Salvador Pardo-Gordó
Biographic Data
| ID | 174302 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Salvador Pardo-Gordó |
| GIVEN NAMES | Salvador |
| FAMILY NAME | Pardo-Gordó |
| SIGNATURE | PARDO-GORDÓ S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat de València |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1060-1526 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 49 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
A high-resolution chronology for La Cueva de Los Cabezazos (Tegueste, Tenerife, Canary Islands) and its implications for aboriginal settlement dynamics
The chronology and settlement dynamics of aboriginal occupation in Tenerife remain poorly resolved compared with those of other Canary Islands, partly due to the scarcity of stratigraphically controlled radiocarbon sequences. This paper presents a high-resolution chronological reassessment of Cueva de Los Cabezazos, a key habitation site in the Barranco Agua de Dios, one of the most archaeologically significant areas for understanding Guanche set…
Bayesian chronological models of the Nerja Cave (Málaga, Spain)
The Nerja Cave is a key archaeological site in the Southern Iberian Peninsula. It was inhabited by humans from the Upper Palaeolithic until recent Prehistory (30 and 3.7 ka cal BP). Various excavation campaigns performed in its external chambers (Vestíbulo, Mina and Torca) have recovered evidence of its use as habitat and burial site. Multiple studies on these matters have been published, but, until now, no Bayesian chronological modeling that ut…
Personal ornament in transition. Final Paleolithic – Mesolithic data from the Iberian Mediterranean Region (16.5 – 7 ky cal. BP)
The present study aims at a better understanding of personal ornaments during the Late Paleolithic and Mesolithic transitions. The approach consists of a combination of the shell beads and pendants from Santa Maira (Alacant) and the information from the Mediterranean façade of the Iberian Peninsula, including the Ebro valley, allowing a systematic evaluation of species richness from a spatio-temporal perspective. An assessment of access to the so…
To ultrafilter or to not
The use of ultrafiltration remains a subject of ongoing debate among pretreatment methods employed in radiocarbon dating of mammalian archaeological bone. However, such discourse had not previously extended to the archaeology of the Canary Islands (Spain), where detailed descriptions of laboratory processing methods for collagen purification often remain absent. Our study presents a case study involving a new set of radiocarbon dates obtained fro…
Shaping wood in the Canary Islands
The first settlers of the Canary Islands arrived at this archipelago from northern Africa between the 2nd and 5th centuries CE. These communities probably knew metallurgy in their area of origin, although an adaptation process must have taken place for the successful development of woodworking strategies based on stone/bone technologies in a volcanic archipelago. In this paper, the first experimental program focusing on Prehispanic indigenous woo…
Variability and temporality of lithic production in Epipaleolithic to Early Neolithic occupations at Cova del Vidre (Catalonia, Spain)
Cova del Vidre (Roquetes, Tarragona, Spain), strategically located in El Port massif, a high-altitude mountain range contrasting with the lower course of the Ebro River, has an interrupted sequence of occupations from the beginning of the Holocene until the establishment of the first Neolithic groups (c. 10,800–5000 cal. BC). It is currently the site with the most complete sequence detected in the lower Ebro valley. The comprehensive analysis of …
The 14Canarias web application. An interactive radiocarbon database for the Canary Islands
The dataset described in this work represents the first open-access compilation of uncalibrated radiocarbon dates for the archaeology of the Canary Islands (Spain). This collaborative ongoing dataset will be updated step by step with newly published radiocarbon dates. Finally, this database has a Shiny application hosted at the Universidad de la Laguna and is freely accessible
Modelizaciones computacionales para la comprensión de fenómenos históricos y sociales
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Falta de concienciación o desconocimiento? La transparencia y la reproducibilidad en la Arqueología Computacional
La aplicación de la computación en Humanidades en la última década se ha consolidado como una disciplina clave para el estudio de los procesos históricos desde numerosas vertientes siendo necesaria la utilización de diferentes softwares y lenguajes para la elaboración de dichas aproximaciones y el posterior tratamiento de los resultados. No obstante, son muchos los trabajos que carecen de transparencia (acceso a los datos y código) por lo que se …
