M Diaz-Andreu
Biographic Data
| ID | 37840 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Diaz-Andreu |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Diaz-Andreu |
| SIGNATURE | DIAZ-ANDREU M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1043-2336 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 102 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 323 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 102 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Pedro Funari y la transmisión del conocimiento
Special Issue in honor to Professor Pedro Paulo Funari
How to Conduct an Archaeoacoustic Study of Rock Art Sites through Impulse Response Measurements
Incorporating intangible aspects of prehistoric experience, including sound, has become increasingly important in rock art research, offering a more comprehensive interpretation of the past. Scholars suggest that the acoustic properties of certain rock art sites may have influenced not only artistic creation but also social and ritual practices. This article presents guidelines for recording, digitizing, and analyzing the acoustic features of ope…
Rock Imagery and Acoustics at the White River Narrows (WRN), Lincoln County, Nevada
This study explores the archaeoacoustics of rock imagery at Site 26LN211, the northernmost petroglyph site in the White River Narrows (WRN) Archaeological District, Nevada, USA. The research examines the relationship between rock writing placement and acoustic properties, considering their potential significance to indigenous groups such as the Southern Paiute and Western Shoshone. Fieldwork conducted in 2024 employed impulse response recordings …
GIS, sight and sound. Exploring the rock art landscapes of the Santa Teresa Canyon (Baja California Sur, Mexico) as a case study
El paisaje visual y sonoro de las figuras femeninas en el arte rupestre levantino del Bajo Aragón, Maestrazgo y Bajo Ebro
El arte rupestre levantino es una tradición pictórica que se caracteriza por la representación de hombres, de figuras asexuadas y, en menor medida, de mujeres. Este artículo profundiza en las representaciones femeninas del Bajo Aragón, el Maestrazgo y el Bajo Ebro, analizando la relación entre los yacimientos con estas manifestaciones y sus características visuales y sonoras, empleando como metodología procedimientos basados en Sistemas de Inform…
Signalling and music-making
The use of large Charonia seashells as labial vibration aerophones is documented in various cultures around the world. In Catalonia, north-eastern Iberia, 12 such instruments have been recovered from Neolithic contexts, dating from the second half of the fifth and the first half of the fourth millennia BC, yet they have received little attention in academia. Given that some examples retain the ability to produce sounds, their archaeoacoustic stud…
The art of music. The representation of musical instruments in the rock art of Zimbabwe
This article explores the relationship between music and rock art by looking at the occurrence of musical instruments at rock art sites in Zimbabwe. Much of the attention paid to the rich rock art heritage of this country has focused on the documentation of sites, the meaning of the painted and engraved motifs in them and the regional variability they display. Despite some brief mentions, the depiction of musical instruments is still in need of s…
Archaeoacoustics
Archaeoacoustics is a multidisciplinary subfield of archaeology that explores the sounds and music of the past, focusing on sound-producing devices and acoustical spaces. It encompasses music archaeology, which examines instruments and musical practices, and acoustical archaeology, which studies soundscapes of architectural and natural environments. The field integrates disciplines such as ethnomusicology, psychoacoustics, and neuroacoustics to u…
Identificando la desigualdad
Este trabajo examina cómo el silencio en torno al papel de las mujeres en la arqueología en general, y en la sudamericana en particular, se relaciona con la valoración de los datos y las decisiones sobre qué merece ser recordado en la historia disciplinar. Uno de los principales factores que influyeron en la forma en que las mujeres lograron integrarse en la arqueología profesional es la ideología de género predominante hasta mitad del siglo XX y…
La historia de las mujeres en la arqueología sudamericana
The dossier "Archaeologists of South America: Histories of Resilience" presents, for the first time, a comprehensive study of the history of women in South American archaeology. This introductory paper begins by highlighting the historical absence of women's contributions in the discipline and situates the decades-long effort to uncover the stories of pioneering women archaeologists. It discusses the influence of various waves of feminism on the …
The History of Gender Archaeology
In this chapter, the history of gender archaeology is traced, focusing primarily on Western academia. A clear link is demonstrated with waves of feminist action. We begin with the antecedents, the first studies on women undertaken amid first-wave feminism by nineteenth-century women travelers and Egyptologists, alongside considerations of the changing social role of prehistoric women in Victorian evolutionary perspectives, until these were supers…
Writing the History of Archaeology
This article offers a review of how the history of archaeology has been written. The earliest accounts are found at the time of the institutionalization of archaeology by intellectuals and professional archaeologists connected to any of the first institutions dealing with archaeology in western Europe and North America. After World War II, there was a marked increase in the number and depth of publications and a widening of the number of countrie…
Archaeology, Nationalism, Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Postcolonial Turn
This chapter explores the relationship between professional archaeology and nationalism as a political ideology from the late eighteenth century up to the present. The influence on the discipline of the changes in nationalism throughout the nineteenth century is assessed, while also paying attention to how archaeologists contributed to the continuous remodeling of the nationalist discourse. The expansion of the chronological focus of archaeology …
Assessing the dynamic social values of the ‘deep city’
This monograph presents findings from original research on urban heritage transformations and advances existing scholarship on three grounds: (1) it offers tested combinations of methods to capture the social values of heritage; (2) it distils the complex, diverse social values generated by urban heritage and revealed by the use of these methods; and (3) it discusses the implications and potential applications of these methods for urban planning.…
The Matilda effect in archaeology
This chapter examines the history of women in archaeology through the lens of the ‘Matilda effect in science’. It explores how discrimination operates in the field, and specifically how women’s contributions have been trivialised or ignored. The chapter argues that the traditional focus of the histories of archaeology on discoveries and their discoverers has largely excluded women from historical accounts. This exclusion is tied to the unequal ge…
On the relationship between sound, acoustics, and San rock art
Women’s Pathways in the History of Spanish Archaeology
It is difficult to find women in the histories of archaeology, and those dealing with Spain are no exception. In the last few years, the ArqueólogAs project has dedicated its efforts to finding the women who once populated Spanish archaeology and are now forgotten. A recent survey seeking them out revealed that more than 250 female archaeologists born before 1950 are waiting to be remembered. However, their position in the discipline’s history ca…
Las representaciones femeninas en el Arte Levantino del Bajo Aragón, Maestrazgo y Bajo Ebro
Desde los inicios de la investigación sobre el arte rupestre levantino, sus representaciones femeninas sólo han sido estudiadas superficialmente. Unos primeros trabajos específicos extensos aparecieron en los 1990, impulsados por la introducción de la arqueología de género y feminista en España, criticándose en ellos el marcado sesgo androcéntrico del análisis e interpretación de estos motivos. Este artículo propone un nuevo enfoque de las repres…
Music and Storytelling at Rock Art Sites? The Archaeoacoustics of the Urkosh Area (Russian Altai)
In this article, the potential of archaeoacoustics for understanding past communities is discussed by looking at a range of acoustic parameters. Our case study is the Urkosh rock art area in the Ongudai district, Republic of Altai (Russia). The rock art of this area dates possibly from the Upper Palaeolithic and definitely from the Early Bronze Age (second half of the third millennium BCE). There are important periods in the Early Iron Age (first…
Una mirada arqueológica al patrimonio inmaterial sonoro del pasado
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites
Since the 1980s, research into aggregation sites has focused on the material dimension of the archaeological record and has thus led to an incomplete view of the prehistoric reality. Early communities chose sites for many reasons. In this article, we explore the possibility that something as immaterial in nature as the acoustics of the sites may have influenced the selective choices made by the prehistoric peoples who created and used rock art in…
Clottes, Jean
La modelización del paisaje
