Mx India McDermott BA, MA

Postgraduate research student

India McDermott is a Postgraduate Research Student in the Archaeology department of the University of Southampton.

India completed their integrated MA in Archaeology from the University of Southampton in 2020. After competing their undergraduate dissertation on French cave art (titled The Art of Social Bonding: Did cave art help construct and maintain social bonds in the French Upper Palaeolithic (40,000 – 10,000 BP)?) they moved away from the Upper Palaeolithic and turned to symbolic behaviours in Middle Palaeolithic. The focus of their Masters dissertation (Symbolic signs as signs of symbolism? The autonomous development of symbolic behaviour in Neanderthals prior to the arrival of AMH in Europe: A study of non-utilitarian objects from the European Middle Palaeolithic) interested them so much they returned to Southampton to continue their research at a postgraduate level in 2021, at which point they also got involved with CAHO.