Doctor in History from the University of Cantabria (1996), my Doctoral Thesis deals with the study of prehistoric settlement in the western valleys of Cantabria. Upon receiving the degree of Doctor, he moved to the University of California, Berkeley where, with a grant from the Marcelino Botín Foundation, he spent four years in the Department of Anthropology and the Archaeological Research Facility with Professor Margaret Conkey, until In 2000 he won one of the positions in the Spanish national program for Doctors and Technologists abroad. Since then he carries out his research activity in the Department of Prehistory and Archeology of the University of Valencia.

My main lines of research are: Landscape archeology (see 'Utilization of resources in the Cantabrian Mountains and Mountains: an ecological prehistory of the valleys of the Deva and Nansa', Gernika 1997), the cultural contact between the last communities of hunters -collectors and the first agricultural communities both in the Cantabrian area (The coast and the interior in the Postglacial Period: the Epipaleolithic-Mesolithic-Neolithic Transitions in the Basque-Cantabrian Region / Manuel Ramón González Morales, Jesús Ruiz Cobo, Lawrence Guy Straus, Agustín Díez Castillo In: Munibe: Anthropology and archeology, ISSN 1132-2217, No. 56, 2004, pp. 61-78), as in the Mediterranean (Mas d'Is (Penàguila, Alicante): Villages and monumental enclosures of the Early Neolithic in the Serpis valley / Joan Bernabéu Aubán, Francisco Javier Molina Hernández, Teresa Orozco Köhler, Agustín Díez Castillo, Magdalena Gómez Puche In: Prehistory works, ISSN 008 2-5638, Vol. 60, No. 2, 2003, pages 39-59) and the application of New Technologies to the study of heritage, in which the development of the SIDGEIPA Archaeological Information System stands out. In recent years his research and teaching task is focused on the application of Geographic Information Systems to the archaeological field, the result of which are works such as "Old stones New Technologies", Illunzar 11 and the application of chemistry in the field of archeology , field in which he has directed the Doctoral Thesis of Gianni Gallelo entitled "Western Mediterranean archeology. Chemical element levels in archaological materials as a methodological tool ". The result of the direction of this Doctoral Thesis is the participation in different conferences among which the Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale (Pisa, 2017) and a series of articles stand out among which it deserves to stand out for its impact on the discipline "Anthropogenic units fingerprinted by REE in archaeological stratigraphy: Mas d'Is (Spain) case Rare earth elements" published in 2013.

Predoctoral researcher in Neolithic ceramics with an integral and evolutionary vision. Currently, working with an FPU scholarship in the Departament de Prehistòria, Arqueologia i Història Antiga of the Universitat de València.

Gianni Gallello was awarded his PhD in 2014 by the University of Valencia (Spain). In his dissertation he developed innovative methodological proposals for the study of archaeological soil and human remains, employing novel sampling strategies, Rare Earth Elements (REE), major and trace element analysis and multivariate statistics. The capability to act consistently has helped to provide the support to present new methodological proposals for a set of heterogeneous and diachronic archaeological materials (from Prehistory). During the last 10 years his research activity has been focused on the chemical analysis of different archaeological materials, testing new methodological approaches to overcome some of the most significant problems facing the archaeological community in the sphere of ancient human activity fingerprinted in the soil, post-mortem bone contaminations, lithic material origins, the raw material origins of mortar, provenance of ceramics and identification of organic materials in ancient objects. Gianni has a background in analytical chemistry and a wide range of practical and analytical skills acquired working across the disciplines of Archaeology, Biology, Geology and Analytical Chemistry. Significant results from his PhD and subsequent postdoctoral research have been published in high impact journals and participates as PI or  research group member in several national and international projects.

Gallello has been a Marie Curie Research Fellow (2016-2018) at the University of York (UK) with the MATRIX project funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020). The aim of this innovative project called MATRIX has been to establish a new interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary methodological approach for the identification of anthropogenic deposits in archaeological excavations through the analysis of REE in soil. In 2014 Gianni founded ArchaeChemis (www.uv.es/archaechemis) at the University of Valencia. ArchaeChemis was designed as a chemical analysis unit for research and technology transfer for research groups and non-academic organizations dedicated to the study of the past. Today Gianni is a distinguished researcher at the Department of Prehistory, Archeology and Ancient History (UVEG).

