New team members

ULL undergraduate students Santiago SosaLaura Hernández from the Department of Geography and History, Nast Acosta from Physics, and Carla Hernández and Acarelis Cabrera from the Chemistry Department have joined our team this year to perform different laboratory tasks.

Santiago Sosa
Santiago Sosa
Laura Hernández
Laura Hernández
Nast Acosta
Nast Acosta

Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences

Members of the PALEOCHAR team attended the novel Frontiers in Archaeological Sciences meeting held in Rutgers University, New Jersey, on October 25-27th.

Carolina Mallol
Carolina Mallol

Carolina Mallol: What is that Black Stuff? Micro-contextual Investigations of Charred Organic Matter in the Archaeological Sedimentary Record.

Lucia Leierer: A coupled micromorphological and molecular study of combustion structure assemblages at the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt, Spain.

Lucia Leierer
Lucia Leierer

Rory Connolly: Preliminary results from a Palaeoenvironmental investigation of a Middle Palaeolithic rockshelter in Alicante, Spain.

Rory Connolly
Rory Connolly

 

A geoarchaeological perspective on human behaviour

Dr Vera Aldeias, a post-doctoral researcher from Max Plank Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, expert fire experimenter and Neanderthal fire analyst, visited the AMBI Lab and gave an inspiring talk entitled On experimentation and site formation: a geoarchaeological perspective on human behavior.

Microarchaeology of craft production processes in Roman times

Mario Gutiérrez in AMBI Lab
Mario Gutiérrez

Mario Gutiérrez, a micromorphologist expert in Roman contexts, visited the AMBI Lab and presented examples of Roman furnaces and other combustion structures.

 

Mario Gutiérrez and ERC PALEOCHAR teamwork
Mario Gutiérrez and ERC PALEOCHAR teamwork in AMBI Lab

Campus America: current topics in archaeology

One of the Campus America sessions held in Universidad de La Laguna on October 9-20, 2017 wasd evoted to Archaeology, with talks by Gil Tostevin (University of Minnesota) and Carolina Mallol.

Prof. Gil Tostevin in Campus America
Prof. Gil Tostevin in Campus America

Prof. Gil Tostevin gave a lecture about cultural diversity among Neanderthals. Carolina Mallol emphasized the role of geoarchaeology as a pilar of the archaeological discipline and one of the major trends in current Palaeolithic research.

 

Animal fats and ancient pyro technologies

Dr Tammy Buonasera, member of ERC Paleochar team, gave a talk in Instituto Universitario de Bio-Orgánica Antonio González (IUBO) entitled Animal fats and ancient pyro technologies: reading the residues in archaeological hearth deposits.

Dr Buonasera works on molecular and isotopic studies to characterize animal fats in archaeological contexts.

The aim of these analyses is to determine what these fats are and which animals were consumed.

Through isotopic methods, her research is focused in the study of culinary techniques and the use of fossil fuels.

 

Dr Buonasera during her talk in IUBO
Dr Buonasera during her talk in IUBO

 

DIG Conference 2017

Carolina Mallol gave a talk in 7th Developing International Geoarchaeology Conference (DIG Conference 2017), held in Newcastle on September, about ERC PALEOCHAR lab work in micro-contextual analysis of organic matter.

Rory Connolly submitted a poster entitled Preliminary results from a multiproxy palaeo-environmental investigation at a Middle Palaeolithic rock shelter (Abric del Pastor) in Alicante, Spain.

Lucia Leierer’s work focused in A couple micromorphological and molecular study of combustion structure assemblages at the Middle Palaeolithic site of El Salt, Spain.