Marta Blasco Martín- PhD
- PhD-Professor (Assistant) at University of Valencia
Marta Blasco Martín
- PhD
- PhD-Professor (Assistant) at University of Valencia
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Since September 2022, I have joined the archaeology area of the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History at the University of Valencia as Assistant Professor Doctor. I am currently teaching in the history and philosophy degrees of this university, as well as continuing with the lines of research developed since my doctoral thesis. My research lines are focused on crafts on hard animal materials, protohistoric societies, gender archeology and operational chains.
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Se presenta un conjunto de astrágalos recuperado en un depósito extramuros de La Bastida de les Alcusses (Moixent, València). Está integrado por 644 tabas de caprinos y suidos, 207 de ellas con modificaciones antrópicas y otras 5 realizadas en plomo. También se realiza una valoración de los astrágalos procedentes de otros espacios del asentamiento,...
RESUMEN: La Sima de l'Aigua es una de las cavidades rituales ibéricas más relevantes del actual País Valenciano, sin embargo, nunca había sido objeto de un estudio monográfico, más allá de las menciones en catálogos generales sobre cuevas-santuario. El estudio multidisciplinar detallado de los materiales recuperados en los años 70 (conservados en e...
Se presentan las primeras evidencias de la red viaria de acceso a La Bastida de les Alcusses. Mediante técnicas de teledetección, prospección superficial pedestre y limpiezas intensivas de la vegetación y excavación de sondeos se identifican 824 m de dos tramos de caminos en la ladera sur del asentamiento. El camino tiene una anchura mínima de 3,5...
Las cavidades han sido lugares utilizados reiteradamente a lo largo de la historia y con distintas funcionalidades tal y como evidencia la tipología de los restos arqueológicos hallados. Así, la presencia de materiales arqueológicos en cuevas y abrigos desde la protohistoria hasta la actualidad está documentada en un buen número de yacimientos, per...
La experimentación de nuevas metodologías docentes y nuevas herramientas, desarrolladas e implementadas en el marco del proyecto METARQ ha demostrado la potencialidad de las metodologías activas en el aprendizaje de la Prehistoria, la Arqueología y la Historia Antigua. Desde la conformación de este proyecto (curso 21-22), ahora grupo de innovación...
In 2016 and 2018, at the Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (Mexico) we carried out a specialisation course for students of archaeology or related sciences, on "Industry on bone, antler, horn and tooth-ivory in Iberian and Mesoamerican archaeology". In it, through a teaching methodology that combined theoretical and practical classes based on...
Craft activities allow us to define cultural universes, thanks to them we can know what objects are used, with what tools, to cover what needs, who makes them or who controls them. Throughout this seminar we will focus on different craft activities and their study methodologies in order to approach these plural realities that allow us to better und...
A study is presented on the scapulae of bovids recovered in the urban excavations of the city of València, with chronologies ranging from the ninth century to the beginning of the thirteenth, all of them with Arabic alphabets incised or chiseled. For the first time they have been studied jointly and three new specimens are
unveiled, two from Street...
Estudio de las escápulas de bóvidos recuperadas en las excavaciones urbanas de la ciudad de València, con cronologías que abarcan desde el s. ix a inicios del xiii, todas ellas con alfabetos árabes incisos o cincelados. Se dan a conocer tres nuevos ejemplares, dos de la c/ Verge de la Misericòrdia y uno hallado en las excavaciones de la muralla isl...
The complete book can be downloaded free of charge at the following link:
http://mupreva.org/web_mupreva_dedalo/publicaciones/1596/va.
This work focuses on the craftsmanship of hard animal materials in the Iberian period (6th - 1st century BC). The pieces have been studied from a typological, technological, functional and decorative point of view,...
The exhibition, PAST AND PRESENT. ONE HUNDRED YEARS DOING ARCHAEOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA, is conceived as a cultural event for the enjoyment of society. The aim is to show a glimpse of the history of the Laboratory of Archaeology, the addressed research topics and the knowledge generated over a century of work by all the people who have...
The aim of this paper is to examine the craftwork on hard materials of animal origin from the Iron Age of the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. We deal with the processes of craftsmanship, transmission of knowledge and the circulation of ivory combs and perforated bone plates. The Cultural Inheritance Theory offers a framework to help identify so...
We present the taxonomic, typological, technological and contextual study of a perforated femoral head of Homo sapiens recovered at the levels of the 7th - 6th centuries BC from the Iberian archaeological site of El Puig de la Nau (Benicarló, Castellón). Due to the uniqueness of its raw material and according to the interpretation of the objects as...
Se presentan los resultados de los estudios realizados sobre una inhumación descubierta durante las excavaciones arqueológicas realizadas en 1992 en el yacimiento arqueológico del Hostalot (Vilanova d’Alcolea, Castelló), identificado como la mansio Ildum. Han consistido en un análisis paleoantropológico, su datación por radiocarbono, el estudio del...
We present the taxonomic, typological, technological and contextual study of a perforated femoral head of Homo
sapiens recovered at the levels of the 7th - 6th centuries BC from the Iberian archaeological site of El Puig de la Nau
(Benicarló, Castellón). Due to the uniqueness of its raw material and according to the interpretation of the objects as...
