Marta Díaz-Guardamino
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 204550 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marta Díaz-Guardamino |
| NOMBRES | Marta |
| APELLIDO | Díaz-Guardamino |
| FIRMA | DÍAZ-GUARDAMINO M |
| AFILIACIONES | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7641-300X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 27 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 131 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Hagbard’s Gallows in context
The Bronze Age monument known as Hagbard’s Gallows in Sweden is a combination of monumental standing stones, rock art and mounds. A new research project uses optically stimulated luminescence and radiocarbon dating techniques to investigate the monument’s chronology.
Road to encounters
Although thousands of prehistoric standing stones have been recorded across Iberia, the lack of associated detailed contextual data allows ongoing debate about their possible functions. Following the chance discovery of a ‘diademated’ stela in 2018, excavations at Las Capellanías (Cañaveral de León, Huelva), in south-west Spain, led to the discovery of two more stelae and facilitated the compilation of vital contextual information. Here, the auth…
Seafaring megaliths
Let’s Talk About Gender—The Place of Gender in Current Archaeological Debates
Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates
This chapter assesses the extent to which gender-informed narratives exist in archaeological exhibitions in Europe in the twenty-first century. It does so by examining a selection of permanent and temporary exhibitions organised in museums but not exclusively, based on the authors’ per sonal observations during museum visits and the review of current publications on gender in archaeological museums. The chapter argues that the integration of gend…
Rock art technology, digital imaging and experimental archaeology
Este artículo propone un enfoque metodológico para el estudio de la tecnología del arte rupestre que combina la aplicación de técnicas de imagen digital (en particular, Reflectance Transformation Imaging, RTI) con experimentos de recreación de arte rupestre. Se argumenta que este tipo de enfoque ‘bottom-up’, combinando dos líneas de evidencia complementarias, tiene el potencial de ofrecer información valiosa sobre las comunidades de práctica invo…
Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps
In the Mio-Pliocene calcareous sandstone slabs used as capstones at La Pastora tholos in the Copper Age megasite of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán (SW Spain), marine bioerosion structures produced in the 3rd millennium BCE were recognised. In this work, we focus on the perforations made by the lithophage bivalve Petricola lithophaga, called Gastrochaenolites, specifically on its functionality as a ‘trap’ of sediment of the enviro…
Idols' in late prehistoric Iberia
These two handsome volumes stem from the landmark exhibition 'Idolos: Miradas Milenarias/Ídolos: Olhares Milenares' (Idols: Millenary Gazes), which assembled an impressive collection of figurines and decorated artefacts from Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. A total of 270 archaeological artefacts from 27 museums (plus one private collector) were displayed together for the first time, with the aim of bringing current understanding of these artefac…
In the bosom of the Earth
Antequera in southern Spain is widely recognised as an outstanding example of the European megalithic phenomenon. One of its most remarkable features is the evident relationship between conspicuous natural formations and human-built monuments. Here, the authors report the results of their investigation of a tomb newly discovered at the site of Piedras Blancas at the foot of La Peña de los Enamorados, a limestone massif that dominates the Antequer…
La apropiación local de ideales guerreros en la Europa de la Edad del Bronce Final
Este estudio ofrece nuevos datos sobre la apropiación local de los ideales asociados al guerrero en Europa durante la Edad del Bronce Final a través del nuevo estudio de los grabados de Cancho Roano y Arroyo Tamujoso 8, situados en el Suroeste de la península ibérica, de sus soportes y contextos paisajísticos. Emplea tecnologías digitales de vanguardia para identificar algunos de los particularismos más distintivos de esa iconografía, revelando d…
Making a Mark
This paper presents key results of theMaking a Markproject (2014–2016), which aimed to provide a contextual framework for the analysis of mark making on portable artefacts in the British and Irish Neolithic by comparing them with other mark-making practices, including rock art and passage tomb art. The project used digital imaging techniques, including Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and improved radiocarbon chronologies, to develop a n…
The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways
Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds
This paper examines how monuments with ‘local’ idiosyncrasies are key in processes of place-making and how, through persistence, such places can engage in supra-local and even ‘global’ dynamics. Departing from a detailed revision of its context, materiality and iconography, we show how a remarkable Iberian ‘warrior’ stela brings together the geo-strategic potential of a unique site, located literally between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic wor…
Human, Transhuman, Posthuman Digital Archaeologies
