Xavier Rubio-Campillo
Biographic Data
| ID | 113732 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xavier Rubio-Campillo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xavier |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubio-Campillo |
| SIGNATURE | RUBIO-CAMPILLO X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4428-4335 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 34 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Remake/Remodel: Topic Modelling to Examine Shifting Archaeological Heritage Discourse
Archaeological heritage discourse produced within the academic context helps to shape and support decision-making capacities in managing, conserving, and disseminating archaeological heritage landscapes for consumption. Whether the result is additional research or reshaping these sites and landscapes within a public gaze, texts within the academic record give insight into the factors effecting the trajectory of research. This article aims to high…
The Ecocritical Dimensions of Entertainment Video Games: A Systematic Review
As the climate crisis escalates, video games are gaining recognition for shaping environmental perspectives that might inspire change. Although research has tended to focus on serious games, the ecocritical potential of entertainment games is increasingly advocated. However, this potential remains underexplored from a transdisciplinary perspective that encompasses fields such as ecogame studies, game literacies, and game-based learning. This syst…
Counter-Memories of the Spanish Civil War: Vandalism of Bilbao’s Iron Belt Fortified Line (Basque Country)
Archaeological traces of warfare are often complex heritage, with traumatic historical events generating contested political narratives even decades later, or longer. In the context of the Spanish Civil War, the fortified line known as Bilbao’s Iron Belt embodies tensions between different narratives of the war as it affected the Basque Country. These tensions are sometimes materialised through acts of vandalism – graffiti, destruction or deliber…
Battlefield memories: The legacy of Bilbao’s Iron Belt (Spanish Civil War) through digital humanities
The memorialisation of conflict heritage is a complex process due to its traumatic origin. One iconic example is the Iron Belt, a mythical line of fortifications defending Bilbao during the Spanish Civil War, which has been repurposed as a political tool to convey diverse interpretations of the conflict. This article explores the dynamics of its memorialisation and examines how the same archaeological record can generate contrasting war narrative…
Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations
Compared to what is found in many other scientific disciplines, archaeological data are typically scarce, biased and fragmented. This, coupled with the fact that archaeologists can rarely test their hypotheses using experimental design, makes archaeological inference and our ability to assess the robustness of quantitative methods used to make such inferences challenging. Archaeoriddle is a project that was born as an attempt to compare archaeolo…
Spatial analysis of long-term mobility dynamics among hunter-gatherer groups in mountain areas: The case of Montlleó (Eastern Pyrenees)
In Palaeolithic research, there has always been a need to understand the relationship between mobility, territoriality and the resource exploitation of hunter-gatherer groups. In the present study, we combine the data obtained from the archaeopetrological analysis of chert tools, which include textural, micropalaeontological and geochemical analyses, with geographic information to explore mobility in the Pyrenees region. We have applied computati…
Which ideas do we get from war museums? A computational text analysis of the museums of the Battle of the Ebro (Spanish Civil War)
‘Get a butt like a rock’: Cultivating adolescents’ critical consciousness of physical self-concept through a physical education intervention
Background Adolescents frequently struggle with body-related concerns, making Physical Self-Concept (PSC) a crucial component of their overall self-concept. Prior research in Physical Education (PE) has suggested various physical training programmes aimed at improving PSC. However, these studies often overlook the underlying sociocultural influences to PSC, such as social media or peers. Therefore, the present study examines the role of critical …
What History are we playing today? An analysis over 50 years of historical board games
The past is a primary source of inspiration for the flourishing cultural industry of board games as game designers are inspired by a variety of periods and historical events to craft unique visions of the past. While previous works have explored the potential and biases of board games, there has been no work to date able to identify at a large scale what themes and biases are found in historical board games. A Digital Humanities framework has bee…