Professor of Archaeology at the University of Valencia. He has six recognized teaching sections and six research productivity sections. Member of the Grup de Recerca en Arqueologia del Mediterrani (GRAM) of the Universitat de València. Member of the International Scientific Committee of the Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (under the auspices of the International Association for Classical Archaeology). Director of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology at the University of Valencia (1999-2002). Coordinator in 2013 and member of the Academic Committee of the PhD Programme of the University of Valencia, Geography and History of the Mediterranean from Prehistory to the Modern Age (2013-2023). Director of the Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage: Identification, Analysis and Management at the University of Valencia (2014-2023). He has directed 11 doctoral theses and currently directs 7 others in progress. He has been Principal Investigator for several national and regional R&D&I projects, as well as for some twenty non-competitive R&D&I contracts/projects with public administrations. His research activity has developed in the field of archaeology, mainly Roman with studies in Spain and Italy. He has directed or co-directed archaeological campaigns in Bilbilis (Calatayud, Zaragoza), Villa del Mitra (Cabra, Córdoba), Roman Temple of Cordoba, Roman aqueduct of Peña Cortada (Los Serranos, Valencia), Roman villa of L'Horta Vella (Bétera, Valencia). He has also directed several archaeological intervention projects related to the 1% Cultural in the Valencian castles of Chirel and Pileta (Cortes de Pallas), Buñol and Turís. He has also directed archaeological research linked to the Rehabilitation Project of the Palau de Cerveró in Valencia, current headquarters of the Institut d'Història de la Medicina i de la Ciència López Piñero of the University of Valencia. In Italy he has made the architectural study of the sanctuary of Juno in Gabii and has been part of the Spanish archaeological team in Pompeii, who has carried out the study of the Casa/Caupona I. 8. 8 and Casa I. 8. 5. He has carried out research stays in different universities and institutions of Rome, Bologna, Naples, Pompeii, Warsaw.

Main lines of research: 1) Roman urbanism and architecture; 2) Hispano-Roman cities, Valentia and its rural environment; 3) Roman hydraulics in Valencian territory; 4) Dissemination and enhancement of archaeological heritage. Of these themes, author or editor of 7 complete books and about 200 publications in scientific journals, book chapters and congresses, national and international. He has lectured in Spain, France, Portugal, Italy and Poland.

He has curated two exhibitions, El Apolo de Pinedo (Valencia) at the Prehistory Museum of Valencia (1994) and Bajo la cólera del Vesubio. Testimonios de Pompeya y Herculano en la época de Carlos III, in the Museum of Fine Arts of Valencia with several itinerances in Sagunto, Alicante and Murcia (2004-2005). He has also participated in the preparation of the exhibition Sotto i lapilli in the Auditorium of Pompeii (Italy) (1998).

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BA History in Universitat de València (2010), MA Archaeology (2012) and MA in Teaching Training (2013). International PhD in Mediterranean Prehistory and Archaeology with the dissertation: Caves as ritual spaces in Iberian Iron Ages: the cases of Kelin, Edeta and Arse (2017).

She has also developed her research abroad: Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (UMR5140) (Montpellier, France) (2010-2011), Department of Archaeology (Durham University, UK) (2015, 2019-2020), School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts (Merced, UC, USA) (2016), as well as a yearly postdoctoral research stay in Durham University (POSTD-Generalitat Valenciana-European Social Fund Fellow, 2019-2020).

Her research is focused on the Iberian ritual caves (6^th c.- 1^st c. BC.). She analyzes not only the artefacts, the context and the sacred landscape, but also the sensorial and emotional experiences personalized on these natural scenarios, considering their importance across time, their memories and the ancestors related to them. From 2018, she codirects the archaeological excavations in Cueva del Sapo (Chiva, València).

Research Interests:

• Cave archaeology
• Iberian Iron Age
• Landscape Archaeology
• Iberian Material Culture
• Rituals
• Sensorial archaeology

*Coordinator of the Teaching Innovation Project: METARQ (from 2020) 

Cristina Real es Ayudante Doctor en el Departamento de Prehistoria, Arqueología e Historia Antigua de la Universitat de València (España). La trayectoria investigadora en el área de Zooarqueología y Tafonomía comenzó en 2012 con la beca predoctoral financiada por la beca "Atracció de Talent de VCL-CAMPUS". Superó el Máster en Arqueología con premio extraordinario, y en 2017 defendió su tesis doctoral con sobresaliente cum laude por unanimidad y Doctorado Internacional y con premio de investigación del Instituto Juan Gil Albert (Alicante). Ha trabajado como investigadora arqueozoológica en el Museo de Prehistoria (Valencia) y ha tenido dos contratos postdoctorales (programa PROMETEO y APOST-GVA).

Ha publicado en libros específicos de su campo de investigación (Zooarqueología), así como en revistas nacionales e internacionales de calidad, indexadas y Q1 como JAS:R, JPA, QInt., JQS o PLOS ONE entre otras, y ha coordinado la coedición de un volumen específico de estudios arqueozoológicos. Además, ha participado en congresos nacionales e internacionales de gran calidad y prestigio como ICAZ, SAA, EAA, UISPP o EZI, con temas específicos o liderando trabajos interdisciplinares.

Ha realizado estancias en centros de investigación de prestigio internacional de diferentes países (Italia, Alemania, Francia) donde ha podido conocer otros conjuntos faunísticos de diferente procedencia y cronología, y participar en el estudio de conjuntos de pequeñas presas (lepóridos, marmotas y carnívoros).

Es miembro del grupo de investigación PREMEDOC (Universitat de València), y ha participado como miembro del equipo de trabajo en diferentes proyectos de investigación centrados en los grupos humanos paleolíticos de las regiones mediterránea y cantábrica.

