Julia Zastrow is a master's student in Archeological Sciences at the University of Tübigen. In 2017 she completed her Bachelor in Classical Archeology / Paleoanthropology. Afterwards her focus went more into research field of animal bones and for her master thesis she worked on microfauna from Lesotho with the thesis entitled “Microfauna from Ha Makotoko - A paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Phuthiatsana Basin, Lesotho, during the Pleistocene / Holocene transition. The main task was the reconstruction of the climate and the vegetation with its changes using microfauna in Lesotho during the transition phase from the Pleistocene to the Holocene. In addition, taphonomic analyzes were carried out to determine the predators and accumulation of microfauna. The aim was to determine whether climatic and ecological changes between the Pleistocene and Holocene occurred in the Lesotho Plain (more precisely Caledon Valley). The study of microfauna is an important and precise method of reconstructing ecosystems and their changes over time. Knowledge of past climates and vegetation is critical to understanding human choices and past activities. The specialty of the work is that it is up to now one of very few microfauna analyzes in Lesotho up to the present time that provides new and important information in the field of Stone Age archeology and Quaternary ecology in southern Africa. She gained archaeological excavation experience by excavating various sites in Italy, South Africa and Germany.