Laura Llorente‐rodríguez
Biographic Data
| ID | 81452 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Llorente‐rodríguez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Llorente‐rodríguez |
| SIGNATURE | RODRÍGUEZ L L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9329-5554 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The elephant in the oppidum. Preliminary analysis of a carpal bone from a Punic context at the archaeological site of Colina de los Quemados (Córdoba, Spain)
Unravelling the role of Atlantic fish in medieval and early modern Western Mediterranean foodways
The development of the Atlantic fish trade marked a major shift in European diets during the Medieval and modern periods. Although this trade is well documented in historical and archaeological records, its impact on consumption patterns remains poorly understood, particularly in the western Mediterranean, where ichthyoarchaeological studies are limited. This study reconstructs the trade and consumption of two key Atlantic species (European hake …
A “shell-midden” dated to the Middle Ages in Northern Spain
From the wetlands to the farmyard
The history of domestic ducks ( Anas platyrhynchos domesticus ) and domestic greylag geese ( Anser anser domesticus ) remains poorly understood. This is mainly caused by the difficulty of identifying archaeological bones as domestic due to the existing overlap in sizes. A recently published osteometrical methodology is applied that successfully allows to identify domestic forms and distinguish between anatid species with more confidence. Four arc…
Halal and Makruk
Muslim religion has strict rules to determine what kinds of foodstuffs, and under what circumstances, are deemed appropriate for consumption. Fishes are not an exception to this rule and features such as body shape or the presence and conspicuousness of scales dictate whether certain species are acceptable or rejected. In this paper, an overview of the Iberian ichthyoarchaeological record from Muslim sites is presented to ascertain whether differ…
New insights into upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic occupations in Les Pedroses cave (Asturies, north Spain)
The medieval fisheries of Galicia (Northwestern Iberia)
The origin and development of the Iberian Medieval fisheries is a poorly documented phenomenon both from the standpoint of historical (documentary) and material (archaeological) evidence. Such dearth of knowledge can be explained in terms of proximal (i.e., a deficient retrieval of fish remains) and ultimate causes. Among the latter, the Muslim invasion, that lasted ca. 800 years of the “medieval millennium” in the Iberian Peninsula, needs to be …
Ichthyoarchaeology
Phoretic oribatids (Acari, Oribatida) as bird bioindicators? Insights from the site of Tabacalera (Gijón, N. Spain, 6th-7th centuries AD)
Fish- and Shellmiddens from Galicia (Northwest Spain)
The physiographical features of the Galician sea, in particular its temperature, marine currents and plankton richness, have turned its waters into one of the most biologically diversified marine regions of the planet. The 1500 km of shorelines from this Northwest Iberian region are dotted with rías (Galician fjords) where settlements devoted to fishing and trade have existed since prehistoric times. These activities left abundant testimonies in …
Long-term dietary change in Atlantic and Mediterranean Iberia with the introduction of agriculture
The Neolithic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula is marked by the \nintroduction of livestock and domesticated crops which modified \nsubsistence strategies in an unprecedented manner. Bulk collagen stable \ncarbon and nitrogen isotope analysis has been essential to track these \nchanges, which have largely been discussed in relation to particular \ngeographic areas or single case studies. This paper reviews the \navailable isotope literature to …
Ichthyoarchaeology
A Post-cranial Osteometrical Database for the Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica Schinz, 1838)
Body size analyses in zooarchaeology require reliable osteometrical databases in order to evaluate phenomena such as the existence of diachronic and geographic changes and the estimation of the sex ratio. Despite it being a major hunting item in the Iberian Peninsula since Upper Palaeolithic times, the Spanish ibex presently lacks such a reference database. This paper intends to address such absence by offering a comprehensive overview of selecte…
The Fishes From Cova Fosca (Castellón, Spain)
The small collection of marine fish remains retrieved at the Epipaleolithic-Neolithic site of Cova Fosca is presented. The relevance of these presumably food items is not quantitative but qualitatively, as we believe it reveals a movement of people between the mountains and the shore taking place for at least 6 millennia rather than a movement of objects, a phenomenon that is discussed from the standpoint of the characteristics of the fish remain…
Hidden signatures of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Iberia
The Iberian zebro
