When I was seven years old my neighbour took me along on a tour of a nearby archaeological site. As a child who loved history and nature documentaries as much as cartoons, I was enthralled. My neighbour told me later that on that day she knew I would he an archaeologist.
Since then I co pleted my undergraduate and Masters degrees at the University of Bergen, Norway. Here I had the opportunity to visit South Africa on field school where I focussed on early human behavioural modernity. This lead me to notice that Neanderthals were treated differently, despite, in my eyes, showing the requisite traits of modern behaviour. An interest in mammal bones lead to my learning taphonomy, and I learned more specifically about birds during my PhD in order to discover more about the Neanderthals in Middle Palaeolithic Eurasia.