Emily Hallinan (3114-DA5B-8F09)

Curriculum Vitae

Emily Hallinan

Emily Hallinan holds a degree in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge (2010) and a Masters degree from the University of Cape Town (2013). She obtained her PhD in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge in 2018, and has been a postdoctoral researcher at ICArEHB, University of Algarve, since 2020. Her principal research interests are Middle Stone Age lithic technology and landscape use, specifically hunter-gatherer adaptations to arid environments. Her field research has focused on surface lithic assemblages in South Africa, recently expanding her studies to Egypt, Oman and Kenya. Her postdoctoral work has developed a novel 3D geometric morphometric approach to lithic artefacts with the aim of testing scenarios of the dispersal, diffusion or convergent development of Nubian Levallois technology in Africa and southwest Asia. Her scientific contributions include 15 peer-reviewed articles, as first or corresponding author on 12 of these, and she has presented 21 invited seminars and conference contributions. She is also active in public outreach, especially in Africa where she collaborates with the non-profit organisation Children’s Book Network and has co-authored a children’s book on archaeology.

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Emily Hallinan

Citation names

Hallinan, Emily

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 3114-DA5B-8F09
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0698-8238

Websites

https://emilyhallinan.com/ (Scholar)

Knowledge fields

Humanities - History and Archaeology - Archaeology

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening
English (Mother tongue)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Upper intermediate (B2)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)
Portuguese	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Elementary (A2)	Beginner (A1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013/10/01 - 2019/05/18 Concluded	PhD Archaeology (Doctor of Philosophy) University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom "Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2011/02/01 - 2013/12/12 Concluded	MPhil Archaeology (Master) University of Cape Town Department of Archaeology, South Africa "Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinction
2007/10/01 - 2010/06/25 Concluded	BA Hons Archaeology and Anthropology (Bachelor) Major in Archaeology University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom "Material engagement and the origins of the modern mind: Evidence from Middle Stone Age South Africa" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	First Class

Affiliation

Science

	Category Host institution	Employer
2025/03/31 - Current	Researcher (Research)	University of Johannesburg, South Africa
	Palaeo-Anthropology Scientific Trust, South Africa
2020/03/01 - Current	Postdoc (Research)	Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2013/10/01 - 2019/05/18	Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa 03865 Principal investigator University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom	Arts and Humanities Research Council Concluded
2018/12/28 - 2019/01/28	Seed Corn: Merimde project NA Researcher The University of Edinburgh School of History Classics and Archaeology, United Kingdom	Concluded
2017/07/01 - 2017/08/01	REAL: Resilience in East African Landscapes 606879 Researcher Uppsala Universitet Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, Sweden	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Concluded
2011/02/01 - 2013/12/12	Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Clanwilliam, Western Cape 77786:2014 Principal investigator University of Cape Town Department of Archaeology, South Africa	National Research Foundation, South Africa Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2022/06/01 - Current	NuBIAN: Nubian technology, Behavioural Innovation and Adaptation. New perspectives on Middle Stone Age technological variability and population dynamics 2021.00041.CEECIND Researcher Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing
2020/06/01 - 2022/05/31	TANKwA: Technological Adaptations of Nubian technology in the Karoo: new geometric morphometric Approaches 891917 Post-doc Fellow	EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Ongoing
2020/03/01 - 2020/05/31	EVHE - The origins and evolution of human Cognition and the impact of Southwestern European coastal ecology PTDC/HAR-ARQ/27833/2017 Post-doc	Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia Ongoing