Current archaeological thought evokes a sparking Catherine wheel: spinning fireworks that detonate light, colour, and sound with every movement. These theoretical turns swirl alongside the ongoing development and adoption of scientific and digital techniques that have wide-ranging implications for archaeological practices and interpretations. Two particularly combustible developments are posthumanism and the ontological turn, which emerged within…
Digital Sensoriality
The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods, has been severely critiqued and challenged in the past decade. This discourse, however, has largely shaped the way that figurines are depicted in archaeological iterations and publications, and it is this corpus of images that has in turn shaped further thinking and dis…
Rethinking Iberian 'warrior' stelae
Iberian 'warrior' stelae have captured the imagination of researchers and the public for more than a century. Traditionally, stelae were considered 'de-contextualised' monuments, and research typically focused on the study of their iconography, paying little or no attention to their immediate contexts. As a result, despite the large number of these stelae known to date (c. 140) and the ample body of literature that has dealt with them, fundamenta…
Assembling the Dead, Gathering the Living
The great site of Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville in the lower Guadalquivir valley of southwest Spain, is presented in the context of debate about the nature of Copper Age society in southern Iberia as a whole. Many aspects of the layout, use, character and development of Valencina remain unclear, just as there are major unresolved questions about the kind of society represented there and in southern Iberia, from the late fourth to the l…
Enigmatic Images from Remote Prehistory’
This chapter explores questions of ontology in rock art analysis. More specifically, it argues that the distinction between ‘informed’ methods and ‘formal’ methods reproduces some problematic dichotomies, such as the distinction between active subjects and inert objects, culture and nature, and a conceptualization of meaning as being external to the art itself. The chapter proposes a move away from such an ontologically hierarchical approach to r…
The Garboldisham Macehead
The paper discusses the Garboldisham macehead: an unusual decorated macehead carved from red deer antler. The macehead was found in the 1960s deposited in a tributary of the river Little Ouse, Norfolk and is decorated with three spirals, making it especially significant. This paper reports on the analysis of the decoration using digital imaging, discusses a new radiocarbon date recently obtained for the artefact, and discusses its significance al…
The epigraphic stela of Montoro (Córdoba)
From Artefact Biographies to ‘Multiple Objects
The concept of artefact biographies is well established, but has received increasing criticism from archaeologists and anthropologists. This article reviews this concept and its critiques from the basis of a new digital analysis (using reflectance transformation imaging) of a small group of decorated Neolithic artefacts from the Isle of Man and north Wales: stone plaques. We argue that the plaques are best understood as being situated in diverse …
The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe
This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over thousands of years, and reveals how they can act as a node linking people through time, possessing huge ideological and political significance. Through the advancement of theoretical approaches and scientific methodologies, archaeologists have been able to investigate how some of these monuments provide resources to negotiate memories, …
Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe
A Reappraisal of Iberian Copper Age Goldwork
Taking as a point of departure the in-depth analysis and description of an exceptional discovery, consisting of a large hammered gold sheet decorated with embossed motifs from the well-known Chalcolithic settlement of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain), this article presents a general appraisal of the social and ideological role of gold in Copper Age Iberia. The information available for this find, including both its context and its inhe…
RTI and the study of engraved rock art
RTI is a powerful technique for recording, interpreting, and disseminating rock art. RTI enhances the perception of the micro-topography of the rock surface and it is particularly helpful for the study of engraved art. Subtle details, such as the traces left by different engraving techniques, the outlines of motifs or superimpositions are more clearly revealed through RTI's interactive re-light and enhancement tools. This paper describes the appl…
Assembling the Dead, Gathering the Living
The great site of Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville in the lower Guadalquivir valley of southwest Spain, is presented in the context of debate about the nature of Copper Age society in southern Iberia as a whole. Many aspects of the layout, use, character and development of Valencina remain unclear, just as there are major unresolved questions about the kind of society represented there and in southern Iberia, from the late fourth to the l…
RTI and the study of engraved rock art
RTI is a powerful technique for recording, interpreting, and disseminating rock art. RTI enhances the perception of the micro-topography of the rock surface and it is particularly helpful for the study of engraved art. Subtle details, such as the traces left by different engraving techniques, the outlines of motifs or superimpositions are more clearly revealed through RTI's interactive re-light and enhancement tools. This paper describes the appl…
Digital imaging and prehistoric imagery
Rethinking Iberian 'warrior' stelae
Iberian 'warrior' stelae have captured the imagination of researchers and the public for more than a century. Traditionally, stelae were considered 'de-contextualised' monuments, and research typically focused on the study of their iconography, paying little or no attention to their immediate contexts. As a result, despite the large number of these stelae known to date (c. 140) and the ample body of literature that has dealt with them, fundamenta…
From Artefact Biographies to ‘Multiple Objects
The concept of artefact biographies is well established, but has received increasing criticism from archaeologists and anthropologists. This article reviews this concept and its critiques from the basis of a new digital analysis (using reflectance transformation imaging) of a small group of decorated Neolithic artefacts from the Isle of Man and north Wales: stone plaques. We argue that the plaques are best understood as being situated in diverse …
Shaping Social Identities in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Western Iberia
This paper assesses the applicability of modern notions of gender identity and individuality, and examines ‘relationality’ as a key dimension structuring social identity during the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Early Iron Age in western Iberia through a focus on funerary practices and stelae- and statue-menhir-making. It is argued that these practices were involved in the recollection of genealogical and mythical pasts. They entailed the cr…
Human, Transhuman, Posthuman Digital Archaeologies
Current archaeological thought evokes a sparking Catherine wheel: spinning fireworks that detonate light, colour, and sound with every movement. These theoretical turns swirl alongside the ongoing development and adoption of scientific and digital techniques that have wide-ranging implications for archaeological practices and interpretations. Two particularly combustible developments are posthumanism and the ontological turn, which emerged within…
Digital Sensoriality
The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods, has been severely critiqued and challenged in the past decade. This discourse, however, has largely shaped the way that figurines are depicted in archaeological iterations and publications, and it is this corpus of images that has in turn shaped further thinking and dis…
A Reappraisal of Iberian Copper Age Goldwork
Taking as a point of departure the in-depth analysis and description of an exceptional discovery, consisting of a large hammered gold sheet decorated with embossed motifs from the well-known Chalcolithic settlement of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain), this article presents a general appraisal of the social and ideological role of gold in Copper Age Iberia. The information available for this find, including both its context and its inhe…
The Garboldisham Macehead
The paper discusses the Garboldisham macehead: an unusual decorated macehead carved from red deer antler. The macehead was found in the 1960s deposited in a tributary of the river Little Ouse, Norfolk and is decorated with three spirals, making it especially significant. This paper reports on the analysis of the decoration using digital imaging, discusses a new radiocarbon date recently obtained for the artefact, and discusses its significance al…
Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates
This chapter assesses the extent to which gender-informed narratives exist in archaeological exhibitions in Europe in the twenty-first century. It does so by examining a selection of permanent and temporary exhibitions organised in museums but not exclusively, based on the authors’ per sonal observations during museum visits and the review of current publications on gender in archaeological museums. The chapter argues that the integration of gend…
In the bosom of the Earth
Antequera in southern Spain is widely recognised as an outstanding example of the European megalithic phenomenon. One of its most remarkable features is the evident relationship between conspicuous natural formations and human-built monuments. Here, the authors report the results of their investigation of a tomb newly discovered at the site of Piedras Blancas at the foot of La Peña de los Enamorados, a limestone massif that dominates the Antequer…
Seafaring megaliths
Rock art technology, digital imaging and experimental archaeology
Este artículo propone un enfoque metodológico para el estudio de la tecnología del arte rupestre que combina la aplicación de técnicas de imagen digital (en particular, Reflectance Transformation Imaging, RTI) con experimentos de recreación de arte rupestre. Se argumenta que este tipo de enfoque ‘bottom-up’, combinando dos líneas de evidencia complementarias, tiene el potencial de ofrecer información valiosa sobre las comunidades de práctica invo…
La apropiación local de ideales guerreros en la Europa de la Edad del Bronce Final
Este estudio ofrece nuevos datos sobre la apropiación local de los ideales asociados al guerrero en Europa durante la Edad del Bronce Final a través del nuevo estudio de los grabados de Cancho Roano y Arroyo Tamujoso 8, situados en el Suroeste de la península ibérica, de sus soportes y contextos paisajísticos. Emplea tecnologías digitales de vanguardia para identificar algunos de los particularismos más distintivos de esa iconografía, revelando d…
