Staff Scientist, Heritage Laboratory, Spanish High Council of Scientific Research - CSIC (Sept 2009- )
Assistant Professor, Department of Prehistory, Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) (October (Oct 2006 - )
Sept 2009)
MEC/Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow with the Stanford Archaeology Center (2005-2006).
PhD in Prehistory, Complutense University of Madrid, 2003.
BA in History, Complutense University of Madrid, 1999
Selected publications in English
Articles and book chapters
(2009) Topography of terror or cultural heritage? The monuments of Franco's Spain. In N. Forbes, R. Page and G. Pérez (eds.): Europe's deadly century. Perspectives on 20th century conflict heritage, pp.65-72. Kemble Drive, Swindon: English Heritage.
(2009): Vernacular cosmopolitanism. An archaeological critique of universalistic reason. In L. Meskell (ed.): Cosmopolitan archaeologies, pp. 113-139. Durham: Duke University Press.
(2008): Post-political colonialism. A comment on J. Vives-Ferrándiz: "Negotiating colonial encounters". Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 21(2): 285-288.
(2008): Time to destroy. An archaeology of supermodernity. Current Anthropology 49(2): 247-279. With comments by Tim Edensor, Pedro Paulo A. Funari, Martin Hall, Cornelius Holtorf, Mark P. Leone, Lynn Meskell, Laurent Olivier, Nicholas J. Saunders, John Schofield and Andrés Zarankin.
(2007): Making things public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War. Public Archaeology 6(4): 203-226.
with V.M. Fernández Martínez (2007): Exhibiting cultures of contact: A museum for Benishangul-Gumuz (Ethiopia). Stanford Journal of Archaeology 5: 61-90. link
(2006): The past is tomorrow. Towards an archaeology of the vanishing present. Norwegian Archaeological Review 39(2): 110-125. With comments by Gavin Lucas and William Rathje: Norwegian Archaeological Review 40(1): 94-102 (2007).
(2006): The Dream of Reason. An archaeology of the failures of Modernity in Ethiopia. Journal of Social Archaeology 6: 175-201
(2006): Order in a disordered world. The Bertha house (Ethiopia). Anthropos 101(2): 379-402.
(2006): Past the last outpost. Punic merchants in the Atlantic Ocean (5th-1st c. BC). Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 19(1): 121-150.
(2006): House societies vs. kinship-based societies: an archaeological case from Iron Age Europe. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 25(1): 144-173.
(2005): The need for a decaying past. An archaeology of oblivion in contemporary Galicia (NW Spain). Home Cultures 2(2): 129-152.
(2004): Facing two seas: Mediterranean and Atlantic contacts in the NW of Iberia. Oxford Journal of Archaeology 23(3): 287-317.
(2004): Material culture and artistic expression in Celtic Gallaecia. In: M. Alberro and B. Arnold (Eds.): The Celts in Iberia. e-Keltoi 6. Journal of Interdisciplinary Celtic Studies: 113-167. link
Selected publications in Spanish
Books and edited volumes
-(editor) (2008): Arqueología de la Guerra Civil Española. Complutum 19(2). Madrid: Universidad Complutense.
-(2006-2007): Galaicos. Poder y comunidad en la Protohistoria del Noroeste de la Península Ibérica. Brigantium 18-19. 2 volumes. A Coruña: Museo de San Antón.
-(2003): Etnoarqueología de la emigración. El fin del mundo preindustrial en Terra de Montes (Galicia). Pontevedra: Deputación Provincial de Pontevedra. []
-(2003): La experiencia del Otro. Una introducción a la Etnoarqueología. Madrid: Akal.
Recent journal articles and chapters
with R. Rodríguez Martínez, R. Aboal Fernández and V. Castro Hierro (2007): Comercio mediterráneo en el castro de Montealegre (Pontevedra, Galicia), siglo II a.C. - inicios del siglo I d.C. Archivo Español de Arqueología 80: 43-74.
(2007): La vida social de los objetos castreños. In: J. González García (Ed.): Los pueblos de la Galicia Céltica. Madrid: Akal, 259-322.
(2006) El giro poscolonial: hacia una etnoarqueología crítica. In Departament d'Arqueologia i Antropologia. Institució Milà i Fontanals - CSIC (eds.): Etnoarqueología de la Prehistoria: Más allá de la analogía. Treballs d'Etnoarqueologia 6. Madrid: CSIC, 41-59.
(2006): Experiencia, narración, personas. Elementos para una arqueología comprensible. Complutum 17: 235-246.
Experiencia_narracion_personas.pdf
(2005): Etnoarqueología de la cerámica en el oeste de Etiopía. Trabajos de Prehistoria 62(2): 64-94.
