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Books by María Cruz Berrocal
Este libro es una síntesis de los conocimientos más generales que se han acumulado hasta la fecha... more Este libro es una síntesis de los conocimientos más generales que se han acumulado hasta la fecha sobre algunos de los conjuntos más significativos entre los de arte rupestre prehistórico, seleccionados, por distintas y variadas razones, entre cuatro continentes. El arte rupestre ha tendido a estudiarse de manera descriptiva, esencialmente detallando sus características formales. El lector percibirá este afán descriptivo en bastantes capítulos, lo que está reflejando, más que un interés personal de los autores, una realidad historiográfica.
Edited books by María Cruz Berrocal
The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological proble... more The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a key subject on interest in Iberian Prehistory. This book illustrates the differing forms of resistances, the interplay between change and continuity, the multiple paths to and from social complexity, and the ‘failures’ of states to form in Prehistory. It also engages with broader questions, such as: when did social stratification appear in western European Prehistory? What factors contributed to its emergence and consolidation? What are the relationships between the notions of social complexity, social inequality, social stratification and statehood? And what are the archaeological indicators for the empirical analysis of these issues? Focusing on Iberia, but with a permanent connection to the wider geographical framework, this book presents, for the first time, a chronologically comprehensive, up-to-date approach to the issue of state formation in prehistoric Iberia.
This book seeks to contribute a global comparative archaeological approach to colonial processes ... more This book seeks to contribute a global comparative archaeological approach to colonial processes and colonial situations related to the Hispanic Monarchy and the ways in which they were experienced.
Beginning with the better known Americas, it follows with Africa and the Pacific in a wish to explore Spanish colonialism beyond the parameters of existing research. There is a preference for peripheral cases, many of them not yet well known and not yet present in the mainstream scholarly discourse. Ultimately, we have aimed at striking a balance between theoretical, methodological and empirical issues; at critically examining the construction of categories and discourses of colonialism, furthering issues raised by post-colonial and Latin American de-colonial theories; and at questioning the ideological underpinnings behind the source material required to address our topic.
Book chapters by María Cruz Berrocal
This chapter argues that traditional historiography has overlooked the extent of early encounters... more This chapter argues that traditional historiography has overlooked the extent of early encounters between indigenous populations and Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By emphasizing only the eighteenth century as the time of the first relevant European presence in the Pacific, traditional historiography ignores the potential consequences of earlier encounters on local peoples. This historiographical absence is the result of several factors, and it has serious implications for the anthropological, archaeological, and historical understanding of the Pacific.
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, 2016
This chapter presents the theoretical framework and scientific questions behind recent archaeolog... more This chapter presents the theoretical framework and scientific questions behind recent archaeological investigations undertaken in the hitherto relatively under-researched Spanish colony in Taiwan, founded in the seventeenth century. Despite its potential role in subsequent global developments, this historical episode has been downplayed in mainstream literature on early modern colonialism. My emphasis is not so much on building a thorough presentation of the archaeological findings obtained (in progress), but on summarizing the main results while creating a narrative about the possibilities and constraints of archaeological research on colonialism in the Asia–Pacific region.
In M. Cruz Berrocal and Ch. Tsang (eds.) Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific. The Southwest Pacific and Oceanian regions. UPF, 2017
Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism, edited by S. Montón, María Cruz Berrocal, A. Ruiz, 2016
This chapter presents the theoretical framework and scientific questions behind recent archaeolog... more This chapter presents the theoretical framework and scientific questions behind recent archaeological investigations undertaken in the hitherto relatively under-researched Spanish colony in Taiwan, founded in the seventeenth century. Despite its potential role in subsequent global developments, this historical episode has been downplayed in mainstream literature on early modern colonialism. My emphasis is not so much on building a thorough presentation of the archaeological findings obtained (in progress), but on summarizing the main results while creating a narrative about the possibilities and constraints of archaeological research on colonialism in the
Asia–Pacific region.
