Ariadna Nieto Espinet

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at CSIC- Institució Milà i Fontanals (Barcelona)

Understanding how domestic mammal species evolved through time provides insight into the artificial and natural selection processes that have shaped the diversity of domestic animals. The focus of this article is the morphometric evolution of sheep, goats and suids in the Northwestern Mediterranean Basin over the last 8000 years, employing a 2D geo...

Zooarchaeological analyses of the skeletal remains of 52 animals unearthed in the courtyard of an Iron Age Tartessian building known as Casas del Turuñuelo (Badajoz, Spain) shed light on a massive sacrifice forming part of a series of rituals linked to the site’s last period of activity and final abandonment. The rites took place towards the end of...

Europe experienced numerous crucial cultural and economic changes between the Late Neolithic and the Iron Age (c. 3200 BC – 150 BC). The specific case of agriculture and animal husbandry in the Western Mediterranean saw a shift from a more diversified and local production to a more specialised and intensive production supplying food products to an...

Sex identification from fragmentary archeozoological assemblages is particularly challenging in the Equid family, including for horses, donkeys and their hybrids. This limitation has precluded in-depth investigations of sex-ratio variation in various temporal, geographic and social contexts. Recently, shallow DNA sequencing has offered an economica...

Alongside horses, donkeys and their first-generation hybrids represent members of the Equidae family known for their social, economic and symbolic importance in protohistoric and historical France. However, their relative importance and their respective roles in different regions and time periods are difficult to assess based on textual, iconograph...

Domestication of horses fundamentally transformed long-range mobility and warfare¹. However, modern domesticated breeds do not descend from the earliest domestic horse lineage associated with archaeological evidence of bridling, milking and corralling2–4 at Botai, Central Asia around 3500 bc³. Other longstanding candidate regions for horse domestic...

There are strong interactions between an economic system and its ecological context. In this sense, livestock have been an integral part of human economies since the Neolithic, contributing significantly to the creation and maintenance of agricultural anthropized landscapes. For this reason, in the frame of the ERC-StG project ’ZooMWest’ we collect...

Since 2013 we built a working group formed by researchers, educators, social workers, communicators and educational psychologists to bring archaeological research to all types of audiences, especially those with limited access to scientific dissemination programmes. In particular, we refer to people with psychological disorders or physical disabili...

This conference aims to be a meeting of researchers studying the Early Neolithic in Europe and surroundings areas, in relation with the neolithisation process in the continent. This process followed different rhythms and presented singularities in each geographic area, and was therefore a very complex phenomenon. In order to address this scientif...

Los programas de divulgación científica parecen preparados para todo tipo de público. Sin embargo, ciertos colectivos —p.e., personas con discapacidad física e intelectual, de la tercera edad, en riesgo de exclusión social, inmigrantes recién llegados— quedan habitualmente al margen de tales programas y no se piensa en ellos a la hora de diseñarlos...

Findings of canid remains in graves at different sites in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula are evidence of a widespread funerary practice that proliferated between the end of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC, in particular, in the Early-Middle Bronze Age contexts. The discovery of four foxes and a large number of dogs at the sites of Can Roq...

The fortress of els vilars (arbeca, garrigues): latest contributions on the first iron age and the iberian period (2010-2015). This paper presents a summary of the main research progress achieved in three areas of Els Vilars d’Arbeca fortress for recent years: the eastern quarter, the small square discovered in the west of the site and the well-ci...

Aunque los programas de divulgación científica relacionados con la arqueología parecen preparados para todo tipo de públicos, la realidad es muy diferente. Los museos, los parques arqueológicos, las visitas a yacimientos, suelen tener un público “cautivo” o fiel como son los niños y jóvenes de escuelas e institutos, y las familias con ciertos recur...

We are pleased to invite you to submit a paper proposal to the session ID number 592, ”Pathways to the Neolithic in Europe: tracing the rhythm and spread of Neolithisation” that we are organizing ni the framework of the 24th Annual Meeting of the Euruopean Association of Archaeologists which will be held in Barcelona, 5-8 September 2018.

The Archaeology of Social Dynamics Group of the IMF-CSIC has among its objectives to explain the social dynamics of human groups in Prehistory, starting from the detailed study of the productive and reproductive processes. With this perspective, a series of reference collections has been created and these materials have contributed to significant a...

The well-cistern of the Iberian Fortress of Vilars (Catalonia, Spain) is a monumental feature dating to the late fifth century BCE (Vilars, phases III-IV). Management of water resources is key to interpreting the nature of the fortress, as water was essential not only for human and livestock consumption, but for irrigation, construction, and crafts...

Archaeology is a science that permits an interdisciplinary approach to the past. It includes a number of as-pects that make up the human experience and its relationship with the natural environment. Both archaeol-ogy and experimental archaeology explore and apply research techniques, methods and procedures from a variety of disciplines, an approach...

El Valle del Segre y los llanos occidentales de Cataluña han ofrecido hallazgos excepcionales como las inhumaciones de caballos de la necrópolis de la Pedrera (Vallfogona de Balaguer) o los singulares depósitos de fetos de caballo de la fortaleza de Els Vilars (Arbeca, Lleida). Estos últimos años se han producido nuevos descubrimientos de restos de...

« Offrandes ou déchets ? Le cas des bovidés dans le contexte funéraire du site de Minferri (Lerida, Catalogne) au Bronze ancien » Minferri (2100-1650 cal. BC) est le site archéologique de référence pour la préhistoire récente en Catalogne occidentale. Il a été fouillé de 1993 et 2006 par le Groupe de Recherche Préhistorique de l’Université de Lleid...