J A Barceló
Biographic Data
| ID | 177149 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Barceló |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Barceló |
| SIGNATURE | BARCELÓ J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1580-471X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Using convolutional neural networks to identify qanats and analysis of their role in the formation of Zuzan City (Iran, Islamic period)
Archaeological Classification of Small Datasets Using Meta- and Transfer Learning Methods
In recent years, the increasing application of machine learning (ML) techniques to solve archaeological problems has garnered substantial interest. The relevant issue is that limited-sample, heterogeneous, and non-standard structures of datasets in archaeology affect the quality of deep learning (DL) model efficiency in training and testing. This study explores the effectiveness of artificial neural networks (ANNs) in addressing the unique challe…
Surviving in the early Neolithic. Causal networks and complex systems in archaeology
Bayesian networks model complex survival factors in early farming communities. • Two complementary models: theory-driven and data-driven. • Environment shaped herding and hunting, while social structure influences agriculture. • Non-linear relationships reveal how ecology and society jointly affect survival. • Probabilistic approach handles uncertainty in archaeological data interpretation. Difficulties surrounding the reconstruction of social sy…
Towards a shared and transparent methodology for hypothetical virtual reconstructions
This article presents a selection of case studies developed within the Erasmus+ project CoVHer –Computer-based Visualization of Architectural Cultural Heritage (2022–2025), alongside the underpinning methodological framework. The project focused on the digital reconstruction of architectural works that have been lost or were never built, addressing critical concerns regarding the scientific credibility, transparency, and educational value of such…
D hypothetical reconstruction of a Neolithic hut from the waterlogged site of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
This paper presents a hypothetical digital reconstruction of a prehistoric wooden hut from the archaeological site of La Draga (Banyoles, Northeast Iberia). La Draga is a waterlogged Early Neolithic settlement (ca. 7300-6700 years ago), located on the eastern shore of lake Banyoles, and presents an extraordinary preservation of wood and vegetal materials usually not recovered in prehistoric archaeology. The wooden architectonical elements recover…
The stratigraphic biography of an archaeological site. Timing depositional events
The stratigraphic sequence of an archaeological site constitutes its biography, which details what was deposited, when it was deposited, and how the deposition occurred. However, many current methods of recording archaeological stratigraphy do not allow for a full reconstruction of a site's biography. This paper introduces a theoretical framework for analysing a site's formation and deformation processes, emphasizing the integration of different …
Absolute Chronology at the Waterlogged Site of La Draga (Lake Banyoles, Ne Iberia)
Sixty-two 14 C dates are analyzed in combination with a recently established local floating tree-ring sequence for the Early Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, northeast Iberian Peninsula). Archaeological data, radiometric and dendrochronological dates, as well as sedimentary and micro-stratigraphical information are used to build a Bayesian chronological model, using the ChronoModel 2.0 and OxCal 4.4 computer programs, and IntCal 2020 calibra…
Assessing the human-animal relationship at Villaggio delle Macine (Latium, Central Italy)
Models of Neolithisation of Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
The goal of this article is to discuss the significance of the archaeological evidence from the sites of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain) and Coves del Fem (Ulldemolins, Spain), in the context of the neolithisation of Northeastern Iberia. The 14 C dates have been analysed using Bayesian statistics. The stratigraphy of Coves del Fem covers the transition between the last hunter–gatherers of the region and the first farmers. The chronological sequence co…
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…
Digging sticks and agriculture development at the ancient Neolithic site of la Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
Tracing the chronology of neolithic pit and stone box burials in North-eastern Iberia
Spatial Prediction
Using Computational Methods to Understand the Past in The Present
Use of space and site formation processes in a Neolithic lakeside settlement. Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs spatial analysis in La Draga (Banyoles, NE Iberia)
A Cost-Based Ripley’s K Function to Assess Social Strategies in Settlement Patterning
Application of pattern recognition in detection of buried archaeological sites based on analysing environmental variables, Khorramabad Plain, West Iran
Simulating Patagonian Territoriality in Prehistory
Cultural changes in the second millennium BC
