Línies de recerca

Raw material characterization, prehistory, geochemistry, lithic procurement, human mobility, mountain environments

 Formació acadèmica

2011 – 2015 PhD. Dissertation title: Hunter and gatherer societies from the Upper final Pyrenean Palaeolithic: economic and social territories. Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Barcelona (Spain). Supervisors: Dr. J.M. Fullola and Dr. X. Mangado. Qualification obtained: Excellent cum laude.

2010 – 2012 M.A. in Archaeology. University of Barcelona (Spain).

2006 – 2010 B.A. in History. University of Barcelona (Spain).

Projectes (last 5 years)

• Direction of International projects (as main researcher)

2023 – 2028 Main researcher of the research project SPEGEOCHERT: Spectroscopy and Geochemistry of chert. Reconstructing human mobility in the Pyrenees from the first Modern Humans to the last Pleistocene hunter-gatherers (Ref. 101075451), funded by the European Research Council through the Starting Grant actions. 1.500.000 €.

2023 – 2024 Main researcher of the research project Geochemical provenance studies on Middle and Upper Palaeolithic cherts from inland Iberia (Ref. ChertNeutron 2.0) for attending the Center for Energy Research on Budapest, Hungary. Project funded by the Fixlab Platform B from the Integrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure ON Heritage Science (IPERION HS).

2023 – 2024 Main researcher of a research grant for the recruitment of associate or substitute professors for professors and lecturers with ERC projects (Ref. AR0OVREC), funded by the Research Vice-rectorate of the University of Barcelona. 14.513,81 €.

2022 – 2025 Main researcher of the research project The prehistoric settlement in the middle and upper Segre basin (Ref. CLT009/22/000076), funded by the Catalonia Government. 61.640 €.

2022 – 2023 Main researcher of the research project Analytical study of the human prehistoric sequence in the midle and upper Segre river, funded by the Palarq Foundation. 4.800 €

2021 – 2023 Main researcher of the research project Geochemical provenance studies with Neutron-NDT on chert tools from Upper Palaeolithic groups from Inland Iberia (Ref. ChertNeutron) for attending the Center for Energy Research on Budapest, Hungary. Project funded by the Fixlab Platform B from the Integrating Platforms for the European Research Infrastructure ON Heritage Science (IPERION HS).

2020 – 2023 Main researcher of the postdoctoral research project Chert Road: identifying prehistoric mobility through the geochemical analysis of chert from the Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral program, funded by the Secretaria d’Universitats i Recerca del Departament d’Empresa i Coneixement de la Generalitat de Catalunya and the Marie Sklodowska – Curie COFUND (BP3-801370) from H2020 program.

Docència impartida:

2023 – 2024 Final Master Thesis (Coord. & Teach), M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2023 – 2024 Advanced Research Design (Coord. & Teach), M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2023 – 2024 Lithic Industries Analyses (Teach), M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2023 – 2024 Fieldwork I, B.A. Archaeology, University of Barcelona

2022 – 2023 Final Master Thesis (Coord. & Teach), M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2022 – 2023 Advanced Research Design (Coord. & Teach), M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2022 – 2023 Fieldwork I, B.A. Archaeology, University of Barcelona

2021 – 2022 Final Master Thesis (Coord. & Teach), M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2021 – 2022 Advanced Research Design (Coord. & Teach), M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2021 – 2022 Lithic Industries Analyses (Coord. & Teach),, M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2020 – 2021 Advanced Research Design (Coord. & Teach),, M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, Univ. of Barcelona

2020 – 2021 Lithic Industries Analyses, M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, University of Barcelona

2020 – 2021 Fieldwork I, B.A. Archaeology, University of Barcelona

2019 – 2020 Chert characterization as a means for determining past human mobility (5 h), “Talking with lithics” - Seminars to doctoral students, University of the Basque Country

2019 – 2020 Prehistory & Archaeology: theory, methods and practices, B.A. History, University of Zaragoza

2019 – 2020 Other cultures: Introduction to the Ethnoarchaeology, B.A. History, University of Zaragoza

2018 – 2019 Lithic Industries Analyses, M.A. Ad. St. in Archaeology, University of Barcelona

2018 – 2019 Symbols, art & beliefs in Prehistory, B.A. History, University of Zaragoza

2018 – 2019 Prehistory & Archaeology: theory, methods and practices, B.A. History, University of Zaragoza

2018 – 2019 Other cultures: Introduction to the Ethnoarchaeology, B.A. History, University of Zaragoza

2013 – 2015 Archaeological Methodology III, B.A. Archaeology, University of Barcelona.

2013 – 2015 Practice I and II, B.A. Archaeology, University of Barcelona.

