Dr Marta Diaz-Guardamino's Outputs (49)

A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia (2025)
Journal Article
Sanjuán, L. G., Ramírez-Cruzado, S., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Rodríguez, J. A. L., Romero, T. D., Vargas, J. Á. A., Rodríguez-Rellán, C., Nieto, V. B., Puro, L. M. C., Wheatley, D. W., Earle, T., Cintas-Peña, M., Jiménez, J. M. V., Flores, Á. F., Triviño, M. L., Cárdenas-Párraga, J., Merino, M. M., & Guinea, F. M. (2025). A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia. Science Advances, 11(5), Article eadp1917. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp1917

Excellent indicators of technology, social organization, exchange patterns, and even beliefs, beads are a topic of research in their own right. Findings made between 2010 and 2011 at the Montelirio tholos burial, part of the Valencina Copper Age mega... Read More about A multi-analytical study of the Montelirio beaded attires: Marine resources, sumptuary crafts, and female power in copper age Iberia.

Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates (2024)
Book
Matić, U., Gaydarska, B., Coltofean, L., & Díaz-Guardamino, M. (Eds.). (2024). Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68157-8

Let’s Talk About Gender—The Place of Gender in Current Archaeological Debates (2024)
Book Chapter
Gaydarska, B., Matić, U., Coltofean, L., & Díaz-Guardamino, M. (2024). Let’s Talk About Gender—The Place of Gender in Current Archaeological Debates. In U. Matić, B. Gaydarska, L. Coltofean, & M. Díaz-Guardamino (Eds.), Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates (1-15). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68157-8_1

This chapter, and the volume that it introduces, situates gender in current archaeological debates. The central argument is that gender archaeology as a field of study is in crisis, although some research communities are better positioned than others... Read More about Let’s Talk About Gender—The Place of Gender in Current Archaeological Debates.

Gender in Digital Archaeology in Europe and North America (2024)
Book Chapter
Díaz-Guardamino, M. (2024). Gender in Digital Archaeology in Europe and North America. In U. Matić, B. Gaydarska, L. Coltofean, & M. Díaz-Guardamino (Eds.), Gender Trouble and Current Archaeological Debates (47-60). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68157-8_4

This chapter assesses gender in digital archaeology theory and practice in Europe and North America. This is achieved by, firstly, presenting a discussion about who makes digital archaeology based on quantitative studies of journal authorship. The st... Read More about Gender in Digital Archaeology in Europe and North America.

Dating the setting of a late prehistoric statue-menhir at Cruz de Cepos, NE Portugal (2024)
Journal Article
Bailiff, I., Andrieux, E., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Alves, L., Comendador Rey, B., García Sanjuán, L., & Martín Seijo, M. (2024). Dating the setting of a late prehistoric statue-menhir at Cruz de Cepos, NE Portugal. Quaternary Geochronology, 83, Article 101569. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quageo.2024.101569

The emergence of ‘standing stone’ monuments within the European Late Prehistoric landscape is considered to be associated with a pivotal human cultural transition from hunting and gathering to agriculture and permanent settlement, being the earliest... Read More about Dating the setting of a late prehistoric statue-menhir at Cruz de Cepos, NE Portugal.

Bronze Age Rock Art in Iberia and Scandinavia: Words, Warriors and Long-distance Metal Trade (2024)
Book
Ling, J., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Horn, C., Koch, J., & Stos-Gale, Z. A. (2024). Bronze Age Rock Art in Iberia and Scandinavia: Words, Warriors and Long-distance Metal Trade. Oxbow Books

Recent research has uncovered new evidence of long-distance interactions between Scandinavia and Iberia during the Late Bronze Age. Advances in various lines of inquiry, such as 3D recording of rock art, iconography, metals and amber sourcing, lingui... Read More about Bronze Age Rock Art in Iberia and Scandinavia: Words, Warriors and Long-distance Metal Trade.

Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain) (2023)
Journal Article
Ramírez-Cruzado Aguilar-Galindo, S., Muñiz Guinea, F., Ruiz Muñoz, F., González-Regalado, M. L., Vargas Jímenez, J. M., Díaz-Guardamino, M., García Sanjuán, L., Donaire Romero, T., Rodríguez-Vidal, J., & Cáceres Puro, L. M. (online). Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain). Environmental Archaeology, https://doi.org/10.1080/14614103.2023.2273102

In the Mio-Pliocene calcareous sandstone slabs used as capstones at La Pastora tholos in the Copper Age megasite of Valencina de la Concepción-Castilleja de Guzmán (SW Spain), marine bioerosion structures produced in the 3rd millennium BCE were recog... Read More about Gastrochaenolites as Palaeoenvironmental Information Traps: The Case of the Tholos of La Pastora (Valencina de la Concepción, SW Spain).