Trigo, Pólvora Y Datos: El Abastecimiento De Barcelona Durante El Asedio De 1713-1714 Bajo La Lente De Las Humanidades Digitales
La investigación de la conectividad de las sociedades pasadas a través de evidencia arqueológica ha ido integrando diversas herramientas computacionales, que han mejorado nuestra comprensión de las dinámicas de interacción entre grupos y territorios. Esta adopción de métodos computacionales en arqueología no ha tenido un desarrollo paralelo en la investigación histórica, pese al enorme potencial de las fuentes textuales para explorar patrones de …
A Spatial Connectivity Approach to Landscapes of Conflict: Julius Caesar and the Assault to Puig Ciutat (NE Iberian Peninsula)
Landscape plays a vital role in the development of military campaigns through the definition of geostrategic landmarks that structure the control of the territory, the imposition of constraints to the movement of armies and the identification of features that facilitate defence against attackers. These factors are linked to the study of past spatial mobility which is typically done by finding optimal pathways between pairs of points using Least-C…
Beyond Least Cost Paths: Circuit theory, maritime mobility and patterns of urbanism in the Roman Adriatic
Traditionally, Least Cost Paths (LCP) are used for exploring mobility across archaeological landscapes. However, LCPs only highlight optimal paths, and implementing maritime mobility is arduous. In this paper, Circuit Theory (CT) analysis is used to analyse potential mobility. Key to this is the effect of wind patterns, dependent on the month and direction of travel, on maritime mobility. This analysis is applied to the case study of urbanism in …
The tracing of trade: Exploring the patterns of olive oil production and distribution from Roman Baetica
"Nuevas perspectivas sobre la relación entre humanos anatómicamente modernos y neandertales"
Recent years have seen a radical change in our understanding of Neanderthals due to myriad new fi ndings and analytical methods.Particularly relevant here is the revolution in Ancient DNA analysis, which has identifi ed evidence of gene fl ow amongst Neanderthal populations and anatomically modern humans.This discovery has shaken the foundations of the concept of the species itself.Archaeology has also deeply transformed our understanding of the …
Forgotten Pilots, Airfields and Aircraft: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Memory of the Republican Air Force During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39)
As the adage goes, ‘History is written by the winners’, and the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is a example of how difficult it is to revert this process. Franco’s regime (1939–75) developed a range of narratives focused on a) the justification of the military rebellion against the democratically elected Second Republic government, b) the ‘damnatio memoriae’ of the Republican armed forces and c) the development of a collective guilt about the war. T…
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies: A Manifesto
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
Identifying social learning between Roman amphorae workshops through morphometric similarity
The ecology of Roman trade. Reconstructing provincial connectivity with similarity measures
Bayesian analysis and free market trade within the Roman Empire
Were Neanderthals responsible for their own extinction
The study of spatiotemporal patterns integrating temporal uncertainty in late prehistoric settlements in northeastern Spain
Comigrants and friends: Informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India
Salpeteur, M., H. R. Patel, J. L. Molina, A. L. Balbo, X. Rubio-Campillo, V. Reyes-García, and M. Madella. 2016. Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India. Ecology and Society 21(2):20.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08332-210220
Multilevel processes and cultural adaptation: Examples From Past and Present Small-Scale Societies
Cultural adaptation has become central in the context of accelerated global change with authors increasingly acknowledging the importance of understanding multilevel processes that operate as adaptation takes place. We explore the importance of multilevel processes in explaining cultural adaptation by describing how processes leading to cultural (mis)adaptation are linked through a complex nested hierarchy, where the lower levels combine into new…
Combined Arms Warfare in the Spanish Civil War: The Assault on the Republican Defence Line at Fatarella Ridge
In terms of approaches to warfare, the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) has traditionally been seen as a transition between the First and Second World Wars. The idea is based on several reports written by designated observers from Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. Certainly, some of the tactics and equipment of these armies made their first appearance during this conflict.However, this view raises several questions, as the experience and tactics ob…
