Carme Belarte
Carme Belarte
Institut Català d'Arqueologia Clàssica / Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
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I am an archaeologist, with a PhD in Geography and History for the University of Barcelona. Since 2010, I am an ICREA Research Professor based at Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC). I currently lead the Protohistory Archaeology team at the ICAC. I have conducted fieldwork in Spain, France, and Tunisia.
My research's general goal is to study the processes that transformed the local-scale groups of the Late Bronze Age into the complex societies of the Western Mediterranean Iron Age. Within this general goal, I deal with more specific topics such as urban planning, architecture, household organisation, domestic activities, and funerary practices and rituals.
Since 2020 I have been conducting the TRANSCOMB Project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, renewed in 2023 (TRANSCOMB-2). Within this project, an interdisciplinary methodology for studying fire installations in the Iron Age societies of the Western Mediterranean has been implemented. It integrates different techniques from Bioarchaeology and Geoarchaeology, together with Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology, to gather information on the use of fuels, natural resources management, daily activities related to fire, and household organization.
My research's general goal is to study the processes that transformed the local-scale groups of the Late Bronze Age into the complex societies of the Western Mediterranean Iron Age. Within this general goal, I deal with more specific topics such as urban planning, architecture, household organisation, domestic activities, and funerary practices and rituals.
Since 2020 I have been conducting the TRANSCOMB Project, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, renewed in 2023 (TRANSCOMB-2). Within this project, an interdisciplinary methodology for studying fire installations in the Iron Age societies of the Western Mediterranean has been implemented. It integrates different techniques from Bioarchaeology and Geoarchaeology, together with Experimental Archaeology and Ethnoarchaeology, to gather information on the use of fuels, natural resources management, daily activities related to fire, and household organization.