Adornos Personales, Contextos Funerarios Y Redes Sociales. El Horizonte De Los Sepulcros De Fosa Como Caso De Estudio
Durante la segunda mitad del VII milenio hasta la primera mitad del VI BP, el horizonte crono-cultural conocido como Sepulcros de Fosa irrumpe en Cataluña con un amplio registro funerario. La interacción social de estas comunidades puede ser medida mediante el estudio de los adornos que conforman parte del ajuar funerario ya que estos expresan afiliación grupal, identidad personal y estatus. Para medir esta interacción, se ha caracterizado la evo…
A multi-stage Bayesian modelling for building the chronocultural sequence of the Late Mesolithic at Cueva de la Cocina (Valencia, Eastern Iberia)
A multi-method approach with machine learning to evaluating the distribution and intensity of prehistoric land use in Eastern Iberia
The present study seeks to better understand the coupling of social and biophysical systems during the late Pleistocene and Holocene, a period characterized by changing interglacial conditions as well as human population expansion and intensified ecosystem management. The approach consists of a combination of patch-based archaeological survey methods, sediment column sampling for paleoenvironmental data, geospatial analysis, and machine learning …
Dataciones de contextos aborígenes y coloniales de la isla de Gran Canaria
El radiocarbono puede presentar problemas relacionados con la naturaleza de la muestra fechada, los propios del método y la fiabilidad estratigráfica del contexto fechado. Por ello, el principal objetivo de este trabajo consiste en efectuar una exploración sistemática de cada uno de ellos. Para ello ha sido realizada una revisión crítica de las fechas radiocarbónicas efectuadas en materiales procedentes de contextos arqueológicos de la isla de Gr…
Dating prehispanic and colonial sites on the island of Gran Canaria
Radiocarbon dating can give rise to problems associated with the nature of the dated sample, with the method used itself and with the stratigraphic reliability of the dated site. Consequently, the principal objective of this paper is to carry out a systematic exploration of each of these aspects. To this end, a critical review was conducted of the radiocarbon dates of materials from archaeological sites on the island of Gran Canaria. On the basis…
Fallen and Lost into the Abyss? A Mesolithic Human Skull from Sima Hedionda IV (Casares, Málaga, Iberian Peninsula)
The presence of scattered prehistoric human bones in caves and sinkholes is common in many regions of Iberia. These are usually interpreted as erratic elements coming from burial contexts, usually collective associations. These burial contexts are very frequent in karst areas of the Iberian Peninsula since the Early Neolithic, mostly in the Late Neolithic, and Copper Age, while findings from earlier chronologies are much more unusual. In this wor…
The chronology of archaeological assemblages based on an automatic Bayesian procedure
The purpose of this work is to show an automatic Bayesian procedure to obtain accurate chronological information of archaeological assemblages characterized by palimpsest or without radiocarbon dates and whose temporal information comes only from bifacial flint arrowheads. In this paper, a classification method based on the Dirichlet-multinomial inferential process and its posterior predictive probability distribution is discussed. Its purpose is…
Reflections on the Other Side. A Southern Iberia Origin for the First Pottery Production of Northern Morocco
This work is a starting point for rethinking the role of the Iberian Peninsula in the neolithisation of northern Morocco. It focuses on the similarities and divergences between the first pottery productions and their decorations in both territories. This relationship is supported by the existence of an accurate chronological gradation between the first evidence of Neolithisation in Iberian Peninsula and that of northern Morocco which suggests a n…
La inferencia cronológica bayesana aplicada a la industria lítica de la Prehistoria Reciente
En la zona del valle bajo del Ebro la problemática de los palimpsestos artefactuales líticos ha tendido a emerger en estudios que aportan cronologías relativas rígidas y lineales, con poca rigurosidad y teniendo poco en cuenta los procesos posdeposicionales que afectan a tales conjuntos. Para hacer frente a tal problemática y poder especificar y analizar a un mayor nivel estos conjuntos superficiales, se presenta la aplicación de una nueva metodo…
Análisis tecnotipológico y cronológico de la indústria lítica superficial recuperada en las terrazas del cauce del bajo Ebro
