Juan José Ibáñez
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 164136 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Juan José Ibáñez |
| PRENOMES | Juan José |
| SOBRENOME | Ibáñez |
| ASSINATURA | IBÁÑEZ J J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6394-9737 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 58 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 242 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 58 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2002 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Exploring Use‐Wear Texture Quantification Through Confocal Microscopy on Tools Made From Volcanic Rocks (Basalt and Phonolite)
Functional analysis is essential for reconstructing lithic tool use. Recent approaches combining confocal microscopy and surface texture analysis provide quantitative alternatives to traditional visual use‐wear analysis, although their application to coarse‐grained, heterogeneous rocks remains challenging because of their complex surface microtopography. This study addresses these limitations through an exploratory experimental framework focused …
Agropastoral practices and woodland management shaped the Irano-Turanian steppe-forest vegetation during the Transitional PPNA/B–Early PPNB (8895–8210 cal bce) at Kharaysin, Jordan
The present study reconstructs vegetation change and human–environment interactions from the Transitional Pre-Pottery Neolithic A/B (8895–8415 cal bce) to the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (8465–8210 cal bce) at the Kharaysin archaeological site (Zarqa, Jordan). For the first time at this site, integrated pollen, wood charcoal and phytolith analyses have been carried out in combination with a detailed archaeostratigraphic and Bayesian-modelled ch…
A New Method for Estimating Prehistoric Agricultural Productivity Through the Microtextural Analysis of Harvesting Tools
Pulse of the Past
Ground stone tools are considered prime evidence for exploring significant aspects of prehistoric societies, particularly concerning plant food processing. For this reason, studying their use can reveal relevant clues concerning the modes of exploitation of specific plants and highlight local and shared culinary practices. This paper presents the first functional study of the ground stone tools from the Pre Pottery Neolithic site of Kharaysin in …
Architecture in Kharaysin from the late PPNA to the middle PPNB
The study of the architectural remains discovered at the Early Neolithic site of Kharaysin (Zarqa, Jordan) casts light on the evolution of building techniques in the Jordan Highlands from the late 10th millennium, at the end of the PPNA, to the mid-8th millennium cal BC, during the Middle PPNB. Five main architectural levels are identified. Oval sunken dwellings were built at the end of 10th and the beginning of the 9th millennia cal BC. In ca. 8…
Exploitation and consumption of legumes during the Early Neolithic at Kharaysin, Jordan
This paper investigates the evolution of plant exploitation practices during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period in the southern Levant, with the particular focus on the exploitation of legumes. We analyse the archaeobotanical assemblages from the PPN site of Kharaysin, in Jordan (9000–6800 cal bce ), which have yielded a significant assemblage totalling 6,807 plant remains. The results show that legumes including Vicia narbonensis (Narbon vet…
What can lithics tell us about food production during the transition to farming? Exploring harvesting practices and cultural changes during the neolithic in Southwest Asia
This study examines the continuity and change in harvesting practices between the Late Pre‐Pottery Neolithic B (LPPNB) and the Early Pottery Neolithic at Qminas, north‐western Levant, through a traceological analysis of flint sickles. By combining qualitative traceological analysis with quantitative functional approaches, we demonstrate that sickle blades were used for low‐cut harvesting of ripe domesticated cereals, reflecting a fully establishe…
Leaning on to rise up
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Assessing socio-economic changes between the Northern and Southern Levant through the function of projectile points from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Kharaysin (Jordan) and Dja’de (Syria)
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Assessing the reliability of silicone replicas in the analysis of sickle gloss at the early Neolithic site of Cheikh Hassan (Northern Levant, 11th millennium BP)
Over the past decade, confocal microscopy combined with quantitative texture analysis has opened new possibilities for studying prehistoric tool use. However, a key challenge remains in identifying the extent to which different acquisition methods—direct surface measurements versus silicone moulds—influence the textural properties of the original surfaces. This study evaluates whether high-precision polyvinylsiloxane can be reliably used for the …
Beyond the Surface
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10816-025-09697-6
