Team

Małgorzata Kot, PhD is an archaeologist. Her academic interests include the Paleolithic period, human evolution, changes in stone tool production methods, and the functions of caves in prehistory. She has been conducting her research in i.e. Poland, Uzbekistan, Georgia, Montenegro, and Tunisia. She received her PhD in archaeology in 2013 from the University of Warsaw within the framework of the Inter-University Program for Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies of the “Artes Liberales” Academy.

We are the only surviving human species on Earth today, but it hasn’t always been that way. Just tens of thousands of years ago, the planet was home to several different hominid populations.

We want to explore an important question: how much did contact with others shape us as modern humans, and to what extent did we contribute to their extinction? A true adventure’s ahead of us.

an excerpt from an interview with Prof. Małgorzata Kot – ERC Consolidator Grant (2024)

External collaborator’s academic background and interests