Seven centuries before the discovery of the African zebras by the Europeans, the names zebro and zebra were given to an enigmatic equid widely reported in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Roughly 150 toponyms deriving from the words zebro/a have been recorded in Iberia starting from the IXth century A.D. together with 65 Portuguese Forais and 16 Spanish Fueros (i.e. town laws) referred to these animals as onagri or zebros — Latin and…
Herders or hunters? Discriminating butchery practices through phalanx breakage patterns at Cova Fosca (Castellón, Spain)
More questions than answers
Liesau, Corina, Daza, Arantxa, Llorente, Laura, Morales, Arturo (2013): More questions than answers: the singular animal deposits from Camino de Las Yeseras (Chalcolithic, Madrid, Spain). Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 277-286, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a6
The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in southern Iberia
New data and a review of historiographic information from Neolithic sites of the Malaga and Algarve coasts (southern Iberian Peninsula) and from the Maghreb (North Africa) reveal the existence of a Neolithic settlement at least from 7.5 cal ka BP. The agricultural and pastoralist food producing economy of that population rapidly replaced the coastal economies of the Mesolithic populations. The timing of this population and economic turnover coinc…
Long-term dietary change in Atlantic and Mediterranean Iberia with the introduction of agriculture
The Neolithic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula is marked by the \nintroduction of livestock and domesticated crops which modified \nsubsistence strategies in an unprecedented manner. Bulk collagen stable \ncarbon and nitrogen isotope analysis has been essential to track these \nchanges, which have largely been discussed in relation to particular \ngeographic areas or single case studies. This paper reviews the \navailable isotope literature to …
More questions than answers
Liesau, Corina, Daza, Arantxa, Llorente, Laura, Morales, Arturo (2013): More questions than answers: the singular animal deposits from Camino de Las Yeseras (Chalcolithic, Madrid, Spain). Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 277-286, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a6
Hidden signatures of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Iberia
Herders or hunters? Discriminating butchery practices through phalanx breakage patterns at Cova Fosca (Castellón, Spain)
A Post-cranial Osteometrical Database for the Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica Schinz, 1838)
Body size analyses in zooarchaeology require reliable osteometrical databases in order to evaluate phenomena such as the existence of diachronic and geographic changes and the estimation of the sex ratio. Despite it being a major hunting item in the Iberian Peninsula since Upper Palaeolithic times, the Spanish ibex presently lacks such a reference database. This paper intends to address such absence by offering a comprehensive overview of selecte…
New insights into upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic occupations in Les Pedroses cave (Asturies, north Spain)
The medieval fisheries of Galicia (Northwestern Iberia)
The origin and development of the Iberian Medieval fisheries is a poorly documented phenomenon both from the standpoint of historical (documentary) and material (archaeological) evidence. Such dearth of knowledge can be explained in terms of proximal (i.e., a deficient retrieval of fish remains) and ultimate causes. Among the latter, the Muslim invasion, that lasted ca. 800 years of the “medieval millennium” in the Iberian Peninsula, needs to be …
The Iberian zebro
Seven centuries before the discovery of the African zebras by the Europeans, the names zebro and zebra were given to an enigmatic equid widely reported in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Roughly 150 toponyms deriving from the words zebro/a have been recorded in Iberia starting from the IXth century A.D. together with 65 Portuguese Forais and 16 Spanish Fueros (i.e. town laws) referred to these animals as onagri or zebros — Latin and…
The Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in southern Iberia
New data and a review of historiographic information from Neolithic sites of the Malaga and Algarve coasts (southern Iberian Peninsula) and from the Maghreb (North Africa) reveal the existence of a Neolithic settlement at least from 7.5 cal ka BP. The agricultural and pastoralist food producing economy of that population rapidly replaced the coastal economies of the Mesolithic populations. The timing of this population and economic turnover coinc…
Herders or hunters? Discriminating butchery practices through phalanx breakage patterns at Cova Fosca (Castellón, Spain)
More questions than answers
Liesau, Corina, Daza, Arantxa, Llorente, Laura, Morales, Arturo (2013): More questions than answers: the singular animal deposits from Camino de Las Yeseras (Chalcolithic, Madrid, Spain). Anthropozoologica 48 (2): 277-286, DOI: 10.5252/az2013n2a6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/az2013n2a6
The Fishes From Cova Fosca (Castellón, Spain)
