Claudine Gravel-Miguel recently obtained her Ph.D. in archaeology and is currently working as a postdoctoral research assistant for the Institute of Human Origins at ASU.

Her work focuses on the prehistory of Southwestern Europe, in particular on the social behavior of hunter-gatherers who lived there after the last glacial maximum. She has published articles on the position and abundance of ornaments found in burial settings, on the use of elongated pebbles in mortuary rituals, and on the importance of studying prehistoric social networks in their environmental context.

In the summers, she works with a team of international scientists at Arma Veirana, an Italian cave located in the Ligurian Alps.