Maria Saña
Biographic Data
| ID | 81094 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maria Saña |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maria |
| FAMILY NAME | Saña |
| SIGNATURE | SAÑA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8344-0639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 254 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 50 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Complementarity between morphological and proteomic taxonomic identification methods of Late Upper Palaeolithic and Early Neolithic bone fragments from the NE Iberian Peninsula
Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) has been widely used for taxonomic identification of fragmented bones, yet most direct comparisons with morphological identifications originate from European Palaeolithic contexts. This study provides a general assessment of the two taxonomic identification approaches of one Late Upper Palaeolithic and three Early Neolithic bone assemblages, all located in the northeastern Iberian Peninsula. The results…
Estimating European Pilchard ( Sardina pilchardus ) Total Length
Throughout its area of distribution, in particular in the Iberian Peninsula, the European pilchard ( Sardina pilchardus Walbaum 1792) has been an extensively exploited species since Prehistoric times. Our knowledge of the past fisheries of this clupeid nevertheless remains limited due to a scarcity of ichthyoarchaeological data, which reflects, among other things, a lack of systematic fine sieving in archaeological excavations until recent times.…
Unravelling the role of Atlantic fish in medieval and early modern Western Mediterranean foodways
The development of the Atlantic fish trade marked a major shift in European diets during the Medieval and modern periods. Although this trade is well documented in historical and archaeological records, its impact on consumption patterns remains poorly understood, particularly in the western Mediterranean, where ichthyoarchaeological studies are limited. This study reconstructs the trade and consumption of two key Atlantic species (European hake …
Modalidad De Prep Y Riesgo De Its en GBHSH Y Personas Trans
Caracterización De Las Subpoblaciones Por Nivel De Renta Que Usan Automuestreo Vih Online en España
Years of morphometric evolution of sheep, goat and pig in the northwestern Mediterranean basin
Understanding how domestic mammal species evolved through time provides insight into the artificial and natural selection processes that have shaped the diversity of domestic animals. The focus of this article is the morphometric evolution of sheep, goats and suids in the Northwestern Mediterranean Basin over the last 8000 years, employing a 2D geometric morphometrics protocol applied to the third lower molars. Using a comprehensive dataset compr…
Fishing and the Church
Multifactorial temporo-spatial structuring of the morphological diversity of domestic pigs, sheep, and goats between Catalonia (Spain) and Languedoc (France) from the Iron Age to Antiquity
Feet on the ground
The Iberian Peninsula is the ideal setting for the study of the use of marine resources in the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods. Previous studies have focused on specific geographical areas and on a single chronological period. Instead, we offer here a synthesis of the peninsula covering a broad period of time, thus allowing a study of the role of marine resources in the Neolithisation process. Published data on the exploitation of marine mollusc…
Exploring the composition and management of early Neolithic cattle herds in the western Mediterranean
For the first time, the composition of one of the earliest cattle herds from the Neolithic is described in a comprehensive way for the Mediterranean area in relation to the use made of the animals and their productive exploitation. • The estimated herd size is approximately 22 animals of various ages, predominantly consisting of adult individuals. The proportion of males in the herd varies between 20% and 40%, including castrated males, while adu…
Early Holocene preservation differences between cortical and trabecular bone proteomes
Skeletal sample selection for evolutionary palaeoproteomic studies is currently based on the availability of material, without taking into account the influence of bone biology on the proteome composition of living bone. A prime example concerns the cortical and trabecular bone that is present simultaneously in many skeletal elements, including those recovered from archaeological sites. These two bone components are formed and maintained in diffe…
