower Saxony |
Languages
- English (Native)
- German (Proficient)
- French (Reading and listening knowledge)