Shining Light on Dark Matter
Over the past decade, confocal microscopy has increasingly been employed to examine changes in stone tool surfaces and has proven to be an accurate technique for quantifying use-wear texture. Promising results have emerged from characterizing Polish formation on experimental and archaeological flint tools. Recent studies also highlighted the potential of confocal microscopy for analyzing tools made from reflective materials, such as quartzite. In…
New analytical approaches to sickle blade use and cereal harvesting at Ras Shamra-Ugarit during the Late Bronze Age
At Ras Shamra-Ugarit, knapped stone tools largely persisted during the Late Bronze Age, despite the widespread use of metal. Flint was used to produce geometric sickle elements and tools as part of the domestic toolkit. Previous technological and functional studies of the lithic material from the "Centre de la Ville" and "Grand-rue" areas revealed the inhabitants' involvement in agricultural activities, particularly cereal harvesting and sickle m…
Comparative analysis of confocal microscopy objective magnifications on dental microwear texture Analysis. Implications for dietary reconstruction in caprines
In DMTA, a wide range of microscope objectives has been used, but its variability has been little explored. • This study presents a comparative analysis of dental microwear texture through different microscope objectives. • Dental microwear allowed distinguishing between wild and domestic caprine diets using 10x/0.30, 20x/0.45, 50x/0.80 and 100x/0.80 objectives. • A greater magnification and numerical aperture offer a higher discriminant capacity…
Plants meet artefacts
Use-wear evidence for the use of threshing sledges in Neolithic Greece
Threshing sledge or tribulum represents an important innovation in agricultural techniques. It allows processing huge amounts of cereals and it has often associated to an increased agricultural production. Their use is attested during the Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age both in south-western Asia and Europe. In the Mediterranean area, their use lasted until few decades ago. Recently, as part of project focused on the analysis of …
Trevor Watkins. 2023. Becoming Neolithic
The Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in The Southern Levant
During the last twenty years, several archaeological sites with occupation levels attributed to the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B have been excavated in the southern Levant, filling the previous information gap. Our excavations at Tell Qarassa North (Sweida, Syria) and Kharaysin (Zarqa, Jordan), with EPPNB occupations dated from ca. 8600 to 8200 cal. BC, have contributed to the renewal of our knowledge of the PPNB in the southern area of the Fert…
Discriminating dietary behaviour between wild and domestic goats using dental microwear texture
Current evidence supports the idea that animal domestication occurred in multiple loci and at different time periods throughout the Near East rather than according to a single origin. In this scenario, the southern Levant is being increasingly considered as another presumed primary centre of goat domestication, alongside eastern Anatolia and the Zagros. Assessing the status (i.e. wild or domestic) of this animal in this region, however, is hamper…
Human-plant interaction at the onset of agriculture
Plant domestication represents a major turning point in human history, resulting in the shift from a hunting/gathering/fishing-based economy to food production. Combining the analysis of ground stone tools and dental calculus, the PATH project aims to investigate dynamics of plant consumption, and the knowledge and toolkits involved in their processing
The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria)
The Early Natufian Site of Jeftelik (Homs Gap, Syria)
From Anatolia to Algarve
The introduction and spread of the Neolithic “way of life” in Europe was a process that took several millennia, followed by different rhythms and displayed singularities in each geographic area. It was therefore a very complex phenomenon that, despite highly significant advances in research in recent decades, is yet to be fully understood. To deepen our understanding of the very early stages of the introduction of herding and agriculture througho…
Knapped Tools for Obtaining Food Resources in the Origins of Farming in the Near East
In the Near East, the Fertile Crescent was the area where the economic, social and ideological changes representing the transition from nomadic hunter-gatherer to sedentary farming societies first appeared, between 12300 and 7000 BC. Knapped flint and obsidian tools underwent complex technological changes, reflecting the important social transformations that occurred during this transition. In this article, we provide an overview of the current s…
Cult paraphernalia or everyday items? Assessing the status and use of the flint artefacts from Nahal Hemar Cave (Middle PPNB, Judean Desert)
Cereal cultivation and domestication as shown by microtexture analysis of sickle gloss through confocal microscopy
