Thème interdisciplinaire de recherche
Archaeology, Archaeobotany
Spécialité
Anthracology, wood charcoal analysis

Contact

Réseaux sociaux
Courriel
marta.alcolea-gracia [at] mnhn.fr
marta.alcolea.gracia [at] usc.es
Téléphone
01 40 79 57 02

Présentation

Marta Alcolea, PhD in 2017 at the University of Zaragoza, is a Post-doctoral researcher at University of Santiago de Compostela - GEPN-AAT (Spain) and Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle - CNRS UMR 7209 AASPE (France). My archaeological research is focused on hunter-gatherer and first farming societies from the Late Pleistocene to Middle Holocene in the Ebro basin (NE Iberia). As archaeobotanist, my research interests refer to human-forest interaction, wood management and impact of human activities, and vegetation history during Prehistory and historical times. For accomplishing this goal I have been trained in anthracology and dendroanthracology in European R+D Institutions as UAB (Spain), CNRS UMR 5059 CBAE (France) or La Sapienza University (Italy), conducting wood charcoal analyses in several archaeological sites and natural deposits. This facet allowed me to integrate in interdisciplinary networks of collaboration with different fields of palaeoecological and biogerographical research (IPE-CSIC, PALEOQ) working in different chronologies and contexts.

Projets

Archaeological research project of Aguilón P5 (Zaragoza, NE Iberia)

Co-direction of archaeological research project of Aguilón P5 (Zaragoza, NE Iberia). Middle Palaeolithic site. University of Zaragoza. Since 2012 to present.

Qué especies para qué usos: anatomical and paleobiogeographic study of Juniperus sp. in the middle valley of the Ebro

XXXIV Subvenciones a proyectos de investigación. 2019. Instituto de Estudios Altoaragoneses (Huesca). 

Grupo de Estudos para a Prehistoria do NW Ibérico - Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade e Territorio

Research group member at Grupo de Estudos para a Prehistoria do NW Ibérico - Arqueoloxía, Antigüidade e Territorio. Dir. Ramón Fábregas Valcarce. University of Santiago de Compostela.

Luz e calor na cova. Plant-use and fuelwood management by the hunter-gatherer and first farmer societies of Northern Iberia

2018-2021. Post-Doc Grant Plan Xunta de Galicia mod. A (Ref. ED481B 2018/016). University of Santiago de Compostela (Spain). Supervisor: Ramón Fábregas Valcarce. MNHN-CNRS UMR 7209 AASPE (Paris, France). Supervisor: Alexa Dufraisse. CNRS UMR 5554 ISEM. Supervisor: Lucie Chabal.

Gaps and sites. Vacíos y ocupaciones en la Prehistoria de la Cuenca del Ebro

2018-2021 Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (MINECO). Dir. Carlos Mazo Pérez. University of Zaragoza.

Terrains de recherche

Anthracological studies of Middle and Upper Palaeolithic sites (NE and NO Iberia): Cova Eiros, Aguilón P5, Fuente del Trucho, Cueva del Gato.

Dendro-anthracological tools applied to pinewood (Pinus tp. sylvestris) exploitation as fuel during the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition: Coves del Fem and Esplugón sites (NE Iberia).

Stable collaborator with PPVE archaeological excavations. University of Zaragoza. Responsible of archaeobotanical sampling. Since 2010 to present.

Organizing collaborator of Experimental Archaeology of Bajo Aragón (Caspe, NE Iberia) Annual Formation. CECBAC-IFC. University of Zaragoza. Since 2017 to present.