The small collection of marine fish remains retrieved at the Epipaleolithic-Neolithic site of Cova Fosca is presented. The relevance of these presumably food items is not quantitative but qualitatively, as we believe it reveals a movement of people between the mountains and the shore taking place for at least 6 millennia rather than a movement of objects, a phenomenon that is discussed from the standpoint of the characteristics of the fish remain…
Hidden signatures of the Mesolithic–Neolithic transition in Iberia
The Iberian zebro
Seven centuries before the discovery of the African zebras by the Europeans, the names zebro and zebra were given to an enigmatic equid widely reported in the Iberian Peninsula during the Middle Ages. Roughly 150 toponyms deriving from the words zebro/a have been recorded in Iberia starting from the IXth century A.D. together with 65 Portuguese Forais and 16 Spanish Fueros (i.e. town laws) referred to these animals as onagri or zebros — Latin and…
A Post-cranial Osteometrical Database for the Spanish ibex (Capra pyrenaica Schinz, 1838)
Body size analyses in zooarchaeology require reliable osteometrical databases in order to evaluate phenomena such as the existence of diachronic and geographic changes and the estimation of the sex ratio. Despite it being a major hunting item in the Iberian Peninsula since Upper Palaeolithic times, the Spanish ibex presently lacks such a reference database. This paper intends to address such absence by offering a comprehensive overview of selecte…
Ichthyoarchaeology
Fish- and Shellmiddens from Galicia (Northwest Spain)
The physiographical features of the Galician sea, in particular its temperature, marine currents and plankton richness, have turned its waters into one of the most biologically diversified marine regions of the planet. The 1500 km of shorelines from this Northwest Iberian region are dotted with rías (Galician fjords) where settlements devoted to fishing and trade have existed since prehistoric times. These activities left abundant testimonies in …
Long-term dietary change in Atlantic and Mediterranean Iberia with the introduction of agriculture
The Neolithic expansion in the Iberian Peninsula is marked by the \nintroduction of livestock and domesticated crops which modified \nsubsistence strategies in an unprecedented manner. Bulk collagen stable \ncarbon and nitrogen isotope analysis has been essential to track these \nchanges, which have largely been discussed in relation to particular \ngeographic areas or single case studies. This paper reviews the \navailable isotope literature to …
Ichthyoarchaeology
Phoretic oribatids (Acari, Oribatida) as bird bioindicators? Insights from the site of Tabacalera (Gijón, N. Spain, 6th-7th centuries AD)
The medieval fisheries of Galicia (Northwestern Iberia)
The origin and development of the Iberian Medieval fisheries is a poorly documented phenomenon both from the standpoint of historical (documentary) and material (archaeological) evidence. Such dearth of knowledge can be explained in terms of proximal (i.e., a deficient retrieval of fish remains) and ultimate causes. Among the latter, the Muslim invasion, that lasted ca. 800 years of the “medieval millennium” in the Iberian Peninsula, needs to be …
New insights into upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic occupations in Les Pedroses cave (Asturies, north Spain)
From the wetlands to the farmyard
The history of domestic ducks ( Anas platyrhynchos domesticus ) and domestic greylag geese ( Anser anser domesticus ) remains poorly understood. This is mainly caused by the difficulty of identifying archaeological bones as domestic due to the existing overlap in sizes. A recently published osteometrical methodology is applied that successfully allows to identify domestic forms and distinguish between anatid species with more confidence. Four arc…
Halal and Makruk
Muslim religion has strict rules to determine what kinds of foodstuffs, and under what circumstances, are deemed appropriate for consumption. Fishes are not an exception to this rule and features such as body shape or the presence and conspicuousness of scales dictate whether certain species are acceptable or rejected. In this paper, an overview of the Iberian ichthyoarchaeological record from Muslim sites is presented to ascertain whether differ…
A “shell-midden” dated to the Middle Ages in Northern Spain
The elephant in the oppidum. Preliminary analysis of a carpal bone from a Punic context at the archaeological site of Colina de los Quemados (Córdoba, Spain)
Unravelling the role of Atlantic fish in medieval and early modern Western Mediterranean foodways
The development of the Atlantic fish trade marked a major shift in European diets during the Medieval and modern periods. Although this trade is well documented in historical and archaeological records, its impact on consumption patterns remains poorly understood, particularly in the western Mediterranean, where ichthyoarchaeological studies are limited. This study reconstructs the trade and consumption of two key Atlantic species (European hake …
Geography (15 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (9 works) · Biology (8 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Peninsula (7 works) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (6 works) · Mesolithic (5 works) · Geology (4 works)