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Dr Marga Díaz-Andreu, BA PhD

Contact (email at m.diaz-andreu@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Margarita Díaz-Andreu is an archaeologist interested in the prehistoric archaeology and art of Western Europe and the politics of identity in archaeology (nationalism and colonialism, ethnicity and gender). She has carried out fieldwork in Spain and Britain. She teaches on prehistoric art and archaeology, the history of archaeology and identity.

She has written several books and articles on the prehistory of the Iberian Peninsula and the United Kingdom and their prehistoric art. Her PhD (University Complutense of Madrid, 1990) was a study of the emergence of social complexity in Central Spain. It focused on the dynamics of long-term social change in settlement patterns, burial rituals, metallurgy and other types of material culture in the Cuenca region throughout the Bronze Age (c. 2250-1500 BC) (book published in 1994, book on metallurgy in 1998). Projects on prehistoric art have discussed issues of interpretation (landscape, gender and religious beliefs) and recording techniques (mainly the application of new 3D imaging techniques for the recording of rock carvings). These have centred on case studies in Spain (Cuenca), and Britain (Cumbria, Northumberland and Yorkshire).

Díaz-Andreu has also published widely on a second major area of research, identity and the history of archaeology, with books such as The Archaeology of Identity (2005), Nationalism and Archaeology (1996, 2001), Excavating Women. A History of Women in European Archaeology (1998), and A World History of Archaeology in the Nineteenth Century: Nationalism, Colonialism and the Past (2007). Her research has focused on particular case studies in Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as wide-ranging overviews of gender, nationalism and imperialism. Her work has been published mainly in English and Spanish by publishing houses and journals in the US, Britain and Spain, as well as Brazil and Mexico, and has been translated into other languages.

Research Groups

Research Projects

Research Interests

  • History of Archaeology (19th and 20th centuries)
  • Iberian and Western Mediterranean later prehistoric archaeology
  • Identity: gender and ethnicity
  • Nationalism, Imperialism and Colonialism
  • Prehistoric post-palaeolithic art

Indicators of Esteem

Publications

Articles: magazine

  • Díaz-Andreu, Margarita, Price, Megan & Gosden, Chris 2009. Christopher Hawkes, his archive and networks in British and European archaeology. The Antiquaries Journal 89: 1-22. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Alonso, Pilar, Díaz-Andreu, Margarita, González, A. & Pérez, Teresa 1991. El Covacho de Las Pintas (Carrascosa de la Sierra, Cuenca). Un abrigo con grabados rupestres. Revista Cuenca 38: 4-20. (Additional information) (View publication online)

Books: authored

  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2007. A World History of Nineteenth-Century Archaeology. Nationalism, Colonialism, and the Past. Oxford: Oxford University Press. (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M., Lucy, S., Babic, S. & Edwards, D. 2005. The Archaeology of Identity. Approaches to gender, age, ethnicity, status and religion. London New York: Routledge.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2002. Historia de la Arqueología. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas. Estudios. (Additional information)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. & Montero, I. 1998. Arqueometalurgia en la provincia de Cuenca: minería y metalurgia en la Edad del Bronce. Cuenca: Diputación Provincial de Cuenca. Serie Arqueología Conquense 14.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 1994. La Edad del Bronce en la provincia de Cuenca. Cuenca: Diputación Provincial de Cuenca. Serie Arqueología Conquense XIII.

Books: edited

  • Díaz-Andreu, M., Mora, G. & Cortadella, J. 2009. Diccionario Histórico de la Arqueología en España (siglos XV-XX). Madrid: Marcial Pons. (Additional information)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. & A. Smith 2001. Nationalism and Archaeology. Nations and Nationalism 7.4. London: Blackwell; Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
  • Mora, G. & Díaz-Andreu, M. 1997. La cristalización del pasado. Génesis y desarrollo del marco institucional de la arqueología en España. Madrid, Málaga: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad de Málaga.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. & Keay S. 1997. The Archaeology of Iberia. The Dynamics of Change. Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG). London: Routledge.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. & Champion, T. 1996. Nationalism and Archaeology in Europe. London, Boulder and San Francisco: UCL Press and Westview Press. (View publication online)

