This is the blog of the project "Neo-Innova: The diffusion of Neolithic in the Central-Western Mediterranean: agriculture, technological innovations and radiocarbon dating" (HAR2016-75201-P). This research project focuses on one of the main turning points of human history: the diffusion of Neolithic. Even if it is well established that the Near East was the first focus of the invention of farming, around X-IX milenium BC, the mechanisms and the paths of its spreading in the rest of the Mediterranean are yet to be unfolded. During the last decades, the origin of European Neolithic has been explained as result of a diffusion process through two main axes: a Northern one, crossing central Europe, and a Southern one along the Mediterranean coasts. The current project is aimed to analyse the process of Neolithic diffusion through the Central-Western Mediterranean through analysis of the techniques and tools associated with the crop-harvesting and -processing tools. Analysis of those tools has to be supported by an extensive program of radiocarbon dating and a cross-analysis of the crop-harvesting/14C with the information proceeding from the environmental/ecological, the technological and the cereals consumed.

People

Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao


PhD in Prehistory from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2002. Between 2006 and 2011 he obtained a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Algarve (Portugal) of the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). In 2011 he returned to Spain with a Ramón y Cajal contract at the Milà i Fontanals Institution of CSIC. In 2016 he obtained a contract as CSIC Distinguished Investigator and in 2016 obtained a permanent researcher position as Titular Scientist. Juan F. Gibaja specialises in Traceology (Use-Wear), and his research has focused in recent years on the transition from Mesolithic to Neolithic in the Western Mediterranean. In 2007-2010 he directed a research project financed by FCT: "The last hunter-gatherers and the first agricultural communities in the south of the Iberian Peninsula and the north of Morocco". Similarly, in 2011-2015 obtained a project in the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness on funerary practices in the Neolithic NE of the Iberian Peninsula (Title: "Approach to the first neolithic communities of the NE of the Iberian Peninsula through their funerary practices").


Juan José Ibáñez Estévez

My Research deals with the transition from the hunter-gatherer to the farming societies in the Mediterranean Basin and more specifically in the Near East. I am interested in the technological strategies of the first peasant communities as a way to shed light into their economic, social and ideological organization.



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Ferrán Antolín
University of Basel (Switzerland)
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Victoria Aranda 
Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
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Lotfi Belhouchet
Institut National du Patrimoine (Tunis)
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Antoni Faustino Carvalho
António Faustino Carvalho has Bachelor's (1992) and Masters' (1996) Degrees in Archaeology from the University of Lisbon, and holds a PhD from the University of Algarve (2007). He was part of the team that created the Côa Valley Archaeological Park (1995-2000) before joining the University of Algarve in 2001 where he teaches in the fields of archaeology and cultural heritage. To date, he has led 12 research projects, mostly multidisciplinary studies on the last foragers and the early farming communities of the Iberian Peninsula.








Bernard Gassin

PHD in prehistory at the university of Paris X – Nanterre (1993). Associated researcher with the CNRS laboratories CEPAM, Nice (until 2012) and TRACES, Toulouse (since 2012), I am a teacher in History and geography in a lycée in Cannes, and involved in the formation of teachers about prehistory and archaeology. My research, based on use-wear analysis, focuses on Mesolithic and Neolithic societies mainly from Mediterranean area, in Europe and North Africa. Trough the functional analysis of lithic industries, I follow some main research lines : technical system of these societies, mainly exploitation of animal and vegetal resources, management of lithic productions, diffusion networks and exchange systems. I am currently analysing lithic industries from Mesolithic and Neolithic sites from France, Italy, Greece, Algeria and Uzbekistan.


Carmen Gutiérrez
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
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Maria Gurova

Senior Research Fellow (Associate Professor) at the Prehistory Department, National Institute of Archaeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
PhD in Prehistory from the Archaeological Institute (laboratory of experimentation and use-wear analysis) at St.-Petersburg, Russian Academy of Sciences. Since 1989 – researcher in the Archaeological Institute in Sofia (vide supra).
Specialist on chipped-stone industry (techno-typological and functional analysis) from Holocene sequences in the Balkans. Carrying out a particular research focuses on the early agricultural remains (tools and techniques) from Bulgaria and a broader trans-regional scale (Levant, NW Anatolia). Dealing with agricultural toolkits in their evolutionally perspective, based on a synchronic and diachronic analysis of flint assemblages. Since 2010: 5 international projects, 28 Invited papers at international symposia, 30 papers as follows – 10 in IF and refereed journals, 4 monograph sections, 24 publications in edited volumes and periodicals.