El análisis de la distribución espacial de los abrigos con arte rupestre y su relación con la creación de paisajes sociales por parte de sociedades prehistóricas se ha planteado desde diferentes perspectivas desde los años ochenta del siglo XX. Estas aproximaciones se han centrado en averiguar de qué modo estos conjuntos artísticos ofrecen claves sobre cómo se vertebraron los paisajes. Desde hace dos décadas, estas aproximaciones se han realizado…
Communicating and Disseminating Rock Art Research on Facebook
This article explores the potential of social media in disseminating and communicating archaeological knowledge and the ways in which their impact on the public can be enhanced through marketing plans. It examines the implementation of such a plan in the context of the Facebook page of the ERC Advanced Grant project "The sound of special places: exploring rock art soundscapes and the sacred" (acronym: Artsoundscapes). Using quantitative and quali…
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai
The acoustics of the Lower Chuya River area rock art landscape are analyzed through both the exploration of its acoustic properties and the ethnographic information gathered about the region. The results obtained in the acoustics tests undertaken in the area, in particular at the rock art sites of Kalbak-Tash I, Kalbak-Tash II, and Adyr-Kan, are examined. They indicate that the perceived loudness resulting from a natural amplification of sound (s…
A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology
Margarita Diaz-Andreu offers an innovative history of archaeology during the nineteenth century, encompassing all its fields from the origins of humanity to the medieval period, and all areas of the world. The development of archaeology is placed within the framework of contemporary political events, with a particular focus upon the ideologies of nationalism and imperialism. Diaz-Andreu examines a wide range of issues, including the creation of i…
Heritage Values and the Public
The term ‘heritage values’ refers to the meanings and values that individuals or groups of people bestow on heritage (including collections, buildings, archaeological sites, landscapes and intangib
Digital Image Processing and the Recording of Rock Art
Acoustics and Levantine rock art
The spiral that vanished
Guest editor's introduction
In this introductory article an evaluation of the emergence and transformations of parallel discourses regarding the past in relation to the political nationalist context in which they were articulated will be offered. A chronological framework will be adopted, thereby acknowledging the importance of the changes nationalism underwent for understanding shifts in discourses on the past
Ethics and Archaeological Tourism in Latin America
Ethnicity and Iberians
A re-evaluation of how ethnicity is currently understood in archaeology is necessary in view of recent developments in the archaeology of identity. In this article, it will be argued that nationalism has led to an understanding of ethnicity as monolithic, denying in this way its heterogeneous nature. Since the 1920s, archaeologists working under the culture-historical umbrella have explicitly defined ethnicity on the basis of material culture, ma…
Echoing landscapes
Theory and ideology in archaeology
Archaeology is notoriously vulnerable to the ideological pressures of authoritarian regimes. This paper charts the political influences that shaped archaeology in Spain for some 40 years. Following the Civil War Spanish archaeologists were isolated from mainstream theoretical evolution, a situation that was exacerbated by the exile of some leading figures. The centralizing authoritarianism of the Franco régime stifled regional autonomy in adminis…
Towards three-dimensional non-invasive recording of incised rock art
Ancient art cut into rock is difficult to research and manage off-site without precise three-dimensional records. Experiments with photographic modelling by the authors led to a relatively accessible and economical way of making them
The Soundscapes of the Lower Chuya River Area, Russian Altai
The acoustics of the Lower Chuya River area rock art landscape are analyzed through both the exploration of its acoustic properties and the ethnographic information gathered about the region. The results obtained in the acoustics tests undertaken in the area, in particular at the rock art sites of Kalbak-Tash I, Kalbak-Tash II, and Adyr-Kan, are examined. They indicate that the perceived loudness resulting from a natural amplification of sound (s…
Do You Hear What I See? Analyzing Visibility and Audibility in the Rock Art Landscape of the Alicante Mountains of Spain
