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Mirjana Roksandic

Professor


Contact Information

Department:

Anthropology

Fields:

  • Anthropology
  • Europe
  • Evolution
  • South America

Areas of Expertise:

  • Archaeology of Europe
  • Archaeology of the Circum-Caribbean
  • Bioarchaeology
  • Biological Anthropology of Aging
  • Early Peopling of the Caribbean
  • Human Biological Evolution
  • Paleoanthropology of Europe

Languages Spoken:

  • English
  • French

Available To:

  • Appear on radio or TV
  • Appear as a public speaker
  • Provide comment to media
  • Discuss research with industry, government, and others

About:

Dr. Mirjana Roksandic is a biological anthropologist whose main research topics include Pleistocene hominin evolution in Europe and mortuary ritual among sedentary and semi-sedentary archaeological hunter-gatherers. Roksandic obtained her PhD from Simon Fraser University.

She has two active international projects: the first is in Serbia focusing on hominins excavated in Paleolithic caves, and the other in Cuba where she is working on questions of mortuary practice and ritual continuity.


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