Los estudios focalizados en la Prehistoria Reciente peninsular han sido escasos en el cauce bajo del valle del Ebro (Tarragona). La investigación en esta área se caracteriza sobre todo por el estudio de los materiales recuperados en intervenciones arqueológicas de urgencia o bien en su inventario. Esto deriva en la emergencia de una problemática definida por una continua ausencia de interpretaciones válidas respecto a las dinámicas ocupacionales …
Global Processes, Regional Dynamics
The goal of this paper is to discuss the validity of radiocarbon dates as a source of knowledge for explaining social dynamics over a large region and a long period of time. We have carefully selected c. 1000 14C dates for the time interval 8000–4000 cal BC within the northwestern Mediterranean area (NE Iberian Peninsula, SE France, N Italy) and Switzerland. Using statistical analysis, we have modelled the summed probability distribution of those…
Fruits arriving to the west. Introduction of cultivated fruits in the Iberian Peninsula
Population dynamics during the Neolithic transition and the onset of megalithism in Portugal according to summed probability distribution of radiocarbon determinations
Predictive Middle Palaeolithic climatic conditions from Eastern Iberia
Timing the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula
In this paper, we describe the radiocarbon dataset compiled in the context of the project HAR2015-68962 EVOLPAST: Dinámicas evolutivas y patrones de variabilidad cultural de los últimos cazadores-recolectores y el primer Neolítico en el este peninsular (7000–4500 cal. BC) funded by the Spanish government. The dataset offers the most complete and public radiocarbon dataset focus on the Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula. Funding stateme…
Wandering through the Mesolithic. An archaeostatistical approach to explore the mobility patterns in eastern Iberia
Radiocarbon dates, climatic events, and social dynamics during the Early Neolithic in Mediterranean Iberia
New insights into the neolithisation process in southwest Europe according to spatial density analysis from calibrated radiocarbon dates
The agricultural way of life spreads throughout Europe via two main routes: the Danube corridor and the Mediterranean basin. Current archaeological literature describes the arrival to the Western Mediterranean as a rapid process which involves both demic and cultural models, and in this regard, the dispersal movement has been investigated using mathematical models, where the key factors are time and space. In this work, we have created a compilat…
Population dynamics during the Neolithic transition and the onset of megalithism in Portugal according to summed probability distribution of radiocarbon determinations
Iberian Neolithic Networks
Recent approaches have described the evolutionary dynamics of the first Neolithic societies as a cycle of rise and fall. Several authors, using mainly c14 dates as a demographic proxy, identified a general pattern of a boom in population coincident with the arrival of food production economies followed by a rapid decline some centuries afterwards in multiple European regions. Concerning Iberia, we also noted that this phenomenon correlates with a…
Predictive Middle Palaeolithic climatic conditions from Eastern Iberia
AEA 2012 Conference Reading
The Western Mediterranean, spanning southern Italy to Portugal, can be considered a single archaeological unit where the diagnostic characteristics of Early Neolithic contexts share common elements, marked by the spread of Cardium-Impressed ceramics. Although some consensus exists regarding the origin of these wares in southern Italy, the debate surrounding its process of expansion to the west remains open. Iberia is a key region for the analysis…
The Middle Neolithic of Morocco’s North-Western Atlantic Strip
Patch-based survey methods for studying prehistoric human land-use in agriculturally modified landscapes
Wandering through the Mesolithic. An archaeostatistical approach to explore the mobility patterns in eastern Iberia
A Bayesian Approach for Timing the Neolithization in Mediterranean Iberia
In this paper, we compile recent 14 C dates related to the Neolithic transition in Mediterranean Iberia and present a Bayesian chronological approach for testing the dual model , a mixed model proposed to explain the spread of farming and husbandry processes in eastern Iberia. The dual model postulates the coexistence of agricultural pioneers and indigenous Mesolithic foraging groups in the Middle Holocene. We test this general model with more re…
The chronology of archaeological assemblages based on an automatic Bayesian procedure
The purpose of this work is to show an automatic Bayesian procedure to obtain accurate chronological information of archaeological assemblages characterized by palimpsest or without radiocarbon dates and whose temporal information comes only from bifacial flint arrowheads. In this paper, a classification method based on the Dirichlet-multinomial inferential process and its posterior predictive probability distribution is discussed. Its purpose is…