The Bronze Age in prehistoric Europe represents a perfect case study for analyzing phenomena of cultural change and adoption of innovation in small-scale societies. Specifically, we focus on the large-scale introduction and development of the cremation rite in the second millennium bc. Traditionally, the origin of the so-called ‘Urnfield culture’ has been placed in the Carpatho-Danubian area. From this region cremation burials would have expanded…
Computer Simulation of Multidimensional Archaeological Artefacts
The main purpose of this ongoing research is to understand possible function(s) of archaeological artefacts through Reverse Engineering processes. In addition, we intend to provide new data, as well as possible explications of the archaeological record according to what it expects about social activities and working processes, by simulating the potentialities of such actions in terms of input-output relationships. Our project focuses on the Neoli…
Modeling Expansive Phenomena in Early Complex Societies
Social Interaction in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
This article describes the design and operation of an agent-based model that represents aspects of hunter-gatherer subsistence, technology, and cultural identity. The agents (representing families or households) in the model interact in a world that has a seasonally variable resource density. Agents must collect resources every step, either independently (by “gathering”) or with cooperation from neighboring agents (“hunting”). Several parameters …
Modeling Mechanisms of Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity in Hunter–Gatherers
Sociedades Artificiales Para El Análisis De Procesos Sociales en La Prehistoria
En los últimos años, en arqueología, sociología y otras disciplinas, se han empezado a programar ordenadores de manera que simulen el nacimiento y muerte de agentes sociales, sus actividades y sus formas de interacción. Esta metodología se considera fundamental en el ámbito de la Arqueología Prehistórica, cuyo objetivo, la acción humana en el pasado más remoto, es por definición no-observable. La simulación computacional, las sociedades artificia…
Computer simulation in archaeology. Art, science or nightmare
By simulating historical processes and not just the archaeological material, I intend to explain social causality at the micro and macro levels. The target is no more an archaeological artifact but a human society at large, although existing only in the virtual world. A new target, the artificial society, is created with its own structure and behavior. With the possibility of simulating virtual social systems, a new methodology of scientific inqu…
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Modeling Expansive Phenomena in Early Complex Societies
Absolute Chronology at the Waterlogged Site of La Draga (Lake Banyoles, Ne Iberia)
Sixty-two 14 C dates are analyzed in combination with a recently established local floating tree-ring sequence for the Early Neolithic site of La Draga (Banyoles, northeast Iberian Peninsula). Archaeological data, radiometric and dendrochronological dates, as well as sedimentary and micro-stratigraphical information are used to build a Bayesian chronological model, using the ChronoModel 2.0 and OxCal 4.4 computer programs, and IntCal 2020 calibra…
Where Does the South Begin? Social Variability at the Southern Top of the World
Juan A. Barceló, Ma. Florencia del Castillo, Laura Mameli, Eduardo Moreno and Blanca Videla Juan A. Barceló, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Departmento de Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Eduardo Moreno, Centro Nacional Patagónico, Dept. Diversidad, Sistemáticay Evolución, U9120ACD Madryn, Argentina Laura Mameli, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Dept. de Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Ma. …
Models of Neolithisation of Northeastern Iberian Peninsula
The goal of this article is to discuss the significance of the archaeological evidence from the sites of La Draga (Banyoles, Spain) and Coves del Fem (Ulldemolins, Spain), in the context of the neolithisation of Northeastern Iberia. The 14 C dates have been analysed using Bayesian statistics. The stratigraphy of Coves del Fem covers the transition between the last hunter–gatherers of the region and the first farmers. The chronological sequence co…
Application of pattern recognition in detection of buried archaeological sites based on analysing environmental variables, Khorramabad Plain, West Iran
Cultural changes in the second millennium BC
The Bronze Age in prehistoric Europe represents a perfect case study for analyzing phenomena of cultural change and adoption of innovation in small-scale societies. Specifically, we focus on the large-scale introduction and development of the cremation rite in the second millennium bc. Traditionally, the origin of the so-called ‘Urnfield culture’ has been placed in the Carpatho-Danubian area. From this region cremation burials would have expanded…
Modeling Mechanisms of Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity in Hunter–Gatherers
Spatial Prediction
