Emanuela Cristiani is Associate Professor of Prehistoric Archeology at the Department of
Oral and Maxillo-Facial Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, where she also directs the DANTE – Diet and Ancient Technology laboratory. Soon after she received her PhD in
Archeology at Sapienza University of Rome in 2010, Cristiani was awarded a
Wenner-Gren Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship. In 2011 she obtained a Marie Curie Individual Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge (UK). Subsequently, in 2013, she was Associate Research Fellow at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America (Columbia University, USA). Since 2015 E. Cristiani is principal investigator of the ERC Starting Grant “HIDDEN FOODS: Plant foods in Paleolithic and Mesolithic societies of SE Europe and Italy "aimed at exploring the diet and technology of ancient hunter-gatherers through the integration of various anthropological and cultural evidences. Her main research focus is the study of the identity and traditions of Paleolithic and Mesolithic societies of southern Europe through the characterization of their material culture.