Michael Petraglia is Professor of Human Evolution and Prehistory at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. Formerly a Lecturer in Cambridge’s Faculty of Archaeology and a Professor in Oxford’s School of Archaeology and Anthropology, he has been involved with the Human Origins Program at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. since its inception. Working primarily on the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent, Petraglia’s main research interests include human evolution and the links between ancient out of Africa migration and climate change. Author and editor of numerous scholarly works, Pertaglia’s most recent edited collection (with Nicole Boivin and Rémy Crassard) is entitled Human Dispersal and Species Movement (2017).
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