We publish the paper "New random generalized linear model for sex determination based on cranial measurements" in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, where we propose the use of a random generalized linear model for the determination of sex.

Geoarchaeology publishes our paper "Cinnabar provenance of Chalcolithic red pigments in theIberian Peninsula: A lead isotope study", where we reported lead isotope data for cinnabar from three Copper Age sites and several ore deposits in Iberia. Our research shows that cinnabar was a well-known raw material, mined in the Iberian Peninsula during the Copper Age. The societies established at the northern and centralparts of Iberia employed...

The NERC (National Environment Research Council in the UK) has awarded Dr Marta Díaz-Guardamino a radiocarbon dating support grant-in-kind for dating up to 24 shell beads from the Montelirio tholos’ garments. Radiocarbon-dating a carefully selected sample of beads from each garment will shed light on the biographies of the garments and their wearers, who were all young women. Dating will be processed by the Oxford...

The European Commission has awarded Dr. Cintas Peña with a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions Individual Fellowship grants. The awarded project, titled WOMAM (Women, Men and Mobility: Understanding Gender Inequality in Prehistory) will be carried out at the universities of Iowa (United States of America) and Seville (Spain), over the next two years.

According to Spanish newspaper El País, recent geoarchaeological research conducted between the University of Huelva and ourselves at the megalithic monuments of Valencina’s Copper Age mega-site represents one of the most relevant archaeological discoveries made in 2019. The results of this research were published in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences under the title “Natural “megalithic art” at Valencina (Seville): a geoarchaeological approach to stone,...

Dr. Marta Cintas Peña’s PhD Thesis receives a special jury mention at the Clara Campoamor Awards of the Centre for Political and Constitutional Studies of Spain’s Ministry of the Presidency, Relations with the Parliament and Democratic Memory. The aim of these awards is to promote and disseminate research related to equality issues in the fields of Humanities, Social Sciences or Legal Sciences.

The 2nd Conference New Investigations in the Antequera Megalithic Site of Antequera is held on November 29th 2019 at the Pabellón de México of the University of Seville. This meeting is aimed at facilitating the scientific debate on the Antequera Megalithic Site among specialists, students and the general public.

Dr. Marta Cintas Peña has been awarded the Best Doctoral Thesis in Equality Issues Award by the University of Seville. The objective of these awards is to encourage research work incorporating a gender perspective and / or gender as a category of analysis in any academic discipline.

Professor Leonardo García Sanjuán receives the 2019 “Christiane et Jean Guilaine Foundation” Award of the French Academy of Good Letters. In his speech at the award ceremony held in Paris, professor Jean Guilaine highlighted the contribution of the research group ATLAS to the advancement of the study of Western European Late Prehistory.

Our paper "Gender Inequality in Neolithic Iberia: A Multi-Proxy Approach" has been published on the EJA first view page. This paper is a major contribution towards the understanding of the origin of inequality between men and women in Iberian Late Prehistory. The research is based on a multy-proxy approach involving a systematic collection of bioarchaeological and funerary data, subsequently examined by means of significance testing. Our conclusions suggest that, first, the multi-proxy method...

We publish a new book titled "Making a Mark:  Imagery and Process in Neolithic Britain and Ireland" with Oxbow. The book, co-authored by Marta Díaz Guardamino Uribe (University of Durham) and Andrew Meirion Jones (University of Southampton), publishes the outcomes of a research project with the same title funded by the Leverhulme Trust. The project revised more than a thousand decorated artefacts from Neolithic Britain...

On Wednesday February 6th 2019 Spain’s most circulated newspaper, El País, featured our Montelirio tholos research on the front page of its web site. The item quickly became the most viewed bit of news in the newspaper that day.

Professor Leonardo García Sanjuán receives the University of Sevilla Award as Most Cited Researcher in the Field of Humanities.

We publish a new monograph, titled ‘The 2005 Excavation at the Menga Dolmen. Temporality, Biography and Material Culture in a World Heritage Monument’. This book, co-published by the University of Sevilla and the Ministry of Culture of the Andalusian Regional Government results from the projects ‘Nature, Society and Monumentality: High-Resolution Archaeological Research into the Megalithic Landscape of Antequera (HAR 2013-45149-p) (2014-2017), part of the national...

Four PhD Theses were submitted by members of our research group, including ‘Gender Inequality in Iberian Prehistory. A Multi-Variable Approach’ (Marta Cintas Peña, July 2018), ‘Ivory in Copper Age Iberia. A Technological, Experimental and Contextual Approach to the Ivory Collections of the Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán Mega-Site (Seville)’ (Miriam Luciañez Triviño, September 2018), ‘Forgotten Landscapes in the Uruguayan Highlands. Stone Architecture in the...

We participate in the scientific edition of the book ‘Prehistoric Mining in the North-East of the Iberian Peninsula: La Turquesa or Mas de les Moreres Mine (Cornudella de Montsant, Tarragona, Spain)’ (Revista d’Arqueologia de Ponent, Special Issue nº 2) as well as in the research on the research of this Prehistoric copper mine, the first to be excavated in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula.