Daniela de Matos specializes in archeology and geosciences with broad interests in human adaptation, subsistence and material culture, site formation processes and paleolandscapes. Her recent work focuses on the Quaternary deposits of the Humpata Caves at the highlands of Southwestern Angola and reconstructing human-environment dynamics during the Pleistocene and early Holocene in Africa.

2017-2023 – Doctoral degree (Dr . rer nat.) in Human Evolution and Archaeological Sciences. Dissertation: "Geoarchaeological investigations in Southwestern Angola: macro and micro-scale approaches to the Middle and Late Pleistocene of Leba Cave"

2011-2013 Master studies (MA) in Archaeology, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas e Sociais, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal. Thesis: The Middle Stone Age Lithic Technology of Leba Cave (Huíla, Southwestern Angola)

2010-2011 Graduate studies in Geoarchaeology, Faculdade de Ciências, Departamento de Geologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

2007-2010 Bachelor of Arts in Archaeology (BA), Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal.

2019-2021 National Geographic "Early Career Grants" with the project Linking Human Adaptations and Paleolandscape in the Leba Karst, Southwest Angola 2019-2021 Leakey Foundation "Dissertation Fieldwork Grants" with the project Paleolandscape of the Pleistocene and Holocene of Leba (Southwest Angola)

2019-2021 Leakey Foundation "Dissertation Fieldwork Grants" with the project Paleolandscape of the Pleistocene and Holocene of Leba (Southwest Angola)

2017-2020 Fundacão para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT), Individual PhD Scholarship (SFRH/BD/117162/2016), for doctoral studies at the University of Tübingen

2023 

de Matos, D., Nora, D., Francisco, R., Fernandes, J., Neto, M.S., Robakiewicz, E Survey and Explorations of the Prehistoric Sites in the Highlands of Southwest Angola. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology 6, 25. (open access) https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-023-00152-0

2021 

de Matos, D., Francisco, R., Fernandes, J., Robakiewicz, E., & Barros, B. A paisagem cársica do Sudoeste de Angola. Primeira abordagem ao património subterrâneo da Formação Leba. Revista Angolana de Geociências: 2 (1). Universidade Agostinho Neto. (open access) http://revista.cicga- uan.co.ao/index.php/RAG/article/view/24

de Matos, D., Senna-Martinez, J.C, Martins, A.C., Pinto, I., Godinho Coelho, A., Ferreira, S. S., Oosterbeek, L., Review of Archaeological research in Angola. African Archaeological Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10437-020-09420-8

2020 

de Matos, D., Pereira, T., Middle Stone Age lithic assemblages From Leba Cave (Southwest Angola), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 32, pp.1-17, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102413 Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yVMvnOwAAAAJ&hl=pt-PT&oi=ao

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