Short biography
I finished my degree at the Autonomous University of Barcelona in 1996, and I started my PhD research in the IMF-CSIC with a grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya. My PhD research project dealt with ethnoarchaeology and new approaches to the study of lithics in hunter-gather-fisher societies. Within the frame of Ethnoarchaeology, in 2005, I started our projects (with CADIC-CONICET) in Lanashuaia bay (Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego) about the social dimension of space and its archaeological recognition.
From 2006 to 2007, as a postdoc researcher at the Dept. of Archaeology of the U. of York and CADIC, I explored the capabilities and potential of methods issued from our ethnoarchaeological research on British Mesolitic contexts.
Now, as ICREA Researcher, I'm involved as PI in some different international projects related to new methods in lithic analysis, archaeological markers of social cooperation in h-f-g societies and social simulation as analytical tool.
Research interests
Ethnoarchaeology is an interesting (and exciting!) frame to obtain new archaeological methods and techniques in order to study human relations and their social organization with a specific interest for social change dynamics in hunter-gatherer societies.
Shell-middens offer a fantastic high resolution context to answer these questions through the implementation of an interdisciplinary approach (using different techniques and methods). Our project is focused on the analysis of social aggregation and the possibility of cooperation and solidarity dynamics' development by Yamana society.
The next step of my research is to explore the possibilities of blood residues analysis in lithic tools. A global analysis of use-wear traces and present residues, coordinated with morphological analysis, provides a new high-quality frame to understand production-consumption dynamics of lithics. Key words
Ethnoarchaeology, Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer Societies, Coastal Resources, Lithic Technology, Economics, Shell Middens, Social Interaction and Cooperation, Residues Analysis.