Dr. Elisabeth Anstett
Humanities, Social and behavioural sciences, Social anthropology of mass violence and genocide
Humanities
Archaeological Prehistory, Paleovegetation and paleolandscape reconstruction, use of plant resources by past populations, plant diet, fossil plant microremains (phytoliths)
Lower Paleolithic, Hominin evolution and its interaction with environment, European and Levant Middle Paleolithic, African Middle Stone Age,Transition Middle/Upper Paleolithic, Prehistoric Fire, Human plant diet, Early agricultural practices in the Levant
Credit as a full Professor from the Quality Catalan Agency (AQU) of the Generalitat de Catalunya, 2009
BLECUA AWARD 2005 from the University of Barcelona to the best paper published in an ISI journal derived from Thesis Dissertation: Mode of occupation of Tabun Cave, Mt. Carmel Israel, during the Mousterian period: A study of the sediments and the phytoliths. Journal of Archaeological Science, 1999
English, French, Spanish
Daura, J., Sanz, M., García, N., Allué, E., Vaquero, M., Fierro, E., Carrión, J.S., López-García, J.M., Blain, H.A., Sánchez-Marco, A., Valls, C., Albert, R.M., Fornós, J. J., Julià, R., Fullola, J.M., Zilhão, J. 2013. Terrasses de la Riera dels Canyars (Barcelona, Spain): the landscape of Heinrich Stadial 4 north of the "Ebro frontier" and implications for modern human dispersal into Iberia. Quaternary Science Reviews 60, 26-48.
Albert, R. M., Marean, C. 2012. Early Homo Sapiens Exploitation of Plant Resources Through The Study Of Phytoliths: A Case Study From Site Pinnacle Point 13b (South Africa). Geoarchaeology Journal 27, 363-384.
Blumenschine, R.J., Stanistreet, I.G., Njau, J.K., Bamford, M.K., Masao, F.T., Albert, R.M., Stollhofen, H., Andrews, P., Fernanadez-Jalvo, Y., Prassack, K.A., McHenry, L.J., Camilli, E.L., Ebert, J.I. 2012. Environments and activity traces of hominins across the FLK Peninsula during Zinjanthropus times (1,84 MA), Olduvai Gorge Tanzania. Journal of Human Evolution 63, 364-383.
Albert, R.M., Bamford, M.K. 2012. Vegetation during uppermost Bed I and deposition of Tuff IF at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania, based on phytoliths and plant remains. Journal of Human Evolution 63, 342-350.
Albert, R. M., Berna, F., Goldberg, P. 2012. Insights on Neanderthal Fire Use at Kebara Cave (Israel) through high Resolution Study of Prehistoric Combustion Features: evidence from phytoliths and thin sections. Quaternary International 247, 278-293.
Portillo, M., Albert, R.M. 2011. Husbandry practices and livestock dung at the Numidian site of Althiburos (el Médéina, Kef Governorate, northern Tunisia): the phytolith and spherulite evidence. Journal of Archaeological Science 38, 3224-3233.
Cabanes, D., Albert, R.M. 2011. Microarchaeology of a collective burial: Cova des Pas (Menorca). Journal of Archaeological Science 38 (5), 1119-1126.
Albert, R.M., Bamford, M.K., Cabanes, D. 2009. Palaeoecological significance of palms at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania based on phytolith remains. Quaternary International 193, 41- 48.
Albert, R.M., Shahack-Gross, R., Cabanes, D., Gilboa, A., Lev-Yadun, S., Portillo, M., Sharon, I., Weiner, S. 2008. Domestic uses of plants during the Iron Age I at Tel Dor (Israel): The results of phytolith analyses. Journal of Archaeological Science 35, 55-75.
Albert, R.M., Bamford, M.K., Cabanes, D. 2006. Taphonomy of phytoliths and macroplants in different soils from Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and the application to Plio-Pleistocene palaeoanthropological samples. Quaternary International 148, 78-94.
Bamford, M.K., Albert, R.M., Cabanes, D. 2006. Assessment of the Lowermost Bed II Plio-Pleistocene vegetation in the eastern palaeolake margin of Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) and preliminary results from macroplant fossil remains and phytoliths. Quaternary International 148, 95-112.
Albert, R.M., Bar-Yosef, O., Meignen, L., Weiner, S. 2000. Phytoliths in the Middle Paleolithic deposits of Kebara cave, Mt. Carmel, Israel: Study of the plant materials used for fuel and other purposes. Journal of Archaeological Science 27(10), 931-947.
Albert, R.M., Tsatskin, A., Ronen, A., Lavi, O., Estroff, L., Lev-Yadun, S., Weiner, S. 1999. Mode of occupation of Tabun Cave, Mt. Carmel Israel, during the Mousterian period: A study of the sediments and the phytoliths. Journal of Archaeological Science 26 (10), 1249-1260.
Las Actividades Agricolas y Ganaderas y su Distribucion Espacial En Tell Halula (Siria): Aportaciones de los Fitolitos y Esferolitos Fecales. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. HAR2011-13484-E, 2012.