Discriminating wild vs domestic cereal harvesting micropolish through laser confocal microscopy
Identifying Experimental Tool Use Through Confocal Microscopy
Developing a complex network model of obsidian exchange in the Neolithic Near East
L’étude des échanges d’obsidienne permet d’obtenir une meilleure connaissance des systèmes d’interaction entre les villages sédentaires au début du Néolithique au Proche-Orient. Le modèle d’échange d’obsidienne, down-the-line, a dominé pour expliquer la diffusion de l’obsidienne entre les villages néolithiques. Cependant, l’information disponible sur la quantité d’obsidienne présente dans les sites, les simulations mathématiques de cette distribu…
Interpreting a ritual funerary area at the Early Neolithic site of Tell Qarassa North (South Syria, late 9th millennium BC)
Crania with mutilated facial skeletons
The removal of crania from burials, their ritual use and their disposal, generally in cranial caches, are the most particular characteristics of the funerary ritual in the transition to the Neolithic in the Near East. Despite the importance of this ritual, detailed studies of cranial caches are rare. This funerary ritual has traditionally been interpreted as a form of ancestor‐veneration. However, this study of the cranial caches found at the sit…
Towards a Multi-Agent-Based Modelling of Obsidian Exchange in the Neolithic Near East
The human face and the origins of the Neolithic
The origins of the Neolithic in the Near East were accompanied by significant ritual and symbolic innovations. New light is thrown on the social context of these changes by the discovery of a bone wand displaying two engraved human faces from the Early Neolithic site of Tell Qarassa in Syria, dating from the late ninth millennium BC. This small bone object from a funerary layer can be related to monumental statuary of the same period in the south…
The Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula
Crop husbandry activities and wild plant gathering, use and consumption at the EPPNB Tell Qarassa North (south Syria)
Use and Sonority of a 23,000-Year-Old Bone Aerophone from Davant Pau Cave (NE of the Iberian Peninsula)
The production of sound is a significant human capacity that is used, through the generation of feelings and emotions, for conditioning social and biological reproduction. Despite this elevance and although several hundred instruments have been attributed to the production of sound along the Upper Paleolithic, our knowledge of how and in what contexts music was played during this period is still quite limited. In this paper, the aerophone found i…
Flint 'figurines' from the Early Neolithic site of Kharaysin, Jordan
During the Early Neolithic in the Near East, particularly from the mid ninth millennium cal BC onwards, human iconography became more widespread. Explanations for this development, however, remain elusive. This article presents a unique assemblage of flint artefacts from the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (eighth millennium BC) site of Kharaysin in Jordan. Contextual, morphological, statistical and use-wear analyses of these artefacts suggest tha…
Revealing early villages – Pseudo‐3D ERT geophysical survey at the pre‐pottery Neolithic site of Kharaysin, Jordan
Electric resistivity tomography (ERT) prospection conducted at the Pre‐Pottery Neolithic site at Kharaysin, Jordan, building on previous surface prospection and excavation, found a number of new sub‐surface anomalies. Subsequent excavations determined that the anomalies corresponded with the stone walls of habitation structures and possibly terrace walls. These features covered large areas of the site slope, inclusive of clustered settlement stru…
Transforming the ancestors
Beyond the Surface
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10816-025-09697-6
Shining Light on Dark Matter
Over the past decade, confocal microscopy has increasingly been employed to examine changes in stone tool surfaces and has proven to be an accurate technique for quantifying use-wear texture. Promising results have emerged from characterizing Polish formation on experimental and archaeological flint tools. Recent studies also highlighted the potential of confocal microscopy for analyzing tools made from reflective materials, such as quartzite. In…
Geochemical and spectroscopic approach to the characterization of earliest cremated human bones from the Levant (PPNB of Kharaysin, Jordan)
Reconstructing Harvesting Technologies through the Analysis of Sickle Blades
The study of the crop-harvesting technology of the first groups of farmers can notably contribute to the debate on the expansion of agriculture in the Central Mediterranean. The traceological analysis of so-called “sickle blades” represents a valuable proxy for studying the emergence of harvesting technologies during Early Neolithic and their geographic variability. Use-wear traces allow to reconstruct the way in which the tool was used, the type…
Qarassa North Tell, Southern Syria