Centurions in the Roman Legion: Computer Simulation and Complex Systems
The role of centurions in Roman warfare has never been decisively established. Historical sources suggest that centurions exerted an influence on the performance of the Roman battle line that was highly disproportionate to their numbers, as well as to their particular actions. However, the lack of a formal framework of Roman tactics does not allow this proposition to be tested. The results obtained from an agent-based model (abm) of Roman warfare…
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies: A Manifesto
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
When Knowledge Follows Blood: Kin Groups and the Distribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Community of Seminomadic Pastoralists, Gujarat (India)
Understanding the patterns and processes underlying the heterogeneous distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) across communities of natural resource users is a growing research topic. However, social organization as a factor potentially shaping TEK intracultural distribution has received scant attention. Here, we analyze the role played by kinship groups-namely, patrilineal lineages and segments-in shaping bodies of TEK among a gro…
Identifying social learning between Roman amphorae workshops through morphometric similarity
Mapping changes in late prehistoric landscapes: A case study in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
Introduction to Simulating the Past
Agent-Based Simulation of Holocene Monsoon Precipitation Patterns and Hunter-Gatherer Population Dynamics in Semi-arid Environments
Simulating archaeologists? Using agent-based modelling to improve battlefield excavations
Beyond Least Cost Paths: Circuit theory, maritime mobility and patterns of urbanism in the Roman Adriatic
Traditionally, Least Cost Paths (LCP) are used for exploring mobility across archaeological landscapes. However, LCPs only highlight optimal paths, and implementing maritime mobility is arduous. In this paper, Circuit Theory (CT) analysis is used to analyse potential mobility. Key to this is the effect of wind patterns, dependent on the month and direction of travel, on maritime mobility. This analysis is applied to the case study of urbanism in …
The ecology of Roman trade. Reconstructing provincial connectivity with similarity measures
The study of spatiotemporal patterns integrating temporal uncertainty in late prehistoric settlements in northeastern Spain
Comigrants and friends: Informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India
Salpeteur, M., H. R. Patel, J. L. Molina, A. L. Balbo, X. Rubio-Campillo, V. Reyes-García, and M. Madella. 2016. Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India. Ecology and Society 21(2):20.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08332-210220
The Spatiotemporal Model of an 18th-Century City Siege
The importance of terrain in warfare has often encouraged an intense relation between military conflicts and the use of techniques designed to understand space. This is especially relevant since the modern era, where the engineers who built and assaulted city defenses recorded the events with diverse documentation, including reports, diagrams, and maps. A large number of these sources contain spatial and temporal information, but it is difficult …
The tracing of trade: Exploring the patterns of olive oil production and distribution from Roman Baetica
Bayesian analysis and free market trade within the Roman Empire
Were Neanderthals responsible for their own extinction
Multilevel processes and cultural adaptation: Examples From Past and Present Small-Scale Societies
Cultural adaptation has become central in the context of accelerated global change with authors increasingly acknowledging the importance of understanding multilevel processes that operate as adaptation takes place. We explore the importance of multilevel processes in explaining cultural adaptation by describing how processes leading to cultural (mis)adaptation are linked through a complex nested hierarchy, where the lower levels combine into new…
An Archaeological Study of Talamanca Battlefield
The Peace of Utrecht (1713) ended the War of the Spanish Succession as a global European conflict. However, the treaty abandoned to their fate the Spanish territories that had supported Archduke Charles. Resistance to the House of Bourbon was focused in the city of Barcelona, which was immediately put under siege. However, the Catalan government managed to create a powerful army outside the siege belt of the capital. This force, comprising almost…
Assessing quantitative methods in archaeology via simulated datasets: The Archaeoriddle challenge. Concept, project and motivations
Compared to what is found in many other scientific disciplines, archaeological data are typically scarce, biased and fragmented. This, coupled with the fact that archaeologists can rarely test their hypotheses using experimental design, makes archaeological inference and our ability to assess the robustness of quantitative methods used to make such inferences challenging. Archaeoriddle is a project that was born as an attempt to compare archaeolo…
