Lara González Carretero
Biographic Data
| ID | 215578 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lara González Carretero |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lara González |
| FAMILY NAME | Carretero |
| SIGNATURE | CARRETERO L G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5385-6844 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
International Protocol for the Study of Amorphous Charred Objects in Archaeology (Ipsaco 1.0)
Archaeobotanists around the world increasingly recognise that, alongside commonly studied materials such as seeds, fruits, wood charcoal, and chaff, archaeobotanical samples also contain fragments of carbonised organic (and sometimes inorganic) matter that vary in shape and often display an amorphous structure. These amorphous charred objects (ACO) are emerging as a novel proxy within the broader field of plant macroremain studies in Archaeology.…
Grapevine cultivation at Cetamura del Chianti
Roman writers provide detailed accounts of viticulture practices in ancient Mediterranean civilisations. While records describe varieties, methods of vine management, and consumption traditions, major questions remain about how varieties were spread and whether viticulture traditions were impacted during Roman expansion. At the site of Cetamura del Chianti (Siena, Tuscany), waterlogged grape seeds from two wells dated between ca. 300 BCE and ca. …
A taste for local food
Storage story
Investigating early agriculture, plant use and culinary practices at Neolithic Jarmo (Iraqi Kurdistan)
The site of Jarmo in Iraqi Kurdistan has yielded key archaeological evidence which supports its interpretation as a large PPNB village. As such, it is the perfect candidate for the study of early agriculture, plant uses, food preparation and cooking practices. In order to explore these, new excavations and intensive sampling and flotation for the recovery of archaeobotanical remains were carried out in 2012 and 2014. This study presents the resul…
Food for the dead, fuel for the pyre
Modelling Prehistoric Topography and Vegetation in the Lower Thames Valley, UK
Multi-proxy investigations at 2 Pier Road, North Woolwich, London, UK, have revealed deposits spanning the Middle-Late Holocene from the late Mesolithic (c. 4360 cal BC) onwards. Pollen data show an Elm Decline at c. 4210–3950 cal BC followed by landnám clearances at c. 4210–3910 cal BC and c. 3710–3030 cal BC and the first appearance of cereal at c. 3540–3030 cal BC. These events are potentially contemporary with the construction of nearby Neoli…
Neolithic farmers or Neolithic foragers? Organic residue analysis of early pottery from Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don (Russia)
The emergence of pottery in Europe is associated with two distinct traditions: hunter-gatherers in the east of the continent during the early 6th millennium BC and early agricultural communities in the south-west in the late 7th millennium BC. Here we investigate the function of pottery from the site of Rakushechny Yar, located at the Southern fringe of Eastern Europe, in this putative contact zone between these two economic 'worlds'. To investig…
The Later Prehistory of the Shahrizor Plain, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
The Shahrizor Prehistory Project has targeted prehistoric levels of the Late Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic 4 (LC4; Late Middle Uruk) periods at Gurga Chiya (Shahrizor, Kurdistan region of northern Iraq), along with the Halaf period at the adjacent site of Tepe Marani. Excavations at the latter have produced new dietary and environmental data for the sixth millennium B.C. in the region, while at Gurga Chiya part of a burned Late Ubaid tripartite hou…
Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan
Significance Despite being one of the most important foodstuffs consumed in the modern world, the origins of bread are still largely unknown. Here we report the earliest empirical evidence for the preparation of bread-like products by Natufian hunter-gatherers, 4,000 years before the emergence of the Neolithic agricultural way of life. The discovery of charred food remains has allowed for the reconstruction of the chaîne opératoire for the early …
A methodological approach to the study of archaeological cereal meals
This paper presents an integrated methodology for the analysis of archaeological remains of cereal meals, based on scanning electronic microscopic analyses of microstructures of charred food fragments from Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey). The remains of cereal foods as 'bread-like' or 'porridge-like' small charred lumps of various amalgamated plant materials are frequently recovered from Neolithic and later archaeological sites in southwest Asia an…
Gurga Chiya and Tepe Marani
Gurga Chiya and Tepe Marani are small, adjacent mounds located close to the town of Halabja in the southern part of the Shahrizor Plain, one of the most fertile regions of Iraqi Kurdistan. Survey and excavation at these previously unexplored sites is beginning to produce evidence for human settlement spanning the sixth to the fourth millennia, c . 5600–3300 cal. b.c . In Mesopotamian chronology this corresponds to the Late Neolithic through to Ch…
On the Horns of a Dilemma
This article traces the evolution of local and national attitudes during the nineteenth century towards various forms of bullfighting in Languedoc. The state, be it monarchical, imperial, revolutionary or republican, shifted uneasily between sheer hostility and guarded acceptance of the two principal forms of bullfighting, the course libre and corrida. Yet the reasons for the state's caution varied. Initially it bespoke a general concern with pub…
A methodological approach to the study of archaeological cereal meals
This paper presents an integrated methodology for the analysis of archaeological remains of cereal meals, based on scanning electronic microscopic analyses of microstructures of charred food fragments from Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey). The remains of cereal foods as 'bread-like' or 'porridge-like' small charred lumps of various amalgamated plant materials are frequently recovered from Neolithic and later archaeological sites in southwest Asia an…
Neolithic farmers or Neolithic foragers? Organic residue analysis of early pottery from Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don (Russia)
The emergence of pottery in Europe is associated with two distinct traditions: hunter-gatherers in the east of the continent during the early 6th millennium BC and early agricultural communities in the south-west in the late 7th millennium BC. Here we investigate the function of pottery from the site of Rakushechny Yar, located at the Southern fringe of Eastern Europe, in this putative contact zone between these two economic 'worlds'. To investig…
Investigating early agriculture, plant use and culinary practices at Neolithic Jarmo (Iraqi Kurdistan)
The site of Jarmo in Iraqi Kurdistan has yielded key archaeological evidence which supports its interpretation as a large PPNB village. As such, it is the perfect candidate for the study of early agriculture, plant uses, food preparation and cooking practices. In order to explore these, new excavations and intensive sampling and flotation for the recovery of archaeobotanical remains were carried out in 2012 and 2014. This study presents the resul…
On the Horns of a Dilemma
This article traces the evolution of local and national attitudes during the nineteenth century towards various forms of bullfighting in Languedoc. The state, be it monarchical, imperial, revolutionary or republican, shifted uneasily between sheer hostility and guarded acceptance of the two principal forms of bullfighting, the course libre and corrida. Yet the reasons for the state's caution varied. Initially it bespoke a general concern with pub…
Gurga Chiya and Tepe Marani
Gurga Chiya and Tepe Marani are small, adjacent mounds located close to the town of Halabja in the southern part of the Shahrizor Plain, one of the most fertile regions of Iraqi Kurdistan. Survey and excavation at these previously unexplored sites is beginning to produce evidence for human settlement spanning the sixth to the fourth millennia, c . 5600–3300 cal. b.c . In Mesopotamian chronology this corresponds to the Late Neolithic through to Ch…
A methodological approach to the study of archaeological cereal meals
This paper presents an integrated methodology for the analysis of archaeological remains of cereal meals, based on scanning electronic microscopic analyses of microstructures of charred food fragments from Neolithic Çatalhöyük (Turkey). The remains of cereal foods as 'bread-like' or 'porridge-like' small charred lumps of various amalgamated plant materials are frequently recovered from Neolithic and later archaeological sites in southwest Asia an…
Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan
Significance Despite being one of the most important foodstuffs consumed in the modern world, the origins of bread are still largely unknown. Here we report the earliest empirical evidence for the preparation of bread-like products by Natufian hunter-gatherers, 4,000 years before the emergence of the Neolithic agricultural way of life. The discovery of charred food remains has allowed for the reconstruction of the chaîne opératoire for the early …
The Later Prehistory of the Shahrizor Plain, Kurdistan Region of Iraq
The Shahrizor Prehistory Project has targeted prehistoric levels of the Late Ubaid and Late Chalcolithic 4 (LC4; Late Middle Uruk) periods at Gurga Chiya (Shahrizor, Kurdistan region of northern Iraq), along with the Halaf period at the adjacent site of Tepe Marani. Excavations at the latter have produced new dietary and environmental data for the sixth millennium B.C. in the region, while at Gurga Chiya part of a burned Late Ubaid tripartite hou…
Food for the dead, fuel for the pyre
Modelling Prehistoric Topography and Vegetation in the Lower Thames Valley, UK
Multi-proxy investigations at 2 Pier Road, North Woolwich, London, UK, have revealed deposits spanning the Middle-Late Holocene from the late Mesolithic (c. 4360 cal BC) onwards. Pollen data show an Elm Decline at c. 4210–3950 cal BC followed by landnám clearances at c. 4210–3910 cal BC and c. 3710–3030 cal BC and the first appearance of cereal at c. 3540–3030 cal BC. These events are potentially contemporary with the construction of nearby Neoli…
Neolithic farmers or Neolithic foragers? Organic residue analysis of early pottery from Rakushechny Yar on the Lower Don (Russia)
The emergence of pottery in Europe is associated with two distinct traditions: hunter-gatherers in the east of the continent during the early 6th millennium BC and early agricultural communities in the south-west in the late 7th millennium BC. Here we investigate the function of pottery from the site of Rakushechny Yar, located at the Southern fringe of Eastern Europe, in this putative contact zone between these two economic 'worlds'. To investig…
Investigating early agriculture, plant use and culinary practices at Neolithic Jarmo (Iraqi Kurdistan)
The site of Jarmo in Iraqi Kurdistan has yielded key archaeological evidence which supports its interpretation as a large PPNB village. As such, it is the perfect candidate for the study of early agriculture, plant uses, food preparation and cooking practices. In order to explore these, new excavations and intensive sampling and flotation for the recovery of archaeobotanical remains were carried out in 2012 and 2014. This study presents the resul…
A taste for local food
Storage story
International Protocol for the Study of Amorphous Charred Objects in Archaeology (Ipsaco 1.0)
Archaeobotanists around the world increasingly recognise that, alongside commonly studied materials such as seeds, fruits, wood charcoal, and chaff, archaeobotanical samples also contain fragments of carbonised organic (and sometimes inorganic) matter that vary in shape and often display an amorphous structure. These amorphous charred objects (ACO) are emerging as a novel proxy within the broader field of plant macroremain studies in Archaeology.…
Grapevine cultivation at Cetamura del Chianti
Roman writers provide detailed accounts of viticulture practices in ancient Mediterranean civilisations. While records describe varieties, methods of vine management, and consumption traditions, major questions remain about how varieties were spread and whether viticulture traditions were impacted during Roman expansion. At the site of Cetamura del Chianti (Siena, Tuscany), waterlogged grape seeds from two wells dated between ca. 300 BCE and ca. …
Archaeology (11 works) · Geography (10 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Biology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works) · Bronze Age (4 works) · Paleoethnobotany (4 works) · Prehistory (4 works)