Arturo Morales Muñiz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 144876 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Arturo Morales Muñiz |
| NOMBRES | Arturo Morales |
| APELLIDO | Muñiz |
| FIRMA | MUÑIZ A M |
| AFILIACIONES | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9933-6836 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 105 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1941 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
The elephant in the oppidum. Preliminary analysis of a carpal bone from a Punic context at the archaeological site of Colina de los Quemados (Córdoba, Spain)
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 …
Fishing and the Church
Taphonomy through fisheyes
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in archaeological fish taphonomy, synthesizing key achievements in the field. We remark that although taphonomic research in archaeology has traditionally focused on mammalian remains, fish taphonomy began to grow steadily from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and was followed by exponential growth in subsequent decades. Today, fish taphonomy is experiencing an unprecedented ex…
The Zacatín rock shelter (Granada, Spain)
Gift of the Mamelukes
The number of exotic animal species that were introduced in Iberia during the Middle Ages constitute a defectively documented area of research, mostly addressed through historiographic methods. In this paper we evidence that even in the case of large, exotic animals exchanged as gifts among dignitaries the documentary data can be painfully incomplete. This is the case of the animal embassy that the Mamluk sultan Baybars al Bunduqdari sent in 1261…
Halal and Makruk
Muslim religion has strict rules to determine what kinds of foodstuffs, and under what circumstances, are deemed appropriate for consumption. Fishes are not an exception to this rule and features such as body shape or the presence and conspicuousness of scales dictate whether certain species are acceptable or rejected. In this paper, an overview of the Iberian ichthyoarchaeological record from Muslim sites is presented to ascertain whether differ…
Length estimation of Atlantic bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus ) using vertebrae
Atlantic bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus ; BFT) is a large (up to 3.3 m in length) pelagic predator which has been exploited throughout the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean since prehistoric times, as attested by its archeological remains. One key insight derivable from these remains is body size, which can indicate past fishing abilities, the impact of fishing, and past migration behavior. Despite this, there exists no reliable method to estima…
The medieval fisheries of Galicia (Northwestern Iberia)
The origin and development of the Iberian Medieval fisheries is a poorly documented phenomenon both from the standpoint of historical (documentary) and material (archaeological) evidence. Such dearth of knowledge can be explained in terms of proximal (i.e., a deficient retrieval of fish remains) and ultimate causes. Among the latter, the Muslim invasion, that lasted ca. 800 years of the “medieval millennium” in the Iberian Peninsula, needs to be …
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains
Evaluation of size-related salmonid fish vertebrae deformation due to compression
Ichthyoarchaeology
Phoretic oribatids (Acari, Oribatida) as bird bioindicators? Insights from the site of Tabacalera (Gijón, N. Spain, 6th-7th centuries AD)
Prehistoric and historical insights in avian zooarchaeology, taphonomy and ancient bird use
Fish- and Shellmiddens from Galicia (Northwest Spain)
The physiographical features of the Galician sea, in particular its temperature, marine currents and plankton richness, have turned its waters into one of the most biologically diversified marine regions of the planet. The 1500 km of shorelines from this Northwest Iberian region are dotted with rías (Galician fjords) where settlements devoted to fishing and trade have existed since prehistoric times. These activities left abundant testimonies in …
Recursos y hábitos de consumo de la cabaña ganadera en Carthago Spartaria en época bizantina
This work presents the results from the analysis of the bone material from the Byzantine harbor quarter overlapping the Roman theater of Carthago Spartaria (Cartagena, Murcia). From a broad sample of 2,723 fragments from debris pits and garbage dumps, the production strategies and the consuming patterns of the livestock are established during a historical period of the city in which its appearance has nothing to do with the monumental image of a …