Outputs

Publications

Book	Beake, Lesley; Hallinan, Emily; Pattison, Michael. The Time Trackers. United Kingdom: Kindle Direct Publishing. 2023. Published
Book chapter	Alex Mackay; Emily Hallinan; Teresa E. Steele. "Provisioning responses to environmental change in South Africa's Winter Rainfall Zone, MIS 5-2". In Lithic Technological Organization and Palaeoenvironmental Change: Global and Diachronic Perspectives, edited by E Robinson, 13-36. New York, United States: Springer, 2018. Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-64407-3_2
Conference poster	Hallinan, Emily; Shaw, Matthew. "A landscape perspective on Middle Stone Age behaviour from the Tankwa Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa". Paper presented in 23rd Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists, 2016. Hallinan, Emily; Shaw, Matthew. "A landscape perspective on Middle Stone Age behaviour from the Tankwa Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa". Paper presented in 5th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Human Evolution, 2015.
Journal article	Hallinan, Emily; Cascalheira, João. Corresponding author: Hallinan, Emily. "Quantifying Levallois: a 3D geometric morphometric approach to Nubian technology". Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 17 4 (2025): https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02199-2. Published • 10.1007/s12520-025-02199-2 Rose, Jeffrey I.; Hilbert, Yamandú H.; Usyk, Vitaly I.; Bebber, Michelle R.; Beshkani, Amir; Buchanan, Briggs; Cascalheira, João; et al. "Mapping lateral stratigraphy at Palaeolithic surface sites: A case study from Dhofar, Oman". Journal of Archaeological Science 173 (2025): 106117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106117. Published • 10.1016/j.jas.2024.106117 Samawi, Osama; Hallinan, Emily. Corresponding author: Hallinan, Emily. "More Than Surface Finds: Nubian Levallois Core Metric Variability and Site Distribution Across Africa and Southwest Asia". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 7 1 (2024): https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-024-00192-0. Published • 10.1007/s41982-024-00192-0 Hallinan, Emily. "A Synthesis and Critical Inventory of Nubian Cores in Middle Stone Age and Middle Palaeolithic Assemblages". Journal of Open Archaeology Data 12 (2024): https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.129. Open access • Published • 10.5334/joad.129 Emily Hallinan; Anthony E. Marks. "The Complex Taxonomy of ‘Nubian’ in Context". Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00151-1. 10.1007/s41982-023-00151-1 Emily Hallinan. "Landscape-scale perspectives on Later Stone Age settlement in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2022.2152990. 10.1080/0067270X.2022.2152990 Emily Hallinan; Omry Barzilai; Amir Beshkani; João Cascalheira; Yuri E. Demidenko; Mae Goder-Goldberger; Yamandú H. Hilbert; et al. "The nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian complex". Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews (2022): https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21958. 10.1002/evan.21958 Isis Mesfin; Ulla Mussgnug; Emily Hallinan. "Southern African Stone Age archaeology and palaeontology in a mining context: the example of Gudrun Corvinus in the diamond mines of the Sperrgebiet, Namibia (1976–1980)". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (2022): https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2022.2115280. 10.1080/0067270X.2022.2115280 Emily Hallinan. "“A Survey of Surveys” Revisited: Current Approaches to Landscape and Surface Archaeology in Southern Africa". African Archaeological Review (2022): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-021-09469-z. 10.1007/s10437-021-09469-z Emily Hallinan; Omry Barzilai; Nuno Bicho; João Cascalheira; Yuri Demidenko; Mae Goder-Goldberger; Erella Hovers; et al. "No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave". Scientific Reports (2022): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-05072-7. 10.1038/s41598-022-05072-7 Emily Hallinan. "Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (2021): 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2021.1960675. 10.1080/0067270X.2021.1960675 Hallinan, Emily. "Landscape-scale perspectives on Stone Age behavioural change from the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa (2021): Submitted Emily Hallinan; Matthew Shaw. "Nubian Levallois reduction strategies in the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa". PLOS ONE 15 10 (2020): e0241068-e0241068. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0241068. Open access • Published • 10.1371/journal.pone.0241068 Emily Hallinan. "Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 54 1 (2019): 136-137. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F0067270x.2019.1574473. Published • 10.1080/0067270x.2019.1574473 Emily Hallinan; John Parkington. "Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Clanwilliam, Western Cape, South Africa". Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa 52 3 (2017): 324-372. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F0067270x.2017.1365438. Published • 10.1080/0067270x.2017.1365438 Hallinan, Emily; Shaw, Matthew. "A new Middle Stone Age industry in the Tankwa Karoo, Northern Cape Province, South Africa". Antiquity Project Gallery 89 344 (2015): http://antiquity.ac.uk/projgall/hallinan344. Open access • Published
Thesis / Dissertation	Hallinan, Emily. "Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use in the Western and Northern Cape, South Africa". PhD, University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2019. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/292442. 10.17863/CAM.39600 Hallinan, Emily. "Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape". Master, University of Cape Town Department of Archaeology, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6605.

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2023/12/04	Nubian Complexity: New inter-regional perspectives on Middle Palaeolithic Levallois technology	HEAS Seminar Series: Human Evolution and the Palaeolithic University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria)
2022/08/06	Surveys and stones in arid South Africa	Lunchtime seminar Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Jerusalem, Israel)
2021/09/24	Off-site archaeology and human adaptation in southern Africa: evidence from the Tankwa Karoo	25th Meeting of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists
2021/08/28	No direct evidence for the presence of Nubian Levallois technology and its association with Neanderthals at Shukbah Cave	Journal Club ICArEHB (Faro, Portugal)
2020/12/14	Time, space and human adaptation in southern Africa: perspectives from lithics and landscapes	Lecture for PhD students Universidade do Algarve, ICArEHB (Faro, Portugal)
2020/01/31	Off-site archaeology and human adaptation in southern Africa: evidence from the Tankwa Karoo	PalMeso Seminar Group University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2020/01/21	The archaeology of religion: what makes us human?	Outreach seminar for Sixth Form students (age 16-18) St Mary's School, Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2018/11/24	Variation in Middle Stone Age landscape-use behaviour in the Tankwa Karoo (Northern Cape, South Africa)	African Archaeology Research Day University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2018/07/18	A landscape perspective on Stone Age behaviour in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape	14th Congress of the Pan African Archaeological Association University of Johannesburg (Johannesburg, South Africa)
2018/06/06	Variation in Middle Stone Age landscape-use behaviour in the Tankwa Karoo (Northern Cape, South Africa)	18th World Congress of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris, France)
2017/05/18	Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age behaviour from the Tankwa Karoo, Northern Cape, South Africa	St Catharine’s College Graduate Research Seminar University of Cambridge, St Catharine's College (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2016/03/11	The Middle Stone Age of the Tankwa Karoo: Nubian Levallois technology in a South African desert?	PalMeso Seminar Group University of Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2016/02/27	Variation and modernity in Middle Stone Age landscape use behaviour in the Tankwa Karoo (Northern Cape, South Africa)	St Catharine’s Graduate Research Symposium St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2015/12/02	The archaeology of religion: what makes us human?	Outreach seminar for Sixth Form students (age 16-18) St Mary's School, Cambridge (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2015/11/11	Stone Age landscape use and the question of behavioural modernity. A study from the Western Cape, South Africa.	Archaeological Field Club Seminar University of Cambridge, Department of Archaeology (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2013/11/02	Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape	Workshop: Mapping the Origins of Modern Behaviour Travellers Rest (Clanwilliam, South Africa)
2013/10/28	Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape	Archaeology Department Seminar Series University of Cape Town, Department of Archaeology (Cape Town, South Africa)
2013/07/07	Mapping Stone Age landscape use in the Olifants River Valley, Western Cape	Biennial Meeting of the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists University of Botswana (Gaborone, Botswana)