Forgotten Pilots, Airfields and Aircraft: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Memory of the Republican Air Force During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39)
As the adage goes, ‘History is written by the winners’, and the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is a example of how difficult it is to revert this process. Franco’s regime (1939–75) developed a range of narratives focused on a) the justification of the military rebellion against the democratically elected Second Republic government, b) the ‘damnatio memoriae’ of the Republican armed forces and c) the development of a collective guilt about the war. T…
Combined Arms Warfare in the Spanish Civil War: The Assault on the Republican Defence Line at Fatarella Ridge
In terms of approaches to warfare, the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) has traditionally been seen as a transition between the First and Second World Wars. The idea is based on several reports written by designated observers from Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. Certainly, some of the tactics and equipment of these armies made their first appearance during this conflict.However, this view raises several questions, as the experience and tactics ob…
Land Use Patterns in Central Asia. Step 1: The Musical Chairs Model
An Archaeological Study of Talamanca Battlefield
The Peace of Utrecht (1713) ended the War of the Spanish Succession as a global European conflict. However, the treaty abandoned to their fate the Spanish territories that had supported Archduke Charles. Resistance to the House of Bourbon was focused in the city of Barcelona, which was immediately put under siege. However, the Catalan government managed to create a powerful army outside the siege belt of the capital. This force, comprising almost…
Simulating archaeologists? Using agent-based modelling to improve battlefield excavations
Evidence of traditional knowledge loss among a contemporary indigenous society
Land Use Patterns in Central Asia. Step 1: The Musical Chairs Model
Introduction to Simulating the Past
Agent-Based Simulation of Holocene Monsoon Precipitation Patterns and Hunter-Gatherer Population Dynamics in Semi-arid Environments
The Spatiotemporal Model of an 18th-Century City Siege
The importance of terrain in warfare has often encouraged an intense relation between military conflicts and the use of techniques designed to understand space. This is especially relevant since the modern era, where the engineers who built and assaulted city defenses recorded the events with diverse documentation, including reports, diagrams, and maps. A large number of these sources contain spatial and temporal information, but it is difficult …
Combined Arms Warfare in the Spanish Civil War: The Assault on the Republican Defence Line at Fatarella Ridge
In terms of approaches to warfare, the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) has traditionally been seen as a transition between the First and Second World Wars. The idea is based on several reports written by designated observers from Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union. Certainly, some of the tactics and equipment of these armies made their first appearance during this conflict.However, this view raises several questions, as the experience and tactics ob…
Centurions in the Roman Legion: Computer Simulation and Complex Systems
The role of centurions in Roman warfare has never been decisively established. Historical sources suggest that centurions exerted an influence on the performance of the Roman battle line that was highly disproportionate to their numbers, as well as to their particular actions. However, the lack of a formal framework of Roman tactics does not allow this proposition to be tested. The results obtained from an agent-based model (abm) of Roman warfare…
When Knowledge Follows Blood: Kin Groups and the Distribution of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in a Community of Seminomadic Pastoralists, Gujarat (India)
Understanding the patterns and processes underlying the heterogeneous distribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) across communities of natural resource users is a growing research topic. However, social organization as a factor potentially shaping TEK intracultural distribution has received scant attention. Here, we analyze the role played by kinship groups-namely, patrilineal lineages and segments-in shaping bodies of TEK among a gro…
Mapping changes in late prehistoric landscapes: A case study in the Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
Were Neanderthals responsible for their own extinction
The study of spatiotemporal patterns integrating temporal uncertainty in late prehistoric settlements in northeastern Spain
