Agustín Diez Castillo

PhD for the University of Cantabria (1996), my PhD dissertation is based on the study of the prehistoric settlement in the western cantabrian valleys. After I got my PhD, I moved to the University of California, Berkeley where, funded by the Marcelino Botín Foundation, I did a four years post-doc stage at the Department of Anthropology and at the Archaeological Research Facility hosted by Prof. Margaret Conkey. In 2000 I won one of the boursaries funded by the Spanihs government to incorporate back PhD researchers in the Spanish universities. My main lines of research are: Landscape Archaeology (see 'Utilización de los recursos en la Marina y Montaña cantábricas: una prehistoria ecológica de los valles del Deva y Nansa', Guernica 1997), the cultural contact between the last communities of hunters-gatherers and the first agricultural communities both in the Cantabrian (http://www.aranzadi.eus/fileadmin/docs/Munibe/2004061078AA.pdf), and in the Mediterranean (https://doi.org/10.3989/tp.2003.v60.i2) regions and the application of New Technologies to the study of the archaeology, in which highlights the development of the Archaeological Information System called SIDGEIPA. In recent year my researcher and docent tasks focus in the application of the Geographical Information Systems to archaeology, with contributions like 'Viejas piedras Nuevas Tecnologías' (Illunzar 11) and the application of chemical research in the field of archaeology, I was advisor Gianni Gallelo's PhD dissertation 'Western mediterranean archaeology. Chemical Element levels in archaological material ace to methodological tool'. In collaboration with Dr. Gallello, I have participated in serveral Conferences and Symposia like Colloquium Spectroscopicum Internationale (Pisa, 2017) and I have authored some papers wiht a high impact in the discipline like 'Anthropogenic units fingerprinted by REE in archaeological stratigraphy: Mas d'Is (Spain) case Rare earth elements' published in 2013. The interest for the application of the ICT techniques to archaeology, in the management of sites 'Entorno 3D para el análisis y la recreación virtual de las actuaciones arqueológicas en Cueva de la Cocina (Dos Aguas, Valencia, España)'), at a regional level 'Patch-based survey methods for studying prehistoric human land-usein agriculturally modified landscapes: A case study from the Canal de Navarrés, eastern Spain' or at peninsular one 'A bayesian approach to timing the neolithization in Mediterranean Iberia', 'Timing the Western Mediterranean Last Hunter-Gatherers and First Farmers' and 'New insights into the neolithisation process in southwest Europe according to spatial density analysis from calibrated radiocarbon dates'). The international vocation has seen reflected in my engagement in a long-term project at the western Amazon valley with several publications like 'Preliminary results of the 2017 season in the amazonian earthen structures know as geoglyphs', or 'Conhecendo os Caminhos ou Trilhas dos Geoglifos Pré-colombianos sul Amazônicos').

doctorate at Arqueologia from Universidad de Cantabria (1996). Has experience in Archaeology, focusing on Archaeology, acting on the following subjects: archaeology, mesolithic, neolithic, cocina cave and resex chico mendes.