L’absence de sites fouillés représentant les périodes néolithique céramique et chalcolithique en Syrie du sud a rendu difficile jusqu’à présent la mise en relation des mondes de la Syrie centrale et du Levant sud. Les niveaux les plus récents du tell nord du site de Qarassa (province de Suweida, Syrie méridionale), fouillés de 2007 à 2010, fournissent une séquence d’occupations représentant ces périodes entre le dernier quart du vie millénaire et…
Leaning on to rise up
International audience
The Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B in The Southern Levant
During the last twenty years, several archaeological sites with occupation levels attributed to the Early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B have been excavated in the southern Levant, filling the previous information gap. Our excavations at Tell Qarassa North (Sweida, Syria) and Kharaysin (Zarqa, Jordan), with EPPNB occupations dated from ca. 8600 to 8200 cal. BC, have contributed to the renewal of our knowledge of the PPNB in the southern area of the Fert…
Discriminating dietary behaviour between wild and domestic goats using dental microwear texture
Current evidence supports the idea that animal domestication occurred in multiple loci and at different time periods throughout the Near East rather than according to a single origin. In this scenario, the southern Levant is being increasingly considered as another presumed primary centre of goat domestication, alongside eastern Anatolia and the Zagros. Assessing the status (i.e. wild or domestic) of this animal in this region, however, is hamper…
Exploitation and consumption of legumes during the Early Neolithic at Kharaysin, Jordan
This paper investigates the evolution of plant exploitation practices during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) period in the southern Levant, with the particular focus on the exploitation of legumes. We analyse the archaeobotanical assemblages from the PPN site of Kharaysin, in Jordan (9000–6800 cal bce ), which have yielded a significant assemblage totalling 6,807 plant remains. The results show that legumes including Vicia narbonensis (Narbon vet…
Assessing socio-economic changes between the Northern and Southern Levant through the function of projectile points from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Kharaysin (Jordan) and Dja’de (Syria)
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Plants meet artefacts
Argile et bouse de vache. Les récipients de la région Jbâla (Maroc)
Dans la région Jbâla, au nord-ouest du Maroc, nous avons étudié les techniques traditionnelles de fabrication de récipients réalisés 1) en bouse de vache, 2) en argile non cuite, et 3) en argile mélangée avec la bouse de vache. La fabrication de ces objets, abandonnée depuis vingt ou trente ans, reposait sur le savoir-faire technique de toutes les femmes de la région et avait pour but de satisfaire les besoins domestiques. Autrefois, ces récipien…
Qarassa, un site du Bronze ancien et moyen en Syrie du Sud
A la suite d’une prospection régionale du plateau basaltique du Leja, le site de Qarassa a été choisi pour la fouille en raison de sa représentativité chronologique du Natoufien à l’âge du Fer qui en fait la première référence chronostratigraphique longue pour la zone basaltique. Le tell sud de Qarassa est occupé du milieu du IVe jusqu’au deuxième quart du Ier millénaire. On propose ici une synthèse des résultats de la fouille des niveaux du Bron…
La tecnología cerámica de los niveles IV y III en el yacimiento de Kobaederra (Cortézubi, Bizkaia). Aprovisionamiento y modificación de las materias primas
El estudio tecnológico del material cerámico requiere de la aplicación de técnicas de análisis arqueométrico que permitan un acercamiento a su mineralogía y composición química, con la finalidad de identificar las etapas de su secuencia de elaboración. Este artículo presenta el análisis tecnológico de la cerámica neolítica documentada en los niveles inferiores del yacimiento de Kobaederra (Cortézubi, Bizkaia), a partir de su análisis mineralógico…
Crania with mutilated facial skeletons
The removal of crania from burials, their ritual use and their disposal, generally in cranial caches, are the most particular characteristics of the funerary ritual in the transition to the Neolithic in the Near East. Despite the importance of this ritual, detailed studies of cranial caches are rare. This funerary ritual has traditionally been interpreted as a form of ancestor‐veneration. However, this study of the cranial caches found at the sit…
Les occupations d’Umm-el-Tlel (Syrie centrale) pendant le Kébarien géométrique. Étude du niveau I.2.A (campagnes 1991, 1992 et 1994)
Cet article présente les résultats de la fouille du niveau archéologique I. 2. a du site d’Umm-el-Tlel (El Kowm), un niveau appartenant au Kébarien géométrique. Les travaux sur le terrain ont été menés entre 1991 et 1994. Les matériaux archéologiques et leur répartition spatiale ont été analysés. Les résultats de cette analyse suggèrent que la zone fouillée correspondrait à un espace où des déchets de boucherie ont été accumulés
The Neolithic Transition in the Iberian Peninsula
