The Spanish Government funds our DEMOS Project (Demography, Mobility and Society in Early Complex Societies: The Iberian Megasites of the 4th and 3rd Millennia BCE) with 200.000€. This project seeks to contribute to a fuller understanding of the roots of early social complexity and gender inequality, including the part originally played by demography, mobility and social interaction (cooperation, conflict, inequality) in that process. DEMOS will expand our understanding...

Today, mercury is a matter of concern for health and environmental authorities across western countries, and legislation has been passed and programs have been implemented for its total elimination from human activity. But this was not always the case: mercury and its compounds have been highly appreciated and used since remote times all over the world with very diverse purposes ranging from decorative, medicinal, metallurgical...

El número 10 (julio 2023) del "Boletín Archivo Epigráfico", ha publicado el trabajo: "Nuevas inscripciones funerarias romanas de Gades", Cádiz,  donde funge como coautor Jacobo Vázquez Páez del grupo ATLAS (HUM694). Se trata de los primeros resultados del repertorio de 43 nuevos epígrafes hallados en las excavaciones, específicamente en la zona de necrópolis púnica y romana.

Organizamos el seminario impartido por el investigador mexicano David Charles Wright Carr de la Universidad de Guanajuato e investigador de la Cátedra UNESCO Legislación, Sociedad y Patrimonio de México. Objetivos: Llevar a cabo discusiones sobre los enfoques teóricos actuales para el análisis y la interpretación de los manuscritos pictóricos de la Mesoamérica prehispánica y novohispana. Ofrecer a los estudiantes/profesores nuevos paradigmas en este campo desde un especialista....

The Gerda Henkel Foundation has funded with 24,750 euros the project entitled Eggxotic and vital. The role of ostrich eggs in the definition of religious identity in the Phoenician-Punic Iberian Peninsula: reinterpreting the Villaricos necropolis (Almeria, Spain). It will be led by Miriam Luciañez-Triviño (Distinguished Researcher and member of the Atlas Research Group, HUM-694) and Violeta Moreno Megías (Assistant Professor and member of the Research...

Excavations have resumed at the archaeological site of Las Capellanías (Cañaveral de León, Huelva), discovered in June 2022. The September 2023 excavation season is coordinated by Timoteo Rivera Jiménez (University of Huelva), Marta Díaz-Guardamino Uribe (University of Durham), David Wheatley (University of Southampton) and Leonardo García Sanjuán (University of Seville). The excavations undertaken this year are aimed at providing contextual evidence to understand the social...

For years, researchers believed that a treasure-packed tomb outside Seville dating back to around 2,850 BC belonged to a young man between 17 and 25 years old. Now the analysis of sexually dimorphic amelogenin peptides in tooth enamel has revealed that the the most socially prominent individual in ancient Iberian copper age society was not who we previously thought they were. Video by Next Stop...

Make the connection with EU-science’ is a series of explanatory videos focusing on the scientific content and exploitation aspects of EU research projects. In this particular video, we look at how the WOMAM project dug into the roots of patriarchy by examining traces of strontium isotopes in ancient bones. You can watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmvu_8r3Qv8

The use of ivory in the Mediterranean dates back to the Paleolithic, and it had a significant impact during the Copper Age in southern Europe. This article examines the ways in which elephant tusks were used and the process of producing ivory objects during the Copper Age in the Iberian Peninsula. Valencina's mega-site in southern Spain is used as a study sample because of its abundant...

La Pena  de los Enamorados, a limestone massif located in Antequera, Spain, is a famous landmark since (at least) the Middle Ages on account of its marked anthropomorphic silhouette and geographic position right at the crossroads of Andalucía’s two main communication routes (connecting Malaga ´ and Cordoba, ´ in a South-North direction, and Sevilla and Granada in a West-East direction). In the last fifteen years,...

Antequera in southern Spain is widely recognised as an outstanding example of the European megalithic phenomenon. One of its most remarkable features is the evident relationship between conspicuous natural formations and human-built monuments. Here, the authors report the results of their investigation of a tomb newly discovered at the site of Piedras Blancas at the foot of La Peña de los Enamorados, a limestone massif...

Given the absence of written records, the main source of information available to analyze gender inequalities in early complex societies is the human body itself. And yet, for decades, archaeologists have struggled with the sex estimation of poorly preserved human remains. Here we present an exceptional case study that shows how ground-breaking new scientifc methods may address this problem. Through the analysis of sexually dimorphic...

The organizers are seeking papers from a variety of disciplinary perspectives and theoretical approaches addressing one or more of the following topics: Prehistoric/historic/contemporary warfare, ritual violence, biodiversity, natural resource utilization, past and present cases of environmental degradation/sustainability, egalitarianism, advent of social complexity, social inequality, conflict resolution, and prosocial behavior from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives. Organizers Dr. Richard J. Chacon (Winthrop University) Dr....