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Domingo Sanz, Ines
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ICREA Research Professor at UB (Universitat de Barcelona). Humanities
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Ines graduated with a PhD in History (Prehistory and Archaeology) from the University of Valencia in 2005. In 2006 she was awarded a PhD Distinction (Premio Extraordinario de Doctorado) for her research about Levantine Rock art. She joined ICREA as Research Professor in January 2010 rejecting a Ramon y Cajal contract. She is honorary Associate Researcher at the Dep. of Archaeology, Flinders University (Adelaide, Australia) since 2009, where she was previously teaching archaeology and rock art as lecturer level B (2008). Through her previous research contracts and fellowships at the Universities of Valencia (Spain) and Flinders (Australia), and her current position at the University of Barcelona she explores the “Archaeologies” of rock art from an ethnoarchaeological perspective. She is committed to redressing global inequities in archaeology as the Executive Secretary of the World Archaeological Congress and co-chair of the Archaeologist Without Borders Program.
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Research Interests
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My primary research interest is rock art. In Spain, I've aimed the renovation of Levantine rock art studies (World Heritage since 1998), considering the latest developments in rock art research. My previous research has contributed to update these studies by developing:
- New digital technologies for rock art recording
- An updated definition of style, going beyond the formal analysis of the motifs, to include also techniques, themes and patterns of composition
- A new stylistic sequence for this art, questioning some traditional premises through the study of the human figures
- Pigment analysis of archaeological remains and rock art
In Australia I explore the social and territorial aspects of rock art from an ethnoarchaeological perspective, working with Indigenous people in Arnhem Land. Combining both perspectives (archaeology and ethnography) I aim to provide a new theoretical framework to reflect on the limitation of purely archaeological studies of rock art.
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KeyWords
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Postpalaeolithic Rock art in Mediterranean Spain (Levantine, Macro-schematic and Schematic traditions), style, techniques, social identity, pigment analysis, ethnoarchaeology, Australian Indigenous rock art, Digital rock art recording techniques.
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