Dr. Guillem Pérez-Jordà received his PhD in Archaeology from the University of Valencia in 2013 and since 2020 has been a distinguished researcher at the same university. His research career has developed between the UV and the Institute of History of the CSIC, working on different aspects linked to the agricultural world from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages. He has worked within the framework of different research projects linked to the CSIC, UV, and University of Lleida in different Mediterranean countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Egypt, Italy, and Portugal). He is currently directing a CIDEGENT project funded by the Generalitat Valenciana on agriculture in the Valencian Country throughout the first millennium BC, as well as another project on agricultural and livestock activity in the Balearic Islands and Sardinia during the first millennium BC subsidized by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. His research focuses on the study of agricultural activity using different materials such as seeds and fruits, tools, and the structures for storing and processing agricultural products.
Dr. Jose María Martín Civantos studied Geography and History at the University of Granada and graduated from this same university. He was hired from the Ramón y Cajal program within the Department of Medieval History and Historiographic Sciences and Techniques of the University of Granada. He has had predoctoral stays at the Universities of Siena (Italy), Lyon II-Lumiere (France), and Birmingham (United Kingdom) and a postdoctoral stay at the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia del Arti de la Universita degli Studi di Siena (Italy) with the project "Informatics applied to Medieval Archaeology." He develops his research activity mainly in the field of medieval archaeology. He is currently working on landscape archaeology, with special dedication to mining and hydraulic systems, and the archaeology of architecture, mainly the study of Andalusian constructive techniques. His research work is primarily focused on the area of the northern face of Sierra Nevada and the land of Guadix, attending to the processes of construction and the transformation of the landscape, the historical and present use of natural resources, and the role developed by the city of Guadix itself.
