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I am a Palaeolithic archaeologist working in the frame of Evolutionary Anthropology. As a researcher, I started studying Neanderthal adaptations in Southern Europe. After several years working on Neanderthal behaviour, I started to investigate the Homo sapiens African record, broadly in the same time span (The "Middle Palaeolithic"). The range of variation and diversity that I discovered since then, deeply widened my perspective on the meaning of "becoming human". I am currently running projects in Europe and East Africa, and I am interested in variability within MSA and Panafrican connection of people and technology. I am also interested in the concept of "extended mind", and working on the cognitive aspects of tool making.