Benoit Hazard is working on anthropo-scenes in Africa. Research are based on two ethnographic sets:

1. the invention of “modern water” in the wells system of pastoralists groups (Chalbi Desert, North Kenya);
2. the study of the socio-ecological changes due the energy transition in the Central Valley of the Kenyan Rift.

Specialized in the analysis of lithic industries from prehistoric societies of the Horn of Africa (Later Stone Age), I conduct fieldwork in lacustrine basins of the Main Ethiopian Rift and more particularly on archaeological sites dated to the Late Pleistocene and Holocene.

Co-direction of the French archaeological mission in Eastern Tigray (MAFTOr), study of the regional settlement process in historical periods.