Luc Laporte, Jean-Marc Large, Laurent Nespoulous, Chris Scarre and Tara Steimer-Herbet, eds. Megaliths of the World (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022, 2 vols, 1428pp., numerous b/w and colour illustr., pbk, ISBN: 9781803273204, Digital ISBN: 9781803273211, Open Access: http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803273204) (2023)
Journal Article
Díaz-Guardamino, M. (2023). Luc Laporte, Jean-Marc Large, Laurent Nespoulous, Chris Scarre and Tara Steimer-Herbet, eds. Megaliths of the World (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022, 2 vols, 1428pp., numerous b/w and colour illustr., pbk, ISBN: 9781803273204, Digital ISBN: 9781803273211, Open Access: http://doi.org/10.32028/9781803273204). European Journal of Archaeology, 26(4), 535-538. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2023.29

‘Idols’ in late prehistoric Iberia (2023)
Journal Article
Díaz-Guardamino, M. (2023). ‘Idols’ in late prehistoric Iberia. Antiquity, 97(395), 1332-1335. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.68

These two handsome volumes stem from the landmark exhibition ‘Idolos: Miradas Milenarias/Ídolos: Olhares Milenares’ (Idols: Millenary Gazes), which assembled an impressive collection of figurines and decorated artefacts from Neolithic and Copper Age... Read More about ‘Idols’ in late prehistoric Iberia.

In the Bosom of the Earth. A New Megalithic Monument at the Antequera World Heritage Site (Spain) (2023)
Journal Article
García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D., Lozano Rodríguez, J., Shaw Evangelista, L., González García, A., Cintas-Peña, M., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Nieto, V., Montero Artús, R., Kanz, F., Rebay-Salisbury, K., Jiménez Espejo, F., & Rivera Jiménez, T. (online). In the Bosom of the Earth. A New Megalithic Monument at the Antequera World Heritage Site (Spain). Antiquity, 97(393), 576 -595. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.35

Antequera is widely recognised as an outstanding example of the European megalithic phenomenon. One of its most remarkable features is the intense relationship between conspicuous natural formations and human-made monuments. In September 2020 a grave... Read More about In the Bosom of the Earth. A New Megalithic Monument at the Antequera World Heritage Site (Spain).

Rock art technology, Reflectance Transformation Imaging and experimental archaeology: recent research on Iberian Late Bronze Age warrior stelae (2023)
Journal Article
Diaz-Guardamino, M. (2023). Rock art technology, Reflectance Transformation Imaging and experimental archaeology: recent research on Iberian Late Bronze Age warrior stelae. Complutum (Madrid), 34(Especial), 145-162. https://doi.org/10.5209/cmpl.85238

This article proposes a methodological approach to the study of rock art technology that combines the application of digital imaging techniques (particularly Reflectance Transformation Imaging, RTI) with rock art recreation experiments. It is argued... Read More about Rock art technology, Reflectance Transformation Imaging and experimental archaeology: recent research on Iberian Late Bronze Age warrior stelae.

The local appropriation of warrior ideals in Late Bronze Age Europe: a review of the rock art site of Arroyo Tamujoso 8 and the ‘warrior’ stela of Cancho Roano (Badajoz, Spain) (2022)
Journal Article
Diaz-Guardamino, M., Ling, J., Koch, J., Schulz Paulsson, B., Horn, C., & Paulsson, J. (2022). The local appropriation of warrior ideals in Late Bronze Age Europe: a review of the rock art site of Arroyo Tamujoso 8 and the ‘warrior’ stela of Cancho Roano (Badajoz, Spain). Trabajos de Prehistoria, 79(2), 329-345. https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2022.12302

This study offers new data on the local appropriation of the ideals associated with the warrior in Europe during the Late Bronze Age through the new study of the engravings of Cancho Roano and Arroyo Tamujoso 8, located in the Southwest of the Iberia... Read More about The local appropriation of warrior ideals in Late Bronze Age Europe: a review of the rock art site of Arroyo Tamujoso 8 and the ‘warrior’ stela of Cancho Roano (Badajoz, Spain).

