Prof. Gabriele Macho

PLIODIS

Trained as a biological anthropology at the University of Vienna, Austria, I held a number of research and faculty positions, notably at the University of Western Australia (Australia), the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), the Ditsong Museum (South Africa), the University of Liverpool (UK), Roehampton University (UK), the Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont (Spain), the University of Oxford (UK) and the University of London (UK) before joining AMGC in September 2025.

Background

Key Research Interests

Early hominin evolution; Life history evolution; Hard tissue biology

Main Publications

Caley T., Souron A., Uno K., Macho, G.A. (2025). Climate and Human Evolution: Insights from Marine Records. Annual Reviews of Marine Science 17.
Macho G.A. (2024) The implications of morphology, mechanics and microstructure of teeth for understanding dietary drivers in human evolution. In J.A. Lee-Thorp and M.A. Katzenberg (eds.) Handbook of the Archaeology of Diet. Chapter 5, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Pp. 142-160.
Romero A., Pérez-Pérez A., Atiénzar G.G., Martínez L.M., Macho G.A.* (2022). Do rates of dental wear in extant African apes inform weaning? Journal of Human Evolution, 163.
Macho G.A., Fornai C., Tardieu C., Hopley P, Haeusler M, Toussaint M. (2020). The partial skeleton StW 431 from Sterkfontein - Is it time to rethink the Plio-Pleistocene hominin diversity in South Africa? Journal of Anthropological Sciences 98, 73-88.
Kupczik K., Toro Ibacache V., Macho G.A. (2018) On the relationship between maxillary molar root shape and jaw kinematics in Australopithecus africanus. Royal Society Open Science 5:180825.
Macho G.A. (2015) Pliocene hominin biogeography and ecology. Journal of Human Evolution 87, 78-86.

Gabriele.Macho@vub.be