Noel Amano
Main Focus
Noel Amano’s research is on the analyses of animal remains from archaeological sites, focusing on themes of past human-animal interactions, human subsistence economy, paleoenvironmental reconstruction and taphonomy. He is currently involved in projects in several regions as a specialist and as fieldwork director, including South (Sri Lanka) and Southeast (Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam) Asia, Central Asia (Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), the Caucasus (Armenia), Eastern/Southeastern Africa (Madagascar and Zambia), and the Americas (US, Mexico and Argentina).
Curriculum Vitae
Noel received a BA in Cell and Molecular Biology and an MSc in Archaeology from the University of the Philippines. In 2017, he completed a PhD in Quaternary Prehistory at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France and the Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution in Tarragona, Spain. His dissertation explored Late Pleistocene to Mid-Holocene paleoenvironment and human subsistence strategies in Eastern Java, Indonesia.
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