Dr. DelphineVettese 

Dr. Delphine Vettese has a Ph.D. in zooarchaeology from the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle of Paris, France. Her thesis focused on the butchery tradition of Neanderthal groups. She is currently a Postdoc Research Fellow at the University of Ferrara (Italy) and is part of the Group I+D+I EvoAdapta (the University of Cantabria in Santander, Spain), which focuses on the Neanderthal/Sapiens transition. She had wide experience in subsistence behavior and taphonomy interpretations of archaeological sites, mainly in European Middle and Upper Paleolithic sites. Her skills include experimental archaeology, especially in anthropic marks (percussion marks, cutmarks, and retouchers) and spatial analyses, applied at the level of the site and of the bone. She has participated in several archaeological excavations in Southwestern Europe (France, Spain, and Italy). Dr. Vettese is responsible for the archeozoological analyses of the faunal assemblages uncovered in the project.