Francisco Javier Esquivel

University of Granada | UGR · Department Statistics and Operations Research

Our ability to build precise narratives regarding megalithic funerary rituals largely depends on an accurate understanding of bone assemblage formation. The cemetery of Panoría offers an excellent opportunity for exploring the ritual variability through the study of funerary taphonomy, as four of the nine recently excavated dolmens are remarkably w...

The analysis of spectral reflectance data is an important tool for obtaining relevant information about the mineral composition of objects and has been used for research in chemistry, geology, biology, archaeology, pharmacy, medicine, anthropology, and other disciplines. In archaeology, the use of spectroscopic data allows us to characterize and cl...

Surgical area nurses provide comprehensive care to patients throughout the surgical process. Increases in life expectancy lead to the appearance and development of diseases, translating into an increase in the number of necessary interventions. Increases in the workload can be another risk factor for the development of burnout in professionals in t...

The megalithic cluster of the Gor River valley (Andalusia, Spain) is one of the biggest dolmenic groups in Europe, made up of 151 preserved megaliths. In spite of this high number of known monuments, increasing loss and destruction of many of the graves has taken place during the last decades due to enormous soil erosion and anthropogenic activitie...

The construction of dolmens took place in Europe from the Neolithic to the Early Bronze Age (V millennium BC - II millennium BC) and had a rapid development along the Atlantic façade, with an important focus in Andalusia. Within this area, the megalithic necropolises located in the banks of the Gor River (Granada, Andalusia, Spain) are studied. In...

El conjunto megalítico del valle del río Gor (Granada) es una de las mayores agrupaciones dolménicas que se encuentran en Europa. A pesar de su gran entidad, encontramos aún en la actualidad grandes lagunas en la investigación de estas necrópolis, así como una evidente falta de medidas de conservación de las mismas. En este trabajo presentamos los...

Se presentan en este estudio los resultados de los análi­sis isotópicos realizados sobre una muestra de restos huma­nos de la necrópolis calcolítica de Los Millares. Para proce­der a su discusión se ha realizado previamente su contextualización cronológica a partir de una serie de data­ciones radiocarbónicas y la revisión de la cronología relati­va...

Information Theory provides a fundamental basis for analysis, and for a variety of subsequent methodological approaches, in relation to uncertainty quantification. The transversal character of concepts and derived results justifies its omnipresence in scientific research, in almost every area of knowledge, particularly in Physics, Communications, G...

El potencial de la denominada ‘Arqueología virtual’ es amplio y diverso. Una de las principales aplicaciones es que permite la construcción de registros 3D de piezas y es totalmente abierto, preciso, y muy fácil de compartir. Esto se traduce en un gran salto divulgativo, tanto de carácter educativo como científico, que permite realizar estudios ana...

Granada province was the last territory of the Muslims in the Iberian Peninsula. In 1238, the Arab king Alhamar settles in the old fortress in Albaicín, rebuilding it and installing there the headquarters of the Nasrid court while also beginning the construction of the Alhambra (a set of palaces, gardens and fortresses) in the city of Granada. The...

Summary of the research activity and work carried out to date, by LABORATORY OF 3D ARCHAEOLOGICAL MODELING of the University of Granada

In this work, the formulation of some parametric families of complexity measures in the multifractal domain, from the scaling limiting behaviour of generalized Rényi-entropy-based 'product complexity measures', is proposed. These families are related to incremental functionals of the curve of generalized Rényi dimensions. In particular, the signifi...

This paper is focused on the assessment of possible relational elements of the submarine volcanic eruption occurred during 2011 in El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain) with both the spatio-temporal evolutionary behaviour and the scaling properties of seismic activity before, during and after it. We adopt the non-extensive frequency-magnitude distribut...

Entropy-based tools are commonly used to describe the dynamics of complex systems. In the last few decades, non-extensive statistics, based on Tsallis entropy, and multifractal techniques have shown to be useful to characterize long-range interaction and scaling behavior. In this paper, an approach based on generalized Tsallis dimensions is used fo...

Different approaches and tools have been adopted for the analysis and characterization of regional seismicity based on spatio–temporal series of event occurrences. Two main aspects of interest in this context concern scaling properties and dimensional interaction. This paper is focused on the statistical use of information-theoretic concepts and me...

Knowledge about structural aspects of spatiotemporal dynamics can be obtained, among other approaches, in terms of a variety of information-theoretic related measures. In this context, multifractal analysis tools such as generalized dimensions and multifractal spectrum are useful to study different aspects of scaling behaviour. Recent research has...

En este artículo se estudian y analizan las distintas definiciones de conflicto para intentar determinar que rasgos son comunes a todas ellos. La globalización y las sociedades complejas hacen que existan distintos niveles de intensidad en los conflictos y que el rango de situaciones que se producen sea muy amplio, por lo que es importante intentar...

In this paper the diff erent defi nitions of confl ict are studied and analyzed to obtain its common features. Th e globalization and the complex societies have diff erent levels of intensity in their confl icts, and the range of situations produced is very wide. Th erefore it is important to fi nd the common elements and confi gure a methodologica...

The recent process of immigration, mainly since 2001, represents a serious integration problem for the society of Granada (Spain) due to the great increase of immigrants in the last years. The viewpoint of the young people in the city of Granada (from 14 to 25 years) is key with regard to future trends. These youths need to learn how to share and c...

The most recent computer technologies of 3D geometrical modelling provide a great quantity of tools for archaeological investigation. This paper presents an application of the 3D laser scanner to study the metric and morphometric parameters of a Chalcolithic pottery vessel based on a 3D meshed triangular model. This model is referenced geometricall...