Natàlia Alonso is Professor of Prehistory at the University of Lleida in Catalonia. Her scientific interests, always focusing on Protohistoric agriculture in the Western Mediterranean, have led her to explore aspects of paleoecology, isotopic analysis, wild fruit exploitation, food and especially cereal crops and their processing (agricultural and domestic) and gender. Her work in each of these fields has always included innovative aspects and groundbreaking methods. She has also incorporated new lines of research such as ethnoarchaeology (UB project in Tunisia, 2010-2012), experimental archaeology and didactic studies (RecerCaixa project, 2012-2013 as IP). She has been the leader of the R+D projects of the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, HAR2016-78277-R, “Farming and food practices, settlements and domestic spaces. Evolution the Plains of the southern Pyrenees (3rd-1st millennium BCE)” (PRASED), 2017-2019, and PID2019-110022GB-I00, “Mobility, circulation and exchange in the Catalan Western Plain between the third and first millennium BCE” (MOBICEX), 2020-2023. She is also PI of the project 2018CRINDESTABC-8, “Archaeological approach to agri-food practices: links between the past and present (ArqueoAgro)”, INDEST-UdL. 2019-20201, and coordinator of the Research Network RED2018-102440-T, “ARQUEOCULT. Archaeology of Past Crops”, 2020-2021. Her research has been presented in more than 150 papers, book chapters and books in national and international publications. Her work at FRUITCOM focuses on the study of archaeobotanical remains, storage and cereals processing (archaeobotanical approach, querns and mills).
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