Margarita Díaz-Andreu
Principal Investigator
Keywords: prehistoric rock art; archaeoacoustics; sacred landscapes; outreach.
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ICREA Professor Margarita Díaz-Andreu is a prehistoric archaeologist based at the University of Barcelona (Spain).
Over the years she has developed several lines of research, including history of archaeology, heritage, gender and nationalism. She has also been working, lecturing and supervising doctoral work on rock art, and she has conducted fieldwork in Western Europe and more recently also in Belize and Mexico.
Her more than fifty publications on rock art have focused on the description of new discoveries of rock art sites with engravings, carvings and paintings; interpretation of particular sites and rock art landscapes, rock art management and recording and, in the last decade, archaeoacoustics. The latter is an innovative line of research developed thanks to funding received for projects such as SONART, Palarq and, currently, Artsoundscapes.
Within the Artsoundscapes project she and her team will be undertaking fieldwork in diverse areas of the world in collaboration with local archaeologists.
A range of rock art landscapes will be analysed through physical acoustics, psychoacoustics, neuroacoustics and anthropological perspectives.
Her research in archaeoacoustics has not only been published in some of the best international journals, but it has also reached the general public through radio interviews and news published on many web pages and in local newspapers.
RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Díaz-Andreu, M., & Mattioli, T. (2019). Rock Art, music and acoustics: a global overview. In B. David & I. J. McNiven (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology and Anthropology of Rock Art (pp. 503-528). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Díaz-Andreu, M., García Atiénzar, G., García Benito, C., & Mattioli, T. (2017). Do you hear what I see? Analyzing visibility and audibility through alternative methods in the rock art landscape of the Alicante mountains. Journal of Anthropological Research, 73(2), 181-213.
Mattioli, T., Farina, A., Armelloni, E., Hameau, P., & Díaz-Andreu, M. (2017). Echoing landscapes: echolocation and the placement of rock art in the Central Mediterranean. Journal of Archaeological Science, 83, 12-25.