


Sonia HARMAND
Research Professor
INEE, UMR 5608,
Laboratoire TRACES
Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès
sonia.harmand[at]univ-tlse2.fr
Sonia Harmand is an archaeologist and the director of the Mission Préhistorique au Kenya / West Turkana Archaeological Project in Kenya. Her research focuses on reconstructing the skills and cognition of the earliest tool-making hominins in Africa, and particularly pre-Homo species.
She is also interested in biomechanics involved in stone tool production, as well as primate archaeology.