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The Doctoral Programme’s research lines are grouped in the following theme blocks:

  • Prehistory and Archaeology
    • Art and Symbolism in Western Mediterranean Prehistory.
    • Transitions in Western Mediterranean Palaeolithic: cultural and economic paleoenvironmental aspects
    • Neolithic transition in the Western Mediterranean and its consequences.
    • Territory/landscape archaeology (in common with Archaeology
    • Bioarchaeology.
    • Classical Archaeology.
    • Iberian Archaeology.
    • Phoenician and Punic Archaeology
    • Ancient Numismatic
  • Ancient History
    • Ethnicity, identity and image of ancient Mediterranean peoples.
    • Women and society in Mediterranean antiquity.
    • Popular literature and prodigies in the Mediterranean antiquity.
    • Means of communication in antiquity
  • Historiographical Sciences and Techniques
    • Critical edition of Medieval texts.
    • Bibliographical and documental sources analysis and description.
    • Workshop for writing and reading in the Western world.
    • Institutions, memory of the western culture.
  • Medieval History
    • Economic networks in the Western Mediterranean
    • Providing earnings Economic and political centrality in the city of Valencia
    • Agricultural system transformations in the Mediterranean world
    • Inquisition and converts in the Crown of Aragon
  • Modern History
    • Economic transformations and social relations during the Modern Age in the Western Mediterranean.
    • Social elites and power relation during the Modern Age in the Western Mediterranean.
    • Intellectual currents and cultural manifestations during the Modern Age in the Western Mediterranean.
  • Geography
    • Analysis of the physical environment and its processes in Mediterranean surroundings.
    • Territorial analysis, planning and order in Mediterranean regions.
    • Cultural and natural landscape study in the Mediterranean basin.
    • Natural and Cultural Mediterranean heritage.