A comparative study of commercially available, minimally invasive, sampling methods on Early Neolithic humeri analysed via palaeoproteomics
Due to methodological advances in the archaeological sciences, an increasing number of archaeological specimens undergo destructive sampling. However, the preservation of cultural heritage is a primary concern. This leads to a dilemma between accessing sample material and obtaining sufficient information for a meaningful analytical outcome. Ideally, sampling a specimen would preserve the object for further macro, micro, and molecular analyses. Fo…
A Comparative Study of Commercially Available, Minimally Invasive, Sampling Methods on Early Neolithic Humeri Analysed Via Palaeoproteomics
The Age and Graphic Attributes of the First Potteries of the Western Sahara
Milk production in pottery. Evidence for various exploited resources used by the first farmers in Central Pyrenees using the morphological, chemical and stable carbon isotopic composition of organic r…
Integrative approaches to the study of animal management practices during the Neolithic of South Iberian Peninsula
The introduction and adoption of livestock played a pivotal role in shaping subsistence strategies of populations in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the Neolithic. However, there is lack of information regarding animal management strategies, such as grazing areas and changes in foddering strategies, and their correlation with the environmental characteristics, type of site and use of the settlement. The study of feeding strategies of domest…
Early husbandry practices in highland areas during the Neolithic
Research on animal management strategies in high mountain areas during the early Neolithic (5,700–4,500 cal BC) has been conditioned by the presumption that human occupations in highland areas had a prominent seasonal character and the economic practices focused mainly on the exploitation of wild resources. The results obtained in the framework of research developed recently on settlement dynamics during the early Neolithic in the highland areas …
Youngest Iberian Holocene volcanic eruptions and paleoenvironmental evolution of a barrier-paleolake in the Garrotxa Volcanic Field (NE Spain)
Volcanic eruptions are key drivers of climate variability, with complex environmental consequences at regional and local scales that are rarely documented in high-resolution sedimentary records. In this work we present the results of a 15 m long paleolake core (Pla de les Preses core, Vall d’en Bas, Girona, NE Spain) covering the Late Pleistocene-Holocene transition. Multiproxy analyses including chronostratigraphy, sedimentology, micropalaeontol…
Hunting at the Fringe of the Desert
[EN] Nahal Efe is the largest and best preserved Middle PPNB site in the Negev (Israel), constituting a privileged data source for reconstructing the animal exploitation and subsistence strategies of the hunter-gatherer communities that inhabited the Negev 10,000 years ago. The preliminary results of the study of the faunal assemblage from excavation seasons 2015–2019 are presented in this paper. The zooarchaeological study indicates that during …
Pottery use in the mining site of variscite Mines de Gavà (Barcelona, Spain) during the 4th millennium BC based on organic residue analysis
Sheep husbandry in the early Neolithic of the Pyrenees
Prácticas ganaderas y minería neolítica
Las prácticas ganaderas han jugado un papel importante en la organización socioeconómica de las sociedades mineras. Este trabajo presenta los resultados del análisis arqueozoológico y tafonómico de los restos de fauna recuperados en la Mina16 en Gavà (Barcelona). Los análisis de los restos de fauna se utilizaron para determinar la importancia ganadera en las prácticas de subsistencia, el origen y la dinámica de depósito del conjunto faunístico en…
New data on the 4th-3rd millennia in Northern Mesopotamia
International audience
New excavations at Gird Banahilk, a Halafian site in Iraqi Kurdistan
International audience
The consumption of molluscs in the first farming societies
Early Animal Husbandry in the Northern Levant
Que ce soient les arguments morphométriques ou. d'autres plus indirects, la domestication du mouton et fort probablement celle de la chèvre prend place durant, le PPNB ancien dans les piémonts sud du Taurus. Même si l'élevage se généralise dans le Levant Nord, au cours du PPNB moyen, les fréquences de chèvres et de moutons ne dépassent pas 30 % des restes osseux de cette période. Ainsi, l'introduction de ces petits ruminants dans l'économie de ce…
Characterizing prehistoric archery
The impact of the Roman Empire on animal husbandry practices