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2023/08/25 - 2023/08/28	Educational outreach workshops on the archaeology of the Tankwa Karoo, South Africa, for primary school learners in rural South Africa. 2 days of workshops reaching 100 children, in collaboration with non-profit organisation Children's Book Network (2023/08/25 - 2023/08/28) Other (Co-organisor)	Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2022/02/24 - 2022/02/26	"The Nature of Nubian: Developing current global perspectives on Nubian Levallois technology and the Nubian Complex". International workshop held at ICArEHB, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, 24-26 February 2022. Organisation of a 3-day workshop for 22 invited researchers. (2022/02/24 - 2022/02/26) Workshop (President of the Organising Committee)	Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2014/10/01 - 2016/07/01	PalMeso Seminar Group (co-organiser, weekly seminar series) (2014/10/01) Seminar (Co-organisor)	University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/02/09 - 2024/05/10	Hunter-gatherer adaptations to arid environments	Archaeology (Curso de doutoramento (conclusão de unidades curriculares))	Universidade do Algarve Centro Interdisciplinar de Arqueologia e Evolução do Comportamento Humano, Portugal
2016/10/01 - 2020/12/01	ARC10/BAN3/G03: Human Evolution and Palaeolithic Archaeology (Faculty Teaching Assistant, lectures, practical demonstration, supervision)	Archaeology and Anthropology (Bachelor)	University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2018/10/01 - 2018/12/01	ARC33/A35: Archaeology of Africa (practical demonstration)	Archaeology and Biological Anthropology (Bachelor)	University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2014/10/01 - 2016/07/01	ARC10: The Palaeolithic of the Old World (supervision)	Archaeology and Biological Anthropology (Bachelor)	University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2013/10/01 - 2015/07/01	ARC1: Introduction to Archaeology (supervision)	Archaeology and Anthropology (Bachelor)	University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2015/01/01 - 2015/04/01	ARC11/G03: Topics in Palaeolithic archaeology (seminars)	Archaeology and Biological Anthropology (Master)	University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2024/01/30 - 2024/01/30	HEAS Podcast. Episode 3: From Ancient Landscapes to High Altitudes	Archaeology

Scientific expedition

	Activity description	Institution / Organization
2024/01/15 - Current	Palaeolithic field surveys in the Western Wadis, Thebes, Egypt. Collaboration with the New Kingdom Research Foundation to understand early human landscape use and lithic technology.	University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, United Kingdom
2023/02/04 - Current	ARDUQ Arabia: Archaeological landscape evolution and environmental dynamics of Duqm and Nejd. Field surveys, Middle and Lower Palaeolithic artefact analysis, 3D scanning and GM analysis. (PI: Dr Roman Garba, Czech Academy of Sciences)	Akademie ved Ceske republiky, Czech Republic

Distinctions

Award

2016	St Catharine's College Prize for distinction in research University of Cambridge St Catharine's College, United Kingdom
2012	International Student Faculty Bursary University of Cape Town Faculty of Science, South Africa
2012	JW Jagger Trust Scholarship for academic merit University of Cape Town Faculty of Science, South Africa
2011	JW Jagger Trust Scholarship for academic merit University of Cape Town Faculty of Science, South Africa
2010	Lady Cocket Scholarship for academic performance University of Cambridge St Catharine's College, United Kingdom
2009	Lady Cocket Scholarship for academic performance University of Cambridge St Catharine's College, United Kingdom
2009	Mark Gregson prize for highest marks in Part IIA Archaeology University of Cambridge Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, United Kingdom
2009	Higham Award for Archaeology University of Cambridge St Catharine's College, United Kingdom
2008	Lady Cocket Scholarship for academic performance University of Cambridge St Catharine's College, United Kingdom
2008	Higham Award for Archaeology University of Cambridge St Catharine's College, United Kingdom