Priv.-Doz. Dr. Claudio Tennie
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Institut für Ur- und Frühgeschichte und Archäologie des Mittelalters
Abteilung für Ältere Urgeschichte und Quartärökologie
Hölderlinstrasse 12
72074 Tübingen
External Homepage
https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie
(on this page, you will find updated and more detailed information)
Project
Tools and Culture among Early Hominins
https://sites.google.com/view/toolsandculture/home
ERC-funded project “STONECULT”
http://sites.google.com/view/stonecult
Current research
- Cognitive archaeology
- Evolution of human cognition
- Evolution of cumulative culture
- Comparative Cognition (primarily of non-human primates, but also children)
- Crosscultural research
- Behavioural ecology
- Biological anthropology
Publications
You will find a continuously updated list of publications here:
Education
| 2024 | Triple habilitation (prehistory and early history, psychology, behavioural biology and comparative biocognition) |
| 2009 | Universität Göttingen: PhD in biology |
| 2003 | Universität Bielefeld: Diploma in biology |
| 1999 - 2003 | Bielefeld Studied behavioural ecology and psychology |
| 1998 - 1999 | University of Edinburgh, UK; Studied biology, philosophy of science |
| 1996 - 1998 | Philipps Universität Marburg: Studied biology (until pre-diploma in 1998) |
Professional experience
| 2017 | Universität Tübingen, Department of Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology: Research leader of the project "Tools and Culture among Early Hominins", and PI of ERC Starting Grant STONECULT |
| 2012 - 2017 | University of Birmingham, Faculty of Psychology, UK: Lecturer, focusing on research (Birmingham Fellow) |
| 2009 - 2012 | MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig: Postdoc |
| 2004 - 2009 | MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig: Labcoordination and PhD student at the Wolfgang-Köhler-Primate-Research-Centre |
You'll find further, updated information here: https://sites.google.com/view/claudiotennie