CSIC (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-Spanish National Research Council)

Post-Doc, Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit)

Thesis Title: Formas y rituales de banquete en la Hispania indoeuropea

About

I work at the Institute of Heritage Sciences (Incipit) of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). My research deals with metallurgy and material culture studies, rituals of feasting, pre-classical social formations and the history of archaeology. It is usually focused on the Late Bronze and Iron Ages on the Iberian Peninsula.

I lead the research project entitled "From the workshop to the body: metals as power expressions in the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age of NW Iberia" (2010-2012) in which I am collaborating with colleagues from the CSIC, Durham University (UK) and the University of Coimbra (Portugal).

My doctoral research (University of A Coruña, Spain, 2005) dealt with the rituals of feasting and its associated material culture (cauldrons, flesh-hooks, spits, etc.) in northwest Iberia and the northern Meseta. I am also involved in a long-term research project into pre-Roman lead and silver mining in northeast Iberia. Linked to this research I have been co-directing excavations at the mining settlement of Calvari del Molar (Tarragona) and the survey of the surrounding area of Molar-Bellmunt-Falset (2003-2011). I co-edited the books Contacto cultural en el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico (siglos XII-VIII ane). La precolonización a debate (CSIC, 2008) and Atlantic Europe in the First Millennium BC: Crossing the Divide (OUP, 2011).

I developed my previous research career at the University of A Coruña (1999-2005) and Durham University (2006-2008).

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