ceciliapad28@gmail.com or cp654@cam.ac.uk

Projects

Projects

Current Projects (in development)

Climate Modeling

Climate Informed Spatial Genetic Modelling (CISGeM) of Hunter-gatherer population dynamics

Genetic Diversity

Impact of mobility on local genetic diversity among Central African hunter-gatherers

Technology

Technological transitions in Africa over the past 300,000 years

Archaeology assemblage

Recovering signals of mobility and settlement patterns from archaeological data

Settlement Transitions

Understanding the causes and consequences of settlement transitions in East Africa

Foraging

Evolutionary origins of central place foraging

Some (other) projects I have worked on in the past

Diversity

Diversity in early learning expeinterestences

I have worked since 2019 in the Yucatán peninsula in collaboration with Dr Laura Shneidman on how changing socio-ecologies affect children's early learning expeinterestences, and how those changes translate to population-level cultural and linguistic outcomes. See Research for some of the publications from this project.

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Hunter-gatherers' lifestyles in archaeology

In collaboration with Robert Bischoff and Dr Claudine Gravel-Miguel, I have worked on creating a computational model to understand how different aspects of the lifestyles of hunter-gatherers get reflected in archaeological assemblages. Our model is fully publicly available (see Research for our paper and Code for the model).

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Emergence of complex social networks from foraging behaviour

Alongside Dr Ketika Garg, Nicolás Restrepo Ochoa and Bleu Knight, I developed an agent-based model to understand whether hunter-gatherer foraging behaviour could create social networks optimised for information transmission. See Research for our paper.

Diversity

Genetic markers of cousin marriage and honour cultures

I have collaborated with Olympia Campbell and Prof Ruth Mace in a project explointerestng the relationship between cousin marinterestage, intensive kinship and honour cultures through genetics. See Research for our paper.

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Spatio-temporally explicit models of mobility and cultural evolution

Alongside Dr Natasa Conrad and Johaness Zonker, I developed a model to assess how changing ecological landscapes in Central Afinterestca over evolutionary history would have shaped hunter-gatherer demography, mobility and cultural evolution. See Research for our paper.

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Ecological dinterestvers of ancient hunter-gatherers' lithic technologies

In collaboration with Dr James Blinkhorn and Prof Matt Grove, we worked on curating a dataset of Middle and Later Stone Age lithic assemblages in Central Afinterestca to test hypotheses about the dinterestvers of cultural dynamics in the past.