This article examines the relationship between rock art landscapes and perception. It pays particular attention to vision and hearing, the two key senses for landscape awareness. Given the importance of scale in the study of rock art landscapes, a distinction is made between the adjacent landscape and the broader territorial scale. Several methodological improvements are suggested, including the importance of clipping viewsheds in GIS analysis an…
Espacio habitacional/espacio gráfico
El trabajo que ahora presentamos se basa en el análisis de las grafías, su ubicación en el soporte y su relación con el entorno, en una zona concreta, el término de La Hinojosa, en Cuenca, lugar en el que tenemos bien documentadas ocupaciones calcolíticas y de la Edad del Bronce. Nuestra propuesta es la de comprender dichos grabados como una parte de las expresiones del Arte Esquemático peninsular, en este caso asociadas a un contexto habitaciona…
The Acoustics of Aggregation Sites
Since the 1980s, research into aggregation sites has focused on the material dimension of the archaeological record and has thus led to an incomplete view of the prehistoric reality. Early communities chose sites for many reasons. In this article, we explore the possibility that something as immaterial in nature as the acoustics of the sites may have influenced the selective choices made by the prehistoric peoples who created and used rock art in…
Evolución de los valores del patrimonio cultural
Heritage values are part of the discourses associated with cultural heritage management in various disciplines, such as Anthropology, Urban Planning, Geography, and Sociology. This article proposes how these values are shaped and how they have been transformed over time. We will discuss how heritage has shifted from static epistemic positions to more dynamic ones, emphasizing a reflection on the current participatory trend, in which society is th…
Introduction to the themed section 'digital heritage and the public
This introductory essay for the themed issue “Digital Heritage and the Public” begins by alluding to the profound effect of the digital revolution in how society manages the production, administration, publication and access to information. The effect on heritage is noticeable in all fields. The process of digitalisation, traceable from the early days in the 1960s, is increasingly impinging on the relationship between the professionals and the pu…
Interacting with Heritage
In this article we will analyse a community festival in which the Public Archaeology and Heritage Group (GAPP, Grup d'Arqueologia Pública i Patrimoni) participated. As GAPP members, we helped to organize a street parade for this festival (the 4th Rua Xic, in 2014) which ended at the Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya (MAC, or Museum of Archaeology of Catalonia) where a short play with an historical theme was performed. Based on this participatory e…
Turismo y arqueología. Una mirada histórica a una relación silenciada
Durante el siglo xix y principios del xx se dio, por un lado, el desarrollo de la pro-fesionalización de la arqueología y, por el otro, la aparición del interés de los Estados en la industria del turismo. Los investigadores han analizado estos dos procesos como si se trata-ra de actuaciones separadas, uno enfocado hacia el incremento del saber sobre el pasado para consolidar la estructura histórica que sustentaba la memoria nacional, y el otro ce…
Christopher Hawkes and the International Summer Courses of Ampurias
This article aims to provide an initial analysis of the early connections between Christopher Hawkes and Spanish archaeology in the context of his participation in two of the international summer courses in Ampurias in 1947 and 1950. The documentation used for this article comes mainly from the Pericot Archive in the Library of Catalonia, in which there are 43 letters from Hawkes to Pericot between 1940 and 1975. In addition, other correspondence…
Complex Societies in Copper and Bronze Age Iberia
This paper starts from the conviction that it is not only important to study long‐term processes of change in a particular area, but to analyse the extent to which other areas have been implicated and affected by the processes occurring in it. The study of the emergence, maintenance and even disappearance of social complexity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Copper and Bronze Age has lacked such an approach. As a result, on the one hand it see…
Music and Storytelling at Rock Art Sites? The Archaeoacoustics of the Urkosh Area (Russian Altai)
In this article, the potential of archaeoacoustics for understanding past communities is discussed by looking at a range of acoustic parameters. Our case study is the Urkosh rock art area in the Ongudai district, Republic of Altai (Russia). The rock art of this area dates possibly from the Upper Palaeolithic and definitely from the Early Bronze Age (second half of the third millennium BCE). There are important periods in the Early Iron Age (first…
