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Jerardino Wiesenborn, Antonieta
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ICREA Research Professor at CSIC - IMF (Institució Milà i Fontanals). Humanities
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I studied a "Licenciatura en Ciencias con mención" in Biology at the Universidad de Chile. After finishing undergraduate studies, I worked at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile as a research assistant in Marine Ecology as part of a multidisciplinary project. As a result, I moved my professional interests to coastal archaeology (prehistoric shell middens). I did my PhD studies in South Africa at the University of Cape Town (UCT) graduating in 1996 with a thesis entitled "Changing social landscapes if the Western Cape coast of southern Africa over the last 4500 years", and continued postdoctoral studies for the following two years. After a period working as a freelance archaeologist I was full-time employed in the Public Heritage management sector from 2004 to 2009. I maintained a research and publication output during my free time as a Research Associate at UCT. I joined ICREA in 2010.
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Research Interests
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Stone Age hunter-gatherers (h-g) in coastal settings, their foraging ecology and changing adaptations through time are my professional fascination. I am particularly interested in identifying the different variables or causes behind the diverse and changing trajectories taken by h-g groups. That is why themes such as the role of coastal resources in early modern hominids, h-g resource intensification scenarios, transitions from foraging to food producing societies are at the fore of my research. Palaeoenvironmental studies form also part of my research interests because they give a context that is known to affected h-g decisions, such as settlement, prey selection, group mobility and travelling routes,…etc. Finding anthropological models that explain best the available material record supported by relevant taphonomic and zooarchaeological studies is at the core of my professional interests. I’m currently involved with projects in South Africa and Central Chile.
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Key Words
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Hunter-Gatherer Archaeology, Coastal Archaeology, Archaeozoology of Marine Invertebrates, Taphonomy of Marine Invertebrate Assemblages, Palaeoecology
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