Natàlia Alonso

Supervisor Details

Email: natalia.alonso@udl.cat

Organization Type: University

Organization Name: University of Lleida

Short Biography: Full professor at the Department of Geography, History and History of Art and coordinator of ARQHISTEC research group (2021 SGR 01607 AGAUR). Her scientific interests always focusing on Protohistoric agriculture in the Western Mediterranean, have led me to explore aspects of palaeoecology, isotopic analysis, wild fruit exploitation, food and especially cereal crops and their processing (agricultural and domestic) and gender. She has also incorporated new lines of research such as ethnoarchaeology (UB project in Tunisia, 2010-2012), experimental archaeology and didactic studies (RecerCaixa project, 2012-2013 as IP). Since 2016, she collaborates with the ERC-2015-cog (IP, T. Valamoti, AUTH, Greece) project and since 2017 she has been the leader of the R+D projects of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, PRASED (HAR2016-78277-R), 2017- 2019, and MOBICEX (PID2019-110022GB-I00). She has been also coordinator of the Research Network ARQUEOCULT, (RED2018-102440-T), 2020-2021. Currently, she is the coordinator of the Quadrennial Research Project in Archaeology 2022-25 CLT009/22/00057. Currently she is Vice-rector for Research.

Andreu Moya i Garra

Co-Supervisor Details

Email: iltirta@iltirta.com

Organization Type: Non-academic institution

Organization Name: Iltirta Arqueologia SL

Short Biography: Andreu Moya i Garra is an archaeologist with 25 years of experience in preventive archaeology and archaeological research projects. He is a founding partner of the company Iltirta Arqueologia SL. In addition, he is a member of the Prehistoric Research Group of the University of Lleida (GIP-UdL) and permanent collaborator of the consolidated research group ARQHISTEC. Since the 2000s he has participated in the archaeological projects carried out at the University of Lleida, and in collaboration with other institutions such as the Autonomous University of Barcelona in the Middle East and the CNRS in the South of France. His scientific publications are numerous. His main fields of research are the study of the III-I millennium BC in the middle and lower valley of the Segre; open-air settlements and early urbanism; megalithic statuary; prehistoric ceramic production; and tumular cremation necropolises.

Added Value: The possibility that the PhD will have to work under supervision in the framework of an archaeology company, will allow a direct contact with professional archaeology, very difficult to obtain in the academic framework. It will allow him/her to practice in the day-to-day life of a company that works in archaeological research, but with a point of view oriented to preventive and service archaeology. In addition, within the framework of the proposed lines of research, it will come into contact with the sampling methods and the treatment of samples in the preventive context, as well as with the analysis of archaeological materials recovered in the interventions carried out by the company.