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Madella, Marco
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ICREA Research Professor at CSIC - IMF (Institució Milà i Fontanals). Humanities
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Since 1989 I have been working in South Asia, focusing on the ecological and agricultural aspects of the Harappan Civilization. After graduating at the University of Milan (Italy) in Natural Sciences (Botany), I worked as a contract scientist at the Archaeological Museum of Como and left the team in 1993 to start a PhD at the University of Cambridge. After finishing my PhD I took up a position as research fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, also teaching archaeology and human evolution at the Institute for Continuing Education (Madingly Hall) of the University of Cambridge. In 2004 I became affiliated lecturer in the Department of Archaeology and in 2005 director of studies in archaeology and anthropology at St. Edmund's College in the University of Cambridge. Since July 2005 I am ICREA research professor at the IMF-CSIC.
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Research Interests
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I am an archaeologist with research interests in archaeobotany, geoarchaeology, simulation in archaeology and the prehistory of South Asia. I am curious about the ancient use of plant resources that I investigate through phytoliths (opal silica from the plant cells) and charred wood. The exploitation of plants by hunter-gatherers and the beginning of agriculture are some of my areas of interest. Also, I am the coordinator of SimulPast, a 5-year Consolider-Ingenio interdisciplinary research project, aiming at developing an innovative and interdisciplinary framework to model and simulate ancient societies and their relationship with environmental transformations. The project includes 7 different Institutions with more than 60 researchers from archaeology, anthropology, computer science, environmental studies, physics, mathematics and sociology. I am also directing a project in Gujarat (India) that investigates hunter-gatherer and agro-pastoral economies in a semi-arid environment.
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KeyWords
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Archaeobotany, Geoarchaeology, Simulation, South Asia, Phytoliths, Charcoals, Micromorphology
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