Comparison and optimization of genetic tools used for the identification of ancient fish remains recovered from archaeological excavations and museum collections in the Mediterranean region
Among the many fish species commercially exploited since prehistoric times, Atlantic bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus ) is one of the most economically significant, having left an indelible imprint on several civilizations including the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans. Here, we describe our efforts to identify tuna specimens among the remains of 345 fish vertebrae and bones in several large collections from the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, an…
Ichthyoarchaeology
New insights into the introduction of the common genet, Genetta genetta (L.) in Europe
Multi-purpose fossils? The reappraisal of an Elephas antiquus molar from El Pirulejo (Magdalenian; Córdoba, Spain)
La caverna iluminada
En este trabajo presentamos el estudio arqueológico, paleontológico, tafonómico, cronológico y geoquímico de una valva de ostra hallada en la cueva de La Pileta. El ejemplar procede de depósitos fosilíferos neógenos distantes más de 10 km del yacimiento. Una vez adaptada, la concha fue empleada como lámpara portátil. La cronología 14C/AMS de la costra carbonatada que sellaba la cubeta nos remite al periodo Gravetiense. Según diversos indicios en …
Santa Catalina (Lequeitio, Basque Country)
Hidden signatures of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Iberia
The Iberian zebro
Seven centuries before the discovery of the African zebras by the Europeans, the names zebro and zebra were given to an enigmatic equid widely reported in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Roughly 150 toponyms deriving from the words zebro/a have been recorded in Iberia starting from the IXth century A.D. together with 65 Portuguese Forais and 16 Spanish Fueros (i.e. town laws) referred to these animals as onagri or zebros — Latin and…
Late Upper Paleolithic Subsistence Strategies in southern Iberia
Faunal reports from Magdalenian levels at Cueva de Nerja have been surveyed from both a taxonomic and a paleocultural standpoint in order to spot overall and specific patterns concerning the exploitation of animal resources. Although both diachronic and inter-site comparisons are limited due to the scarcity of data and the assemblages themselves have been studied by different scientists with different aims and methods, both first- and second-orde…
Fish middens”
More questions than answers
Liesau, Corina, Daza, Arantxa, Llorente, Laura, Morales, Arturo (2013): More questions than answers: the singular animal deposits from Camino de Las Yeseras (Chalcolithic, Madrid, Spain). Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 277-286, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a6
Compression and digestion as agents of vertebral deformation in Sciaenidae, Merlucidae and Gadidae remains
Prehistoric and historical insights in avian zooarchaeology, taphonomy and ancient bird use
Santa Catalina (Lequeitio, Basque Country)
Hidden signatures of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Iberia
Dromedaries in antiquity
A handful of finds of camel bones from Iberia now illuminate the faint story of camels in Roman and Muslim Europe-and hint at why the dromedary never became established as a domesticate in the peninsula
Marine resources from an urban Moche (470-600 ad) area in the 'Huacas del Sol y de la Luna' archaeological complex (Trujillo, Peru)
An analysis of the marine animal remains retrieved in a sector of Huacas de Moche archaeological complex is presented. The area,14C-dated between 470 and 600 ad (Moche IV/V), includes a poorly diversified fauna with two dominating species (donax clam and hake) despite the large number of secondary taxa (71). Such faunal spectrum corresponds to a secondary type of cropping strategy, likely to go through some kind of cultural filter (market), thus …
Ornithoarchaeology
Bird remains are regular, though not always abundant, elements in faunal assemblages of archaeological nature. The paper is a theoretical discussion on the importance of these remains from the standpoint of two aspects of their research: feasibility of their identification and reliability of use as palaeoenvironmental indicators