The Impact of Paleoecological Change on Human Evolution and Exploitation of Vegetal and Marine resources: Olduvai Gorge and Mossel Bay. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación – HAR2010-15967, 2011 – 2013
Paisaje y uso de los Recursos vegetales de los primeros Homo sapiens: Mossel Bay, Sudáfrica. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación – HAR2009-05938-E/HIST, 2010 – 2011
Prácticas Agrícolas y Ganaderas en las Primeras sociedades Neolíticas del Levante. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación – HAR2009-06147-E/HIST, 2009 – 2010
Pautas de supervivencia de los primeros homínidos africanos a través del estudio de la vegetación y reconstrucción del paisaje: El ejemplo de la Garganta de Olduvai (Tanzania, Àfrica Oriental) – Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia – HUM2007-63023, 2007 – 2010
Ecologia del Paisatge i Pautes de Supervivència dels Primers Homínids a la Gorja d?Olduvai (Tanzània): La reconstrucció de la vegetació durant el Plio-plistocé – Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) – 2006EXCAV00019, 2006 – 2009
Origins and Development of Agricultural Practices in the Levant. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia – HUM2006-26456-E/HIST, 2006 – 2007
Grups de Recerca Consolidat de la Generalitat de Catalunya: Grup d'Estudis Paleoecològics i Geoarqueològics (GEPEG). Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) (Generalitat de Catalunya) – 2009SGR1418, 2009 – 2013
Participation in other relevant National and International Projects
IPG – Developing and Testing an Integrated Paleoscape Model for the early Middle and Late Pleistocene of the South Coast of South Africa. National Science Foundation (NSF). Award Number:1138073; Principal Investigator:Curtis Marean; Co-Principal Investigator:Richard Cowling, Kim Hill, Janet Franklin; Organization: Arizona State University; NSF Organization: BCS Award Date:09/15/2011
Paleography of the FLK Site Complex and Oldowan Hominin Land Use during Middle Bed I times, Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. National Geographic Society – 8417-08, 2008 – 2009
Palaeolithic, Pyrotechnology, High Resolution Behavioral Events, and the Neanderthal/Modern Human Question. National Science Foundation (NSF) – 0551927, 2006 – 2007
Oldowan Hominin Land Use in the Post-Volcanic Lowermost Bed II Eastern Olduvai Basin, Tanzania. Wenner Green Foundation. Nueva York (USA), 2006
Paleoclimatic and Paleoenvironmental Context of the Origins of Modern Humans in South Africa: Constructing a Detailed Record from 400,000 – 30,000 Years Ago. National Science Foundation (NSF) – 0524087, 2005 – 2008
Investigation of Adaptation to the Arid Zone in the Levantine Early Neolithic. National Science Foundation (NSF) – 0410097, 2004 – 2007
Landscape successions and traces of Oldowan hominidland use at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania. National Science Foundation (NSF) – 0109027, 2001 – 2003
Economie des combustibles au Paleolithique. Approche experimentale et applications archeologiques. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. (Francia) / Ministère de Recherche, 2001 – 2003
Radiocarbon and Archaeology, 6th International Symposium, Pafos (Cyprus), April 10-15, 2011
7th International meeting on Phytolith research, Mar de Plata (Argentina), 2008
6th International meeting on Phytolith research, Barcelona (Spain), 2006
2nd International Workshop "Olduvai Paleolandscape Project", Barcelona (Spain), 2005
5th International meeting on Phytolith research, Moscow (Russia), 2004
1st European Meeting on Phytoliths Research. CSIC. Madrid (Spain), 1996
Viatge als Orígens de la Humanitat. University of Barcelona and La Caixa, Barcelona (Spain), 2003
Founder and Director of the Research Group for Palaeoecological and Geoarchaeological Studies. Recognized as a Quality Research Group by the Catalan Government in 2005; since 2005
Member of the Society for American Archaeology, 2006, 2013
Board Member of the Quaternary International Journal
Member of the International Society for Phytolith Research, since 1996
Member of the Catalan Association of Bioarchaeology, since 2008
Member of OLAPP (Olduvai Landscape Paleoanthropology Project), since 2001
Member collaborator of the Weizmann Institute of Science (Rehovot, Israel), since 1996
Member of the International Committee for Phytolith Nomenclature, 2006 – 2010
Elected Board Member of the International Society for Phytolith Research, 2004 – 2006
Elected member of the Junta de Facultat of Geography and History, 2004 – 2008
Member of the Grup de Recerca Arqueobalear, University of Illes Balears, 2004 – 2008
Member of the Seminari d'Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques (SERP) of the UB, recognized as a Quality Research Group by the Generalitat de Catalunya; 1992 – 2000, 2003 – 2005
Member of Equip de Recerca Arqueomètrica (ERAUB) of the UB, recognized as a Quality Research Group by the Generalitat de Catalunya, 2001 – 2002
2012, 50th anniversary of the discovery of Paranthropus boisei http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/ca/menu_eines/noticies/2012/09/017.html
2010, Video of the University of Barcelona: Olduvai Bressol de la Humanitat: http://www.ub.edu/ubtv/ubtv_veurereg.cgi?G_CODI=01563&G_USCODI=114505&IDIOMA=ALL&G_LLISTA=cerca
2006, Interview in Radio Premià "Els matins de Lola"
2004, Interview in the journal Catalunya Today
2004, Interview in the TV program Horitzons (canal 33)
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