An integrated perspective on farming in the early Neolithic lakeshore site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
A combined analysis of the faunal and charred plant macroremains from the early Neolithic lakeshore site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain) is presented. The aim was to characterise the farming strategies practiced by the first Neolithic communities in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula in terms of their degree of intensity. The joint discussion of the data allowed the observation that permanent plots could have been kept, that a high harvest wou…
Prehistoric Occupation of Banyoles Lakeshore
Recent research at the Neolithic site of La Draga on the edge of Banyoles Lake (Girona, Spain) has documented evidence for the occupation of the lakeshore from the final quarter of the sixth millennium cal BC. Excavation during 2010 and 2011 identified at least two episodes of occupation. The oldest episode includes wooden structures, which were superseded and overlain by a paving of travertine blocks during the younger phase. Archaeological mate…
Paleoparasitological investigations on the Neolithic lakeside settlement of La Draga (Lake Banyoles, Spain)
Paleoparasitological analyses were conducted on samples from the Neolithic lakeside settlement of La Draga in Spain (5320–4980 BC). Conventional microscopic analysis revealed the presence of tapeworms (genus Taenia/Echinoccocus and Diphyllobothrium), roundworms (genus Trichuris, Capillaria, and Ascaris), rumen fluke (genus Paramphistomum), and Acanthocephalan (genus Macracanthorhynchus). In addition, genetic analysis demonstrated the presence of …
Use of Animal Fibres during the Neolithisation in the Middle Euphrates Valley (Syria)
Since Gordon Childe highlights the importance of textile production from animal fibres in the Neolithic more than 75 years ago, several approaches from different fields dealt with this subject of study. This contribution summarize the investigation on the exploitation of animal fi bres designed from archaeozoology in south-west Asia in the last years, considering different aspects like the initial chronology of the use and exploitation, technical…
Feeding Management Strategies among the Early Neolithic Pigs in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula
The socio-economic relevance of domesticated animals during the Early Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula is indisputable, yet we essentially know little about the way they were managed. Among domesticated animals, pig (Sus domesticus) was a common food source, and previous studies have shown the potential of stable isotopes for assessing variability in pig diet in relation to husbandry practices. Nevertheless, this approach has never been applied…
Producciones metalúrgicas en el nordeste de la Península Ibérica durante el III milenio cal. AC
Se presentan los resultados de la excavación en los niveles del III milenio cal. AC del pequeño abrigo rocoso de la Bauma del Serrat del Pont. El yacimiento fue ocupado por un grupo pequeño que organizó el espacio interno con una estructura de material perecedero, excepto en el nivel II.5. Algunos datos indican que las ocupaciones pudieron tener un carácter estacional. Los estudios multidisciplinares reconstruyen un aprovechamiento diversificado …
Sheep husbandry in the early Neolithic of the Pyrenees
Sheep exploitation and husbandry in first farming societies
Food management of early introduced caprine and bovine herds in the early Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles)
The arrival of early farmers and their livestock in the western Mediterranean during the early Neolithic marked a new way of life for the north-east Iberian Peninsula. Given the permanence of the introduced economic strategies, which are still practiced today, and their apparently momentous outcome, this process has generally been explained as a success. The introduction of livestock must have played a fundamental role, but we know little about h…
Seasonal reproductive patterns of early domestic sheep at Tell Halula (PPNB, Middle Euphrates Valley)
Integrative approaches to the study of animal management practices during the Neolithic of South Iberian Peninsula
The introduction and adoption of livestock played a pivotal role in shaping subsistence strategies of populations in the southern Iberian Peninsula during the Neolithic. However, there is lack of information regarding animal management strategies, such as grazing areas and changes in foddering strategies, and their correlation with the environmental characteristics, type of site and use of the settlement. The study of feeding strategies of domest…
