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Organisation profile
Organisation profile
EarlyFoods is a multidisciplinary research effort involving senior and junior scientists working at the intersection of environmental-social sciences and prehistoric archaeology between the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology and the Department of Prehistory of Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona. The overarching aims of EarlyFoods are 1) to advance our understanding of the origins and changing nature of early food production systems, and 2) to document and quantify their impacts on past natural environments. EarlyFoods will capitalise on ongoing research projects by members of our team in regions with evidence of contrasting evolutionary trajectories in early food production economies: Southern Europe and Anatolia, and in tropical and subtropical South America. EarlyFoods will act as a platform for catalysing and supporting research efforts around the subject in these areas.
Directed by:
Andre Carlo Colonese
Research lines
- Research lines:
- Early plant and animal domestication
- Climate change adaptation
- Past anthropogenic impacts
- Mediterranean archaeology
- Neotropical archaeology
UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Our work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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Profiles
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Andre Carlo Colonese
- Department of Prehistory
- Evolution and impact of early food production systems - EarlyFoods
- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB)
Person: Research director, Affiliation to research
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Umberto Lombardo .
- Department of Prehistory
- Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB)
- Evolution and impact of early food production systems - EarlyFoods
Person: Research director, Affiliation to research
Projects
- 1 Active
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SEASONALITY AND SETTLEMENT PATTERNS OF THE FIRST SOCIETIES IN THE BOLIVIAN AMAZON DURING THE HOLOCENE (CA. 11 2 KA CAL BP)
Garcia Escarzaga, A. (Principal Investigator), Lombardo ., U. (Co-Investigador/a Principal), Arniz Mateos, R. (Collaborator), Bello Alonso, P. M. (Collaborator), Capriles Flores, J. (Collaborator), Comes Bordas, P. (Collaborator), Duarte Simoes, C. (Collaborator), Fossile, T. (Collaborator), Mcgrath , K. M. (Collaborator), Morrel Rovira, B. (Collaborator), Neves Fernandes, L. R. (Collaborator), Quintera Icera, M. Á. (Collaborator), Rossetti Nivela, P. (Collaborator), Suárez Revilla, R. (Collaborator), Villanueva Ribes, J. (Collaborator), de Winter, N. (Collaborator), García-Piquer, A. (Investigator) & León-Cristóbal, A. (Collaborator)
1/09/23 → 31/08/25
Project: Research Projects and Other Grants
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A comparative analysis of elemental imaging of marine mollusc shells using Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy
Mirapeix, J., Arniz-Mateos, R., Theodoraki, D., García-Escárzaga, A., Piñon, V., Gutierrez-Zugasti, I., Hausmann, N. & Cobo, A., Jun 2025, In: Microchemical Journal. 213, 15 p., 113756.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Changes in lithic raw material and technological management during the Mesolithic: a view from El Mazo (Northern Iberia)
Herrero-Alonso, D., Fuertes-Prieto, N., Tarriño, A., Cuenca-Solana, D., García-Escárzaga, A., Calvo-Gómez, J. & Gutiérrez-Zugasti, I., 20 May 2025, In: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 17, 6, 28 p., 127.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Feasting on fish. Specialized function of pre-colonial pottery of the Cerritos mound builders of southern Brazil
Admiraal, M., Colonese, A. C., Milheira, R. G., Di Muro, A., Talbot, H. M., Lucquin, A. & Craig, O. E., 5 Feb 2025, In: PloS one. 20, 2 February, 14 p., e0311192.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Research › peer-review
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Student theses
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Caracterización de la dieta comportamiento alimentario de Sus scrofa en ambientes antropizados, desde una perspectiva de la dieta isotópica. Estudio referencial
Ruano García, E. (Author), Saña Segui, M. (Director) & Colonese , A. C. (Director), 2023Student thesis: Dissertation (TFM)
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Bone biomechanics applied to the study of animal domestication and first husbandry practices in the western Mediterranean(en curs)
Tonda Carratala, D. (Author), Saña Segui, M. (Director), 7 Mar 2026Student thesis: Doctoral thesis
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Dietary characterisation of suids in anthropized environments from an isotopic perspective (en curs)
Ruano García, E. (Author), Saña Segui, M. (Director), 23 Nov 2026Student thesis: Doctoral thesis