Los sonidos de la Prehistoria
En este artículo presentamos una breve introducción historiográfica y metodológica de la arqueología musical y la arqueoacústica como subdisciplinas de la arqueología encargadas del estudio de las evidencias materiales de las prácticas musicales del pasado remoto, y realizamos un recorrido por los principales hallazgos arqueológicos relacionados con la música, el sonido y la acústica de los espacios desde el Paleolítico al Neolítico en Eurasia. A…
Hearing rock art landscapes
This article focuses on the augmented audibility of distant sounds that is experienced in some rock art sites. We propose a method developed in acoustical physics to measure this acoustic phenomenon, the Transmission Loss (TL) analysis. We have assessed the validity of the method in our study area, the Sierra de San Serván in the region of Extremadura (Spain), an area where from the hundreds of shelters only sixty five were decorated with Schemat…
The Archaeology of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco
Theory and ideology in archaeology
Archaeology is notoriously vulnerable to the ideological pressures of authoritarian regimes. This paper charts the political influences that shaped archaeology in Spain for some 40 years. Following the Civil War Spanish archaeologists were isolated from mainstream theoretical evolution, a situation that was exacerbated by the exile of some leading figures. The centralizing authoritarianism of the Franco régime stifled regional autonomy in adminis…
Estudio del aprovechamiento del medio natural en el yacimiento de la Edad del Bronce de El Recuenco (Cervera del Llano, Cuenca). Análisis paleobotánicos
Este artículo se propone analizar el aprovechamiento económico del medio natural que se llevó a cabo en El Recuenco, poblado de la Edad de Bronce situado en la comarca de La Mancha. Para ello se exponen los resultados del estudio de los restos e improntas de origen vegetal recogidos en la campaña de excavaciones arqueológicas de 1988 en la llamada vivienda n°1. fechada por radiocarbono hacia mediados del siglo XV a.C. Estos demuestran el cultivo …
Women in Spanish Archeology
Prehistoria y Arqueologia
Complex Societies in Copper and Bronze Age Iberia
This paper starts from the conviction that it is not only important to study long‐term processes of change in a particular area, but to analyse the extent to which other areas have been implicated and affected by the processes occurring in it. The study of the emergence, maintenance and even disappearance of social complexity in the Iberian Peninsula during the Copper and Bronze Age has lacked such an approach. As a result, on the one hand it see…
Arqueología y política
En este artículo se ofrecen unas notas para una historia de la arqueología española en los siglos XVIII, XIX y XX. Hemos elegido como eje de la exposición la relación entre el desarrollo de la arqueología y los intereses políticos que caracterizaron cada momento histórico. España se halla inmersa dentro de un contexto europeo y, como en los demás países, la arqueología se ha visto mediatizada por los cambios de régimen a lo largo de las tres últi…
Espacio habitacional/espacio gráfico
El trabajo que ahora presentamos se basa en el análisis de las grafías, su ubicación en el soporte y su relación con el entorno, en una zona concreta, el término de La Hinojosa, en Cuenca, lugar en el que tenemos bien documentadas ocupaciones calcolíticas y de la Edad del Bronce. Nuestra propuesta es la de comprender dichos grabados como una parte de las expresiones del Arte Esquemático peninsular, en este caso asociadas a un contexto habitaciona…
Ethnicity and Iberians
A re-evaluation of how ethnicity is currently understood in archaeology is necessary in view of recent developments in the archaeology of identity. In this article, it will be argued that nationalism has led to an understanding of ethnicity as monolithic, denying in this way its heterogeneous nature. Since the 1920s, archaeologists working under the culture-historical umbrella have explicitly defined ethnicity on the basis of material culture, ma…
Nacionalismo y Arqueologia
Multiple readings of the same Golden Age
The increasingly voluminous literature on nationalism and archaeology published in recent years is providing archaeologists with a firm basis to self-analyse the connection of their endeavours to the socio-political context of which they are imbued. Yet, the work undertaken is not beyond criticism, as the authors make clear in their introduction. Most studies, including this one, approach the topic adopting a historiographical perspective. Yet, t…
Digital Image Processing and the Recording of Rock Art
Nacionalismo y Arqueologia
