José Julio García Arranz Author

Sara Garcês is a contracted researcher at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar in Portugal and a researcher at the Geosciences Centre of the University of Coimbra, coordinator of the laboratory of rock art of the Earth and Memory Institute and Tagus Valley Museum of Prehistoric and Sacred Art. Hipólito Collado Giraldo is head of the Archaeological section of the Extremadura province and Professor of Neolithic Rock Art at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar. He is a Senior Researcher at the Museum of Prehistoric Art in Mação and Geosciences Centre of the University of Coimbra. José Julio García Arranz is Associate Professor of the Department of Art and Territory Sciences at the University of Extremadura. He has coordinated research projects and has made various contributions on the schematic open air rock art of the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. George Nash is an Associate Professor at the Geosciences Centre, IPT (u. ID73 – FCT), Portugal. Dr Nash is a specialist in rock art, and gained his doctorate at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, researching hunter-fisher-gatherer rock art along coastal Norway and Levantine Spain. Between 1998 and 2016, Dr Nash lectured parttime within the University of Bristol. He has undertaken research in many parts of the world, and has published over 250 papers and edited, co-edited and written 38 books. Pierluigi Rosina is director of the MA in Dynamic of Cultural Landscapes (Erasmus Mundus) of Polytechnic Institute of Tomar. He was coordinator of "Rupscience" project (2008) and participates in several European and national projects. Hugo Gomes has a degree in Geology - Scientific branch and a Master in Geosciences - Geoarchaeology from the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of the University of Coimbra, with a PhD in Quaternary, Materials and Cultures at UTAD in 2015. During his training, it is worth mentioning the experience in organizing activities for the promotion of scientific culture and various collaborations in initiatives in Live Science Centers, as well as a vast experience in laboratory practices and field work. He has been involved in multidisciplinary research projects in the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, Brazil, Angola and Ethiopia. He was part of the technical team of the UNESCO World Geopark in Portugal, working in the area of Science and Research. Since 2021 he is integrated in the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar as a researcher in the TURARQ and FIRST-ART projects. Luiz Oosterbeek is the President of the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences and Professor of the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar. President of the Instituto Terra e Memória (Portugal) and visiting Professor in several Universities in Europe and Brazil, he is the Director of the Museum of Prehistoric Art in Mação (PT) and Vice-President of HERITY International (IT). Elena Garrido Fernández holds a degree in History and a Master’s degree in Historical and Natural Heritage from the University of Huelva. She is a student of the PhD programme in History, in the Prehistory research line at the University of Seville. Elena is a member of the Research Group ‘Territory and Power from Prehistory to the Middle Ages’ at the University of Huelva. Research grant until 2020 by the Fundación Extremeña de la Cultura in the ‘Laboratorio de Investigación en Paleontología y Evolución del Comportamiento Humano de Extremadura’ (Extremadura Research Laboratory on Palaeontology and Evolution of Human Behaviour). Her main research activity focuses on the study of prehistoric chronologies, having specialised in the analysis of grave goods in funerary deposits in the southwest of the Iberian Peninsula. Since 2013, she has been participating in the archaeo-palaeontological excavation campaigns in the ‘Cuevas de Fuentes de León Natural Monument’ (Badajoz), being co-director of the project ‘Origins: Study of the Prehistoric Occupation in the Cave Complex of the Cuevas Fuentes de León Natural Monument’. With a degree in Art History from the University of Extremadura, Samuel Pérez Romero has been working as an archaeologist since 2003, participating as a director and technician in numerous preventive and emergency archaeological interventions, training and specializing in planimetric documentation and archaeological field drawings. From 2011 to the present day, in the field of regional administration, he has been a member of the team in charge of updating and maintaining the Archaeological Map of Extremadura and its geographic and cartographic information system, also collaborating in publications of different institutions and in various archaeological projects of the Regional Government of Extremadura: among others, in excavation campaigns in the Natural Monument Cuevas de Fuentes de León (Badajoz), in different editions of the course of archaeology and excavation of the Roman city of Regina (in Casas de Reina, Badajoz) and in archaeological actions in the archaeological site of Medellín (Badajoz). José Enrique Capilla Nicolás is a freelance photographer and documentary filmmaker who specializes in graphic registration of Cultural Heritage assets with a special interest in Paleolithic and Post-Paleolithic rock art. Maria Nicoli graduated at the University of Ferrara (Italy) with a Degree in Science and Technology for Environment, Nature and Cultural Heritage and a Master Degree in Quaternary, Prehistory and Archaeology, joint with the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar (Portugal). Her PhD research concerned the use of digital technologies for the communication and fruition of museum heritage. Over the academic studies she focused on conservation issues and archaeometric investigations related to cultural heritage, with a special interest for prehistoric rock art. She participated in various studies concerning rock art pigments in Italy, Spain and Wales. She is currently a scholarship holder at the University of Ferrara, working on the development and improvement of analytical protocols for the study and characterisation of cultural materials, as well as for the assessment of alteration processes and products, which may occur over historical artefacts and put them at risk. Carmela Vaccaro is Associate Professor in ‘Mining Georesources and Mineralogical Petrographical Applications to Environment and Cultural Heritage’ at the Department of Physics and Earth Sciences-Ferrara University. She is involved in research topics regarding the petrology/petrography of magmatic associations and research activities on applied geochemistry and applied petrography: a) archaeometric studies for characterizing the building materials and the damaging products to define the provenance of the raw materials and investigate possible restorations actions; b) projects on desertification problems in the Mediterranean area and evaluation of water quality; c) projects related to chemical-mineralogical characterization of soils and fluvial sediments; d) projects on food traceability. Salvatore Pepi received the Degree in Geology in 2010 and he completed his PhD in Earth Sciences at the University of Ferrara in 2014, specializing in environmental geochemistry. His Ph.D. research dealt with the characterization of soil, juice and wine for the determination of elements fingerprints to classify grape varieties according to their geographic origin. He continued this study as research assistant in department of Physics and earth science. His research interests include: environmental geochemistry, evaluation of the trace elements in soil and plant, chemiometric analysis, statistical analysis. He is author and co-author of papers in national and international journals.