Serena Lombardo graduated in 2017 from the University of Pisa, Italy, with a B.A. in Cultural Heritage Sciences. As part of her thesis, she examined changes in the supply and exploitation of raw materials in the transition from Middle to Upper Paleolithic at the site of Grotta La Fabbrica (GR, Italy).
In 2019, she obtained a Master's in Archaeology at the University of Pisa, prehistoric curriculum. For her M.A. thesis, she worked on the epigravettian site of Riparo Fredian (LU, Italy), analyzing the aspects concerning lithic technology, reduction sequences, raw materials management and their procurement strategies. In 2022, she graduated from the Specialization School in Archaeology at the University of Pisa.
Currently, she is enrolled as a PhD candidate at the University of Tübingen in the framework of the ERC-funded FIRSTSTEPS project. Her research will be directed toward the study of Upper Palaeolithic lithic assemblages from Greece and Italy.

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