Phd in HISTORY OF EUROPE

Research: The hypothesis about "ritual cerebrophagy" among Neanderthals of Grotta Guattari and the origins of palaeolithic religion: an open debate between nationalistic instances of the past and new scientific discoveries

In 2016 Luca Campione graduated in Philosophy (ethics and theoretics curriculum) at the University of Catania with a final dissertation in Philosophy of Science titled "Frans de Waal and the Unselfish Ape. Philosophical Observations about Origins and Evolution of the Altruism".
In 2019 he obtained a Master's Degree in Historical and Religious Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, with a final dissertation in History of Religion titled "Deep History of Funerary Ritual. An Evolutionary Perspective about human behaviors in front of Death".
In 2018 he obtained a Scholarship for thesis research provided by Sapienza University of Rome. He thus carried out a short period as visiting student at the Department of the Study of Religion and its MindLab at Aarhus University (Denmark), in order to write his Master's final dissertation.
Since 2021 he is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Europe at Sapienza University of Rome, with a research project titled "The hypothesis about 'ritual cerebrophagy' among Neanderthal of Grotta Guattari and the origins of Paleolithic religion: an oped debate between nationalistic instances of the past and new scientific discoveries".

Research fields and interests:
-Prehistoric and protohistoric religions, indigenous religions, Ritual Studies.
-Evolutionary studies of religion, Cognitive Science of Religion
-Cultural thanatology, Evolutionary Thanatology.
-Paleoethnology and its history, paleoanthropology