Our earliest ancestors worked together on the hunt

Lucía Cobo-Sánchez receives the 2022 Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Prize. The 24th Tübingen Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology prize goes to Dr. Lucía Cobo-Sánchez of Madrid University. The researcher receives the award for her doctoral thesis Taphonomic and spatial study of the archaeological site DS from Bed I in Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania). In this study, she combined classical animal bone studies with machine learning methods and was thus able to show that humans were capable of planning, cooperation and coordinated action 1.84 million years ago. Lucía Cobo-Sánchez studied archaeology at the Universities of Madrid and Tübingen, specializing in prehistory and archaeozoology. For her Master's degree at the University of Cambridge, she chose Human Evolutionary Studies. She completed her PhD in prehistory at the University of Madrid in 2020.