Edited works: contributions

  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2008. Las relaciones entre la arqueología española y británica (1920s-1970s). In Documentos inéditos para la Historia de la Arqueología. Mora, G., Papí, C. & Ayarzagüena, M. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Historia de la Arqueología 1. Madrid: Sociedad Española de Historia de la Arqueología. 117-127.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2008. Revisiting the "invisible college": José Ramón Mélida as a case study. In Archives, Ancestors, Practices. Archaeology in the light of its history. Schlanger,N. & Nordbladh, J. Oxford, New York: Berghahn.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. & Ramírez Sánchez, M. 2004. Archaeological Resource Management under Franco's Spain: the Comisaría General de Excavaciones Arqueológicas. In Archaeology under dictatorship. Galaty, M. & Watkinson, C. Hingham, MA: Kluwer/Plenum. 109-130.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2004. Britain and the Other: the archaeology of imperialism. In History, Identity and the Question of Britain. R. Phillips & H. Brocklehurst New York: Palgrave. 227-241.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2004. Mélida: génesis, pensamiento y obra de un maestro. In Arqueología española. Mélida, J. R. [(1929)] Pamplona: Urgoiti Editores. 1-199. (Additional information)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2001. An all-embracing universal hunter-gatherer religion? Discussing shamanism and Levantine rock-art. In The Concept Shamanism. Uses and abuses. Bibliotheca Shamanistica. H.-P. Francfort, R. Hamayon & (in collaboration with Paul Bahn) Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 10: 117-134. (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. & A. Smith 2001. Guest editor’s introduction. Nationalism and Archaeology. In Nationalism and Archaeology. Nations and Nationalism 7.4. London: Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism.
  • Díaz-Andreu, Margarita 2001. Marking the landscape. Iberian post-paleolithic art, identities and the sacred. In European Landscapes of Rock-art. Nash, George H. & Chippindale, Chris London: Routledge. 158-175. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. & Sørensen, M. L. 1998. Excavating Women. History of Women in European Archaeology. In London: Routledge. (Additional information)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M 1998. Spanish women in a changing world. Strategies in the search for self-fulfilment through antiquities. In Excavating Women. A History of Women in European Archaeology. Diaz-Andreu, M & Sørensen, M.L.S. London: Routledge. 125-145.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M 1997. Conflict and innovation: the development of archaeological traditions in Iberia. In The Archaeology of Iberia. The Dynamics of Change. Díaz-Andreu, Margarita & Keay, Simon London: Routledge. 6-33.

Journal papers: academic

  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2009. Childe and the International Congresses of Archaeology. European Journal of Archaeology 12: 91-122. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, Margarita 2007. Christopher Hawkes and the International Summer Courses of Ampurias. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology 17(1): 19-34. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2007. Internationalism in the invisible college. Political ideologies and friendships in archaeology. Journal of Social Archaeology 7(1): 31-50. (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2007. V. Gordon Childe i Espanya: notes d'arxiu. Cota Zero (22): 84-98.
  • Díaz-Andreu, M., Brooke, C., Rainsbury, M. & Rosser, N. 2006. The Spiral that Vanished: The Application of Non-Contact Recording Techniques to an Elusive Rock Art Motif at Castlerigg Stone Circle in Cumbria. Journal of Archaeological Science 33(11): 1580-1587. (View publication online)
  • Barnett, Tertia., Chalmers, Alan., Díaz-Andreu, Margarita., Ellis, Gavin., Longhurst, Pete., Sharpe, Kate. & Trinks, Immo. 2005. 3D laser scanning for recording and monitoring rock art erosion. International newsletter on rock art 41: 25-29. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Barnett, T. & Díaz-Andreu, M. 2005. Knowledge capture and transfer in rock art studies: result of a questionnaire on rock art decay in Britain. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites 7: 35-48. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, Margarita, Hobbs, Richard, Rosser, Nick, Sharpe, Kate & Trinks, Immo 2005. Long Meg: Rock Art Recording Using 3D Laser Scanning. Past 50: 2-6. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M. 2003. Rock art and ritual landscape in Central Spain: the rock carvings of La Hinojosa (Cuenca). Oxford Journal of Archaeology 59(1): 35-51. (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, Margarita 2000. La arqueología imperialista en España: extranjeros vs. españoles en el estudio del arte prehistórico de principios del siglo XX. Historia, Teoria e pratica da Arqueologia (Actas do 3o Congresso de Arqueologia Peninsular. Vol. I) 367-382. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • 1999. El estudio del género en el Arte Levantino: una asignatura pendiente. Saguntum-PLAV Extra 2: 405-412. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Díaz-Andreu, M 1998. Ethnicity and Iberians: the archaeological crossroads between perception and material culture. European Journal of Archaeology 2(2): 199-218.
  • Díaz-Andreu, Margarita 1998. Iberian post-palaeolithic art and gender: discussing human representations in Levantine art. Journal of Iberian Archaeology 0 (sic): 33-51. (Additional information) (View publication online)
  • Martínez Perelló, M. Isabel & Díaz-Andreu, Margarita 1992. El abrigo pintado de la Hoz de Vicente (Minglanilla, Cuenca). Espacio, Tiempo y Forma. Serie I, Prehistoria y Arqueología 5: 177-206. (Additional information) (View publication online)

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Grants Awarded and Grant Applications

  • 2007: Beyond Hawkeseye: a pilot examination of the potential of the Christopher Hawkes’ archive for the study of British archaeology in its European context - BA small grants
  • 2007: Geographies of Archaeological Knowledge: the role of place in the making of science - AHRC research leave
  • 2005: Archives of European Archaeology (AREA) project - EU Culture 2000
  • 2004: The unknown Childe: Gordon Childe and the Western Mediterranean - Dr M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation Awards
  • 2004: Archaeology and the National Historical Imagination - AHRB research leave
  • 2004: Breaking through rock art recording: three dimensional laser scanning of megalithic rock art - AHRB Innovation Awards
  • 2003: Fading rock-art landscapes: evaluating the database in rock-art landscape research - British Academy – Small grants

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