Using cattle for traction and transportduring the Neolithic period. Contribution of the study of the first and second phalanxes
During the Neolithic period, cattle were used not only for their meat and their milk but also for their strength. Unfortunately, apart from the discovery of specific instruments (yokes, travois, wheels, ards, etc.), it is not easy to demonstrate archaeologically their use for work. Nevertheless, the bone pathologies related to this activity can be analyzed. The methodological approach employed in this study is based on multivariate analyses (PCA)…
Size changes in wild and domestic pig populations between 10,000 and 800 cal. BC in the Iberian Peninsula
In the early-Holocene, animal domestication processes entailed important changes to the subsistence strategies of Neolithic populations. Among the first domestic species, pigs played a key role as they soon came to be one of the main sources of meat. Several methodological approaches have been followed in archaeology to differentiate between wild and domestic forms in the faunal remains found at early Neolithic sites. Among these, biometry is ess…
Detecting the T1 cattle haplogroup in the Iberian Peninsula from Neolithic to medieval times
The Application of Systematic Sampling Strategies for Bioarchaeological Studies in the Early Neolithic Lakeshore Site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
This paper presents the multi-disciplinary sampling strategy that has been applied at the archaeological site of La Draga during the last three fieldwork campaigns (2010–2012). A preliminary evaluation of the results is presented in order to discuss the efficiency of the strategy in answering the outlined scientific questions. The strategies applied for faunal remains (one hundred per cent recovery), wood remains (selective sampling) and charcoal…
Years of morphometric evolution of sheep, goat and pig in the northwestern Mediterranean basin
Understanding how domestic mammal species evolved through time provides insight into the artificial and natural selection processes that have shaped the diversity of domestic animals. The focus of this article is the morphometric evolution of sheep, goats and suids in the Northwestern Mediterranean Basin over the last 8000 years, employing a 2D geometric morphometrics protocol applied to the third lower molars. Using a comprehensive dataset compr…
A comparative study of commercially available, minimally invasive, sampling methods on Early Neolithic humeri analysed via palaeoproteomics
Due to methodological advances in the archaeological sciences, an increasing number of archaeological specimens undergo destructive sampling. However, the preservation of cultural heritage is a primary concern. This leads to a dilemma between accessing sample material and obtaining sufficient information for a meaningful analytical outcome. Ideally, sampling a specimen would preserve the object for further macro, micro, and molecular analyses. Fo…
Hunting at the Fringe of the Desert
[EN] Nahal Efe is the largest and best preserved Middle PPNB site in the Negev (Israel), constituting a privileged data source for reconstructing the animal exploitation and subsistence strategies of the hunter-gatherer communities that inhabited the Negev 10,000 years ago. The preliminary results of the study of the faunal assemblage from excavation seasons 2015–2019 are presented in this paper. The zooarchaeological study indicates that during …
Pottery use in the mining site of variscite Mines de Gavà (Barcelona, Spain) during the 4th millennium BC based on organic residue analysis
New data on the 4th-3rd millennia in Northern Mesopotamia
International audience
New excavations at Gird Banahilk, a Halafian site in Iraqi Kurdistan
International audience
Early Holocene Occupations at Ashash Rock Shelter (Zemmur, Western Sahara)
The archaeological record of the Western Sahara remains extremely fragmentary, with very few sites systematically excavated. The excavation at Ashash rock shelter (Zemmur region) has provided, for the first time in the region, the evidence of superimposition of two prehistoric occupations that have been radiocarbon dated to the early 9th millennium cal. BP and to the mid-7th millennium cal. BP . The Epipalaeolithic occupation is strongly marked b…
Producciones metalúrgicas en el nordeste de la Península Ibérica durante el III milenio cal. AC