Making a Mark
This paper presents key results of theMaking a Markproject (2014–2016), which aimed to provide a contextual framework for the analysis of mark making on portable artefacts in the British and Irish Neolithic by comparing them with other mark-making practices, including rock art and passage tomb art. The project used digital imaging techniques, including Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and improved radiocarbon chronologies, to develop a n…
Enigmatic Images from Remote Prehistory’
This chapter explores questions of ontology in rock art analysis. More specifically, it argues that the distinction between ‘informed’ methods and ‘formal’ methods reproduces some problematic dichotomies, such as the distinction between active subjects and inert objects, culture and nature, and a conceptualization of meaning as being external to the art itself. The chapter proposes a move away from such an ontologically hierarchical approach to r…
The epigraphic stela of Montoro (Córdoba)
Shaping Social Identities in Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Western Iberia
This paper assesses the applicability of modern notions of gender identity and individuality, and examines ‘relationality’ as a key dimension structuring social identity during the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Early Iron Age in western Iberia through a focus on funerary practices and stelae- and statue-menhir-making. It is argued that these practices were involved in the recollection of genealogical and mythical pasts. They entailed the cr…
The Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe
This volume explores the pervasive influence exerted by some prehistoric monuments on European social life over thousands of years, and reveals how they can act as a node linking people through time, possessing huge ideological and political significance. Through the advancement of theoretical approaches and scientific methodologies, archaeologists have been able to investigate how some of these monuments provide resources to negotiate memories, …
Lives of Prehistoric Monuments in Iron Age, Roman, and Medieval Europe
A Reappraisal of Iberian Copper Age Goldwork
Taking as a point of departure the in-depth analysis and description of an exceptional discovery, consisting of a large hammered gold sheet decorated with embossed motifs from the well-known Chalcolithic settlement of Valencina de la Concepción (Seville, Spain), this article presents a general appraisal of the social and ideological role of gold in Copper Age Iberia. The information available for this find, including both its context and its inhe…
RTI and the study of engraved rock art
RTI is a powerful technique for recording, interpreting, and disseminating rock art. RTI enhances the perception of the micro-topography of the rock surface and it is particularly helpful for the study of engraved art. Subtle details, such as the traces left by different engraving techniques, the outlines of motifs or superimpositions are more clearly revealed through RTI's interactive re-light and enhancement tools. This paper describes the appl…
Digital imaging and prehistoric imagery
From Artefact Biographies to ‘Multiple Objects
The concept of artefact biographies is well established, but has received increasing criticism from archaeologists and anthropologists. This article reviews this concept and its critiques from the basis of a new digital analysis (using reflectance transformation imaging) of a small group of decorated Neolithic artefacts from the Isle of Man and north Wales: stone plaques. We argue that the plaques are best understood as being situated in diverse …
Enigmatic Images from Remote Prehistory’
This chapter explores questions of ontology in rock art analysis. More specifically, it argues that the distinction between ‘informed’ methods and ‘formal’ methods reproduces some problematic dichotomies, such as the distinction between active subjects and inert objects, culture and nature, and a conceptualization of meaning as being external to the art itself. The chapter proposes a move away from such an ontologically hierarchical approach to r…
The Garboldisham Macehead
The paper discusses the Garboldisham macehead: an unusual decorated macehead carved from red deer antler. The macehead was found in the 1960s deposited in a tributary of the river Little Ouse, Norfolk and is decorated with three spirals, making it especially significant. This paper reports on the analysis of the decoration using digital imaging, discusses a new radiocarbon date recently obtained for the artefact, and discusses its significance al…
The epigraphic stela of Montoro (Córdoba)
Assembling the Dead, Gathering the Living
The great site of Valencina de la Concepción, near Seville in the lower Guadalquivir valley of southwest Spain, is presented in the context of debate about the nature of Copper Age society in southern Iberia as a whole. Many aspects of the layout, use, character and development of Valencina remain unclear, just as there are major unresolved questions about the kind of society represented there and in southern Iberia, from the late fourth to the l…
Human, Transhuman, Posthuman Digital Archaeologies
Current archaeological thought evokes a sparking Catherine wheel: spinning fireworks that detonate light, colour, and sound with every movement. These theoretical turns swirl alongside the ongoing development and adoption of scientific and digital techniques that have wide-ranging implications for archaeological practices and interpretations. Two particularly combustible developments are posthumanism and the ontological turn, which emerged within…
