Dr Annette Oertle
FINDER Research Group
Main Focus
Annette is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Vienna and an affiliate at the Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology. Her MSCA project DENI-CESTOR (DENIsovan anCESTORs in Sahul: deciphering human evolution through molecular techiniques) explores human evolution in Sahul by identifying new human fossils from the New Guinea Highlands. Detailed taxonomic, chronological, and isotopic data from these remains will delve into questions of timing, populations, and changing subsistence behaviours in the region.
Curriculum Vitae
Annette received her BA with Honours in archaeology at James Cook University, Cairns in 2014 and graduated with her PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia in 2020. Her doctorate explored site formation and the effects of taphonomic processes on shell in the Indo-Pacific.