Protohistory

Subterranea Religio: Caves, Epigraphy and Ritual in Indo-European Hispania (SubTERRA)

• Timeframe: 2020–2023
• Funding institution: Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, State Programme for Knowledge-Building and Scientific and Technological Reinforcement of the R&D+i System (PID2019-107742GB-I00)
• Project leader: Silvia Alfayé, Associate Professor in the Department of Ancient Sciences, Humanities Faculty, Universidad de Zaragoza
• Members of the research group: Susana de Luis Mariño (MAN), Natalia Ayuso (UNIZAR), José Antonio Cuchí (UNIZAR), Alfonso Fanjul, Gonzalo Fontana (UNIZAR), Sergio García-Dils (UNED), María Cruz González (UPV), Enrique Gutiérrez-Cuenca, José Ángel Hierro, Santiago Martínez (Museo de Segovia), Ana Isabel Ortega (CENIEH), Paula Ortega, Rafael Bolado, Paula Arbeloa (UNIZAR), Cecilia D’Abrosca (UPV), Yulia Ustinova (BGU, Israel), Troels Myrup Kristensen (AU, Denmark), Marjeta Sasel-Kos (SASA, Slovenia)

Protohistoric architecture on the western central plateau: Archaeotecture and archaeometry applied to the built heritage of Vettonian hillforts

• Timeframe: 2016-2020
• Funding institution:: MINECO - Programa Estatal de Fomento de la Investigación Científica y Técnica de Excelencia (HAR2016-77739-P)
• Project leader: Luis Berrocal-Rangel, Catedrático de Prehistoria, Departamento de Prehistoria y Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
• Members of the research group: Susana de Luis Mariño (MAN), Carmen Gutiérrez Sáez (UAM), Gregorio R. Manglano Valcárcel (UAM), Juan Francisco Blanco García (UAM), Rafael Garrido Pena (UAM), Raquel Castelo Ruano (UAM), Consolación González Casarrubios (UAM), Lucía Ruano Posada (UAM), María Azcona Antón (MCD), Pablo Paniego Díaz (UAM), Mario Francisco Freire Ruíz (UAM), Víctor Manuel Rodero Olivares, Mario Ramírez Galán, Carlota Lapuente Martín.

Iberian Notebooks in 3D

• Timeframe: 2014-2016
• Funding institution: Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (Programa Nacional I+ D + i, HAR2013-47887-C2-1-P).
• Project leader: Trinidad Tortosa, Instituto Arqueología, Mérida -CSIC-
• Researchers: Ángel M. Felicísimo y María Eugenia Polo. Centro Universitario de Mérida
• MAN researcher : Dra. Alicia Rodero Riaza

The primary goal of this project is to offer 3D images of six selected pieces representative of pre-Roman Iberian culture from the National Archaeological Museum in Madrid.

Identity and territory in the middle Tagus during the late Bronze Age and Iron Age (BHIT project)

• Timeframe: 2012-2014
• Funding institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Proyecto HAR2011-25191)
• Project leader: Dr. Juan Pereira Sieso
• MAN researcher: Dra. Alicia Rodero Riaza

This project aspires to detect a social identity in the middle valley of the River Tagus during the late Bronze Age and Iron Age, a time of significant changes, by studying the characteristics of land occupation in those periods. The geographical scope of the project is the middle valley of the Tagus, from Talavera de la Reina to Talavera la Vieja, a distance of approximately 60 km, centred on the archaeological site of Cerro de la Mesa.

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Segeda and Celtiberian Mountains: From Interdisciplinary Research to the Development of a Territory

• Timeframe: 2012-2014
• Lead institution: University of Zaragoza (I+D+I 2012-36549)
• Partner: Regional Government of Aragón
• Lead researcher: Francisco Burillo Mozota, University of Zaragoza. Segeda Centre of Celtiberian Studies
• MAN researcher: Magdalena Barril Vicente

Religio Phoenicia Occidentalis: Phoenician-Punic cults in the far west

• Timeframe: 2011-….
• Funding institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Ref.: HAR 2011-27257)
• Project leader: Dra. Maria Cruz Marín Ceballos
• MAN researcher: Dra. Alicia Rodero Riaza

Study of religious practices and beliefs in the far western Phoenician-Punic world, examining the spheres of life and death and coastal and inland territories, where there is archaeological evidence of a strong presence of Phoenician-Punic communities.

Iberian sculpture: Technological, iconographic and historical study

• Timeframe: 2008-2011
• Funding institution: Plan Nacional de Investigación. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (HUM2007/60074)
• Project leader: Dra. Teresa Chapa Brunet
• MAN researcher: Dra. Alicia Rodero Riaza

Research into sculpture has yielded significant results in various Mediterranean regions, providing key information about techniques, workshops and styles, but also about the social role of sculptors and their patrons. By studying different examples of Iberian sculpture, we gained a general understanding of the sculpting process, detecting what may be a sculptor's mark for the first time, or the possible function of these types of signs.

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Tanit in Ibiza: The Cave of Es Culleram

• Timeframe: 2007-2010
• Funding institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Ref.: HUM 2007-63574)
• Project leader: Dra. María Cruz Marín Ceballos
• MAN researcher: Dra. Alicia Rodero Riaza

Survey of excavations and the archaeological record in the cave-shrine of Es Culleram on Ibiza, with a particular focus on analysing the typology and iconography of the most expressive terracotta votive offerings used in the cult of the Punic goddess Tanit.

Ancient Religion: History and archaeology of the ancient religions of the southern Iberian Peninsula

• Timeframe: Desde 2002, en vigor
• Funding institution: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Educación (HUM-650)
• Project leader: Dra. Maria Belén Deamos
• MAN researcher: Dra. Alicia Rodero Riaza

Studies of religion in the southern Iberian Peninsula in pre-Roman and Roman antiquity, drawing on literary and archaeological sources and examining the different spheres of religious life (funerary and non-funerary, public and private).