Digital Sensoriality
The image-based discourse on clay figurines that treated them as merely artistic representations, the meaning of which needs to be deciphered through various iconological methods, has been severely critiqued and challenged in the past decade. This discourse, however, has largely shaped the way that figurines are depicted in archaeological iterations and publications, and it is this corpus of images that has in turn shaped further thinking and dis…
Rethinking Iberian 'warrior' stelae
Iberian 'warrior' stelae have captured the imagination of researchers and the public for more than a century. Traditionally, stelae were considered 'de-contextualised' monuments, and research typically focused on the study of their iconography, paying little or no attention to their immediate contexts. As a result, despite the large number of these stelae known to date (c. 140) and the ample body of literature that has dealt with them, fundamenta…
Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds
This paper examines how monuments with ‘local’ idiosyncrasies are key in processes of place-making and how, through persistence, such places can engage in supra-local and even ‘global’ dynamics. Departing from a detailed revision of its context, materiality and iconography, we show how a remarkable Iberian ‘warrior’ stela brings together the geo-strategic potential of a unique site, located literally between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic wor…
The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways
La apropiación local de ideales guerreros en la Europa de la Edad del Bronce Final
Este estudio ofrece nuevos datos sobre la apropiación local de los ideales asociados al guerrero en Europa durante la Edad del Bronce Final a través del nuevo estudio de los grabados de Cancho Roano y Arroyo Tamujoso 8, situados en el Suroeste de la península ibérica, de sus soportes y contextos paisajísticos. Emplea tecnologías digitales de vanguardia para identificar algunos de los particularismos más distintivos de esa iconografía, revelando d…
Making a Mark
This paper presents key results of theMaking a Markproject (2014–2016), which aimed to provide a contextual framework for the analysis of mark making on portable artefacts in the British and Irish Neolithic by comparing them with other mark-making practices, including rock art and passage tomb art. The project used digital imaging techniques, including Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI), and improved radiocarbon chronologies, to develop a n…
Rock art technology, digital imaging and experimental archaeology
Este artículo propone un enfoque metodológico para el estudio de la tecnología del arte rupestre que combina la aplicación de técnicas de imagen digital (en particular, Reflectance Transformation Imaging, RTI) con experimentos de recreación de arte rupestre. Se argumenta que este tipo de enfoque ‘bottom-up’, combinando dos líneas de evidencia complementarias, tiene el potencial de ofrecer información valiosa sobre las comunidades de práctica invo…
Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps
In the Mio-Pliocene calcareous sandstone slabs used as capstones at La Pastora tholos in the Copper Age megasite of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán (SW Spain), marine bioerosion structures produced in the 3rd millennium BCE were recognised. In this work, we focus on the perforations made by the lithophage bivalve Petricola lithophaga, called Gastrochaenolites, specifically on its functionality as a ‘trap’ of sediment of the enviro…
Idols' in late prehistoric Iberia
These two handsome volumes stem from the landmark exhibition 'Idolos: Miradas Milenarias/Ídolos: Olhares Milenares' (Idols: Millenary Gazes), which assembled an impressive collection of figurines and decorated artefacts from Neolithic and Copper Age Iberia. A total of 270 archaeological artefacts from 27 museums (plus one private collector) were displayed together for the first time, with the aim of bringing current understanding of these artefac…
In the bosom of the Earth
Antequera in southern Spain is widely recognised as an outstanding example of the European megalithic phenomenon. One of its most remarkable features is the evident relationship between conspicuous natural formations and human-built monuments. Here, the authors report the results of their investigation of a tomb newly discovered at the site of Piedras Blancas at the foot of La Peña de los Enamorados, a limestone massif that dominates the Antequer…
Let’s Talk About Gender—The Place of Gender in Current Archaeological Debates
Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates
This chapter assesses the extent to which gender-informed narratives exist in archaeological exhibitions in Europe in the twenty-first century. It does so by examining a selection of permanent and temporary exhibitions organised in museums but not exclusively, based on the authors’ per sonal observations during museum visits and the review of current publications on gender in archaeological museums. The chapter argues that the integration of gend…
Seafaring megaliths
Archaeology (18 obras) · History (18 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (16 obras) · Art (12 obras) · Geography (10 obras) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (9 obras) · Geology (8 obras) · History (7 obras) · Prehistory (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras)