Francisco Borja BarreraUniversidad de Huelva | UHU · Department of History, Geography and Anthropology
Francisco Borja Barrera
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I'm currently interested in the colluvial, alluvial and littoral sequences of the Holocene, specially in geoarchaeological records. I work in geomorphology and soil-sediments analysis for the paleogeographic reconstruction of Holocene landscapes (http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9594-0593)
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March 2019 - present
March 1997 - September 2014
Position
- Managing Director
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- Director del Programa de Máster y Doctorado en Conservación y Gestión del Medio Natural; siendo asimismo Director del Foro de Debate sobre Conservación del Medio Natural en Iberoamérica (1997-2014)
January 1992 - February 2020
Education
October 1980 - September 1986
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A combined geomorphological, radiocarbon dating, archaeological and historical approach permits a refining of the age of the coastal dune systems related to estuaries in the Gulf of Cádiz. Three dune systems are distinguished in this paper. The oldest one, D1, which accumulated under prevailing WSW winds during the first millennium bc, overlays bot...
Even since before that Italica was founded by the Romans in the third century BC, the settlement maintained a close relationship with morpho-dynamic evolution of the lower Guadalquivir River (SW Andalusia, Spain), specially with the channel lateral displacements. In order to reconstruct the palaeogeographic evolution of alluvial area of Itálica dur...
Rivers no bedrock courses essentially depends on the variety and temporal scope of the hydro-geomorphological processes registered in the alluvial plains. According by the nature of the flows and their morphosedimentary incidence, rectilinear, meandering, braided, anastomosed channels, etc. may appear,
and, over time, also evolve from one to anoth...
The dune fields of the National and Natural Parks of Doñana are considered one of the most outstanding dune fields in Western Europe. They are located at the west margin of the Guadalquivir river estuary. The accumulation of aeolian sands partly blocks the connection between the ample Guadalquivir River estuary and the Gulf of Cádiz in the Atlantic...
We reflect on the role played by the physical environment in the formation process of Cerro de San Antonio, the northeast sector of the ancient Roman city of Itálica (Santiponce, Seville, Spain). The keys and the phases that led to the configuration of the tell of ancient Italica are identified. It is also determined what type of sedimentary facies...
The wetlands on the quartz sands aeolian sheet make up one of the ecosystems most recognized and important of the Doñana National Park and Doñana Biological Reserve (South Spain). More than 650 temporal small-lakes have been surveyed in the abundant sand depressions of the aeolian sheet, the most are a hydro-geomorphological dune-small-lake system....
Geomorphological studies are crucial for understanding the evolution of relief, and when associated with cartography, they enhance the interpretation and knowledge of environmental dynamics. Hence, historical cartography is essential for the documental rescue of landscapes, which, based on the mapped geoforms, enhances post-discovery studies for th...
This research operates in the field of the paleogeographic reconstruction, whose purpose is the study of the changes registered by the structure and functioning of natural systems over time. What did these modifications consist of, why and when did they occur and what consequences did they have on landscape settings? Concerning the last millennia o...
The dune fields of the National and Natural Parks of Doñana are considered one of the most outstanding dune fields in Western Europe. They are located at the west margin of the Guadalquivir river estuary. The accumulation of aeolian sands partly blocks the connection between the ample Guadalquivir River estuary and the Gulf of Cádiz in the Atlantic...
PREMIO NACIONAL DE EDICIÓN UNIVERSITARIA 2021.
No cabe duda del interés que, desde diferentes ámbitos, Sevilla despierta como ciudad. Esta obra analiza uno de ellos: la historia de su forma urbana a lo largo de los dos últimos milenios. Se toma como punto de partida la diversidad de elementos que ha originado la matriz territorial de la ciudad: el...
El análisis de las relaciones históricas entre el medio natural y la forma de las ciudades, y de cómo este hecho es percibido por la ciudadanía y los expertos, precisa de un concepto de paisaje que ponga más en juego su aptitud para teorizar sobre escenarios cambiantes, que su capacidad para fijar imágenes en el tiempo. Esta es una orientación de l...
En contra de lo que pudiera parecer a primera vista, los procesos medioambientales no son fáciles de comprender. A pesar de ello, el Cambio Climático provocado por la actividad humana, o sea, el cambio climático inducido, ha calado firmemente en nuestra sociedad, hasta el punto de convertirse, en un periodo de tiempo relativamente corto, en una de...