Evaluation of size-related salmonid fish vertebrae deformation due to compression
Herders or hunters? Discriminating butchery practices through phalanx breakage patterns at Cova Fosca (Castellón, Spain)
Multi-purpose fossils? The reappraisal of an Elephas antiquus molar from El Pirulejo (Magdalenian; Córdoba, Spain)
Gihayu
An overview of the faunal assemblage retrieved during preliminary excavations of the Neolithic site of Gihayu is presented. The analysis, the first of its kind carried out on a site from Yemen, reveals various similarities and differences with contemporary sites in Oman on the eastern corner of the Arabian Sea. In this site, a heavy reliance on marine resources is noted that testifies both to the collecting of shellfish as well as the fishing of …
Arqueozoología teórica
Las faunas son elementos fundamentales en la reconstrucción de las economías y de los paisajes de los asentamientos humanos. Esto ha sido ya puesto de manifiesto en numerosos trabajos. Es por ello que actualmente no se concibe un análisis integral de un yacimiento antrópico que no incluya su correspondiente informe faunístico. A pesar de esto, el papel desempeñado por la fauna en la interpretación de un complejo arqueológico no está exento de lim…
Taphonomy through fisheyes
This paper provides a comprehensive overview of recent advancements in archaeological fish taphonomy, synthesizing key achievements in the field. We remark that although taphonomic research in archaeology has traditionally focused on mammalian remains, fish taphonomy began to grow steadily from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and was followed by exponential growth in subsequent decades. Today, fish taphonomy is experiencing an unprecedented ex…
Length estimation of Atlantic bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus ) using vertebrae
Atlantic bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus ; BFT) is a large (up to 3.3 m in length) pelagic predator which has been exploited throughout the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean since prehistoric times, as attested by its archeological remains. One key insight derivable from these remains is body size, which can indicate past fishing abilities, the impact of fishing, and past migration behavior. Despite this, there exists no reliable method to estima…
The medieval fisheries of Galicia (Northwestern Iberia)
The origin and development of the Iberian Medieval fisheries is a poorly documented phenomenon both from the standpoint of historical (documentary) and material (archaeological) evidence. Such dearth of knowledge can be explained in terms of proximal (i.e., a deficient retrieval of fish remains) and ultimate causes. Among the latter, the Muslim invasion, that lasted ca. 800 years of the “medieval millennium” in the Iberian Peninsula, needs to be …
Comparison and optimization of genetic tools used for the identification of ancient fish remains recovered from archaeological excavations and museum collections in the Mediterranean region
Among the many fish species commercially exploited since prehistoric times, Atlantic bluefin tuna ( Thunnus thynnus ) is one of the most economically significant, having left an indelible imprint on several civilizations including the Phoenicians, Greeks, and Romans. Here, we describe our efforts to identify tuna specimens among the remains of 345 fish vertebrae and bones in several large collections from the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, an…
The Iberian zebro
Seven centuries before the discovery of the African zebras by the Europeans, the names zebro and zebra were given to an enigmatic equid widely reported in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Roughly 150 toponyms deriving from the words zebro/a have been recorded in Iberia starting from the IXth century A.D. together with 65 Portuguese Forais and 16 Spanish Fueros (i.e. town laws) referred to these animals as onagri or zebros — Latin and…
Archaeozoological approach to complexity
Despite its importance in the study of subsistence economies and paleoenvironmental reconstruction, archaeozoology has very seldom played a prominent role in the study of technological development, one of the agencies underlying the unfolding of human history. The reasons for such a situation are manifold, but a recurring theme is that fauna remains essentially unmodifi ed in light of technological development, or, at least, that the signals it p…
Algunas consideraciones teóricas en torno a la fauna como indicadora de espacios agrarios en la Prehistoria