Fruits arriving to the west. Introduction of cultivated fruits in the Iberian Peninsula
Evidences of branching and blending phenomena in the pottery decoration during the dispersal of the Early Neolithic across Western Europe
The origins of agriculture in Iberia
Here we discuss the importance of using the rich and growing database of high-precision, audited radiocarbon dates for high-resolution bottom-up modelling to focus on problems concerning the spread of the Neolithic in the Iberia. We also compare the spread of the Late Mesolithic (so-called Geometric) and the Early Neolithic using our modelling environment. Our results suggest that the source of radiocarbon data used to evaluate alternative hypoth…
Fallen and Lost into the Abyss? A Mesolithic Human Skull from Sima Hedionda IV (Casares, Málaga, Iberian Peninsula)
The presence of scattered prehistoric human bones in caves and sinkholes is common in many regions of Iberia. These are usually interpreted as erratic elements coming from burial contexts, usually collective associations. These burial contexts are very frequent in karst areas of the Iberian Peninsula since the Early Neolithic, mostly in the Late Neolithic, and Copper Age, while findings from earlier chronologies are much more unusual. In this wor…
Sistemas complejos adaptativos y simulación computacional en Arqueología
Tradicionalmente el concepto “complejidad” se utiliza como sinónimo de “sociedad compleja” para referirse a grupos humanos que presentan determinadas características tales como urbanismo, desigualdad y jerarquización. Con la introducción de los Sistemas no lineales y de los Sistemas Complejos a la disciplina arqueológica dicho concepto está siendo matizado. Este viraje teórico ha supuesto el auge de las simulaciones computacionales como método de…
Áreas y suelos
En los estudios sobre el patrn de asentamiento y en los anlisis del territorio, la variable "tamao" del asentamiento juega un papel importante. Considerada como "proxy" de la poblacin, no siempre resulta fcil de calcular en ausencia de estructuras arqueolgicas construidas: aterrazamientos o fortificaciones. En este trabajo se presenta una aproximacin al clculo de dicha variable en los asentamientos de superficie caracterizados simplemente por la …
Áreas y suelos
En los estudios sobre el patrn de asentamiento y en los anlisis del territorio, la variable "tamao" del asentamiento juega un papel importante. Considerada como "proxy" de la poblacin, no siempre resulta fcil de calcular en ausencia de estructuras arqueolgicas construidas: aterrazamientos o fortificaciones. En este trabajo se presenta una aproximacin al clculo de dicha variable en los asentamientos de superficie caracterizados simplemente por la …
Les ocupacions prehistòriques de la Cueva de la Diabla (Ayora, València)
La realització del parc eòlic de la Solana (Ayora) propicià una sèrie de sondejos arqueològics a la Cueva de la Diabla que permeteren identificar un nivell arqueològic prehistòric del Calcolític campaniforme-Bronze antic. L’estudi de la totalitat de les restes ens ha permès interpretar-les com a conseqüència d’ocupacions estacionals de la cova, no documentant cap evidencia d’enterraments humans. La casera d’animals salvatges que viuen en un medi …
Les valls del Serpis
Troballes més importants de la campanya de 2011
De la prospección sistemática al laboratorio GIS en La Canal de Navarrés
El trabajo que presentamos se ha desarrollado en el marco del proyecto NSF “The Emergence of Coupled Natural and Human Landscapes in the Western Mediterranean”, en el área comprendida por la actual comarca de La Canal de Navarres. Este espacio se convierte en uno de las áreas elegidas para un programa de recogida de datos centrado en la prospección sistemática “off site “ o “patch-based” (Barton et al. 2004; Dunnell 1992). Los datos relativos a l…
AEA 2012 Conference Reading
The Western Mediterranean, spanning southern Italy to Portugal, can be considered a single archaeological unit where the diagnostic characteristics of Early Neolithic contexts share common elements, marked by the spread of Cardium-Impressed ceramics. Although some consensus exists regarding the origin of these wares in southern Italy, the debate surrounding its process of expansion to the west remains open. Iberia is a key region for the analysis…
Avance de resultados de los nuevos trabajos arqueológicos en Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia). Campaña de 2015
The Radiocarbon Chronology of Southern S pain's Late Prehistory (5600–1000 cal BC )
This paper is the first updated review of the scope, depth and problems related to the current radiocarbon chronology of the late prehistory of southern I beria. The aim is twofold. First, it critically analyses the quantity and quality of radiocarbon dates used to interpret the diverse trajectories of western M editerranean societies throughout more than four millennia. Secondly, it reviews a set of three different and prominent archaeological p…
