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Belarte Franco, Maria Carme
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ICREA Research Professor at ICAC (Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica). Humanities
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I obtained my PhD in Geography and History in 1995 at the University of Barcelona, with a research work about proto-historic societies in Catalonia through the analysis of their domestic architecture.
From 1996 to 1998 I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Unité Mixte de Recherche 5140 - Lattes, Languedoc, France). From 1999 to 2003, I worked at the University of Barcelona as a post-doctoral researcher.
In 2004, I took a position at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) to start a research programme about the proto-historic societies and to create a research group specialized in this period.
I joined ICREA in 2006; since then, I develop my research at the ICAC in collaboration with researchers of Catalan, French and Tunisian Institutions.
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Research Interests
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The general goal of my research is to study the organization and social evolution of the societies of the first millennium BC in western Mediterranean. My current research focus on three main subjects:
- The study of the domestic architecture, social use of space and hierarchy in proto-historic settlements of Catalonia and South of France.
- The analysis of mortuary practices and use of funerary space in the proto-historic burial sites of southern Catalonia.
- The study of ritual practices in domestic context in Catalonia and South of France.
- The research on the social evolution of proto-historic societies of northern Africa, through the excavations at the ancient town of Althiburos.
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KeyWords
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Protohistoric societies, domestic architecture, experimental archaeology, building techniques, urbanism, spatial analysis, territorial archaeology, funerary archaeology, paleodemography, heritage management, museology
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