Publicacions (last 3 years)

• Journals articles (peer review)

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., GRATUZE, B., LE BOURDONNEC, F.X., SACCHI, D. & MANGADO, X., 2023, The use of geochemistry to infer Upper Palaeolithic human mobility in the Pyrenees, Open Access Journal on Archaeology and Anthropology, 4(3), 1-9. https://doi.org/10.33552/OAJAA.2023.04.000587

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., JIMÉNEZ RUIZ, L., GRATUZE, B., DUARTE, E., BLASCO, M.F. & RODANÉS, J.M., 2023, Inferring the territoriality of Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer’s groups settled at Cueva del Gato 2 (Épila, Zaragoza), Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 15, 119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-023-01810-8

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., MANGADO, X., CASTILLO-JIMÉNEZ, S., LUQUE, L., ALCOLEA-GONZÁLEZ, J.J. & ALCARAZ-CASTAÑO, M., 2023, New data on chert catchment analysis in inland Iberia during the Late Pleistocene, Geoarchaeology: An International Journal, 38 (5), 615-630. https://doi.org/10.1002/gea.21963

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., OMS, F.X., GONZÁLEZ OLIVARES, C., PARQUE, O. & MANGADO, X., 2023, Resultats de les intervencions arqueològiques a la Cova de la Foranca (Ordèn, Bellver de Cerdanya), ERA : Revista cerdana de recerca, 5.

LANGLAIS, M., SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., FULLOLA, J.M., MERCADAL, O. & MANGADO, X., 2023, Note sur une nouvelle séquence de la fin Dernier Maximum Glaciaire en altitude dans les Pyrénées : le site de plein air de Montlleó (Prats i Sansor, Catalogne, Espagne), Bulletin de la Société Préhistorique Ariège-Pyrénées, tome 72, 141-148.

MAS, B., MANGADO, X., SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., TEJERO, J.M., FULLOLA, J.M. & ALLUÉ, E., 2023, Late Paleolithic hunter-gatherers’ resilience in the face of the transformation of the vegetation landscape and climate change in the Pre-Pyrenees, Quaternary Science Reviews, 317, 108276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108276

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., GONZÁLEZ-OLIVARES, C.B., GRATUZE, B., LE BOURDONNEC, F.X. & MANGADO, X., 2022, Geochemical study of chert artefacts from Xicotó Rockshelter (NE Iberia) archaeological site. New data on Neolithic and Mesolithic human occupations, Interdisciplinaria Archaeologica, 2, 99-115. http://dx.doi.org/10.24916/iansa.2022.2.1

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., UTRILLA, P., MONTES, L., DOMINGO, R., LE BOURDONNEC, F.X. & GRATUZE, B., 2021, Characterising the lithic raw materials from Fuente del Trucho (Asque-Colungo, Huesca). New data about Palaeolithic human mobility in NE Iberia, Archaeometry, 63 (2), 247-265. https://doi.org/10.1111/arcm.12612

• Books & Book chapters

GIBAJA, J.F., GARCÍA, O., MANGADO, X., IBÁÑEZ, J.J., CABANILLES, J.J., CORTELL, A., MAZZUCCO, N., SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M. & MASCLANS, A., 2022, Guía para el estudio de la industria lítica tallada, CSIC – Institució Milà i Fontanals (IMF), 72 p.

LENGYEL, G., WILCZYNSKI, J., SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., MANGADO, X. & FULLOLA, J.M., 2021, Studies on the Palaeolithic of Western Eurasia, Archaeopress Archaeology, ISBN 978178969, 245 p.

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., LE BOURDONNEC, F.X., DUBERNET, S. & GRATUZE, B., 2023, Applying ED-XRF, LA-ICP-MS and PIXE analyses to characterize Pyrenean cherts. Potentials and limitations, in SPEER, C., PARISH, R. & BARRIENTOS, G., Sourcing archaeological lithic assemblages: New perspectives and integrated approaches, University of Utah Press, 92-104.

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., MANGADO, X., LE BOURDONNEC, F.X., GRATUZE, B., LANGLAIS, M., MERCADAL, O. & FULLOLA, J.M., 2021, Tracing prehistoric past human routes in the Pyrenees : new data about chert procurement at Montlleó open-air site (Prats i Sansor, Spain), in FONTANA, F., MANGADO, X. & MANSUR, E., Interactions, networks and routes within and through mountain ranges. UISPP: the Journal of the International Union for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Vol. 3(1), Archaeopress Archaeology 55-67.

SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., LE BOURDONNEC, F.X., DUBERNET, S., GRATUZE, B., MANGADO, X., UTRILLA, P. & FULLOLA, J.M., 2021, Multi-method study of a Pyrenean lithological tracer and its presence in the Magdalenian of Cova del Parco and Forcas I rock shelter (NE Iberia), in LENGYEL, G., WILCZYNSKI, J., SÁNCHEZ DE LA TORRE, M., MANGADO, X. & FULLOLA, J.M., Studies on the Palaeolithic of Western Eurasia, Archaeopress Archaeology, 245-255.