Available in: https://lupinepublishers.com/anthropological-and-archaeological-sciences/pdf/JAAS.MS.ID.000150.pdf.
We think on the current role of Geoarcheology. It has seemed to us that sharing our point of view on this matter could help to encourage the debate on a scientific dield that, like it or not is still a budding discipline. We defend tha...
Se modela el comportamiento del nivel piezométrico intraanual de la laguna Charco del Toro (Parque Nacional de Doñana, Huelva, España) mediante técnicas de análisis multivariante. El propósito del trabajo es doble: por una parte, interpretar el comportamiento actual del nivel piezométrico de la laguna a partir de diferentes variables ambientales y,...
A statistical analysis is carried out on the influence that certain physico-chemical parameters exert on tirsification and vertisolization pedological processes that occur under certain geomorphological conditions in Andalusia region (Spain). Both processes occur on a parent material with high contents in smectitic clays, massive and uniform and co...
Paisaje y paleogeografÍa en el bajo Guadalquivir. Italica, Hispalis, Caura
Landscape and palaeogeography in alluvial plain of lower Guadalquivir River. Ancient roman riverine cities of Italica, Hispalis and Caura (south Spain).
The “Andalusian Black Lands” (Chromatic Vertisols) are soils of great ecological and productive importance, emphasizes their fertility, however, their formation is still a reason for discussion. The main objective of this work was to analyze the most recent geomorphological and environmental evolution and the physical-chemical behavior of some para...
Geoarqueología, entre las Ciencias de la Tierra y la Historia contiene una muestra representativa de la investigación geoarqueológica llevada a cabo en España o por equipos y proyectos liderados por investigadores nacionales durante los últimos años. Este número monográfico del Boletín Geológico Minero es fruto de la iniciativa de su comité editori...
The “Andalusian Black Lands” (Chromatic Vertisols) are soils of great ecological and productive importance, emphasizes their fertility, however, their formation is still a reason for discussion. The main objective of this work was to analyze the most recent geomorphological and environmental evolution and the physical-chemical behavior of some para...
Este trabajo tiene como objetivo el análisis de los conjuntos líticos del Paleolítico Antiguo del yacimiento de Algabarrilla (Carmona, Sevilla), localizado en la última terraza media del río Guadalquivir (T-12, +26-29 m.). La T-12, ha sido tradicionalmente adscrita al tránsito Pleistoceno Medio/Pleistoceno Superior, con una industria lítica de Pale...
El estudio del tholos de Montelirio ocupa una posición importante en el contexto de la investigación del yacimiento de Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán (Sevilla). Durante décadas la investigación se centraba en preguntas de pequeña escala, sin reconocer el yacimiento como un ’mega-sitio’. En los últimos años se han iniciado varias me...
The study of the edafo-sedimentary sequence of the low Guadalquivir floodplain allows extrapolating palaeoenvironmental conclusions to the neighboring funerary complex of the Copper Age of Valencina-Guzmán (Seville, Spain). For that purpose, the alluvial archives adjacent to the Montelirio tholos site (Santiponce-Seville sector) have been studied,...
Abstract: Two specific problems concerning to tholos of Montelirio (Castilleja de Guzmán, Seville, Spain), which features a large passage roofed by stone slabs, are investigated. Firstly, we analyse the main geologic features (lithology, petrography, structures...) of the 42 capstones that cover its long corridor (over 36 m in length and an average...
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Chair’s word (Kosmas Pavlopoulos)
Activity report 2015-2016 (Yasuhisa Kondo)
Scientific essays
1. Open discussion: Geoarchaeology as Geoarchaeology (Francisco Borja Barrera)
2. Out of Africa: Geoarchaeological research in the Eastern Desert of Egypt (Karin Kindermann, Felix Henselowsky, Philip Van Peer and Olaf Bubenzer)
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Chair’s word
Activity report 2013–2014
Scientific essays
1. Finding the limits of the limes
2. Urban stratigraphy discontinuities and archaeoseismology in Roman Patras, Greece
3. Palaeogeographic evolution of the Guadalquivir Mouth during the last 6ka
4. Major element oxides in archaeological potteries (Fine ware) from coastal Ind...
Consolidar una democracia participativa, mejorar la calidad de vida de los habitantes y preservar el patrimonio natural es un anhelo impostergable de los habitantes de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia). La condición de Distrito busca precisamente contar con instrumentos y recursos que permitan cumplir esos objetivos, a partir de la prestación de los s...
