Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar
lectures in Ancient History at the University of Málaga. Previous research reviewed the construction of the traditional image of Tartessus in Spanish scholarship and references to Tartessus and Phoenicians in Graeco-Roman literature. In recent years, he has concentrated on the Phoenician world in Iberia, as part of a colonial diaspora, and on the role played by the Tyrian Melqart as a tutelary god throughout this network of communities. He is currently starting to research the image of tsunamis in the cultural representations of the ancient world, using Gadir and the Phoenician world as a case study.
Encarnación Castro-Páez
earned two licenciaturas, one in Geography and History and the other in Classical Studies at the University of Cádiz, for which she was awarded the Premio Extraordinario prize for the highest grade point average. She later went on to obtain a maîtrise in Ancient History at the University of Bretagne Occidentale and a dea in Ancient History at the University of Franche-Comté. Throughout her academic formation, she has enjoyed numerous scholarships and undertaken research in various European universities. She has also participated in various projects and research groups, the most significant of which are: Patrimonio histórico de Andalucía en la Antigüedad (PAI-hum-240, PI: Dr. Francisco Javier Lomas Salmonte); ‘Ethnic identities in southern Spain: Rise and Evolution in Antiquity (7th-2nd centuries BCE)’ (hum 03482), funded by the Council for Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the regional government of Andalusia; ‘Ethnic and Political-Civic identity in Roman Spain: The Case of the Turdetania-Baetica’ (HAR2012-32588) and ‘Ancient Geography and Historiography: Space Representation and Transmission of Knowledge’ (HAR2016-76098-C2-1-P), funded by the Ministry of Economics and Competitivity of Spain, PI: Dr. Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti. She has also participated in numerous seminars, courses and conferences.
Gonzalo Cruz Andreotti
lectures in Ancient history at the University of Málaga, where he also obtained his doctorate and held a research fellowship. He expanded his studies at the universities of Roma Tor Vergata-Roma ii and Perugia, both in italy, and at the University of the Basque Country in Spain. Although he has worked in other lines of research, such as early modern historiography on ancient Hispania or the mythical geography on the limits of the oecumene, he currently studies different, yet closely related topics: ancient geographical thought, Iberian geography, ancient ethnic identities in Hispania – in particular concerning Turdetania – and more specifically, concrete studies on authors, such as Polybius and Strabo. He carries out his research mainly as part of the research projects he leads: ‘Ethnic identities in southern Spain: Rise and Evolution in Antiquity (7th–2nd centuries BCE)’ (hum 03482), funded by the Council for Innovation, Science and Enterprise of the regional government of Andalusia, ‘Ethnic and Political-Civic identity in Roman Spain: The Case of the Turdetania-Baetica’ (HAR2012-32588) and ‘Ancient Geography and Historiography: Space Representation and Transmission of Knowledge’ (HAR2016-76098-C2-1-P), sponsored by the government of Spain.
Eduardo Ferrer Albelda
lectures in Archaeology at the University of Seville, where he teaches and carries out research on the Pre-Roman communities of southern Iberia during the first millennium bce from several points of view: Graeco-Roman literature, settlement archaeology, religion, economy, identity etc. He has followed this line of research since 1995, when he presented his phd thesis Los púnicos en Iberia: Análisis historiográfico y arqueológico de la presencia púnica en el sur de la península ibérica. He is a member of several editorial committees in journals, such as Spal, Onoba and Anejos de Anales de Arqueología Cordobesa. He was also sub-director of the University of Seville Press from 2012 to 2016.
Francisco José García Fernández
lectures in Archaeology at the University of Seville, where he also obtained his doctorate in History in 2004. He later earned a Master in Sustainable Urbanism and Architecture (2013). He belongs to the research group ‘De la Turdetania a la Bética’ and has participated in numerous national and international projects coordinated by the University of Seville and the University of Málaga. He has also enjoyed various academic stays at universities and research centres (Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome, German Archaeological Institute in Berlin, University of Potsdam, and University of Lisbon). He specializes in the Late Iron Age archaeology of Iberia, more specifically the Iron Age communities of Lower Andalusia and their transition towards romanization, from a combined archaeological, historical and anthropological point of view. He has applied diachronic analyses to Graeco-Roman literature referencing the populations of Tartessus-Turdetania, while also looking at settlement patterns and models of organization and economic exploitation of these territories, together with the contextual analysis of the material record, in order to arrive at broad definitions of the ethnic expression and cultural identity of these populations.