Archaeologies of early Modern Spanish Colonialism
M. Cruz Berrocal, L. García, A. Gilman (eds.) The Prehistory of Iberia. Debating Early Social Stratification and the State. Routledge, London: 29-49
This book contains the writings of a selection of Spanish archaeologies and archaeologists dealin... more This book contains the writings of a selection of Spanish archaeologies and archaeologists dealing with different temporal and geographical aspects of Iberian prehistory, all of them substantial and signifi cant topics in themselves. The contributions to this book were, however, also intended as displays of a way of making and understanding archaeology within a profoundly historical tradition such as the Spanish. This chapter attempts to frame this one characteristic of this book-that is, being about an archaeology rooted in history. Thus, it deals with the fundamental historicity of Spanish archaeology, its context and further development ( historicity being the quality of being historical, without any theoretical implication; historicism , on the other hand, is usually equated with culture-history, a particular theoretical framework).
Informes y Trabajos 9, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid: 651-672
Reflexiones sobre arte rupestre, …, Jan 1, 2005
Papers by María Cruz Berrocal
Se presenta un estudio comparativo de los tres corpora rupestres más representativos de la Peníns... more Se presenta un estudio comparativo de los tres corpora rupestres más representativos de la Península Ibérica: el paleolítico, el atlántico, y el levantino/esquemático. Aspectos como la manera de representar, la perspectiva, los motivos, las superposiciones, la localización geográfica… se reflejan de manera complementaria en las distintas tradiciones en unos casos, y de manera opuesta en
otros. Teniendo en cuenta el solapamiento cronológico de algunas de las representaciones y estilos, analizaremos lasmanifestaciones rupestres como estrategias culturales particulares, incompatibles con una visión uniformitaria del “arte rupestre”. Las contraposiciones y convergencias de las distintas tradiciones se
discuten en cuanto elementos de prácticas sociales determinadas por los modos de producción, relaciones sociales y trayectorias históricas concretas de sus correspondientes formaciones sociales.
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
Este libro es una síntesis de los conocimientos más generales que se han acumulado hasta la fecha... more Este libro es una síntesis de los conocimientos más generales que se han acumulado hasta la fecha sobre algunos de los conjuntos más significativos entre los de arte rupestre prehistórico, seleccionados, por distintas y variadas razones, entre cuatro continentes. El arte rupestre ha tendido a estudiarse de manera descriptiva, esencialmente detallando sus características formales. El lector percibirá este afán descriptivo en bastantes capítulos, lo que está reflejando, más que un interés personal de los autores, una realidad historiográfica.
The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological proble... more The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society in today’s world is the result of a long social struggle. This volume advances the archaeological study of social organisation in Prehistory, and more specifically the rise of social complexity in European Prehistory. Within the wider context of world Prehistory, in the last 30 years the subject of early social stratification and state formation has been a key subject on interest in Iberian Prehistory. This book illustrates the differing forms of resistances, the interplay between change and continuity, the multiple paths to and from social complexity, and the ‘failures’ of states to form in Prehistory. It also engages with broader questions, such as: when did social stratification appear in western European Prehistory? What factors contributed to its emergence and consolidation? What are the relationships between the notions of social complexity, social inequality, social stratification and statehood? And what are the archaeological indicators for the empirical analysis of these issues? Focusing on Iberia, but with a permanent connection to the wider geographical framework, this book presents, for the first time, a chronologically comprehensive, up-to-date approach to the issue of state formation in prehistoric Iberia.
This book seeks to contribute a global comparative archaeological approach to colonial processes ... more This book seeks to contribute a global comparative archaeological approach to colonial processes and colonial situations related to the Hispanic Monarchy and the ways in which they were experienced.
Beginning with the better known Americas, it follows with Africa and the Pacific in a wish to explore Spanish colonialism beyond the parameters of existing research. There is a preference for peripheral cases, many of them not yet well known and not yet present in the mainstream scholarly discourse. Ultimately, we have aimed at striking a balance between theoretical, methodological and empirical issues; at critically examining the construction of categories and discourses of colonialism, furthering issues raised by post-colonial and Latin American de-colonial theories; and at questioning the ideological underpinnings behind the source material required to address our topic.
