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Dr Emily Hallinan is an archaeologist and postdoctoral researcher who specialises in the archaeology of the Tankwa Karoo region in South Africa. She is currently based at the Interdisciplinary Center for Archaeology and Evolution of Human Behaviour, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal. Her work focuses on lithic technology and landscape use in the southern African Stone Age, particularly Middle Stone Age behavioural variability and past human adaptations to arid environments. Her current research is expanding to other dryland regions, including Oman, Israel and North Africa.

This site presents archaeological research on the Tankwa Karoo, resulting from the project TANKwA – Technological Adaptations of Nubian cores in the Karoo: new geometric morphometric Approaches. TANKwA was funded by the European Union Horizon 2020 Framework under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 891917, running between 2020 and 2022.

Although the TANKwA project is completed, this page remains active, sharing the outcomes of new Tankwa Karoo archaeological research, and outreach and education initiatives.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. All material contained within this site should be attributed to Emily Hallinan, except where alternative sources are specified.