Digging sticks and agriculture development at the ancient Neolithic site of la Draga (Banyoles, Spain)
A Cost-Based Ripley’s K Function to Assess Social Strategies in Settlement Patterning
New Computational and Mathematical Methods for Archaeological Fieldwork at the Extreme South of the Populated World
We present the methodology of computer modeling of an archaeological excavation. The method allows the study of archaeological formation, modification and transformation processes. Our main goal has been to build a computer model of middensite formation processes. The main purpose of these models is converting excavation data to visual elements (lines, surfaces, and solids) which can be used as a representation of that data. Furthermore, geostati…
Introduction
Investigaciones etnoarqueológicas en Tierra del Fuego (1986-2006)
Durante 20 años se han llevado a cabo en Tierra del Fuego investigaciones dirigidas a contrastar etnográficamente el registro arqueológico de sociedades cazadoras recolectoras. Se trataba de elaborar una metodología específica de abordaje arqueológico para estas sociedades que pudiera aplicarse a otros contextos arqueológicos. Aquí se exponen los diferentes proyectos y sus conclusiones más importantes haciendo especial hincapié en dos aspectos fu…
Una interpretación socioeconómica del bronce final en el sudoeste de la Península Ibérica
En este artículo pretendo estudiar las transformaciones socioeconómicas en el Sudoeste de la Península Ibérica durante el Bronce Final o Bronce Reciente -los dos términos son sinónimos en este trabajo-. Se trata del análisis de un caso histórico específico que proporciona interesante información para la ulterior verificación de algunas de las Teorías usadas para interpretar la transición de las economías de subsistencia «Tribales» a la Estratific…
Introducción al razonamiento estadístico aplicado a la arqueología
Este artículo trata acerca del Razonamiento Estadístico como forma de Inferencia Lógica El estudio de caso es el fenómeno de las Estelas Antropomorfas y Estatuas-Menhir durante el Calcolítico y Edad del Bronce en la Península Ibérica. Por medio del Análisis de Conglomerados (jerárquico y no jerárquico), el Análisis de la Regresión Múltiple, el Análisis de las series espacio-temporales y el Análisis de Componentes Principales, he obtenido un conju…
Introducción al razonamiento estadístico aplicado a la arqueología
Este artículo trata acerca del Razonamiento Estadístico como forma de Inferencia Lógica El estudio de caso es el fenómeno de las Estelas Antropomorfas y Estatuas-Menhir durante el Calcolítico y Edad del Bronce en la Península Ibérica. Por medio del Análisis de Conglomerados (jerárquico y no jerárquico), el Análisis de la Regresión Múltiple, el Análisis de las series espacio-temporales y el Análisis de Componentes Principales, he obtenido un conju…
Una interpretación socioeconómica del bronce final en el sudoeste de la Península Ibérica
En este artículo pretendo estudiar las transformaciones socioeconómicas en el Sudoeste de la Península Ibérica durante el Bronce Final o Bronce Reciente -los dos términos son sinónimos en este trabajo-. Se trata del análisis de un caso histórico específico que proporciona interesante información para la ulterior verificación de algunas de las Teorías usadas para interpretar la transición de las economías de subsistencia «Tribales» a la Estratific…
Bronze Age World System Cycles [and Comments and Reply]
Investigaciones etnoarqueológicas en Tierra del Fuego (1986-2006)
Durante 20 años se han llevado a cabo en Tierra del Fuego investigaciones dirigidas a contrastar etnográficamente el registro arqueológico de sociedades cazadoras recolectoras. Se trataba de elaborar una metodología específica de abordaje arqueológico para estas sociedades que pudiera aplicarse a otros contextos arqueológicos. Aquí se exponen los diferentes proyectos y sus conclusiones más importantes haciendo especial hincapié en dos aspectos fu…
Where Does the South Begin? Social Variability at the Southern Top of the World
Juan A. Barceló, Ma. Florencia del Castillo, Laura Mameli, Eduardo Moreno and Blanca Videla Juan A. Barceló, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Departmento de Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Eduardo Moreno, Centro Nacional Patagónico, Dept. Diversidad, Sistemáticay Evolución, U9120ACD Madryn, Argentina Laura Mameli, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Dept. de Prehistoria, Facultat de Lletres, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain Ma. …
New Computational and Mathematical Methods for Archaeological Fieldwork at the Extreme South of the Populated World
We present the methodology of computer modeling of an archaeological excavation. The method allows the study of archaeological formation, modification and transformation processes. Our main goal has been to build a computer model of middensite formation processes. The main purpose of these models is converting excavation data to visual elements (lines, surfaces, and solids) which can be used as a representation of that data. Furthermore, geostati…
Introduction
Qué hacer con un modelo arqueológico virtual. Aplicaciones de la inteligencia artificial en visualización científica
