Monica AlonsoMarinime Cultures Research Institute-Vrije Universitatei Brussels
Monica Alonso
PhD
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Introduction
Currently, I have a postdoc position in the five-year European Research Council grant Terrace Archaeology and Culture in Europe (TerrACE) (https://www.terrace.no/).
I am involved in the archaeobotanical area of the project, which seeks to identified crops grown in the agricultural terraces as well as reconstruct the environment and its management by past societies.
For this goal, we will use a microarchaeological approach through phytoliths, spherulites, ash pseudomorphs, and FTIR analyses
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Publications (8)
Cova Bonica has yielded one of the few assemblages of Cardial Neolithic records of directly dated human remains (c. 5470 and 5220 years cal. BC – unmodelled) in the Iberian Peninsula and has provided the first complete genome of an Iberian farmer. A minimum of seven individuals and six age clusters have been ascribed on the basis of the disarticula...
Fumier deposits are the product of the recurrent use of caves and rock shelters for stabling livestock and the periodic burning of the resulting dung. Their chronologies in the Mediterranean area extend from Neolithic times up to the Bronze Age, but they are scarce in or absent from Iron Age sites. The study of these deposits has provided important...
Use of the space and settlement patterns at the deposit of San Cristóbal are characterised.Anthropogenic activities at the site are revealed through an interdisciplinar approach based on microstratigraphic and palaeobotanical studies. Correlation of micromorphological, silica phytolith, charcoal, pollen and non-pollen palynomorph analyses and calci...
We are pleased to invite you to visit the new updated PhytCore (Phytolith Online Database): www.archeoscience.com. This new update is the result of the continuing work since 2011, when PhytCore was presented during the 8th International Meeting on Phytolith (Estes Park, Colorado).
To access the catalog you first will need to register to the www.ar...
Los fitolitos son microrrestos vegetales formados por sílice que se forman en el tejido de las plantas, adoptando la morfología de la célula en la que han cristalizado. Este tipo de microrresto es muy útil tanto para arqueólogos como para paleoecólogos puesto que los datos que se pueden obtener de ellos nos informan de actividades antrópicas en el...
Entre los distintos tópicos existentes en el ideario colectivo se encuentra el del "hombre de las cavernas", el cual presupone que la cueva fue el lugar de habitación exclusivo de los grupos de cazadores recolectores del paleolítico. Este artículo está enfocado para rastrear el origen y consolidación de este mito para, en último término, y mediante...