Conclusiones del Seminario celebrado en La Rábida (UNIA, Huelva, España) el día 2 de Febrero de 2016 para elevar al IV Congreso Mundial de las Reservas de Biosfera (14-17 marzo 2016. Lima, Perú)
The Piedras River marshland and El Rompido spit bar is a Natural Site in close proximity to two of the most polluted rivers in the world: the Tinto and Odiel Rivers. The aim of this study is to determine the degree of contamination of this Natural Site using a variety of pollution indices. At this site the Holocene infilling sequence is recorded an...
Under the auspice of International Associations of Geomorphologists (IAG), our Working Group on Geoarchaeology has been actively organising scientific sessions in a number of international conferences for years. This academic community keeps growing with the aid of social network services.
This paper presents the preliminary results of a multidisciplinary study of the mixed wave-and-tide dominated estuary of the Piedras
River in the mesotidal coast of the Gulf of Cadix. Nineteen hand cores and three mechanical drill cores allowed reconstructing
the history of infill. Overlying the erosional surface incising the Mio-pliocene pre-estua...
The significance of aeolian sand accumulations located in the Mangabril area (middle Guadiana river valley, Spain) is discussed on the basis of morph-sedimentary data, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, and archaeological record. Mengabril sands are composed mainly of sand-sized particles (80,32%), however, due to its high content of s...
The significance of aeolian sand accumulations located in the Mangabril area (middle Guadiana river valley, Spain) is discussed on the basis of morph-sedimentary data, optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) dating, and archaeological record. Mengabril sands are composed mainly of sand-sized particles (80,32%), however, due to its high content of s...
(2005) Consejería de Medio Ambiente, Junta de Andalucía. Documento inédito donde se representan las formaciones palustres de los mantos eólicos y la flecha litoral de El Abalario-Doñana sobre mosaico de imágenes de satélite Spot (1995) corregidas (Proyección UTM, Huso 29, EIH-DE 1950.
CONSEJERÍA DE MEDIO AMBIENTE, JUNTA DE ANDALUCÍA. Representación de las formaciones palustres de los mantos eólicos y flecha litoral de El Abalario-Doñana, sobre mosaico de imágenes de satélite Spot corregidas. Proy. UTM, Huso 29 EIH (DE 150), imágenes Spot 1995 Junta de Andalucía
The software of free code Quantum GIS (QGIS) is a friendly tool for its application in diverse activities of territorial planning, in the present work its potential of use in processes of ecological regionalization is demonstrated for the Cuenca Ciénaga de la Virgen en Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) and municipal area involved. In addition to enabl...
The fluvial mouths usually include diverse interdependent sedimentary and geomorphological environments, which have changed considerably during the second half of the Holocene. The mouth of Guadalquivir River develops along the western sector of the Betic tertiary basin, at the SW littoral of the Iberian Peninsula, near of Seville city, and their m...
Se describe a manera de síntesis una propuesta de nueva división de localidades para el Distrito de Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), acorde con criterios de homogeneidad socioecológica y desde una aproximación ecosistémica. Desde este enfoque se identifican aspectos geográficos comunes, usos de suelos semejantes y contextos socioeconómicos de natura...
The Spanish National Ecosystem Assessment (SNEA), supported by the Biodiversity Foundation of the Ministry of Environment, is the first analysis conducted on the status and trends of ecosystem services in terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems of Spain. The results of the SNEA are expected to help build bridges between interdisciplinary scientific know...
Resumen: Las arenas dunares del sabinar de Ojillo (Juniperus turbinata Guss) muestran una evolución alterológica tendente a la formación de un suelo con características de Arenosol lúvico y crómico (FAO, 1991). Los procesos de lavado lateral y de arrastre en profundidad de coloides y partículas (sand washing) serían los responsables de la formación...
Perception and attitude of social actors in a territory are vital for their proper management. Such aspects were evaluated in the case of the basin of the Ciénaga de la Virgen (Cartagena de Indias, Colombia) in relation to some plants that are present in the territory, considering the basin from the viewpoint of the socio-ecological system. This ap...
Starting from the “ecosystem approach”, this paper presents a characterization of the District of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) understanding the entiy as a territory composed of a set of homogeneous units defined from the point of view of natural and anthropic framework (Units of Ecological Management ). Ecological regionalization of the study ar...
Starting from the “ecosystem approach”, this paper presents a characterization of the District of Cartagena de Indias (Colombia) understanding the entity as a territory composed of a set of homogeneous units defined from the point of view of natural and anthropic framework (Ecological Management Units). Ecological regionalization of the study area...
