Wood use / technology and its environmental impacts
My research in archaeological wood, particularly, but not exclusively, on wood-charcoal, has been focused on wood exploitation for firewood, construction and for manufacturing objects. The characterization of catchment territories and strategies and their evolution through time is of particular importance to understand human drivers of landscape change. This is done in articulation with other paleoecological, archaeological and historical information. |
Agriculture and its relation with environmental and social change
Crop choices, agricultural strategies, technology related with cultivation, storage and foodways are intrinsically connected with the social and cultural characteristics of human communities. They are also related to environmental history, not only due to the limitations and possibilities driven by climate and soils, but also because agriculture can originate deep environmental changes. The feedbacks between these factors are fascinating and they are something that I wish to know much about. |
Plant-food and storage in a long-term perspective
Storage has been of great importance to human communities, for both farmers and hunter-gatherers. Storage technology is thus of particular relevance to understand past economies, strategies to cope with uncertainty and also power relations between different human groups. I am particularly interested in storage of plant-food and its relations with agricultural activities, the impacts it had on territorial exploitation and the development of unbalanced social relations. |