For years, artists have collaborated with archaeologists in order to “reconstruct” all those ancient things not preserved in the archaeological record, and they have provided archaeologists with artistic depictions of the past. Regrettably, modern “computer visualizations” do not modify this attitude. There are thousands of “computer reconstructions” of ancient monuments and prehistoric objects available today, but most of them are absolutely use…
La arqueología patagónica y la reconstrucción de la historia indígena
In this paper we review archaeological and anthropological traditional explanations of diversity formation and social homogeneity in Patagonia. In spite of «Archaeological Culture» concept, our goal is to look for alternatives based upon a different concept of what «ethnicity» is among hunter-gatherer societies. This new perspective considers the characteristic dynamics of the different possible social interaction processes, the aggregation/segre…
Sociedades Artificiales Para El Análisis De Procesos Sociales en La Prehistoria
En los últimos años, en arqueología, sociología y otras disciplinas, se han empezado a programar ordenadores de manera que simulen el nacimiento y muerte de agentes sociales, sus actividades y sus formas de interacción. Esta metodología se considera fundamental en el ámbito de la Arqueología Prehistórica, cuyo objetivo, la acción humana en el pasado más remoto, es por definición no-observable. La simulación computacional, las sociedades artificia…
Computer simulation in archaeology. Art, science or nightmare
By simulating historical processes and not just the archaeological material, I intend to explain social causality at the micro and macro levels. The target is no more an archaeological artifact but a human society at large, although existing only in the virtual world. A new target, the artificial society, is created with its own structure and behavior. With the possibility of simulating virtual social systems, a new methodology of scientific inqu…
Understanding Virtual Objects through Reverse Engineering
The main objective of our research is to develop a new methodology, based on Reverse Engineering processes – 3D scan, quantitative data analysis and Artificial Intelligence techniques, in particular simulation – to study the relationship between form and function of artefacts. Furthermore, we aim to provide new data, as well as possible explanations of the archaeological record according to what it expects about social activity, including working…
Computer Simulation of Multidimensional Archaeological Artefacts
The main purpose of this ongoing research is to understand possible function(s) of archaeological artefacts through Reverse Engineering processes. In addition, we intend to provide new data, as well as possible explications of the archaeological record according to what it expects about social activities and working processes, by simulating the potentialities of such actions in terms of input-output relationships. Our project focuses on the Neoli…
Modeling Expansive Phenomena in Early Complex Societies
Social Interaction in Hunter-Gatherer Societies
This article describes the design and operation of an agent-based model that represents aspects of hunter-gatherer subsistence, technology, and cultural identity. The agents (representing families or households) in the model interact in a world that has a seasonally variable resource density. Agents must collect resources every step, either independently (by “gathering”) or with cooperation from neighboring agents (“hunting”). Several parameters …
Modeling Mechanisms of Cultural Diversity and Ethnicity in Hunter–Gatherers
Simulating Patagonian Territoriality in Prehistory
Cultural changes in the second millennium BC
The Bronze Age in prehistoric Europe represents a perfect case study for analyzing phenomena of cultural change and adoption of innovation in small-scale societies. Specifically, we focus on the large-scale introduction and development of the cremation rite in the second millennium bc. Traditionally, the origin of the so-called ‘Urnfield culture’ has been placed in the Carpatho-Danubian area. From this region cremation burials would have expanded…
Application of pattern recognition in detection of buried archaeological sites based on analysing environmental variables, Khorramabad Plain, West Iran
Using Computational Methods to Understand the Past in The Present
Use of space and site formation processes in a Neolithic lakeside settlement. Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs spatial analysis in La Draga (Banyoles, NE Iberia)
A Cost-Based Ripley’s K Function to Assess Social Strategies in Settlement Patterning
Tracing the chronology of neolithic pit and stone box burials in North-eastern Iberia
Spatial Prediction
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…
Archaeology (23 works) · Geography (23 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (18 works) · Computer Science (13 works) · History (11 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (11 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (10 works) · Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction (9 works) · Geology (7 works) · Prehistory (7 works)