Leonor Peña-Chocarro is a researcher based at the Instituto de Historia of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) in Madrid. Her research area is the study of plant remains (seeds and fruits) recovered from archaeological contexts through which she investigates issues related to the subsistence and use of plant resources in the past. Her main interest has focused on the origins of agriculture in the western Mediterranean although she has also investigated later periods. Trained in England, where she obtained a Master’s degree in Archaeobiology and a PhD in prehistoric agriculture, her research has always been characterized by multidisciplinary approaches. She has participated in numerous research projects, mainly in Mediterranean areas both as a member of the research team and as a principal researcher. In 2008, she obtained an ERC Advanced Grant on the origins and spread of agriculture in the western Mediterranean. Her research has been presented in more than 160 papers published in national and international journals, as well as in book chapters and edited volumes. Her work at FRUITCOM focuses on the study of archaeobotanical materials.
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