COLETTE BERBESQUE
Role:
Anthropologist, Hadza field site supervisor
Institution:
University of Roehampton
Colette Berbesque is a Senior Lecturer in Human Ecology in the Centre for Research in Evolutionary and Environmental Anthropology at University of Roehampton, in London. Her research interests broadly involve the evolution of the hominin diet, and the evolution of cooperation, prestige, and hierarchy. For more than seven years, her research has included fieldwork with the Hadza of Tanzania, one of the last extant hunter-gatherer populations. Through analysis of behavioural data from the Hadza as well as from other hunter-gatherer groups, she investigates aspects of human evolution, including: strategies of food procurement and provisioning, cooperation, reputation, and sexual selection and gender.