La calidad bioindicadora de un taxón viene determinada por el grado de asociación con determinadas variables ambientales y no por otras circunstancias tales como su abundancia o tamaño. Desde esta perspectiva y desde el punto de vista del análisis del espacio agrario como un ecosistema de creciente importancia en la biosfera, el presente estudio analiza algunas de las circunstancias que permiten evaluar la calidad, como bioindicadores, de dos gru…
Of mice and sparrows
This paper aims to emphasize the importance of imported commensal faunas in archaeological contexts by reporting on the earliest known house sparrows and house mice from the Iberian peninsula. The finds, which date to the Iron Age of a hinterland area of the peninsula, have been identified on the basis of osteomorphological and osteometrical criteria, which are specified in the text in order to demonstrate the reliability of the identification. T…
Martí, El Hombre
Fulgor de Martí
José Martí, el santo de América
Martí
Archivo José Martí (3 and 4)
Fundación del pueblo de LaresEstampas coloniales
Análisis de la microfauna de vertebrados del Cerro de la Encantada (Prov. Ciudad Real)
Revista especializada en la publicación de trabajos originales de investigación en Prehistoria y Arqueología. Es la publicación periódica más antigua de la UAM. Su enfoque abierto a cualquier temática y época pasada, hasta la más cercana, que sea objeto de la Ciencia arqueológica se abre a una decidida proyección internacional en la que quiere basar su futuro inmediato
Identificación e identificabilidad
La ictiofauna del yacimiento tartésico de la calle del Puerto, número 10 (Huelva)
La ictiofauna del yacimiento tartésico de la calle del Puerto, número 10, está siendo objeto en estos momentos de un estudio pormenorizado que verá la luz en breve (Roselló y Morales, en prep.)- Debido al interés que tanto cultural como ambientalmente reviste este sector de la fauna arqueológica consideramos oportuno realizar un avance de dicho informe en donde se comenta la importancia e implicaciones de estos hallazgos. Éste, a su vez, conlleva…
Arqueozoología teórica
Las faunas son elementos fundamentales en la reconstrucción de las economías y de los paisajes de los asentamientos humanos. Esto ha sido ya puesto de manifiesto en numerosos trabajos. Es por ello que actualmente no se concibe un análisis integral de un yacimiento antrópico que no incluya su correspondiente informe faunístico. A pesar de esto, el papel desempeñado por la fauna en la interpretación de un complejo arqueológico no está exento de lim…
Los restos animales recuperados en la tumba 11/145 de la necrópolis de Los Castellones de Ceal (Jaén)
Se describen los restos de fauna de una tumba del yacimiento de Castellones de Ceal desglosando del componente autóctono del ajuar lo que parecen ser elementos intrusivos
Consideraciones faunísticas en la transición Neolítico-Calcolítico
En el presente análisis se estudian los restos de mamíferos recuperados en el yacimiento onubense de Papa Uvas con dos fases pertenecientes al Neolítico Final y al Calcolítico respectivamente. Aunque la química edáfica ha deteriorado mucho los restos, lo cual impide extraer conclusiones definitiva acerca de las bases de subsistencia practicadas, todo parece indicar una homogeneidad entre las cabañas de uno y otro periodo. Esta homogeneidad, ademá…
Peña Negra (Alicante)
El análisis faunístico llevado a cabo en una muestra previamente seleccionada en la asociación ósea de Peña Negra (Edad del Bronce, prov. Alicante) evidencia todos los inconvenientes derivados de una recuperación parcial de restos. Ausencia de restos sin identificar, abundancia excesiva de huesos completos y ausencia de piezas por debajo de una talla crítica, entre otros, son fenómenos evidentes que obligan al analista a ser cauteloso a la hora d…
Fish middens”
Ornithoarchaeology
Bird remains are regular, though not always abundant, elements in faunal assemblages of archaeological nature. The paper is a theoretical discussion on the importance of these remains from the standpoint of two aspects of their research: feasibility of their identification and reliability of use as palaeoenvironmental indicators
Informe sobre los restos de fauna recuperados en el Corte E (1983-1995) de la Peña Negra (Crevillente, Alicante)