This chapter argues that traditional historiography has overlooked the extent of early encounters... more This chapter argues that traditional historiography has overlooked the extent of early encounters between indigenous populations and Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. By emphasizing only the eighteenth century as the time of the first relevant European presence in the Pacific, traditional historiography ignores the potential consequences of earlier encounters on local peoples. This historiographical absence is the result of several factors, and it has serious implications for the anthropological, archaeological, and historical understanding of the Pacific.
Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, 2016
This chapter presents the theoretical framework and scientific questions behind recent archaeolog... more This chapter presents the theoretical framework and scientific questions behind recent archaeological investigations undertaken in the hitherto relatively under-researched Spanish colony in Taiwan, founded in the seventeenth century. Despite its potential role in subsequent global developments, this historical episode has been downplayed in mainstream literature on early modern colonialism. My emphasis is not so much on building a thorough presentation of the archaeological findings obtained (in progress), but on summarizing the main results while creating a narrative about the possibilities and constraints of archaeological research on colonialism in the Asia–Pacific region.
In M. Cruz Berrocal and Ch. Tsang (eds.) Historical Archaeology of Early Modern Colonialism in Asia-Pacific. The Southwest Pacific and Oceanian regions. UPF, 2017
Archaeologies of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism, edited by S. Montón, María Cruz Berrocal, A. Ruiz, 2016
This chapter presents the theoretical framework and scientific questions behind recent archaeolog... more This chapter presents the theoretical framework and scientific questions behind recent archaeological investigations undertaken in the hitherto relatively under-researched Spanish colony in Taiwan, founded in the seventeenth century. Despite its potential role in subsequent global developments, this historical episode has been downplayed in mainstream literature on early modern colonialism. My emphasis is not so much on building a thorough presentation of the archaeological findings obtained (in progress), but on summarizing the main results while creating a narrative about the possibilities and constraints of archaeological research on colonialism in the
Asia–Pacific region.
Archaeologies of early Modern Spanish Colonialism
M. Cruz Berrocal, L. García, A. Gilman (eds.) The Prehistory of Iberia. Debating Early Social Stratification and the State. Routledge, London: 29-49
This book contains the writings of a selection of Spanish archaeologies and archaeologists dealin... more This book contains the writings of a selection of Spanish archaeologies and archaeologists dealing with different temporal and geographical aspects of Iberian prehistory, all of them substantial and signifi cant topics in themselves. The contributions to this book were, however, also intended as displays of a way of making and understanding archaeology within a profoundly historical tradition such as the Spanish. This chapter attempts to frame this one characteristic of this book-that is, being about an archaeology rooted in history. Thus, it deals with the fundamental historicity of Spanish archaeology, its context and further development ( historicity being the quality of being historical, without any theoretical implication; historicism , on the other hand, is usually equated with culture-history, a particular theoretical framework).
Informes y Trabajos 9, Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid: 651-672
Reflexiones sobre arte rupestre, …, Jan 1, 2005
Se presenta un estudio comparativo de los tres corpora rupestres más representativos de la Peníns... more Se presenta un estudio comparativo de los tres corpora rupestres más representativos de la Península Ibérica: el paleolítico, el atlántico, y el levantino/esquemático. Aspectos como la manera de representar, la perspectiva, los motivos, las superposiciones, la localización geográfica… se reflejan de manera complementaria en las distintas tradiciones en unos casos, y de manera opuesta en
otros. Teniendo en cuenta el solapamiento cronológico de algunas de las representaciones y estilos, analizaremos lasmanifestaciones rupestres como estrategias culturales particulares, incompatibles con una visión uniformitaria del “arte rupestre”. Las contraposiciones y convergencias de las distintas tradiciones se
discuten en cuanto elementos de prácticas sociales determinadas por los modos de producción, relaciones sociales y trayectorias históricas concretas de sus correspondientes formaciones sociales.
