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Husbandry practices
Neolithic
Stable isotopes
Dental microwear
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Research lines
- Social and economic changes in the neolithization process and in farming societies
- Husbandry practices in Eurasia
- Adaptation of farming societies and domestic animals to environmental and climatic changes
In 2015 I started my PhD dissertation at the University of Zaragoza, supervised by Dr. Lourdes Montes (UZ) and Dr. María Saña (UAB). My PhD was entitled “Domestication and first husbandry practices in the central Pyrenees. An approach from archaeozoology and biogeochemistry”. My objectives were to study the first livestock practices in the Pyrenees and the interactions between the last hunter-gatherers and the first farmers. I defended my thesis in January 2020, obtaining the qualification of Cum Laude.
My research has focused on the study of animal husbandry management practices in the first farming societies, evaluating the degree of knowledge of the productive and reproductive possibilities of the domestic populations that they managed, to what extent they adapted them to their needs and the impact that this management had on the animals’ diet and reproduction rithms. To this end, I have integrated archaeozoological analysis with methods such as stable isotope analysis (oxygen, carbon and nitrogen) and dental microwear. The application of these procedures allow to improve our knowledge of the husbandry practices in farming societies.
Works on faunal assemblages from…
Spain
Since my Master dissertation (2014), I have carried out several archaeozoological studies in different sites of Iberian Peninsula:
- Abrigo de La Castañera (Cantabria) – Bronze age to Late Neolithic
- Los Pedregales (Huesca, Aragón) – High Middle Age
- Cueva de Chaves (Huesca, Aragón) – Early Neolithic
- Espluga de Puyascada (Huesca, Aragón) – Early Neolithic
- Abrigo del Esplugón (Huesca, Aragón) – Mesolithic to Early Neolithic
- Peña 14 (Huesca, Aragón) – Mesolithic
- Rambla de Legunova (Huesca, Aragón) – Mesolithic to Middle Neolithic
- Valcervera (Huesca, Aragón) – Mesolithic
- Legunova (Huesca, Aragón) – Magdalenian to Mesolithic
- Paco Pons (Huesca, Aragón) – Early Neolithic
- La Cruceta (Huesca, Aragón) – Late Middle Age
- Vil·la romana de la Gran Via – Can Ferrerons (Premià de Mar, Catalunya) – Late Roman
- Coves del Fem (Ulldemolins, Catalunya) – Mesolithic to Early Neolithic
Research projects
Consolidated group of the Government of Aragon “Primeros pobladores del Valle del Ebro (PPVE)”. PI: Pilar Utrilla Miranda. (Facultad De Filosofía y Letras – Universidad de Zaragoza). 01/01/2016-31/12/2016.
Reference group of the Government of Aragon “Primeros pobladores del Valle del Ebro”. PI: Pilar Utrilla Miranda. (Facultad De Filosofía y Letras – Universidad de Zaragoza). 01/01/2017-31/12/2019.
HAR2014-59042-P Transiciones climáticas y adaptaciones sociales en la Prehistoria de la Cuenca del Ebro. PI: Pilar Utrilla and Carlos Mazo. Ministerio de Cultura.
HAR2014-60081-R Producción animal y cerámica en el neolítico peninsular. Estudio biogeoquímico integrado del consumo y las prácticas culinarias. PI: María Saña, Xavier Clop. Ministerio de Cultura.
HAR2017-88304-P Arqueobioquímica de la alimentación durante el Neolítico Peninsular: nuevos marcadores y referenciales para el estudio de las pautas de reproducción y consumo en Arqueología. 2018-2021. PI: Maria Saña, Xavier Clop. Ministerio de Cultura.
Featured publications
Vega-Maeso, C., Carmona-Ballestero, E., Sierra, A., Marín-Arroyo, A. 2015. El Abrigo de la Castañera (Cantabria, Spain): A Chalcolithic cattle stable? Quaternary International. 414, pp.226-235. ISSN 1040-6182.
Sierra, A. Domingo, R., Montes, L., Utrilla, P., Bea, M. 2019. Presas y reses. Cambios de estrategia económica en la media montaña pirenaica e ibérica durante el Holoceno. Kobie
Sierra, A., Bréhard, S., Montes, L., Utrilla, P., Saña, M. 2019. Sheep exploitation and husbandry in first farming societies: from production to consumption in central Pyrenees in the early Neolithic. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Volume 11, Issue 10, pp 5813–5829
Obón, A., Berdejo, A., Laborda, R., Sierra, A., Alcolea, M., Bea, M., Utrilla, P. 2019 L’abri de L’Esplugón (Villobas-Sabiñánigo, Huesca, Espagne): apports des données à la question de la transition Mésolithique-Néolithique dans les Pré-Pyrénées meridionales. In Deschamps, Marianne et al. La conquête de la montagne: des premières occupations humaines à l’anthropisation du milieu. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Paris: Éditions du Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques, 2019 (généré le 13 février 2020)
Saña, M., Antolín, F., Alcántara, R., Sierra, A., & Tornero, C. 2020. Integrating domesticates: earliest farming experiences in the Iberian Peninsula. Farmers at the Frontier: A Pan European Perspective on Neolithisation, 161-176.