Se ofrece un análisis de los restos óseos recuperados en el yacimiento del Bronce Final de La Peña Negra (Crevillente, Alicante). El material estudiado consiste en una muestra preseleccionada por el excavador, lo que explica la ausencia de especímenes inidentificables, la anormal abundancia de huesos completos y la inexistencia de restos por debajo de una talla crítica. Ello obliga a ser cautos a la hora de valorar la fuente de subsistencia de es…
Castillo de Doña Blanca
El trabajo comenta la asociación íctica detectada en lo que parece ser el más antiguo asentamiento fenicio conocido hasta ahora en la Península Ibérica. Una muestra de casi 2.500 restos, procedentes de una trinchera (Fo. 30) excavada en 1986 y cubriendo un lapso temporal de más de dos siglos ha sido analizada. En ella aparece una fauna altamente diversificada con casi 50 taxones. El estudio revela la existencia de agentes culturales y ambientales…
Of mice and sparrows
This paper aims to emphasize the importance of imported commensal faunas in archaeological contexts by reporting on the earliest known house sparrows and house mice from the Iberian peninsula. The finds, which date to the Iron Age of a hinterland area of the peninsula, have been identified on the basis of osteomorphological and osteometrical criteria, which are specified in the text in order to demonstrate the reliability of the identification. T…
Dromedaries in antiquity
A handful of finds of camel bones from Iberia now illuminate the faint story of camels in Roman and Muslim Europe-and hint at why the dromedary never became established as a domesticate in the peninsula
The evolution of the I.C.A.Z. Fish Remains Working Group (1981-1995)
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Algunas consideraciones teóricas en torno a la fauna como indicadora de espacios agrarios en la Prehistoria
La calidad bioindicadora de un taxón viene determinada por el grado de asociación con determinadas variables ambientales y no por otras circunstancias tales como su abundancia o tamaño. Desde esta perspectiva y desde el punto de vista del análisis del espacio agrario como un ecosistema de creciente importancia en la biosfera, el presente estudio analiza algunas de las circunstancias que permiten evaluar la calidad, como bioindicadores, de dos gru…
A Porcupine find from Roman Africa with a review of archaeological data from Circummediterranean sites
La recuperación de una mandíbula de puercoespín en la Ceuta romana impulsa un estudio acerca de la posible introducción de Hystrix cristata en Europa gracias a un repaso del registro arqueozoológico de yacimientos circunmediterraneos del Pleistoceno y Holoceno. Aunque escasa, la evidencia parece apuntar a que la especie es ajena a la fauna holocénica europea y que su aparición en Italia es un fenómeno tardío, nunca romano, posterior a los siglos …
Los Restos Animales Del Yacimiento De Terrera Ventura (Tabernas, Almeria)
Revista especializada en la publicación de trabajos originales de investigación en Prehistoria y Arqueología. Es la publicación periódica más antigua de la UAM. Su enfoque abierto a cualquier temática y época pasada, hasta la más cercana, que sea objeto de la Ciencia arqueológica se abre a una decidida proyección internacional en la que quiere basar su futuro inmediato
Aportación de la arqueoictiología al conocimiento de las culturas pre y protohistóricas de la Península Ibérica
Los análisis ictioarqueológicos complementan y amplían la serie de técnicas, documentales y analíticas, de que disponen prehistoriadores y arqueólogos a la hora de evaluar el papel de los peces dentro de los sistemas de interacción entre poblaciones humanas y animales en el pasado. El presente estudio proporciona una visión general del desarrollo y estado de estas investigaciones en la Península Ibérica, al tiempo que ofrece una panorámica sobre …
Late Upper Paleolithic Subsistence Strategies in southern Iberia
Faunal reports from Magdalenian levels at Cueva de Nerja have been surveyed from both a taxonomic and a paleocultural standpoint in order to spot overall and specific patterns concerning the exploitation of animal resources. Although both diachronic and inter-site comparisons are limited due to the scarcity of data and the assemblages themselves have been studied by different scientists with different aims and methods, both first- and second-orde…
Geography (42 obras) · Archaeology (30 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (21 obras) · Biology (21 obras) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (20 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (18 obras) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (17 obras) · Ecology (16 obras) · Art (14 obras) · Fishery (12 obras)