Se presentan los resultados de la excavación en los niveles del III milenio cal. AC del pequeño abrigo rocoso de la Bauma del Serrat del Pont. El yacimiento fue ocupado por un grupo pequeño que organizó el espacio interno con una estructura de material perecedero, excepto en el nivel II.5. Algunos datos indican que las ocupaciones pudieron tener un carácter estacional. Los estudios multidisciplinares reconstruyen un aprovechamiento diversificado …
Early Animal Husbandry in the Northern Levant
Que ce soient les arguments morphométriques ou. d'autres plus indirects, la domestication du mouton et fort probablement celle de la chèvre prend place durant, le PPNB ancien dans les piémonts sud du Taurus. Même si l'élevage se généralise dans le Levant Nord, au cours du PPNB moyen, les fréquences de chèvres et de moutons ne dépassent pas 30 % des restes osseux de cette période. Ainsi, l'introduction de ces petits ruminants dans l'économie de ce…
Use of Animal Fibres during the Neolithisation in the Middle Euphrates Valley (Syria)
Since Gordon Childe highlights the importance of textile production from animal fibres in the Neolithic more than 75 years ago, several approaches from different fields dealt with this subject of study. This contribution summarize the investigation on the exploitation of animal fi bres designed from archaeozoology in south-west Asia in the last years, considering different aspects like the initial chronology of the use and exploitation, technical…
Les occupations d’Umm-el-Tlel (Syrie centrale) pendant le Kébarien géométrique. Étude du niveau I.2.A (campagnes 1991, 1992 et 1994)
Cet article présente les résultats de la fouille du niveau archéologique I. 2. a du site d’Umm-el-Tlel (El Kowm), un niveau appartenant au Kébarien géométrique. Les travaux sur le terrain ont été menés entre 1991 et 1994. Les matériaux archéologiques et leur répartition spatiale ont été analysés. Les résultats de cette analyse suggèrent que la zone fouillée correspondrait à un espace où des déchets de boucherie ont été accumulés
The Application of Systematic Sampling Strategies for Bioarchaeological Studies in the Early Neolithic Lakeshore Site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
This paper presents the multi-disciplinary sampling strategy that has been applied at the archaeological site of La Draga during the last three fieldwork campaigns (2010–2012). A preliminary evaluation of the results is presented in order to discuss the efficiency of the strategy in answering the outlined scientific questions. The strategies applied for faunal remains (one hundred per cent recovery), wood remains (selective sampling) and charcoal…
Ritual practices and collective consumption of animal products at the Iron Age rural settlement of Mas Castellar de Pontós (Girona, Spain) (5th–4th centuries BC)
Animals have played an important role in certain ceremonies or rites in the past. During such activities, animals may have been alive, dead or been used as raw material. The disposal of detritus from these practices can lead to the formation of faunal assemblages with a particular taxonomic and anatomic composition. At the Iron Age ‘Mas Castellar de Pontós’ site (Girona, Spain), associations of archaeological materials excavated from Pit feature …
Taphonomic evaluation of the degree of historical representation of the archaeological bone samples in anaerobic versus aerobic environments
Prehistoric Occupation of Banyoles Lakeshore
Recent research at the Neolithic site of La Draga on the edge of Banyoles Lake (Girona, Spain) has documented evidence for the occupation of the lakeshore from the final quarter of the sixth millennium cal BC. Excavation during 2010 and 2011 identified at least two episodes of occupation. The oldest episode includes wooden structures, which were superseded and overlain by a paving of travertine blocks during the younger phase. Archaeological mate…
An integrated perspective on farming in the early Neolithic lakeshore site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
A combined analysis of the faunal and charred plant macroremains from the early Neolithic lakeshore site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain) is presented. The aim was to characterise the farming strategies practiced by the first Neolithic communities in the north-east of the Iberian Peninsula in terms of their degree of intensity. The joint discussion of the data allowed the observation that permanent plots could have been kept, that a high harvest wou…
The impact of the Roman Empire on animal husbandry practices
Seasonal reproductive patterns of early domestic sheep at Tell Halula (PPNB, Middle Euphrates Valley)
Characterizing prehistoric archery
Detecting the T1 cattle haplogroup in the Iberian Peninsula from Neolithic to medieval times
