This July 2-5, 2024, Dr. Deepak Jha will deliver a lecture series at Lab 4, Computational Science Research Center, UP Diliman. This talk is in partnership with the UP Office of International Linkages and the UP Diliman College of Science.

Dr. Deepak Jha, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Archaeology at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, is dedicated to studying human-environment interactions. His research specifically addresses climate change, vegetation transition, and the use of fire by ancient human populations. Dr. Jha employs advanced multiproxy environmental analyses, utilizing plant lipid biomarkers, stable isotopes, and macroscopic charcoal particles to reveal how prehistoric humans used fire.

By reconstructing past environments using these multiple proxies, Dr. Jha aims to shed light on how environmental changes have influenced human evolution, subsistence strategies, settlement patterns, social structures, and technological developments. His primary focus is on archaeological sites in the Indian subcontinent, but his research methods are also applicable to Philippine archaeology, offering insights into the evolution of hominin species and the impact of environmental changes on prehistoric human populations in the archipelago.

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written by G Gascon and G Barretto-Tesoro, June 2024