
GARCIA-PIQUER Alberto
- Departament de Prehistòria, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
- Computational archaeology, Environmental archaeology, Europe, Geoarchaeology, Landscape archaeology, Mesolithic, Peopling, South America, Spatial analysis, Symbolic behaviours, Theoretical archaeology, Upper Palaeolithic
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I am interested on Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer coastal adaptations, seeking to understand the interplay between environment, technology and mobility strategies in these societies. I have applied this line of research to Southern South America using a range of computational approaches involving GIS-based methods, geostatistics and quantitative analysis to spatially model and/or correlate environmental and archaeological data.
In 2022 I have been awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellowship, Global modality (funded by the European Commission), with the project “Modelling and simulating Hunter-Gatherer Seafaring in the Americas: ecology, society and watercraft technology in cold aquatic environments (HUGASEA)”. I will study and compare maritime Hunter-Gatherer mobility in the Northwest Coast of America and Southern South America with GIS-based methods and Agent-Based Modelling. This project is hosted by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Spain) and will be carried out in the Washington State University (US). It also relies on the collaboration of the University of British Columbia (Canada).
Since 2019, I am actively engaged in a network of Chilean-Spanish researchers from the GAIA Antarctica Research Centre (Chile), University of Magallanes (UMAG, Chile) and the UAB (Spain). We have developed two funded archaeological research projects in the inland sea Ultima Esperanza (Magallanes region, Chile), particularly in the island of Diego Portales (2019; see Garcia-Piquet et al. 2021).
In 2018 I finished a grant-funded PhD at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB, Spain) focused on the study of past and modern Hunter-Fisher-Gatherer societies, developing a theoretical and methodological approach to assess spatial organisation of two Yaghan shell midden sites of the Beagle Channel (Tierra del Fuego, Argentina) in order to recognise production and social reproduction activities through micro- and macro-archaeological remains (Garcia-Piquer and Estevez 2018; Garcia-Piquer 2018; Garcia-Piquer et al. 2018).