Caroline Hamon

Permanent researcher at the Trajectoires lab since 2010 (CNRS, France),her work focuses on the study of economic dynamics and subsistance strategies of the first farmers populations of Europe. Specialist of technological and use-wear analysis of macro-lithic tools, she developed works related to food strategies, craft productions and mineral ressources exploitation in relation with archaeobotany, geology and ethnoarchaeology. After the study of the mechanisms of technical diffusion and production organisation, this approach  enables a comparative study of technical systems and choices of the neolithic populations in a diachronic perspective.




Jörg Linstädter
Deutsches Archälogisches Institut (Germany)
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Jimmy Linton
Université Liège (Belgium)
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Mª Cristina López Rodríguez

I am pre-doctoral researcher of the Department of Prehistory and Archaeology of the Universidad Autónoma of Madrid. My research focuses on the analysis of the lithic industry of the Chalcolithic period through the traceology and functionality studies. In addition, I currently have a scholarship in the Library Service of the University in order to carry out on training tasks and support to teaching.









Giulio Lucarini

I am a research fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, and a lecturer in African Archaeology at the Addis Ababa University. I am currently working on the Archaeological deep history and dynamics of Mediterranean Africa, ca. 9600-700 BC’ Leverhulme funded project, and I have recently completed the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ‘AGRINA - Human transitional pathways towards food production in North Africa’ project. Since finishing my PhD at the University of Naples L’Orientale in which I focused on the exploitation of plant resources by Holocene groups in the Eastern Sahara, my research has mainly focused on human adaptations to the environment and on the emergence of food production in the area between the Sahara and the southern Mediterranean coast. I have carried out extensive fieldwork in Egypt and Libya, co-directing the Farafra Archaeological Project, Egypt and taking part in some of the most innovative archaeological projects underway in North Africa, e.g. the Cyrenaican Prehistory Project. I am particularly interested in the study of material culture, especially lithic production and function, and how artefact assemblages reflect possible socio-economic change and a modification in the human-environment interaction. A further interest is concerned with the study and preservation of Saharan rock art sites.


Dioscorides Marín Castro

BA in History (2010, Autonomous University of Barcelona).
MSc in Prehistoric Archaeology (2012, Autonmous University of Barcelona).
Predoctoral fellowship from the Catalan Government (2013-2016, University of Lleida).
I deal with the last chipped stone tools technologies from the Chalcolithic to Bronze Ages. Particularly from prehistoric settlements of the Iberian Peninsula, but also I’m interested in other contexts from Europe, Africa and Middle East. I’m a use wear specialist, but also I have knowledge about raw materials and technological approaches. Currently I’m finishing my PhD at University of Lleida and the IMF-CSIC institution of Barcelona.




Ignacio Martín Lerma

Doctor in Prehistory and Lecturer at the University of Murcia (Spain), teaching undergraduate and Master’s level courses. His research focuses on the study of the late Upper Palaeolithic lithic industry in Spain, use-wear analysis and experimental archaeology. He is a member of the “Laboratorio de Estudios Paleolíticos” of the UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain). He is also part of the international team investigating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Murcia Region, directed by Dr. João Zilhão and Dr. Valentín Villaverde. He is part of various archaeological research projects in Spain, such as Cueva de Ambrosio (Solutrean cave, Almería), La Peña de Estebanvela (Magdalenian rock-shelter, Segovia), Cueva Blanca (Neolithic site, Albacete) or Camino del Molino (Chalcolithic funerary site, Caravaca de la Cruz). He directs the archaeological project of Cueva del Arco (Cieza, Murcia), with a stratigraphic sequence encompassing Palaeolithic and Neolithic layers. Ignacio has also extensive experience as film director, having produced various archaeological documentaries awarded in international scientific cinema festivals.



 
Patricia Martín
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
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Sarah Mclure
Pennsylvania State University (USA)
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Berta Morell
BA in History (University of Barcelona, 2012) and MSc in Prehistoric Archaeology (Autonomous University of Barcelona, 2013). I am currently a Phd candidate in the Department of Prehistory of the Autonomous University of Barcelona thanks to a grant from the catalan public administration.
My research focuses on the statistical analysis and modeling of radiocarbon dating in order to determine temporal continuities and discontinuites in the arcaheological record. Specifically my thesis deals with the raw materials exchanges and the funerary pattern changes during the Middle Neolithic in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula, southern France, Switzerland and northern Italy.






Millán Mozota Holgueras

As a technician of the Department of Archeology and Anthropology, my tasks include field archaeological work, maintenance of spatial and items databases, small-scale digital 2D topography and the capture and management of 3D models with 3-dimensional scanning equipment . I also have training in use-wear analysis with optical microscopy (both low and high magnification). My PhD deals with the society and economy of the Neanderthal populations in the Upper Pleistocene and focuses on the study of bone tools, and on the anthropic use of hard animal materials such as antler, bone and tooth. More recently, I’ve been working in neolithic times bone tools. I also work in scientific dissemination of various periods of prehistory, through personal and institutional blogs and social networks.