El estudio se centra en una serie de mangos de marfil de características morfotécnicas similares, recuperados en espacios de hábitat y funerarios ibéricos y datados entre el s. IV y el s. II a. C. Se trata de objetos de prestigio al alcance de una élite aristocrática, que han sido elaborados con materias primas exóticas (marfil) y técnicas decorati...
The project «Wood, Bone, Ivory, Antler and Shell. Marginal or marginalized crafts?»
(HAR2013-45770-P) (2014-2017) begins as a continuity with the research projects developed about Iberian Flora and Fauna (2004-2012). Tools and ornaments made on both vegetal and animal organic materials of the Iberian age, which had been invisible to the research, h...
Este trabajo presenta los primeros resultados de la excavación sistemática del yacimiento arqueológico del Tossal de la Vila (Serra d'en Galceran, Castelló), un recinto amurallado en altura situado en el extremo septentrional del Šarq al-Andalus y ocupado de forma intermitente a lo largo del período emiral. Hasta la fecha, se ha combinado la ejecuc...
Study of the last excavations al Kelin (Caudete de las Fuentes), an Iron Age central place.
We present a study of the bone industry from the archaeological site of La Montesita (Aguascalientes, Mexico). This settlement is being studied in the project led by Dr. Schulze and Dr. Pérez Roldán. La Montesita is located in the state of Aguascalientes, and it dates back approximately to the Epiclassic period, from 600-900 AD. The settlement has...
Within the framework of execution of the investigation project "Wood, Bone, Ivory, Antler and Shell. Marginal or marginalized crafts?" (HAR2013-45770-ACOMP/2015/256) we reviewed a small set of modified fish vertebrae from the Iberian period. The use of these objects was related as beads. They were always recognized as vertebrae of ichthyofauna rema...
Within the framework of execution of the investigation project “Wood,
Bone, Ivory, Antler and Shell. Marginal or marginalized crafts?” (HAR2013-
45770-ACOMP/2015/256) we reviewed a small set of modified fish vertebrae
from the Iberian period. The use of these objects was related as beads. They
were always recognized as vertebrae of ichthyofauna rem...
In this work, five unique Iberian Iron Age handles have been studied. The use of portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) and Fourier
transform near–infrared (FT-NIR) spectroscopy no-destructive techniques has allowed us to identify two raw materials (amber
and tin) used to decorate the ivory handles.Due to the finesse of their inlaid decoration and the...
Desde la Prehistoria, diversos objetos han sido elaborados en materias duras de origen animal (hueso, asta,
marfil, cuerno, concha), destacando entre aquellas el marfil por ser un material exótico. En este trabajo se analiza un
conjunto de peines de marfil y madera procedentes de yacimientos de la II Edad del Hierro de la Península Ibérica.
Su estu...
In this work, we present the study of bone and antler Industry of the iberian settlement of El Palomar, focusing on the typological analysis of the pieces. We pay special attention to the necessity of make comparative studies, beyond archaeological analysis of materials manufactured on a single raw material. We believe that a global vision of simil...
This paper presents the study of needles made of long human bones (Homo sapiens) from the region of Xochimilco, now a quarter in Mexico City, which in pre-Hispanic times was one of the cities conquered by the Aztec empire. We shall discuss the development and use of these needles, as well as the identification of the raw material they are made of a...
This work seeks to give visibility to the industry of hard animal materials that is documented during the Iron Age in the Iberian peninsula. We focus on the analysis of three common artefacts within the bone and ivory industry in the Iberian culture (between the 6th to the 1st Century BC): pins, perforated plates and combs. We have studied these ob...
Since Prehistory, several objects have been made of hard materials of animal origin (bone, antler, ivory, horn, shell), highlighting ivory among them because it is an exotic material. In this work we analyse a set of combs of ivory and wood from settlements of the Second Iron Age in the Iberian Peninsula. Their study has offered a new vision about...
Presentamos el trabajo de arqueología experimental de una pieza elaborada sobre asta de ciervo del fortín ibérico del Puntal dels Llops (s. V – f. s. II a. C.). Se trata de un objeto singular tanto por su tipología (ha sido definido como un colgante o pectoral), como por tener grabada una inscripción en ibérico leída como NAUIBA e interpretada como...
Los juegos de azar han acompañado a la humanidad desde épocas muy tempranas, y los dados no han sido la excepción. En este artículo hablaremos del hallazgo hecho en una exploración arqueológica, de un dado de hueso, ilegalmente cargado; y también revisaremos un poco de historia sobre las prohibiciones de los juegos de azar. Posteriormente, juntando...
The main objective of this project is to rescue from oblivion the crafts of the Iron Age in the Iberian peninsula. Generally, these objects are classified under the heading "miscellaneous objects". However, this research gap is not consistent with the importance of these objects because the craftsmanship of these materials was a very important part...
In this essay, we analyse a compilation of dice (VI-I B.C.) found in the south and south east of the Iberian Peninsula. We have paid special attention to the contexts, the different raw materials in which they have been made, their physical characteristics and the artifacts associated to such dice as they can be interpreted as part of ancient games...
Fragments of bone, antlers and ivory from the Iberian site of Covalta from a typological, technological and functional perspective. Several phases of
the production process have been documented upon the finished products, thus proving the existence of a workshop of such items within the limits of the
settlement
