José María Martín Civantos
Biographic Data
| ID | 4158441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | José María Martín Civantos |
| GIVEN NAMES | José María Martín |
| FAMILY NAME | Civantos |
| SIGNATURE | CIVANTOS J M M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad de Granada |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5513-8427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Tracing Conflict Through Canals
Water resource management has long shaped the social construction of space in both its material and jurisdictional dimensions, making Cerdanya and Sierra Nevada particularly interesting case studies of irrigation societies. The sharing of water (through artefacts, practices, and actions) emerges as a key factor in ensuring continuity despite the jurisdictional conflicts documented historically. Revisiting the debate on collective resources, this …
Unearthing the Histories of Agrarian Landscapes
This article presents an interdisciplinary programme for research on historic landscapes that has emerged since 2020 in the framework of the project Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments (‘TerraSAgE’). While the methodology has been tested in specific Mediterranean case studies, it is also applicable in other locations and regions. Our integrated approach provides new insights into the development of terraced agrarian landscapes and t…
La fortaleza de Guarros (Paterna del Río, Almería)
This paper aims to present the constructive evolution of the fortress of Guarros (Paterna del Río, Almería) and the discovery of a metallurgical production area. This fortification was occupied between the 8th and 13th centuries. This work analyses in detail the evolution of the fortress through building archaeology. It relates it to the mining possibilities of the surrounding territory to contextualise the metallurgical production area. The resu…
Remote Sensing Analysis and LiDAR Experimenting in the Espique Valley (La Peza, Granada, Spain)
The Espique valley is a small space at the foot of the mountain, practically closed, which hides a rich archaeological heritage, not only of habitats but also of varied productive spaces. For some years now, MEMOLab UGR has been carrying out research that is now enriched with the contribution of LiDAR, with whose application we are experimenting with at a landscape scale but also with the precision of terrestrial tools for an integrated high‐reso…
Ancestral Integrated Water Management Systems as Adaptation Tools for Climate Change
Historical water management systems, in operation since the Islamic period (eighth to fifteenth centuries), have generated important irrigated areas and transformed the landscapes in a co-evolutionary process over more than a thousand years. In the Sierra Nevada, the so-called acequias de careo stand out as a singular technical system for water recharge from the thaw. This way of managing surface- and groundwater, as well as soil and vegetation, …
Evaluating Participatory Practice In archaeology
In this paper we present a proposal for the creation of a standardized evaluation model for participatory/public/community archaeology and heritage initiatives. The proposal is the result of discussions during a Spring School that the University of Padua and the MAG Museum of Alto Garda, Italy, organized between 9 and 15 April 2018. The Spring School brought together international practitioners to compare experiences and share visions for the sus…
Poblamiento medieval del norte del valle alto del Guadalbullón
El presente artículo trata la evolución del poblamiento medieval de la zona septentrional del Valle Alto del río Guadalbullón. Se presentan datos novedosos, nunca tenidos en cuenta en los yacimientos del entorno, gracias a la aplicación de múltiples análisis GIS en materia de altitud, pendiente y visibilidad. Todo ello, bajo una metodología multidisciplinar, ha podido confirmar modelos defensivos y patrones de asentamiento muy variables entre el …
Islamic Ceramics and Rural Economy in the Trapani Mountains during the 11th century
Located in the Trapani Mountains of North-West Sicily, the hilltop site of Pizzo Monaco hasformed the focus of systematic excavation and an innovative, integrated study of the totalceramic assemblage, as part of the MEMOLA FP7 project. The date, provenance and productiontechnology of the varied types of pottery are investigated by macroscopic, morphological anddecorative analysis, in combination with petrography and scanning electron microscopy i…
Levantamiento arquitectónico y análisis arqueológico del castillo de Píñar como punto de partida para su conservación
This paper presents an applied methodology for the graphic documentation, analysis and criteria determination for the protection and conservation of built heritage. One of the main risks when restoring medieval rammed earth architecture is the lacking of an optimal graphic base of its structures. This paper’s main objective is the holistic knowledge of the Píñar fortress (Granada), analysis the building sequence from an archaeological perspective…
Análisis arqueológico de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba de Guadix (Granada)
Este artículo tiene como objetivo realizar el análisis de la secuencia constructiva de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba medieval de Guadix (Granada). Para ello, se efectuó un levantamiento tridimensional de la estructura mediante fotogrametría, una lectura estratigráfica de paramentos en profundidad y una caracterización de técnicas constructivas. Esto nos ha permitido comprobar que la torre-puerta tiene una compleja evolución histórica, lo que hac…
Digital Public Mortuary Archaeology via 3D Modelling