Regional asynchronicity in dairy production and processing in early farming communities of the northern Mediterranean
Significance This unique research combines the analyses of lipid residues in pottery vessels with slaughter profiles for domesticated ruminants to provide compelling evidence for diverse subsistence strategies in the northern Mediterranean basin during the Neolithic. Our findings show that the exploitation and processing of milk varied across the region, although most communities began to exploit milk as soon as domesticates were introduced betwe…
Dog Sacrifice at the Protohistoric Site of Mas Castellar (Pontós, Spain)
Geophysical Survey And Archaeological Excavations In the Neolithic and Bronze-Age Settlement of La Dou (Girona, Spain). A combined approach to a new site
This paper presents the results of the investigations carried out from 2009 to 2013 in the multi-period archaeological site of La Dou (Sant Esteve d’en Bas, Girona, Catalonia). The authors expose the strategy applied to create the surveys and results of the excavations conducted to verify and date the detected features. The site was discovered in 2005 in a rescue excavation due to the building of a road, revealing a group of firing pits and other…
Size changes in wild and domestic pig populations between 10,000 and 800 cal. BC in the Iberian Peninsula
In the early-Holocene, animal domestication processes entailed important changes to the subsistence strategies of Neolithic populations. Among the first domestic species, pigs played a key role as they soon came to be one of the main sources of meat. Several methodological approaches have been followed in archaeology to differentiate between wild and domestic forms in the faunal remains found at early Neolithic sites. Among these, biometry is ess…
Paleoparasitological investigations on the Neolithic lakeside settlement of La Draga (Lake Banyoles, Spain)
Paleoparasitological analyses were conducted on samples from the Neolithic lakeside settlement of La Draga in Spain (5320–4980 BC). Conventional microscopic analysis revealed the presence of tapeworms (genus Taenia/Echinoccocus and Diphyllobothrium), roundworms (genus Trichuris, Capillaria, and Ascaris), rumen fluke (genus Paramphistomum), and Acanthocephalan (genus Macracanthorhynchus). In addition, genetic analysis demonstrated the presence of …
Feeding Management Strategies among the Early Neolithic Pigs in the NE of the Iberian Peninsula
The socio-economic relevance of domesticated animals during the Early Neolithic in the Iberian Peninsula is indisputable, yet we essentially know little about the way they were managed. Among domesticated animals, pig (Sus domesticus) was a common food source, and previous studies have shown the potential of stable isotopes for assessing variability in pig diet in relation to husbandry practices. Nevertheless, this approach has never been applied…
La Draga
Herders in the mountains and farmers in the plains? A comparative evaluation of the archaeobiological record from Neolithic sites in the eastern Iberian Pyrenees and the southern lower lands
Early Holocene Occupations at Ashash Rock Shelter (Zemmur, Western Sahara)
The archaeological record of the Western Sahara remains extremely fragmentary, with very few sites systematically excavated. The excavation at Ashash rock shelter (Zemmur region) has provided, for the first time in the region, the evidence of superimposition of two prehistoric occupations that have been radiocarbon dated to the early 9th millennium cal. BP and to the mid-7th millennium cal. BP . The Epipalaeolithic occupation is strongly marked b…
Using cattle for traction and transportduring the Neolithic period. Contribution of the study of the first and second phalanxes
During the Neolithic period, cattle were used not only for their meat and their milk but also for their strength. Unfortunately, apart from the discovery of specific instruments (yokes, travois, wheels, ards, etc.), it is not easy to demonstrate archaeologically their use for work. Nevertheless, the bone pathologies related to this activity can be analyzed. The methodological approach employed in this study is based on multivariate analyses (PCA)…
New data on the 4th-3rd millennia in Northern Mesopotamia
International audience
New excavations at Gird Banahilk, a Halafian site in Iraqi Kurdistan
International audience
Geography (42 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (39 works) · Archaeology (36 works) · Biology (27 works) · Ecology (21 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 works) · Agriculture (14 works) · Peninsula (14 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (12 works) · Mediterranean climate (12 works)