Making Time for Art: Passage Tomb Art and Portable Art in the British and Irish Neolithic (2021)
Book Chapter
Jones, A., & Díaz-Guardamino, M. (2021). Making Time for Art: Passage Tomb Art and Portable Art in the British and Irish Neolithic. In J. Gjerde, & M. Strifeldt Arntzen (Eds.), Perspectives on Differences in Rock Art. Equinox Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1558/equinox.31918

The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways (2021)
Journal Article
Rivera Jiménez, T., García Sanjuán, L., Díaz-Guardamino, M., Donaire Romero, T., Morales González, J. A., Lozano Rodríguez, J. A., Rogerio Candelera, M. Á., Bermejo Meléndez, J., & Aguilera Collado, E. (2021). The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 40(Part A), Article 103251. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2021.103251

A newly discovered prehistoric stela from Cañaveral de León (Huelva, Spain) is studied through a combination of scientific methods, including thin section petrography and lithological contextualisation, various state-of-the-art digital imaging techni... Read More about The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways.

Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, A. M., & Díaz-Guardamino, M. (2022). Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 32(3), 389-407. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774321000512

This paper presents key results of the Making a Mark project (2014–2016), which aimed to provide a contextual framework for the analysis of mark making on portable artefacts in the British and Irish Neolithic by comparing them with other mark-making... Read More about Making a Mark: Process, Pattern and Change in the British and Irish Neolithic.

The Temporality of Stone: Late Prehistoric Sculpture in Iberia (2021)
Book Chapter
Díaz-Guardamino, M. (2021). The Temporality of Stone: Late Prehistoric Sculpture in Iberia. In S. Hüglin, A. Gramsch, & L. Seppänen (Eds.), Petrification Processes in Matter and Society (99-113). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69388-6_9

Late prehistoric standing stones, decorated stelae and statue-menhirs in Iberia could be linked to processes of consolidation, such as boundary formation or the creation of collective identities. Nonetheless, the materiality and temporality of stone... Read More about The Temporality of Stone: Late Prehistoric Sculpture in Iberia.

Rock art as process: Iberian Late Bronze Age 'warrior' stelae in-the-making (2020)
Book Chapter
Díaz-Guardamino, M. (2020). Rock art as process: Iberian Late Bronze Age 'warrior' stelae in-the-making. In I. Back Danielsson, & A. Jones (Eds.), Images in-the-making : art, process, archaeology. Manchester University Press

Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-Disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain) (2019)
Journal Article
Díaz-Guardamino, M., García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D., Lozano Rodríguez, J., Rogerio Candelera, M., & Casado Ariza, M. (2020). Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-Disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain). Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 30(1), 69-96. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0959774319000490

This paper examines how monuments with ‘local’ idiosyncrasies are key in processes of place-making and how, through persistence, such places can engage in supra-local and even ‘global’ dynamics. Departing from a detailed revision of its context, mate... Read More about Late Prehistoric Stelae, Persistent Places and Connected Worlds: A Multi-Disciplinary Review of the Evidence at Almargen (Lands of Antequera, Spain).

Rethinking Iberian 'Warrior' Stelae: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Mirasiviene and Its Connection to Setefilla (Lora del Río, Seville, Spain) (2019)
Journal Article
Díaz-Guardamino, M., García Sanjuán, L., Wheatley, D., Lozano Rodríguez, J., Rogerio Candelera, M., Krueger, M., Hunt, M., Murillo-Barroso, M., & Balsera Nieto, V. (2019). Rethinking Iberian 'Warrior' Stelae: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Mirasiviene and Its Connection to Setefilla (Lora del Río, Seville, Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(11), 6111-6140. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-019-00909-1

Iberian ‘warrior’ stelae have captured the imagination of researchers and the public for more than a century. Traditionally, stelae were considered ‘de-contextualised’ monuments, and research typically focused on the study of their iconography, payin... Read More about Rethinking Iberian 'Warrior' Stelae: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of Mirasiviene and Its Connection to Setefilla (Lora del Río, Seville, Spain).

PRIMITIVA BUENO RAMÍREZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO LINARES CATELA, RODRIGO DE BALBÍN BEHRMANN & ROSA BARROSO BERMEJO (eds.). 2019. Símbolos de la muerte en la Prehistoria Reciente del sur de Europa. El Dolmen de Soto, Huelva. España. Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Cultura: Arqueología Monografías. (2019)
Journal Article
Diaz-Guardamino, M. (online). PRIMITIVA BUENO RAMÍREZ, JOSÉ ANTONIO LINARES CATELA, RODRIGO DE BALBÍN BEHRMANN & ROSA BARROSO BERMEJO (eds.). 2019. Símbolos de la muerte en la Prehistoria Reciente del sur de Europa. El Dolmen de Soto, Huelva. España. Sevilla: Junta de Andalucía, Consejería de Cultura: Arqueología Monografías. Antiquity,