One of the main goals of the MEMOLA research project's open-area excavation at Pago del Jarafí (Lanteira, Granada, Spain) was to promote knowledge socialisation by means of imparting information and public participation. The site, a multi-phased rural settlement with cemeteries of different chronologies and cultural affinities, was subject to a complete 3D photogrammetric survey, a tool serving to develop virtual models both to interpret the exca…
Cuánto perdemos en las intervenciones urbanas? Homogeneización, análisis y cuantificación de la documentación arqueológica de Guadix (Granada)
El presente trabajo muestra el proceso metodológico llevado a cabo para lograr un acercamiento a la cuantificación de la información arqueológica, mediante la sistematización de los datos para su volcado en el Sistema de Información Patrimonial de Guadix (SIPAG). Se ha analizado la documentación de un total de 58 intervenciones arqueológicas urbanas llevadas a cabo desde el año 1986 hasta el 2009. Dentro de la información arqueológica encontramos…
From pedologic indications to archaeological reconstruction
Working in landscape archaeology
The agrarian transformations which took place in the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and the tenth century are essential for an understanding of how al-Andalus came into being. These developments provided the basis of a social formation which developed into a tributary mode of production. This study is part of a research project that draws inspiration from the tenets of landscape archaeology. Studying historic landscapes as part of the mater…
Alquife, un castillo con vocación minera en el Zenete (Granada)
El castillo de Alquife es uno de los más importantes del Zenete, una zona de intenso poblamiento en época medieval, caracterizado por las grandes vegas de agricultura intensiva de regadío y por la explotación minera. Alquife es, en este sentido, el máximo exponente en la extracción de mineral de hierro a partir del s. XI tras un proceso concentración de la producción. Tras la conquista castellana, la implantación del señorío introducirá cambios r…
Working in landscape archaeology
The agrarian transformations which took place in the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and the tenth century are essential for an understanding of how al-Andalus came into being. These developments provided the basis of a social formation which developed into a tributary mode of production. This study is part of a research project that draws inspiration from the tenets of landscape archaeology. Studying historic landscapes as part of the mater…
Unearthing the Histories of Agrarian Landscapes
This article presents an interdisciplinary programme for research on historic landscapes that has emerged since 2020 in the framework of the project Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments (‘TerraSAgE’). While the methodology has been tested in specific Mediterranean case studies, it is also applicable in other locations and regions. Our integrated approach provides new insights into the development of terraced agrarian landscapes and t…
Evaluating Participatory Practice In archaeology
In this paper we present a proposal for the creation of a standardized evaluation model for participatory/public/community archaeology and heritage initiatives. The proposal is the result of discussions during a Spring School that the University of Padua and the MAG Museum of Alto Garda, Italy, organized between 9 and 15 April 2018. The Spring School brought together international practitioners to compare experiences and share visions for the sus…
From pedologic indications to archaeological reconstruction
Alquife, un castillo con vocación minera en el Zenete (Granada)
El castillo de Alquife es uno de los más importantes del Zenete, una zona de intenso poblamiento en época medieval, caracterizado por las grandes vegas de agricultura intensiva de regadío y por la explotación minera. Alquife es, en este sentido, el máximo exponente en la extracción de mineral de hierro a partir del s. XI tras un proceso concentración de la producción. Tras la conquista castellana, la implantación del señorío introducirá cambios r…
Working in landscape archaeology
The agrarian transformations which took place in the Iberian Peninsula between the eighth and the tenth century are essential for an understanding of how al-Andalus came into being. These developments provided the basis of a social formation which developed into a tributary mode of production. This study is part of a research project that draws inspiration from the tenets of landscape archaeology. Studying historic landscapes as part of the mater…
From pedologic indications to archaeological reconstruction
Cuánto perdemos en las intervenciones urbanas? Homogeneización, análisis y cuantificación de la documentación arqueológica de Guadix (Granada)
El presente trabajo muestra el proceso metodológico llevado a cabo para lograr un acercamiento a la cuantificación de la información arqueológica, mediante la sistematización de los datos para su volcado en el Sistema de Información Patrimonial de Guadix (SIPAG). Se ha analizado la documentación de un total de 58 intervenciones arqueológicas urbanas llevadas a cabo desde el año 1986 hasta el 2009. Dentro de la información arqueológica encontramos…
Análisis arqueológico de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba de Guadix (Granada)
Este artículo tiene como objetivo realizar el análisis de la secuencia constructiva de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba medieval de Guadix (Granada). Para ello, se efectuó un levantamiento tridimensional de la estructura mediante fotogrametría, una lectura estratigráfica de paramentos en profundidad y una caracterización de técnicas constructivas. Esto nos ha permitido comprobar que la torre-puerta tiene una compleja evolución histórica, lo que hac…
