Cristina Cobo Castillo

Dr. Cristina Cobo Castillo is a University College of London (UCL) researcher working on archaeobotanical analyses (macro-remains) from Southeast Asia (Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Bali, Philippines, Bangladesh), with an emphasis on the Iron/​Metal Age period.

She has worked on Angkor archaeobotanical research within the UCL Rice Project led by Dorian Q. Fuller.

In Spring 2021, Cristina Castillo gave an online presentation on ​“Fiteen Years of Archaeobotanical Research in Mainland Southeast Asia”, co-sponsored by the Center of Southeast Asian Studies at University of Wisconsin (Madison) and the Archaeology Brownbag Lecture Series.

Since 2022, Cristina Castillo is the recipient of NERC Resarch Grant in Archaeobotany, UCL Institute of Archaeology, for ​‘EDVEAH Project: Evolutionary dynamics of vegetative agriculture in the Ethiopian Highlands. Since 2019 (until 2027), she is an Executive Committee Member of Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association.