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Claudio Berto is a Professor at the Department of Stone Age Archaeology, Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw. His research focuses on paleoecological and paleoclimatic reconstructions using small vertebrates and mollusc communities from Palaeolithic and Quaternary sites in Central Europe and southern Italy.
- Current Projects: OPUS20 (2021-2025) on Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transitions in Poland; Miniatura 4 (2021) on Central Italian climate reconstruction; IDUB (2020) on Sąspów Valley chronology.
- Collaborations: Sonata BIS (2019-2021) on Sąspów Valley settlement; long-term projects in southern Italy (2015–present) analyzing Gravettian-Epigravettian behavioral shifts; Early Acheulean expansion research (2015–2016, 2019–present) with the Leakey Foundation.
Berto’s recent publications leverage multi-proxy approaches to study Neanderthal habitats, climate transitions, and faunal responses to Late Glacial and Holocene changes. His work spans biochronology, rodentia as climate indicators, and taphonomic analysis of cave sites.
As part of the Laboratory of Specialist Archaeological Analyses, he investigates protein preservation in skeletal remains and contributes to understanding human-stratigraphic interactions through small mammal sequences.