Enrique García Vargas
lectures in Archaeology at the University of Seville. He obtained his phd at the same university in 1997 with a thesis titled ‘Producción de salazones y salsas saladas de pescado en la Bahía de Cádiz en época romana’. Later on he expanded his research interests to include the archaeology of the economy of the Roman province of Baetica, pottery studies, and territorial archaeology. These topics have been the focus of a varied and extensive career in the archaeology of the Guadalquivir valley, especially relating to the urban archaeology of Seville, which has ultimately led to a better understanding of the ancient urban network (at the urban sites of La Encarnación, Calle San Fernando, Hospital de las Cinco Llagas and Patio de Banderas), as well as others sites in the province of Seville (Écija) and the province of Cádiz (Puerto Real). He is a renowned specialist on the romanization of southern Iberia, endorsed by his participation in research projects funded by the Spanish government: ‘Sociedad y paisaje. Economía rural y consumo urbano en el sur de la península ibérica (siglos viii A.C. – II D.C.)’; ‘Sociedad y paisaje. Análisis arqueológico del poblamiento rural en el sur de la península ibérica (siglos viii a.C.-II d.C.)’ and ‘Antecedentes y desarrollo económico de la romanización en Andalucía Occidental’.
Francisco Machuca Prieto
holds a doctoral research fellowship at the University of Málaga as of March 2013, enabling him to undergo research on his phd thesis titled La integración de las comunidades fenicias de la Península Ibérica en el Imperio romano: una aproximación poscolonial, directed by Dr. Manuel Álvarez Martí-Aguilar (uma) and Dr. Eduardo Ferrer Albelda (use). He collaborated on the research project ‘La construcción de la identidad fenicia en el Imperio romano’, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and currently takes part in the research group ‘Grupo de Investigación de Estudios Historiográficos’, of the regional government of Andalusia. He is particularly interested in the contributions of post-colonial theory to the study of the ancient world and identities. He has participated as an invited speaker in the xii Encuentro de Jóvenes Investigadores de Historia Antigua (Madrid, 8-9 May 2013) and, contributed a poster to the 8º Coloquio Internacional del Centro de Estudios Fenicios y Púnicos (Alicante and Guardamar del Segura, 7-9 November 2013). He has also been on academic stays for several Months at the University of Durham and the Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico at Rome.
Bartolomé Mora Serrano
lectures in Archaeology at the University of Málaga. He has conducted extensive field-work on the archaeology of Ulterior-Baetica and his work has taken a particular interest in ancient numismatics, as well as the history of archaeology and numismatics in Spain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Most of his research has been dedicated to the field of ancient and medieval numismatics in Iberia, including studies on monetary circulation, coin inscriptions and recoining. Of particular relevance are his studies on Punic coinage in Hispania, such as the book dedicated to the mint of Malaca and other aspects of its coinage, such as iconography, metallography or monetary circulation.
Pierre Moret
educated at the ENS-Ulm (Paris) and the École des Hautes Études Hispaniques et Ibériques (Madrid), is director of research at the cnrs. His research is centred on the archaeology of Iberia and Mediterranean Gaul in the Iron Age, and on the history of ancient geography. He is author or co-author of 5 books, the scientific editor of 12 and author of 145 articles and book contributions. Former director of studies at the Casa de Velázquez (2002-2007) and director of the cnrs laboratory umr 5608 traces in Toulouse (2011-2014), he led several international archaeological projects and from 2006 to 2009 he organised an international doctoral workshop in Madrid (Casa de Velázquez – German Archaeological Institute). President of section 32 (Antiquity and Middle Ages) of the National Committee of the cnrs, he is also expert for the French and Spanish agencies for research assessment. He was awarded the cnrs Bronze Medal (1998) and he is an affiliate member of the German Archaeological Institute and the Spanish Academy of History.
Ruth Pliego Vázquez
Fellow of Institute for Advanced Studies – IEA Paris. Interests have developed mainly around numismatics, although her work does not limit itself to the material analysis of coins, but attempts to offer a historical dimension. One of her lines of research focuses on updating theories on the Carthaginian presence in the Iberian Peninsula during the pre-Barcid period, based on existing coin evidence. She has redrawn the map of Carthaginian military camps, proposing different chronologies – prior to or following 237 bce – according to the available coin evidence. Simultaneously she has developed another research line in numismatics, dedicated to the Visigothic period. She has published monographs in both fields, as well as numerous studies on the economic and political aspects and iconography of late antique coinage.