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The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe? (2021)
Journal Article
Gutiérrez, A., Gerrard, C., Zhang, R., & Wang, G. (2021). The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe?. Antiquity, 95(383), 1213-1230. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.95

The importation of Chinese porcelain and celadon into Europe has long been thought to have first begun around the thirteenth century AD. A unique group of Chinese ceramic sherds from archaeological contexts in Spain dated to between the ninth and ele... Read More about The earliest Chinese ceramics in Europe?.

The archaeology of a landslide: Unravelling the Azores earthquake disaster of 1522 and its consequences (2021)
Journal Article
Gerrard, C., Forlin, P., Froude, M., Petley, D., Gutierrez, A., Treasure, E., …Oliveira, N. (2021). The archaeology of a landslide: Unravelling the Azores earthquake disaster of 1522 and its consequences. European Journal of Archaeology, 24(3), 388-411. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2021.4

The multidisciplinary research described here shows how archaeologists can help reconstruct past seismic episodes and understand the subsequent relief operation, rehabilitation, and reconstruction processes. In October 1522, a major earthquake and la... Read More about The archaeology of a landslide: Unravelling the Azores earthquake disaster of 1522 and its consequences.

Economic and socio-cultural consequences of changing political rule on human and faunal diets in medieval Valencia (c. fifth–fifteenth century AD) as evidenced by stable isotopes (2019)
Journal Article
Alexander, M. M., Gutiérrez, A., Millard, A. R., Richards, M. P., & Gerrard, C. (2019). Economic and socio-cultural consequences of changing political rule on human and faunal diets in medieval Valencia (c. fifth–fifteenth century AD) as evidenced by stable isotopes. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(8), 3875-3893. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00810-x

This paper explores the impact of changing religious political rule on subsistence within a single city through time using stable isotope analysis of human and animal bone collagen. The diet and economy of the medieval city of Valencia (Spain) are ex... Read More about Economic and socio-cultural consequences of changing political rule on human and faunal diets in medieval Valencia (c. fifth–fifteenth century AD) as evidenced by stable isotopes.

Luminescence dating of sediment mounds: associated with shaft and gallery irrigation systems (2019)
Journal Article
Bailiff, I., Jankowski, N., Gerrard, C., Gutiérrez, A., & Wilkinson, K. (2019). Luminescence dating of sediment mounds: associated with shaft and gallery irrigation systems. Journal of Arid Environments, 165, 34-45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaridenv.2019.02.004

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques, supported by geomorphological analysis, have been applied to date the construction of shaft and gallery irrigation systems, more commonly referred to as qanats, falaj and foggara. The approach devel... Read More about Luminescence dating of sediment mounds: associated with shaft and gallery irrigation systems.

The Qanat in Spain: Archaeology and Environment (2018)
Book Chapter
Gerrard, C., & Gutiérrez, A. (2018). The Qanat in Spain: Archaeology and Environment. In J. Berkin (Ed.), Water management in ancient civilizations. Edition Topoi. https://doi.org/10.17171/3-53-8

This article defines the elements of qanat technology in Spain and describes some recent projects that have advanced our understanding there. A brief bibliography is presented that reveals some of the confusion surrounding the classification, nomencl... Read More about The Qanat in Spain: Archaeology and Environment.

Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development (2018)
Journal Article
Bailiff, I., Jankowski, N., Snape, L., Gerrard, C., Gutiérrez, A., & Wilkinson, K. (2018). Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development. Water History, 10(1), 73-84. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-018-0213-x

With few exceptions in which dating is implied by indirect association with adjacent settlements or incorporation of diagnostic artefacts in upcast sediment, individual qanats have proven very difficult to date. This absence of a chronological framew... Read More about Luminescence dating of qanat technology: prospects for further development.

Melchor de Monserrat (2015)
Journal Article
Gerrard, C., & Gutiérrez, A. (2015). Melchor de Monserrat. Treasures of Malta, 21(3), 61-68

Luminescence dating of irrigation systems: Application to a qanat in Aragon, Spain (2015)
Journal Article
Bailiff, I., Gerrard, C., Gutiérrez, A., Snape-Kennedy, L., & Wilkinson, K. (2015). Luminescence dating of irrigation systems: Application to a qanat in Aragon, Spain. Quaternary Geochronology, 14(B), 459-459. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2015.02.016

Optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) techniques have been applied to investigate the potential for dating the deposition of upcast mounds associated with qanat ventilation shafts at the site of a medieval qanat located in Aragón, Spain. Coarse qua... Read More about Luminescence dating of irrigation systems: Application to a qanat in Aragon, Spain.

Diet, society, and economy in late medieval Spain: Stable isotope evidence from Muslims and Christians from Gandía, Valencia (2014)
Journal Article
Alexander, M., Gerrard, C., Gutiérrez, A., & Millard, A. (2015). Diet, society, and economy in late medieval Spain: Stable isotope evidence from Muslims and Christians from Gandía, Valencia. American journal of physical anthropology, 156(2), 263-273. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.22647

This article investigates the diets of neighboring Christians and Muslims in late medieval Spain (here 13th–16th centuries) through the analysis of the stable isotopes of carbon (δ13C) and nitrogen (δ15N) in adult human and animal bone collagen. Twen... Read More about Diet, society, and economy in late medieval Spain: Stable isotope evidence from Muslims and Christians from Gandía, Valencia.

Estudio arqueológico del Somontano del Moncayo: avance metodológico (2012)
Journal Article
Gerrard, C., & Gutiérrez, A. (2012). Estudio arqueológico del Somontano del Moncayo: avance metodológico. Salduie (Zaragoza), 10, 259-270

The Moncayo Archaeological Survey is undertaking intensive field survey in an area which extends from the foothills of Moncayo to the Ebro valley. Archaeological sites of all periods have been identified and this work is combined with ongoing geomorp... Read More about Estudio arqueológico del Somontano del Moncayo: avance metodológico.