This article discusses how present identities, and in particular nationalism, influence the way in which we think about the past. As I will argue, archaeological endeavour cannot be understood outside its sociopolitical context in which present identities play a crucial role. The emergence of archaeology as a professional discipline was closely related to the success of nationalism as a political option to sustain the modem state. Archaeology was…
Guest editor's introduction
In this introductory article an evaluation of the emergence and transformations of parallel discourses regarding the past in relation to the political nationalist context in which they were articulated will be offered. A chronological framework will be adopted, thereby acknowledging the importance of the changes nationalism underwent for understanding shifts in discourses on the past
Cova Matutano (Vilafamés, Plana Alta, Castellón)
Rock Art and Ritual Landscape in Central Spain
In this article the rock art carvings of La Hinojosa in central Spain are examined. Their connection to a major transit route recorded at least from the medieval period is explored, as well as their location in a valley located at the confluence of two primary river basins in the Iberian Peninsula separated by less than five kilometres. It is argued that this singularity of the landscape seems to have been perceived by the people who marked the s…
Recent Studies in Rock Art
Towards three-dimensional non-invasive recording of incised rock art
Ancient art cut into rock is difficult to research and manage off-site without precise three-dimensional records. Experiments with photographic modelling by the authors led to a relatively accessible and economical way of making them
Knowledge capture and transfer in rock art studies
Several thousand prehistoric rock art sites are known in Britain, yet the degree of preservation of these engravings remains a poorly researched and undervalued aspect of the historic environment. Our lack of knowledge has severe implications for how we interpret the rock art sites and how we conserve and manage them. The ongoing ‘Fading Rock Art Landscapes’ project aims to address this gap in our knowledge by gathering information on the rate an…
Archaeology and Colonialism
The spiral that vanished
Classical versus Islamic Antiquities in Colonial Archaeology
This chapter revisits the connection between nationalism and religion in a very different setting to that seen in the biblical lands (Chapter 6) and, to a certain extent, in Central, South, and Southeast Asia (Chapters 7 and 8). It analyses how religion is able to induce the creation of alternative historical discourses to those formed on the basis of the remains of the classical civilizations. On the one hand, the historical account about the Gr…
Archaeology and the 1820 Liberal Revolution
Nationalism did not end with Napoleon’s downfall, despite the intention of those who outplayed him in 1815. Events evolved in such a way that there would be no way back. The changes in administration, legislation, and institutionalization established in many European countries, and by extension in their colonies, during the Napoleonic period brought efficiency to the state apparatus and statesmen could not afford to return to the old structures. …
An Alternative Account of the History of Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century
Historians of science (whether philosophers, epistemologists, historians of science, or sociologists of science) have been stubbornly reluctant to deal with archaeology in favour of other disciplines such as geology and medicine. Most histories of archaeology have, therefore, been written by archaeologists and this book is no exception. Being trained in the subtleties of stratigraphy and typology does not, however, provide archaeologists with the…
Conclusions
In this book explanations have operated at various levels, of which two will be highlighted here: top-down and bottom-up approaches. Regarding the first approach, it has been argued that archaeology’s emergence as a professional discipline needs to be understood within the framework of the appearance of nationalism as the political ideology that changed the way in which states were characterized, leading to their definition as self-governed natio…
Colonialism and Monumental Archaeology in South and Southeast Asia
In the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century, political and economic power was concentrated in just a few countries. Having eclipsed the most mighty early modern empires—those of Spain and Portugal, the Ottoman Empire, The Netherlands, and the Scandinavian countries— Britain, France, the Russian, and the Austro-Hungarian Empires became the major European powers. Later, these were joined by the newly formed countries of Ge…
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