The Tübingen Early Prehistory and Quaternary Ecology Prize this year goes to Dr. Paola Cerrito of Zürich University. She receives the award for her doctoral thesis, "Histological and elemental markers of physiological stressors in hard tissues" in which she investigates how events that influence the metabolism, such as reproduction, menopause and changes in lifestyle, are permanently recorded in the skeleton. This is regarded as the biological archive of a human life. ...