Digital Public Mortuary Archaeology via 3D Modelling
One of the main goals of the MEMOLA research project's open-area excavation at Pago del Jarafí (Lanteira, Granada, Spain) was to promote knowledge socialisation by means of imparting information and public participation. The site, a multi-phased rural settlement with cemeteries of different chronologies and cultural affinities, was subject to a complete 3D photogrammetric survey, a tool serving to develop virtual models both to interpret the exca…
Islamic Ceramics and Rural Economy in the Trapani Mountains during the 11th century
Located in the Trapani Mountains of North-West Sicily, the hilltop site of Pizzo Monaco hasformed the focus of systematic excavation and an innovative, integrated study of the totalceramic assemblage, as part of the MEMOLA FP7 project. The date, provenance and productiontechnology of the varied types of pottery are investigated by macroscopic, morphological anddecorative analysis, in combination with petrography and scanning electron microscopy i…
Levantamiento arquitectónico y análisis arqueológico del castillo de Píñar como punto de partida para su conservación
This paper presents an applied methodology for the graphic documentation, analysis and criteria determination for the protection and conservation of built heritage. One of the main risks when restoring medieval rammed earth architecture is the lacking of an optimal graphic base of its structures. This paper’s main objective is the holistic knowledge of the Píñar fortress (Granada), analysis the building sequence from an archaeological perspective…
Poblamiento medieval del norte del valle alto del Guadalbullón
El presente artículo trata la evolución del poblamiento medieval de la zona septentrional del Valle Alto del río Guadalbullón. Se presentan datos novedosos, nunca tenidos en cuenta en los yacimientos del entorno, gracias a la aplicación de múltiples análisis GIS en materia de altitud, pendiente y visibilidad. Todo ello, bajo una metodología multidisciplinar, ha podido confirmar modelos defensivos y patrones de asentamiento muy variables entre el …
Evaluating Participatory Practice In archaeology
In this paper we present a proposal for the creation of a standardized evaluation model for participatory/public/community archaeology and heritage initiatives. The proposal is the result of discussions during a Spring School that the University of Padua and the MAG Museum of Alto Garda, Italy, organized between 9 and 15 April 2018. The Spring School brought together international practitioners to compare experiences and share visions for the sus…
Ancestral Integrated Water Management Systems as Adaptation Tools for Climate Change
Historical water management systems, in operation since the Islamic period (eighth to fifteenth centuries), have generated important irrigated areas and transformed the landscapes in a co-evolutionary process over more than a thousand years. In the Sierra Nevada, the so-called acequias de careo stand out as a singular technical system for water recharge from the thaw. This way of managing surface- and groundwater, as well as soil and vegetation, …
La fortaleza de Guarros (Paterna del Río, Almería)
This paper aims to present the constructive evolution of the fortress of Guarros (Paterna del Río, Almería) and the discovery of a metallurgical production area. This fortification was occupied between the 8th and 13th centuries. This work analyses in detail the evolution of the fortress through building archaeology. It relates it to the mining possibilities of the surrounding territory to contextualise the metallurgical production area. The resu…
Remote Sensing Analysis and LiDAR Experimenting in the Espique Valley (La Peza, Granada, Spain)
The Espique valley is a small space at the foot of the mountain, practically closed, which hides a rich archaeological heritage, not only of habitats but also of varied productive spaces. For some years now, MEMOLab UGR has been carrying out research that is now enriched with the contribution of LiDAR, with whose application we are experimenting with at a landscape scale but also with the precision of terrestrial tools for an integrated high‐reso…
Tracing Conflict Through Canals
Water resource management has long shaped the social construction of space in both its material and jurisdictional dimensions, making Cerdanya and Sierra Nevada particularly interesting case studies of irrigation societies. The sharing of water (through artefacts, practices, and actions) emerges as a key factor in ensuring continuity despite the jurisdictional conflicts documented historically. Revisiting the debate on collective resources, this …
Unearthing the Histories of Agrarian Landscapes
This article presents an interdisciplinary programme for research on historic landscapes that has emerged since 2020 in the framework of the project Terraces as Sustainable Agricultural Environments (‘TerraSAgE’). While the methodology has been tested in specific Mediterranean case studies, it is also applicable in other locations and regions. Our integrated approach provides new insights into the development of terraced agrarian landscapes and t…
Geography (10 works) · Medieval Architecture and Archaeology (10 works) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (8 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Historical Studies of Medieval Iberia (6 works) · Humanities (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · History (5 works) · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage (4 works)