AEA 2012 Conference Reading
This article refers to:AEA 2012 Conference Reading: Socioecological dynamics at the time of Neolithic transition in Iberia
The origins of agriculture in Iberia
Here we discuss the importance of using the rich and growing database of high-precision, audited radiocarbon dates for high-resolution bottom-up modelling to focus on problems concerning the spread of the Neolithic in the Iberia. We also compare the spread of the Late Mesolithic (so-called Geometric) and the Early Neolithic using our modelling environment. Our results suggest that the source of radiocarbon data used to evaluate alternative hypoth…
Radiocarbon dates, climatic events, and social dynamics during the Early Neolithic in Mediterranean Iberia
Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia) 2016
Prospección arqueológica sistemática en la Canal de Dos Aguas (València). El territorio inmediato a Cueva de la Cocina
Spatial and Temporal Diversity During the Neolithic Spread in the Western Mediterranean
Sistemas complejos adaptativos y simulación computacional en Arqueología
Tradicionalmente el concepto “complejidad” se utiliza como sinónimo de “sociedad compleja” para referirse a grupos humanos que presentan determinadas características tales como urbanismo, desigualdad y jerarquización. Con la introducción de los Sistemas no lineales y de los Sistemas Complejos a la disciplina arqueológica dicho concepto está siendo matizado. Este viraje teórico ha supuesto el auge de las simulaciones computacionales como método de…
Iberian Neolithic Networks
Recent approaches have described the evolutionary dynamics of the first Neolithic societies as a cycle of rise and fall. Several authors, using mainly c14 dates as a demographic proxy, identified a general pattern of a boom in population coincident with the arrival of food production economies followed by a rapid decline some centuries afterwards in multiple European regions. Concerning Iberia, we also noted that this phenomenon correlates with a…
Segunda campaña de prospección en el territorio inmediato a Cueva de la Cocina
Actuación arqueológica en los depósitos mesolíticos de Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia)
Cocina cave revisited
Taphonomic processes inconsistent with indigenous Mesolithic acculturation during the transition to the Neolithic in the Western Mediterranean
Evidences of branching and blending phenomena in the pottery decoration during the dispersal of the Early Neolithic across Western Europe
The Middle Neolithic of Morocco’s North-Western Atlantic Strip
Patch-based survey methods for studying prehistoric human land-use in agriculturally modified landscapes
A Bayesian Approach for Timing the Neolithization in Mediterranean Iberia
In this paper, we compile recent 14 C dates related to the Neolithic transition in Mediterranean Iberia and present a Bayesian chronological approach for testing the dual model , a mixed model proposed to explain the spread of farming and husbandry processes in eastern Iberia. The dual model postulates the coexistence of agricultural pioneers and indigenous Mesolithic foraging groups in the Middle Holocene. We test this general model with more re…
New insights into the neolithisation process in southwest Europe according to spatial density analysis from calibrated radiocarbon dates
The agricultural way of life spreads throughout Europe via two main routes: the Danube corridor and the Mediterranean basin. Current archaeological literature describes the arrival to the Western Mediterranean as a rapid process which involves both demic and cultural models, and in this regard, the dispersal movement has been investigated using mathematical models, where the key factors are time and space. In this work, we have created a compilat…
Timing the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula
In this paper, we describe the radiocarbon dataset compiled in the context of the project HAR2015-68962 EVOLPAST: Dinámicas evolutivas y patrones de variabilidad cultural de los últimos cazadores-recolectores y el primer Neolítico en el este peninsular (7000–4500 cal. BC) funded by the Spanish government. The dataset offers the most complete and public radiocarbon dataset focus on the Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula. Funding stateme…
Geography (40 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (32 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (31 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (29 works) · Archaeology (28 works) · Radiocarbon dating (19 works) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (16 works) · Art (15 works) · Humanities (14 works) · Geology (13 works)