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology
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s. Taveuni Palms •. Tavaro Falls figuro 1. General location of the visited sitos. 1, Tatuba 3. Va... more s. Taveuni Palms •. Tavaro Falls figuro 1. General location of the visited sitos. 1, Tatuba 3. Vatu vola vola no vu 1. Vola Creek 4. Loaloa point
Journal of Archaeological Science
Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology, 2020
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2020
International Journal of Historical Archaeology, 2018
We present the results of six years of archaeological work carried out in Heping Dao, Keelung, no... more We present the results of six years of archaeological work carried out in Heping Dao, Keelung, northern Taiwan. The site has revealed a rich archaeological record spanning a sequence that comprehends most of the history of Taiwan, including the most salient historical landmarks in it. The study of this long-term sequence of habitation in Heping Dao throughout prehistory to current times, allows us to attempt a historical archaeology of the longue duree of the place that in turn enables the establishment of comparisons between periods and raising of specific questions, among them: the general understanding of cultural transformation along the Neolithic and the Iron Age, and in turn the transition Iron Age/Aboriginal historic times in Taiwan, which in our view has to be observed as a history of continuity rather than of interruptions; the recognition of the Chinese presence in Taiwan in the pre-European period; the implantation of the European colony and its effects on the local populations; the differing material remains and impacts caused by the presence of pre-European Chinese and the Qing occupation; and the potential for a comparison between the European and the Japanese colonial projects as seen in the material record.
Western Pacific Earth Sciences 15-18: 1-18., 2018
Trabajos De Prehistoria, 2002
Antiquity, 2015
Book reviews CLAIRE MANEN, THOMAS PERRIN & JEAN GUILAINE (ed.). La transition néolithique en Médi... more Book reviews CLAIRE MANEN, THOMAS PERRIN & JEAN GUILAINE (ed.). La transition néolithique en Méditerranée. 464 pages, numerous colour and b&w illustrations, and tables. 2014. Arles: Errance; 978-2-87772-574-3 paperback €59.
International Workshop on Basketry and Cordage in Asia and the Pacific
Tras varios anos de experiencia docente hemos podido comprobar como hoy en dia la sociedad demand... more Tras varios anos de experiencia docente hemos podido comprobar como hoy en dia la sociedad demanda cada vez mas el acceso a una formacion de calidad, siendo Internet y los MOOC (ofrecidos por diversas universidades nacionales y extranjeras) una de las vias de acceso a la misma. Es por ello que entre los objetivos a alcanzar con la presente propuesta ha estado el de disenar un curso de formacion masiva, abierta y en linea (MOOC), que aproxime de una forma dinamica y accesible al publico universitario y general al conocimiento de Filipinas y el Pacifico; facilitando de este modo un acercamiento academico especializado al estudio de la region de Filipinas y el Pacifico.
International Symposium on Oceanic Environment and Culture of the Matsu Archipelago, Taiwan. Cultural Affairs Office, Matsu: 255-263. ISBN 978-986-03-0144-1, 2011
Moturiki is one of the high islands in the Lomaiviti Group, in Fiji. It has been the object of ar... more Moturiki is one of the high islands in the Lomaiviti Group, in Fiji. It has been
the object of archaeological survey and testpit excavation in 2008 and 2010. We have recorded around 70 archaeological sites, including settlements with ring-ditches and associated terraces in the interior of the island. This area is now abandoned, and current agricultural practices focus on slash-and-bum agriculture and cultivation in swamps.
Results from one of the testpits on the SE of the island indicate possible
landscape changes in the last rnillennia. What seems to be the ancient coastline is currently buried at around 1 m below the surface. This low land area has therefore received large amounts of sediment from higher areas, a result of human activity.
This presentation deals with these preliminary findings and pose questions about past agricultural practices, their abandonment and sustainability, and the impact of human settlement in small islands.