Doñana Natural Park is a good global example of the sedimentary filling of a broad tidal estuary during the Mid-Late Holocene, after the last postglacial sea-level rise. The timing of this rise is not well defined yet in the Gulf of Cádiz, since the oldest evidence of coastal sedimentation, located at the right bank of the mouth of the old Guadalqu...
Se definen los principales modelos de funcionamiento hidrogeomorfológico del complejo palustre del manto eólico litoral de El Abalario-Doñana
Se analiza catena de suelos de tres perfiles en el entorno de una de las lagunas del sistema palustre de las dunas de Doñana
Después de realizar una somera descripción del medio físico del entorno
de Alcalá del Río (Sevilla), la presente aportación al conocimiento del sitio
de la Angorrilla se centra en el estudio del contexto geomorfológico del yacimiento.
Apoyados en el análisis cartográfico y la fotointerpretación de fotogramas
aéreos de diversas épocas y escalas, se...
Después de realizar una somera descripción del medio físico del entorno de Alcalá del Río (Sevilla), la presente aportación al conocimiento del sitio de la Angorrilla se centra en el estudio del contexto geomorfológico del yacimiento.
Apoyados en el análisis cartográfico y la fotointerpretación de fotogramas aéreos de diversas fechas y escalas, se...
Una de las primeras cosas que nos enseña la Geoarqueología Urbana, cuando se trata de valorar de manera integral la evolución de las ciudades, es que su relato histórico queda incompleto si no se descifran adecuadamente las relaciones que las unen, desde sus orígenes, a su entorno natural. Todo ello pasa por
interpretar a fondo cómo se ha estructur...
Centrados en el ámbito concreto del actual entorno urbano de Sevilla, y analizando a detalle este proceso general para el periodo cronológico comprendido, aproximadamente, entre el 1500 a.C. y el 1500 d.C., hemos establecido un total de cuatro grandes fases en la evolución paleogeográfica de la vega y la ciudad, las cuales nos presentan una llanura...
This study analyses coastal geomorphic responses to the various sea-level changes that occurred throughout the Quaternary period in the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts of Spain. Particular emphasis is paid to the geomor-phic and stratigraphic record of the changes in amplitude, duration and frequency associated with the major gradual climate chan...
The RLO-ZC profile of Río Loro small lake at El Abalario area in MELAD (Aeolian Littoral Sand Sheet at El Abalario-Doñana), in Doñana Natural Park (Huelva, Spain) has been studied from a weathering point of view. We can identify two units in this profile: the below of these constitutes one sandy-clayey removed deposit from Pleistocene, where quartz...
The middle-recent Holocene evolution of the Guadalquivir mouth is interpreted integrally for the
first time. Methodologically, we establish a chronosequential correlation of morpho-sedimentary records from the spit, dune system, marshes and floodplain. The results are compared with fluctuations in sea level and major climatic events recorded region...
184 Micromorphology of hydromorphic soils developed in fluvio-marine sediments during the Middle-Late Pleistocene transit in the Gulf of Cadiz (Atlantic South Spain) Micromorfología de suelos hidromorfos desarrollados en depósitos fluvio-marinos del Pleistoceno Medio-Superior en el Golfo de Cádiz (Atlántico, Sur de España) Micromorfologia de solos...
This paper describes the results of palynological analysis carried out in two sectors of the prehistoric settlement of Valencina Conception: Partial Plan Matarrubilla (Aurora de la Concepción) and Montelirio (Castilleja de Guzman). These two pollen records are analyzed and interpreted, and then compared with other records of the same physical envir...
In this paper we introduce the background, objectives and initial results of a regional research project fo-cused on the evolution of the agrarian landscape in the Medellin alluvial plain (Badajoz province, Spain). From several different fields we face the task of analysing the changing role of this settlement as a po-litical and administrative cen...
In this paper we show the background, objectives and first results of a regional research project focused on the evolution of the agrarian landscape in the Medellin alluvial plain (Badajoz province, Spain). From several work fronts we face the task of analyzing the changing role of this settlement as a political and administrative center placed in...
This volume contains thirty-five papers from a 2010 conference on landscape archaeology focusing on the definition of landscape as used by processual archaeologists, earth scientists, and most historical geographers, in contrast to the definition favored by postprocessual archaeologists, cultural geographers, and anthropologists. This tension provi...