Dr. João Marreiros

Forschungsgruppenleiter Spurenlabor

Forschungsprofil

  • Pleistocene Archaeology
  • Stone tool production, design and use
  • Robots in Experimental Archaeology
  • Stone tool technology and Traceology/Use-wear analysis

Werdegang

  • Seit 2017
    Research Group Leader. Laboratory for Traceology and Controlled Experiments (TraCEr), at MONREPOS, LEIZA
  • 2014-2017
    Post-Doc researcher ICArEHB (UAlg) and IMF-CSIC (Barcelona)
  • 2013
    Ph.D. in Archaeology, University of Algarve (UAlg)
  • 2009
    Master (MA) in Archaeology, University of Algarve, Portugal (UAlg)
  • 2007
    Licenciatura (BA studies) in Cultural Heritage, University of Algarve, Portugal (UAlg)

Research grants

  • 2024-2027
    DFG “NeanderCloud: New and old technologies to understand past human tool technology, design and use”. 533 185,00€ 

  • 2024-2026
    Leakey Foundation research grant “INNOVA: On the origins of human technological innovations: new insights from stone tool use during the Late Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Levant”. 20 000,00$

Kontakt

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Forschungsprojekte

Publikationen

Most recent and relevant publications

  • Goder-Goldberger, M., Marreiros, J., Paixão, E. and Hovers, E., 2025. Incised stone artefacts from the Levantine Middle Palaeolithic and human behavioural complexity. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 17(1), pp.1-20.
  • Paixão, E., Gossa, T., Gneisinger, W., Marreiros, J., Tholen, S., Calandra, I. and Hovers, E., 2025. Exploring early Acheulian technological decision-making: A controlled experimental approach to raw material selection for percussive artifacts in Melka Wakena, Ethiopia. PloS one, 20(1), p.e0314039.
  • Tsanova, T., Delvigne, V., Sirakova, S., Anastasova, E., Horta, P., Krumov, I., Marreiros, J., Nacheva, E., Rezek, Z., Hublin, J.J. and Sirakov, N., 2024. Curated character of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic lithic artefact assemblages in Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria). PloS one, 19(9), p.e0307435. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307435

  • Rausch, H., Marreiros, J., Kullmer, O., Schunk, L., Gneisinger, W. and Calandra, I., 2024. An experimental approach on dynamic occlusal fingerprint analysis to simulate use-wear localisation and development on stone tools. Scientific Reports, 14(1), p.20084. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-70265-1

  • Schunk, L., Calandra, I., Cramer, A., Gneisinger, W. and Marreiros, J., 2024. Past human decision-making based on stone tool performance: Experiments to test the influence of raw material variability and edge angle design on tool function. Journal of Archaeological Science, 167, p.106003. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106003

  • Schunk, L., Cramer, A., Bob, K., Calandra, I., Heinz, G., Jöris, O., & Marreiros, J. (2023). Enhancing lithic analysis: Introducing 3D-EdgeAngle as a semi-automated 3D digital method to systematically quantify stone tool edge angle and design. Plos one, 18(11), e0295081. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0295081

  • Marreiros, J., Thaler, U. and Macdonald, D.A., 2023. Editorial paper special issue “Contact materials: The ‘Other’ in experimental use-wear studies”. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, p.104147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104147

  • Luncz, L. V., Braun, D. R., Marreiros, J., Bamford, M., Zeng, C., Pacome, S. S., ... & Carvalho, S. (2022). Chimpanzee wooden tool analysis advances the identification of percussive technology. iScience, 105315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105315

  • Martisius, N. L., Spasov, R., Smith, G. M., Endarova, E., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Welker, F., ... & Hublin, J. J. (2022). Initial Upper Paleolithic bone technology and personal ornaments at Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria). Journal of Human Evolution, 167, 103198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2022.103198

  • Lin, S., Marreiros, J. 2020. Quina Retouch Does Not Maintain Edge Angle Over Reduction. Lithic Technology. https://doi.org/10.1080/01977261.2020.1819048

  • Marreiros, J., Pereira, T., & Iovita, R. 2020. Controlled experiments in lithic technology and function. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 12(6), 110. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-020-01059-5

  • Hublin, J. Sirakov, N., Aldeias, V., Bailey, S., Bard, E., Delvigne, V., Faugault, Y., Fewlass, H., Hajdinjak, M., Kromer, B., Krumov, I., Marreiros, J., Martisius, N., Paskulin, L., Sinet-Mathiot, V., Meyer, M., Pääbo, S., Popov, V., Rezek, Z., Sirakova, S., Skinner, M., Smith, G., Spasov, R., Talamo, S., Tuna, T., Wacker, L., Welker, F., Wilcke, Q., Zahariev, N., McPherron, S., Tsanova, T., 2020. Initial Upper Paleolithic Homo sapiens remains from Bacho Kiro Cave (Bulgaria). Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2259-z

  • Marreiros, J., Calandra, I., Gneisinger, W., Paixao, E., Pedergnana, A., Schunk, L. 2020. Rethinking functional analysis as applied to the study of past hominin tool use. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-020-00058-1

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