Prof. Dr. Rosa María Albert
Humanities, Prehistory, Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Microarchaeology, Paleovegetation and paleolandscape reconstruction, use of plant resources by past populations, plant diet, fossil plant microremains
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Humanities
Prehistoric archaeology
The symbolic behavior of the Prehistoric human groups (Epipaleolithic, Neolithic and chalcolithic) through the analyses of body adornments found in burials, habitat, workshops, etc.
The symbolic component of the Neolithisation processes in the Near East and Northeast Africa and its impact on the development of the technoeconomic means and abilities of the Neolithic societies.
The social complexity and social organization: the individual and collective identities.
Transmissions of materials and immaterial in time (memory) and space (mobility and cultural interactions).
Technical innovations, technical skills and adaptations, emergence of specialization.
Aesthetical choices, styles and morpho-typological diversity of ornaments.
Access and acquisition of raw materials, prestigious goods.
shell, bone, teeth, clay, stones (semi-precious), etc.
Characterization of raw material and creation of geological referential; morphometrical analyses (ImageJ), optical and confocal microscopy (technical and use-wear), experimentations, spatial archaeology (GIS).
Study of body ornaments: from the single element to the ornamental composition.
Arabic, English, French, Spanish
Alarashi H. (Accepted). New insights into the technological management of the Neolithic cowrie beads in the Levant: An experimental and traceological approach. In: Hamon C., Maigrot Y. & Beyries S. (éds.), Beyond use-wear traces: Tools and people. Actes du colloque International AWRANA (29 mai-1 juin 2018). Sidestone press.
Alarashi H. (Accepted). Neolithic ornaments in Northern Mesopotamia and the Levant: Between inherited traditions and novelties. In: Hansen S., Klimscha F. & Renn J. (éds.), Prehistoric Networks in the Longue Durée: Palaeolithic Innovations enabling the Neolithic Revolution. Actes du colloque international (Berlin, 9-11 déc. 2015), Excellence-Cluster TOPOI, Berlin.
Chambrade M.-L., Alarashi H. (Accepted). Acquisition, circulation and pathways of communication during the Neolithic. The example of Mureybet mineral beads. In: Van de Put L., Baird D., Görkay K., Haldon J., Massa M., Mitchell S. (éds.), Roads and Routes in Anatolia from the Epipalaeolithic to Seljuk Times. Actes du colloque international (Ankara, 20-22 mars 2014), The British Institute at Ankara.
Benz M., Gresky J., Štefanisko D., Alarashi H., Knipper C., Purschwitz C., Bauer J. and Gebel H.G.K. 2019. Burying power: New insights into incipient leadership in the Late Pre-Pottery Neolithic from an outstanding burial at Ba‘ja, southern Jordan. PLoS ONE 14(8): e0221171. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0221171
Alarashi H., Ortiz A. & Molist M. 2018. Seashells on the riverside: Cowrie ornaments from the PPNB site of Tell Halula (Euphrates, Northern Syria). Quaternary International 490: 98-112.
Alarashi H. 2016. The ‘butterfly’ beads of the Levant: socio-cultural and economic implications during the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 26(3): 493-512.
Poulmarc'h M., Christidou R., Bălășescu A., Alarashi H., Le Mort F., Gasparyan B., Chataigner C. 2016. Dog molars as personal ornaments in a Kura-Araxes child burial (Kalavan-1, Armenia). Antiquity 90(352): 953-972.
Alarashi H. 2016. PPNA stone grooved pendants from the Middle Euphrates Valley: Markers of cultural identity? Neo-Lithics 2/16: 20-28.
Alarashi H. 2015. The Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic personal adornments from Syria (12th-7th millennium BC): Techniques and uses, exchanges and identities. Neo-Lithics 1/15: 45-46.
Alarashi H. 2010. Shell beads in the Prepottery Neolithic B in Central Levant: Note about the Cypraeidae of Tell Aswad (Damascus, Syria). In: Alvarez Fernandez E. & Carvajal Contreras D.R. (éds.), Not Only Food: Marine, Terrestrial and Freshwater molluscs in Archaeological Sites. Actes de la 2e conférence ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group, Munibe Suplemento 31: 88-98.
Alarashi H., Chambrade M.-L. 2010. Outils géographiques appliqués à l’étude de la provenance des matériaux utilisés pour la parure néolithique : l’exemple du site de Mureybet. In: Alarashi H., Chambrade M.-L., Gondet S., Jouvenel A., Sauvage C., Tronchère H. (éds.), Regards croisés sur l’étude archéologique des paysages anciens. Actes du colloque international « Broadening Horizons 2 », Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient 56, MOM, Lyon : 95-106.
Alarashi H., Chambrade M.-L., Gondet S., Jouvenel A., Sauvage C., Tronchère H. (eds.) 2010. Regards croisés sur l’étude archéologique des paysages anciens. Nouvelles recherches dans le bassin méditerranéen, en Asie centrale, et au Proche et Moyen-Orient. Actes du colloque international « Broadening Horizons 2 », Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient 56, Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon.
2020 – 2022 "PRECIOUS". Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions – IF
2019 "CARE", German Research Foundation (FDG)/F. & E. Rutzen Foundation.
2016 – 2017 “Cultural interactions and construction of identities: Techno-functional analysis of Neolithic and Chalcolithic personal ornaments from Anatolia". Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED-Istanbul).
Member of Association of Archaeological Wear and Residue Analysts (AWRANA)
Member of ex-oriente e V.
Member of Society of Bead Researchers
Member of Société Préhistorique Française (SPF)
Member of The Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAFA)
Member of ICAZ Archaeomalacology Working Group
Member of International Council for Archaeozoology (ICAZ)
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Humanities, Prehistory, Archaeology, Bioarchaeology, Microarchaeology, Paleovegetation and paleolandscape reconstruction, use of plant resources by past populations, plant diet, fossil plant microremains
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Humanities, Philosophy: Moral and Social Philosophy, Applied Ethics, Bioethics
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