Comigrants and friends: Informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India
Salpeteur, M., H. R. Patel, J. L. Molina, A. L. Balbo, X. Rubio-Campillo, V. Reyes-García, and M. Madella. 2016. Comigrants and friends: informal networks and the transmission of traditional ecological knowledge among seminomadic pastoralists of Gujarat, India. Ecology and Society 21(2):20.http://dx.doi.org/10.5751/ES-08332-210220
Multilevel processes and cultural adaptation: Examples From Past and Present Small-Scale Societies
Cultural adaptation has become central in the context of accelerated global change with authors increasingly acknowledging the importance of understanding multilevel processes that operate as adaptation takes place. We explore the importance of multilevel processes in explaining cultural adaptation by describing how processes leading to cultural (mis)adaptation are linked through a complex nested hierarchy, where the lower levels combine into new…
Bayesian analysis and free market trade within the Roman Empire
Identifying social learning between Roman amphorae workshops through morphometric similarity
The ecology of Roman trade. Reconstructing provincial connectivity with similarity measures
Forgotten Pilots, Airfields and Aircraft: A Transdisciplinary Approach to the Memory of the Republican Air Force During the Spanish Civil War (1936–39)
As the adage goes, ‘History is written by the winners’, and the Spanish Civil War (1936–39) is a example of how difficult it is to revert this process. Franco’s regime (1939–75) developed a range of narratives focused on a) the justification of the military rebellion against the democratically elected Second Republic government, b) the ‘damnatio memoriae’ of the Republican armed forces and c) the development of a collective guilt about the war. T…
Formal Modelling Approaches to Complexity Science in Roman Studies: A Manifesto
Complexity science refers to the theoretical research perspectives and the formal modelling tools designed to study complex systems. A complex system consists of separate entities interacting following a set of (often simple) rules that collectively give rise to unexpected patterns featuring vastly different properties than the entities that produced them. In recent years a number of case studies have shown that such approaches have great potenti…
"Nuevas perspectivas sobre la relación entre humanos anatómicamente modernos y neandertales"
Recent years have seen a radical change in our understanding of Neanderthals due to myriad new fi ndings and analytical methods.Particularly relevant here is the revolution in Ancient DNA analysis, which has identifi ed evidence of gene fl ow amongst Neanderthal populations and anatomically modern humans.This discovery has shaken the foundations of the concept of the species itself.Archaeology has also deeply transformed our understanding of the …
Beyond Least Cost Paths: Circuit theory, maritime mobility and patterns of urbanism in the Roman Adriatic
Traditionally, Least Cost Paths (LCP) are used for exploring mobility across archaeological landscapes. However, LCPs only highlight optimal paths, and implementing maritime mobility is arduous. In this paper, Circuit Theory (CT) analysis is used to analyse potential mobility. Key to this is the effect of wind patterns, dependent on the month and direction of travel, on maritime mobility. This analysis is applied to the case study of urbanism in …
The tracing of trade: Exploring the patterns of olive oil production and distribution from Roman Baetica
A Spatial Connectivity Approach to Landscapes of Conflict: Julius Caesar and the Assault to Puig Ciutat (NE Iberian Peninsula)
Landscape plays a vital role in the development of military campaigns through the definition of geostrategic landmarks that structure the control of the territory, the imposition of constraints to the movement of armies and the identification of features that facilitate defence against attackers. These factors are linked to the study of past spatial mobility which is typically done by finding optimal pathways between pairs of points using Least-C…
Trigo, Pólvora Y Datos: El Abastecimiento De Barcelona Durante El Asedio De 1713-1714 Bajo La Lente De Las Humanidades Digitales
La investigación de la conectividad de las sociedades pasadas a través de evidencia arqueológica ha ido integrando diversas herramientas computacionales, que han mejorado nuestra comprensión de las dinámicas de interacción entre grupos y territorios. Esta adopción de métodos computacionales en arqueología no ha tenido un desarrollo paralelo en la investigación histórica, pese al enorme potencial de las fuentes textuales para explorar patrones de …
Archaeology (17 works) · Computer Science (15 works) · Geography (15 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (12 works) · History (11 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (10 works) · Biology (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · History (7 works) · Political science (7 works)