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Archaeological study of building materials, techniques and practices, especially focused on earth construction and the many uses of mud in past societies, mainly prehistoric and protohistoric. Feminist approaches to archaeological science and historical studies
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December 2020 - September 2022
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- Postdoctoral researcher Juan de la Cierva formacion
October 2022 - October 2026
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La importancia del empleo de la tierra en las actividades constructivas de las sociedades del pasado y la gran la capacidad informativa de sus evidencias arqueológicas hacen imprescindible profundizar en su investigación. Este trabajo reúne una serie de conceptos teóricos y metodológicos acerca de un tema que ha sido escasamente abordado por la inv...
http://www.museuprehistoriavalencia.es/web_mupreva_dedalo/publicaciones/1518/en
https://aespa.revistas.csic.es/index.php/aespa/article/view/609
This paper presents the study of authorship of men and women of the research contributions published in a selection of ten Spanish Archaeology journals over the last half century. The percentage of representation of women in these high-ranking journals and its evolution during this per...
MARQ. Arqueología y Museos 14 https://www.marqalicante.com/Publicaciones/es/-P176.html
The commercial spaces of archaeological museums are rarely the object of research, but they are indicative of many aspects of
the social image of the discipline. In this paper we address this issue through two case studies, the physical shop of the Pergamon
Muse...
En esta comunicación presentamos el estudio preliminar de una serie de piezas de barro recuperadas en Valencina de la Concepción, en los sectores del Cerro de la Cabeza-Valencina Nord y Nueva Biblioteca. Estos elementos no se interpretan como parte de estructuras construidas, sino como producciones portables de distinto tipo. Su análisis macrovisua...
Earth has been widely used by human communities to build all kinds of structures since the beginning of sedentarism. But, have prehistoric mud “mortars” changed over time and regarding their relation to the use of available natural and anthropic resources? The present work deals with this question by looking at the case of the territories in the So...
The role of earth goes far beyond being the raw material for pottery-making. Without earth there is no pot, but once the pot becomes a reality, there are many forms in which humans employ mud to complement fired by-products, such as providing physical support and insulating and protecting their walls. But it is a two-way relationship: pottery and p...
En este artículo presentamos los resultados del estudio de los elementos de tierra endurecida recuperados en el asentamiento de Turó de la Font de la Canya, situado en Avinyonet del Penedès, en la provincia de Barcelona. En este enclave se ha registrado una ocupación entre los ss. VII y II a. C., con distintas edificaciones y numerosas estructuras...
Around 120 years ago, a burial was discovered in the Argaric settlement of San Antón, 60 km southeast of Alicante (Spain). Although it was similar to many others recorded during more than a century of research, some gold objects found made this burial exceptional in the Iberian Bronze Age funerary record. Based on the most recent archaeological dat...
We are pleased to invite you to submit your contributions to session #160 "Mysterious Mud: A Transversal Approach to Interpreting Unsolved Earthen Remains". Call for papers until 8 February 2024. https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2024
PREVIATO, C., BONETTO, J., Terra, legno e materiali deperibili nell’architettura antica. Construire nel mondo antico 6. Quasar, Roma.
Gypsum, as well as lime, would have been a fundamental pyrotechnological product manufactured by human communities during Prehistory and Protohistory. This substance applied, among other purposes, as a building mate...
This paper addresses evidence of the construction of earthen walls in the Roman villa of Gaius Iulius Rufio, a great archaeological complex located on Giano dell’Umbria (Perugia, Italy), beside the via Flaminia. The earthen structures
identified were built in different parts of the villa, in the pars urbana as well as in the pars rustica, and would...
More info, access and registration here: https://web.ua.es/es/archaeo-earth
Belarte Franco, Maria Carme; Pastor Quiles, María; Cuscó Badia, Oriol; Camañes Villagrasa, M. Pilar, 2023, "Protohistoric Combustion Structures from the Western Mediterranean", https://doi.org/10.34810/data775, CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca, V1
The aim of this research is to investigate the efficiency of combustion structures, the fuels used, the structure maintenance and the range of related domestic activities. An experimental programme was carried out in which replicas of archaeological Iron Age combustion structures were put to work. Based on the available archaeobotanical records, va...
Belarte Franco, Maria Carme; Pastor Quiles, María; Mateu Sagués, Marta; Portillo, Marta; Saorin, Carme; Pecci, Alessandra; Vila, Sílvia; Gomar, Ada, 2023, "Experimental combustions conducted at the Iberian Citadel of Calafell (Tarragona, Spain) between 2021 and 2022", https://doi.org/10.34810/data581, CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca, V1
Gorgociles del Escabezado II (Jumilla) is a small settlement from the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC, located in the Murcian high plateau. This territory has been scarcely explored and investigated, having been ascribed over time to the three major cultural areas defined for the Bronze Age in the south-eastern Iberian Peninsula: El Argar, the V...
We are pleased to invite you to submit your contributions to session #303 "Unsolved Case Studies of Earthen Architectural Remains: A Workshop to Share Experiences".
The Annual Meeting (conference) online registration is now open: https://www.e-a-a.org//EAA2023/Registration.aspx
Call for papers is open until 9 February 2023.
Please note that you...
We are pleased to invite you to submit your contributions to session #202 "Using Earthen Architecture as an Excuse: Productive and Social Practices in Prehistoric and Protohistoric Building".
The Annual Meeting (conference) online registration is now open: https://www.e-a-a.org//EAA2023/Registration.aspx
Call for papers is open until 9 February 20...
MARQ. Arqueología y Museos, 13
El estudio de los restos constructivos de barro endurecido proporciona datos de gran relevancia sobre las actividades constructivas y las formas arquitectónicas de las sociedades del pasado. Por desgracia, todavía en muchos casos estos elementos no suelen ser considerados como un objeto de investigación relevante, sup...
https://revistas.usal.es/index.php/0213-2052/article/view/shha202240361390
En este artículo se analizan las contribuciones publicadas acerca de los estudios sobre la Antigüedad durante el último medio siglo en una selección de revistas españolas de impacto teniendo en cuenta el sexo/género de la autoría, su proporción y su desarrollo a lo largo del...
Research on hardened daub fragments provides highly relevant data on the building activities of past societies. Unfortunately, in many cases these elements are not considered relevant research objects, resulting in a very important loss of information for archaeology. There is still a long way to go in the studies of earth building remains, the vas...
EXARC Journal 2022/2 https://exarc.net/ark:/88735/10640
Within the project “Transdisciplinary and experimental study of firing structures in the western Mediterranean during Protohistory (1st millennium BC)”, the TRANSCOMB project is an experimental research programme conducted at the Ciutadella Ibèrica (Iberian Citadell) of Calafell Archaeologica...
https://publikationen.uni-tuebingen.de/xmlui/handle/10900/124863
This paper will analyse the relationships between the two societies located on either side of the Argaric and the Valencian Bronze Age border. Relationships were developed between these communities and the natural environment they used and transformed, and through their immediate intr...
https://arqarqt.revistas.csic.es/index.php/arqarqt/article/view/287
Gorgociles del Escabezado II is a small enclave closed by a perimeter wall of circular-oval form, inhabited during a short period in the beginning of the 2nd millennium BC. Research on this settlement allows to deepen the knowledge on its architectural development and building for...
Earth has been a very common building material through History and since prehistoric times. Therefore, earth construction remains are frequently found in archaeological contexts, although they are rarely considered as valuable sources of information. This sort of materiality encloses crucial information, not only related to the mud material itself....
Se analiza un conjunto de tres discos de cerámica procedentes de los niveles del Hierro Antiguo de Peña Negra. Presentan diferentes acabados y estarían provistos de asas, por lo que deben interpretarse como tapaderas de grandes recipientes de almacenaje. Se ha realizado el estudio petrográfico y mineralógico mediante microdifracción de rayos X (µDR...
Mateo Corredor, Daniel; Pastor Quiles, María, 2022, "Women and men in the authorship of Archaeology publications in Spain (1970-2020). Database", https://doi.org/10.34810/data185, CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca, V1
Mateo Corredor, Daniel; Pastor Quiles, María, "Authorship according to sex/gender in contributions to Spanish scientific journals of Ancient History (1970-2020)", https://doi.org/10.34810/data518, CORA.Repositori de Dades de Recerca, V1
La arquitectura es una de las primeras expresiones de la cultura humana. Su desarrollo ha sido una constante a lo largo de los siglos, especialmente a partir de la aparición de los procesos de sedentarización, momento en el cual se aprecia la combinación de diferentes materiales destinados a mejorar la durabilidad y el aislamiento de las construcci...
In this paper we present diverse archaeological evidence of a building aspect that has not been addressed up to now by the research on the Late Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula and little known in general: the use of vegetal woven mats integrated in structures as just another construction material. These have been recovered from various prehisto...
MARQ Arqueología y museos 11
The reutilization of raw materials and artifacts has been carried out by human communities since Palaeolithic times. In the realm of architecture, reutilization can be applied to spaces −reuse of a building or parts of it− and materials. With this paper we aim to contribute to make visible the extension and importance o...
In the archaeological contexts from the end of the 3rd millennium BC to approximately
the middle of the 2nd millennium BC in the Iberian Peninsula, small clay and stone
balls have been registered, although having received almost no attention from the
research community. In this paper, we aim to gather the findings of these materials to
the best of...
In this paper we present the results obtained during the last archaeological interventions carried out in the Bronze Age settlement of Laderas del Castillo (Callosa de Segura, Alicante). Considered as one of the most relevant Argaric sites for its importance during the beginnings of prehistoric research in the province of Alicante, the excavations...
Resumen. En este trabajo se presentan los resultados de las intervenciones de urgencia llevadas a cabo en el yacimiento de Limoneros, asentamiento al aire libre ocupado durante la primera mitad del V milenio cal BC localizado al sur de la ciudad de Elche (Alicante), en la llanura aluvial del río Vinalopó. Durante los trabajos de excavación se recon...
https://publicaciones.ua.es/va/cataleg/el-poblado-calcolitico-del-vilches-iv-torre-uchea-hellin-albacete/978-84-9717-724-5
El Argar is one of the most remarkable Bronze Age archaeological cultures of the Iberian Peninsula, due to the magnitude of some of its infrastructures and the quality of its grave goods. This has led part of the research community to suggest that it may have been state-like in nature. However, not many studies reveal how this social development ha...
Illustrated glossary on earthen building techniques in English, German, French and Spanish. Please download here: https://archlsa.de/fileadmin/landesmuseum/alle/pdf/pdf_veroeffentlichungen/lehmglossar_klein.pdf
http://mupreva.org/pub/1378/va
Recerques del Museu d'Alcoi, 29
In this paper we intend to make known a portable object made of hardened mud which has unusual morphological characteristics in the material culture
of the Late Prehistory in the Iberian Peninsula. It was found inside a posthole in the occupation unit 8 of the Bronze Age settlement of Terlinques. With this
contributi...
This research study aims to approach the conceptions and knowledge of History students about different aspects in relation to sexual inequality in ancient Rome. By means of the elaboration and implementation of a questionnaire based on a Likert rating scale, the reactions of the students are analysed. The propositions offered to the students addres...
http://rua.ua.es/dspace/handle/10045/112632
En contextos arqueológicos es habitual la documentación de estructuras inmuebles en las que se emplea la tierra como material constructivo. Entre las técnicas constructivas con tierra que emplean elementos modulares se encuentran el adobe, el amasado de barro y el terrón. No obstante, a pesar de ser técnicas reconocidas y haber sido empleadas hasta...
From traditional archaeology an image of Prehistory has been transmitted where activities and roles are attributed to women or men, frequently influenced by contemporary conceptions. In this paper we analyse the perceptions of History students about a series of statements, presented in a questionnaire based on a Likert rating scale. These statement...
A pesar de que la cultura de El Argar es una de las entidades arqueológicas mejor conocidas del ámbito peninsular, no son muchos los trabajos efectuados sobre los aspectos arquitectónicos y del desarrollo constructivo de los asentamientos argáricos excavados. En este artículo se presentan las formas arquitectónicas, las técnicas y materiales constr...
In this paper, we analyze the data related to the households of the first farmers in the Iberian Peninsula during the early Neolithic and discuss the theoretical and archaeological constraints on their recognition. Information is limited by different factors, such as the traditional excavation exclusively of caves and the difficulties in preserving...
We present the discovery of new terracotta figurines of bovids from the Argaric settlement of Laderas del Castillo. Their presence in Bronze Age sites is no longer an anomaly, and allows us to reopen the debate on the iconoclastic character of El Argar and its connection with the Mediterranean world.
KEYWORDS. Bronze Age; El Argar; terracotta; bov...
In this article, we present some singular earth building remains documented in the Argaric Bronze Age settlement of
Caramoro I (Elche, Alicante). These show the use of a construction technique almost unrecognised to date in the
Prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula. Mud modelled in pieces, or cob balls, were used towards the end of the occupation
of...
Book Review
The study of the Neolithic in the Levant of the Iberian Peninsula has a long research trajectory, being well known in some river valleys such as Serpis or Clariano. The excavation of a large number of cave and open-air deposits has made this area an outstanding reference on a peninsular scale and in the western Mediterranean. However, other nearby...
El tradicional androcentrismo de los estudios históricos ha generado una imagen sesgada del pasado y actúa como elemento sustentador de la desigualdad entre hombres y mujeres. Este trabajo de investigación tiene como objetivo aproximarse a la percepción y a los conocimientos del alumnado de Historia, acerca de diferentes cuestiones asociadas a la d...
RESUMEN. Se presentan nuevos datos sobre el enterramiento infantil del asentamiento argárico de Caramoro I. Los argumentos permiten reflexionar y considerar otra interpretación alternativa a la hipótesis de violencia física inicialmente propuesta.
PALABRAS CLAVE. Edad del Bronce; Argar; enterramiento infantil; violencia física; paleopatología.
ABST...
El empleo de la cal en labores constructivas durante la Prehistoria reciente en la cuenca mediterránea constituye una de las cuestiones más relevantes del proceso investigador en las últimas décadas. Las dificultades para determinar con fiabilidad la presencia de cal antrópica entre los materiales constructivos procedentes de contextos arqueológico...
Una parte muy importante de las herramientas que fueron elaborando los seres humanos a lo largo de más de 2,5 millones de años se fabricaron durante la Prehistoria usando diferentes tipos de rocas. Entre los contenidos curriculares de los grados en Historia en España y en másteres afines, destacan diversas nociones sobre tecnología e instrumental l...
espanolEn este articulo se presentan los resultados del estudio macrovisual del conjunto de elementos constructivos de barro del Cabezo del Polovar, un yacimiento de la Edad del Bronce situado en la cubeta de Villena (Alicante). Los restos proceden de dos edificaciones diferentes, situadas en lo alto de dos de las crestas de este cerro. Su estudio...
Explicar y comprender la Historia de la Humanidad requiere conocer cómo y qué herramientas se fueron
elaborando a lo largo de más de 2,5 millones de años. Una parte importante de dichos instrumentos se fabricaron durante la Prehistoria usando diferentes tipos de rocas. Así, entre los contenidos curriculares incluidos en los grados en Historia y en...