Ebbe Nielsen
1978-1984 Student: Prehistoric Archaeology, University of Aarhus (Denmark).
1984 - 1994 Archaeologist: Archaeological Survey of the Canton of Berne.
1990 Doctor of philosophy, University of Berne (Switzerland)“.
1993 - 2000: Archaeologist: Archaeological Survey of the Canton of Lucerne (part-time). 
1995 - 2001 Scientific assistent at the Institute of Prehistory and Early History at the University of Berne. Project leader: „Man and Environment in Central Switzerland 17000 und 5000 BC“.
2002- Deputy cantonal-archaeologist of the Canton of Lucerne.
2008 Habilitation at the University of Berne. Venia Docendi: Early Prehistory (Stone Age).
2010/2011 Member of the Scientific Commission XVIII INQUA-Kongress in Bern: Quaternary Sciences - the view from the mountains.
2010- Participation in the Project "responses of vegetation and human society to climatic changes in Ukraine" and following projects / University of Berne and the Academy of Science, Kiev. 
2012- Member of the Oeschger Center for Climate Change Research (Palaeoecological Group / Prof. Tinner) University of Berne.
2013- associated Professor at the University of Berne 



Xavier Oms
Universitat de Barcelona
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Catherine Perlès
Emeritus Professor at the University of Nanterre and member of the CNRS research laboratory « Prehistoire et Technologie », I have worked extensively in Greece on the Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic chipped stone assemblages. I also worked more specifically on the transition from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic, and published a book a the Early Neolithic of Greece. The problem of the origins of the Greek Neolithic led me to have a good knowledge of the Near Eastern prehistory, and to work on migration processes. More recently, I have been studying the long sequence of ornaments from the Franchthi Cave in Greece, deriving important theoretical considerations from the confrontation of the chipped stones and ornaments.


Emil Podrug
Sibenik City Museum (Croatia)
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Marta Ramírez Portillo

(Department of Archaeology, School of Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Science, University of Reading)

I am a researcher studying human-environment interactions and the developments of cultural, economic and technological behaviours in the Western Mediterranean and the Near East. I pursue these questions by analyzing microfossil evidence preserved in the archaeological record, primarily from plant and dung microremains, in integration with other geoarchaeological methods, as well as experimental and ethnoarchaeological models. Three main research lines have been followed in the last years: a) hunter-gatherer plant exploitation, where research has focussed on human-environment interactions on the threshold of early food-producers in the Levant and the little investigated northern Africa; b) the origins and spread of agriculture and early sedentism in the Near East and southern Caucasus; and c) the developments of more complex farming communities. I have postdoctoral experience in different research teams of Archaeology, Archaeometry, Geography, Soil and Environmental Sciences, at the University College London, University of Barcelona, Freie University Berlin, University of the Basque Country, and at present I am leading the MICROARCHAEODUNG Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie project at the University of Reading.




Gerard Remolins 

Bachelor in History from University of Barcelona in 2010. Master in Cartography and Geographic Information Systems from UB in 2011, Master in Archeology of the Quaternary from URV and Master in Virtual Archeology from SEAV in 2013. Specialized in Space Archeology and Geostatistics. CEO & founder at ReGiraRocs SL and currently [cursando] PhD in spatiotemporal variability of funerary structures in the Pyrenees from the Middle Neolithic to the final bronze.








Francisco Javier Santos Arévalo

Ph.D. in Physics by the University of Seville, Spain. Specialized in AMS radiocarbon dating, I’m responsible of the AMS system Micadas at the Centro Nacional de Aceleradores in Seville. Since 2005 I have been in charge of the radiocarbon dating service and I have participated in the set up of the radiocarbon lab and two AMS systems, SARA (1 MV multielemental AMS system) and Micadas (200 kV radiocarbon dating system). 

In 2009 I got a position as Titulado Superior Especializado from CSIC at CNA. Our team has provided more than 4000 radiocarbon datings to a large number of institutions.


Paola Visentini
Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale
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Bernhard Weninger 

Studied quantum theory, mathematics, history of physics, and philosophy at University Frankfurt/M. He has a diploma in experimental nuclear physics. Following his studies of prehistory at the Universities of Frankfurt/M and Tübingen he participated for many years in the excavations atTroy, with further archaeological fieldwork in Turkey, Cyprus, Jordan, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Ukraine, and China. Since 1993 he is faculty member at the University of Cologne, Department of Prehistory with main teaching and research interests in the Neolithic and Bronze Age of the Near East, Anatolia, and Southeast Europe, as well as in Palaeoclimatology.

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