PI-Invest Cont Ramon y Cajal
Daniela Rosso is Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Univ. de Valencia. She obtained her doctoral degree at the University of Bordeaux (France) and the University Barcelona (Spain). She held several postdoctoral positions (at the University of Ferrara, the Côte d’Azur University and the University of Valencia) supported by different institutions (l’Oréal-UNESCO For women in Science scholarship, Fyssen Foundation postdoctoral scholarship, Juan de la Cierva and APOST-Generalitat Valenciana fellowships). Her research focuses on the first uses of colour. Colour, in fact, strongly shapes our perception of the world and plays a main role in the emergence of language and in the transmission of information. By retracing how and when this cultural feature appeared among human cultures, her aim is to better understand the origin and evolution of cultural complexity. She studies the use of ochre from Lower Palaeolithic/Early Stone Age to Upper Palaeolithic/Later Stone Age contexts in Europe, Africa and Asia. She is also interested in traditional uses of ochre, for instance among the Hamar women in Southern Ethiopia.