Meet the DISPERSALS Team

Nuno Bicho
Principal Investigator
Professor Nuno Bicho received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas, in 1992. He is currently a Professor of Archaeology and the Vice-Rector for Science and Culture at the University of Algarve.
He is the Director of the PhD degree in Archaeology at University of Algarve and was the founder and, until recently, Director of ICArEHB (Interdisciplinary Center for Archeology and Human Behavior), and together with Shannon Mcpherron, developed and was one of the Editors-in-Chief of the recent Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology (Springer-Nature Group),
He specializes in Paleolithic ecodynamics and his research focused on prehistoric costal hunter-gatherers of southern Iberia for the last three decades. More recently he has also developed research on the Mesolithic of the Tagus Valley and on the Stone Age of Mozambique and Sudan
Mike Benedetti

Fluvial and coastal qeomorphology + soils
U of North Carolina/ICArEHB
benedettim@uncw.edu