Alex Bertacchi

Flint Postdoctoral Associate

Office Address:

Room 305, Kline Geology Laboratory

alex.bertacchi@yale.edu

Address:

Mailing address: PO Box 208109, New Haven CT 06520-8109

Street address: 210 Whitney Ave., New Haven CT 06511

Website

Bio:

As a postdoc in Wostbrock’s lab, I use triple oxygen isotopes in water and tooth enamel carbonates and phosphates (modern and fossil) to investigate Cenozoic hydroclimate and its influence on hominin evolution.

I have a M.Sc. in Archaeological Sciences from the University of Tübingen (Germany) and a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University. In my previous research, I used δ¹³C, δ¹⁸O and Δ’¹⁷O in mammalian herbivore enamel to reconstruct seasonal hydroclimate in Malawi and Zambia since the Last Glacial Maximum; ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr to track Pleistocene animal mobility and habitat use in Malawi, France and Italy; and large mammal fossils to investigate hunter-gatherer subsistence in Germany, Armenia and Malawi.