Fuera de estos proyectos, también ha desarrollado su independencia investigadora a través de la codirección de diversas excavaciones arqueológicas y el estudio de otros conjuntos faunísticos de España e Italia (Cueva del Arco y Cova del Moro, Riparo del Broion, Uluzzo C, Roccia de San Sebastiano).

En el ámbito académico, imparte docencia en diferentes titulaciones universitarias, codirige dos tesis doctorales y varias tesis de máster y ha sido miembro de la Comisión de Coordinación Académica del Máster en Arqueología (Universidad de Valencia). Además, participa en un Proyecto de Innovación Educativa (2020-2023).

En los próximos años, sus objetivos de investigación están relacionados con la comprensión de los modelos de subsistencia de los cazadores-recolectores paleolíticos, tanto de los grupos neandertales como de los primeros humanos modernos. Esta línea de investigación incluye determinar los patrones de procesado de los recursos de explotación (dietéticos o secundarios) y el tratamiento de estos recursos para el consumo en función del tipo de presa (cruda, cocinada, tratamiento para el almacenamiento). Por ello, pretende profundizar en los aspectos tafonómicos (actividades humanas y de carnívoros y alteraciones diagenéticas) que conforman los conjuntos faunísticos mediante la aplicación de programas experimentales y estudios actuales.

Domingo C. Salazar García (born Valencia, 1981; Ph.D. Leipzig-Valencia, 2012) is a biomolecular archaeologist whose research focuses on the reconstruction of lifestyles from prehistoric and early historic time periods. Especially interested in Neanderthals, the transition to farming, and the emergence of complex societies, he is working mainly on projects in the Mediterranean, South America and Southern Africa. He tracks human diet, health and migration through biogeochemical (isotope and proteomic analysis) and microscopic techniques on a range of human and faunal tissues (bone, teeth, hair, dental calculus).

His research career has been strongly international, at institutions like the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, the Max-Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, the University of Cape Town and the University of the Basque Country. He is currently CIDEGENT Research Professor at the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of Valencia, as well as Associate Researcher at the Department of Human Evolution (MPI-EVA) and Honorary Research Affiliate at the Department of Geological Sciences (UCT).

For more information on academic background, past positions, supervision experience, projects and publications, please see below.

My research work has focused on various areas of ancient Prehistory: the study of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic and Prehistoric Art. My most relevant contributions are the characterization and systematization of the Palaeolithic art of the Iberian Mediterranean, the lithic industries of the Middle Palaeolithic in the central Mediterranean region and the systematization of the sequence of the Upper Palaeolithic in this same region, with special attention to the palaeoeconomic and cultural issues. I have also contributed to a methodological renewal of the study of Levantine Art, with important contributions in relation to its evolution and the characterization of the style.

This work began with my incorporation to the University of Valencia in 1979, and has been carried out through the participation and, above all, the direction of various research projects of a national and regional nature, and some of an international nature. In this sense, I have been the PR of nine projects and have participated in another of the Sapanish National Plan, as well as in a Hispano-Belgian project and in another financed by the Leakey Foundation.

I have been director of various archaeological excavations, at sites such as the Cova Negra de Xàtiva, the Cova de les Cendres in Teulada-Moraira, the Cova de les Malladetes de Barx, the Ratlla del Bubo de Crevillent, the Cova de les Meravelles de Gandía , the Shelter of the Quebrada de Chelva, the Cave Antón de Mula, the Shelter of the Boja de Mula and the Shelter of the Doña Martina de Mula Estate, and the tracing and documentation works in the Shelters with paintings and engravings of the Cova de les Meravelles de Gandia, the Cova dels Cavalls (Tirig), Coves de la Saltadora (Coves de Vinromà), Abric de Vicent (Millares), the Cingle de la Mola Remigia (Ares del Maestre), Cova Remigia (Ares del Maestre), the Abric de la Sarga (Alcoi), the Abric de Centelles (Albocàsser) and Abric de la Xivana (Alfarb), as well as the collection of portable art of Parpalló.

My scientific production includes various monographs and about 250 articles or book chapters, both national and international.

I have been a guest speaker at various national and foreign congresses and a member of their scientific committees. I have been curator of various exhibitions related to my field of research, highlighting the one held at the University of Valencia in 2001, entitled “From Neanderthals to Cromañones. The beginnings of human settlement in the Valencian region ”.

To date, I have directed a total of 24 Doctoral Theses, as well as numerous Master's Thesis and Graduated's Thesis. I have collaborated as History Manager of the National Research Plan for the Ministry of Economy and Research and has participated in the Academy program, and as an evaluator for ANEP, ICREA and AGAUR, as well as for the Ministry of Culture of France and the UK Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

I direct the Prehistory Research Group of the University of Valencia (refer. UV 0423).

Projects currently in progress:

GVPROMETEU2017-060. El pasado lejano. Aproximación a la conducta y la ocupación del territorio en el paleolítico valenciano. Entidad financiadora: Generalitat Valenciana. Consellería de Cultura, Educació i Esport.

HAR2017-85153-P. Síntesis del Paleolítico medio y superior en Valencia y Murcia: aspectos cronológicos, paleoambientales, económicos y culturales. Entidad financiadora:  Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación.