Michael Petraglia is a prehistoric archaeologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History! Michael's research is interdisciplinary and covers a range of subjects concerning human evolution, such as the evolution of cognition and behaviour, and the relationship between climate change and hominin dispersals. He has directed archaeological field projects in Africa and Asia, primarily in the Arabian peninsula and the Indian subcontinent, and is also part of the Human Origins Program Team at the Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History.