The Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and the Evolution of Human Behaviour is located in Faro, PT, and aims to build and share an integrative understanding of the origins and evolution of human behaviour, through rigorous and innovative research. ICArEHB brings together a group of foreigner and national researchers with a main goal: developing research and contribute to a better understandi
ng of the evolution of human behavior from an archaeological and anthropological perspective. Research is organized in three groups - Prehistoric coastal adaptations, African archaeology and Human Evolution, Development of complex societies - focusing mostly on the emergence of Anatomically Modern Humans, hunter-gatherer coastal adaptations, the development of complex societies, and african archaeology using different disciplines and methodological approaches, such as geoarchaeology, use-wear analysis, zooarchaeology, paleobotany and GIS.