Towards a Multi-Agent-Based Modelling of Obsidian Exchange in the Neolithic Near East
Discriminating wild vs domestic cereal harvesting micropolish through laser confocal microscopy
The human face and the origins of the Neolithic
The origins of the Neolithic in the Near East were accompanied by significant ritual and symbolic innovations. New light is thrown on the social context of these changes by the discovery of a bone wand displaying two engraved human faces from the Early Neolithic site of Tell Qarassa in Syria, dating from the late ninth millennium BC. This small bone object from a funerary layer can be related to monumental statuary of the same period in the south…
Widespread exploitation of the honeybee by early Neolithic farmers
Qarassa North Tell, Southern Syria
L’absence de sites fouillés représentant les périodes néolithique céramique et chalcolithique en Syrie du sud a rendu difficile jusqu’à présent la mise en relation des mondes de la Syrie centrale et du Levant sud. Les niveaux les plus récents du tell nord du site de Qarassa (province de Suweida, Syrie méridionale), fouillés de 2007 à 2010, fournissent une séquence d’occupations représentant ces périodes entre le dernier quart du vie millénaire et…
Use and Sonority of a 23,000-Year-Old Bone Aerophone from Davant Pau Cave (NE of the Iberian Peninsula)
The production of sound is a significant human capacity that is used, through the generation of feelings and emotions, for conditioning social and biological reproduction. Despite this elevance and although several hundred instruments have been attributed to the production of sound along the Upper Paleolithic, our knowledge of how and in what contexts music was played during this period is still quite limited. In this paper, the aerophone found i…
Interpreting a ritual funerary area at the Early Neolithic site of Tell Qarassa North (South Syria, late 9th millennium BC)
Regional diversity on the timing for the initial appearance of cereal cultivation and domestication in southwest Asia
Significance Recent studies show that cultivation of wild and domesticated plants was a protracted process that developed across southwest Asia. However, there have not been sufficient data to evaluate whether cereal cultivation and domestication developed in parallel in all the regions or at different times. Our findings indicate that cultivation of wild cereal forms during Pre-Pottery Neolithic A was common only in specific regions such as the …
Hunter-gatherer plant use in southwest Asia
Geophysical and Archaeological Evidences of Buried Epipalaeolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and Roman Architecture in West‐Central Syria
The study area is one of many important archaeological sites located near the city of Homs in Syria. Here, the existence of archaeological remains was studied using two complementary geophysical methods: ground‐penetrating radar (GPR) and electrical resistivity tomography (ERT). The results provide evidence of localized buried remains and allowed detailed pre‐excavation planning. Furthermore, the later archaeological excavations validated the res…
Crop husbandry activities and wild plant gathering, use and consumption at the EPPNB Tell Qarassa North (south Syria)
Cereal cultivation and domestication as shown by microtexture analysis of sickle gloss through confocal microscopy
Reconstructing Harvesting Technologies through the Analysis of Sickle Blades
The study of the crop-harvesting technology of the first groups of farmers can notably contribute to the debate on the expansion of agriculture in the Central Mediterranean. The traceological analysis of so-called “sickle blades” represents a valuable proxy for studying the emergence of harvesting technologies during Early Neolithic and their geographic variability. Use-wear traces allow to reconstruct the way in which the tool was used, the type…
Developing a complex network model of obsidian exchange in the Neolithic Near East
L’étude des échanges d’obsidienne permet d’obtenir une meilleure connaissance des systèmes d’interaction entre les villages sédentaires au début du Néolithique au Proche-Orient. Le modèle d’échange d’obsidienne, down-the-line, a dominé pour expliquer la diffusion de l’obsidienne entre les villages néolithiques. Cependant, l’information disponible sur la quantité d’obsidienne présente dans les sites, les simulations mathématiques de cette distribu…
The Neolithic reaping knives from Egolzwil 3
Harvest time
Neolithic societies were defined by the development of agricultural economies not only because part of their diet was obtained from cultivated plants, but also because crop-husbandry practices strongly affected people's lifestyles in a variety of ways. It is therefore unsurprising that the development and diffusion of agriculture can be studied from diverse perspectives and with different approaches, by analysing, for example, the macro- and micr…
The Natufian Occupations of Qarassa 3 (Sweida, Southern Syria)
The Early Natufian Site of Jeftelik (Homs Gap, Syria)
The emergence of the Neolithic in the Near East
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