Dylan Flicker

Research Interests: Lithic analysis, Middle Stone Age archaeology, Late Stone Age archaeology, Homo sapiens origins, population mobility, off-site archaeology, geospatial archaeology, paleodemography.

Dylan studies human origins and behavior through the investigation of stone tool technologies. He plans to adapt methods from phylogenetics, demography, and behavioral ecology to address major questions in Homo sapiens origins: Where and when did our species evolve? Why did we leave Africa? And what drove the cultural diversification observed across the transition from the Middle to Late Stone Age? He is especially interested in integrating anthropological theories of culture with cutting-edge research in population movement and paleoecology.

Dylan earned a BA in Archaeology from the University of Cambridge (Class of 2024) and an MPhil in Biological Anthropological Sciences, also at Cambridge (Class of 2025). His previous research includes studies of transitional MSA-LSA assemblages from the Turkana Basin, the temporality of the Lomekwian-Oldowan transition, and the paleoenvironment of the Witwatersrand Basin. He has participated in field research in Morocco, Kenya, Spain, England, and the United States.