James Clark

I am a PhD student in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Professor Marta Mirazón Lahr. I have been at Cambridge since the beginning of my undergraduate degree, which I actually started in Psychology before moving to Biological Anthropology to graduate. I then completed a one-year research master’s before moving onto my PhD. My research uses geometric morphometrics to investigate the reason for the innovation of handaxes (a particular type of stone tool used by ancient humans from 1.7-0.3 million years ago) in the archaeological record, and how these tools relate to the cognitive evolution of the different species that used them.