Dr Idoia Grau Sologestoa

School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities

Honorary Research Fellow

Dr Idoia Grau-Sologestoa
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i.grau-sologestoa@sheffield.ac.uk
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I am a zooarchaeologist working on the history of human-animal relationships during historical periods.

I have a first Bachelor degree in History (2006) and a D.E.A. in Medieval Archaeology (2009) from the University of the Basque Country, where I also did my PhD (2014), on the Zooarchaeology of northern Spain during the Middle Ages. I have been involved in fieldwork in Spain and Italy, in archaeological sites such as Zornoztegi, Zaballa, Aistra, Los Husos or Cugnano, spanning from the Calcolithic to the Modern period. I collaborate with various Basque archaeological companies as a freelance zooarchaeologist.

After completing my PhD at the University of the Basque Country and co-supervised by Umberto Albarella (from the University of Sheffield), I briefly worked at the University of Nottingham in 2014. From 2015-2017 I held a post-doctoral fellowship at the University of Sheffield, funded by the Government of the Basque Country for working on a project investigating changes in animal husbandry between the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period in England and in the Basque Country.

Since 2018, I am Marie Skodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Integrative Pr辰historische und Naturwissenschaftliche Arch辰ologie (IPNA) at the (Switzerland), with the project: Supplying ancient empires and medieval economies: Changes in animal husbandry between the Late Roman period and the Early Middle Ages in the Rhine Valley .

Qualifications
  • 2014- PhD in Zooarchaeology  University of the Basque Country
  • 2009- D.E.A. (Certificate of Advanced Studies, equivalent to a MSc) in Medieval Archaeology  University of the Basque Country
  • 2006- BA in History  University of the Basque Country
Research interests

My research is mainly focused on the history of human-animal relationships through archaeological evidence, and I mainly work on animal husbandry, social differentiation through diet and taphonomy of historical periods, from Roman to Contemporary times. So far, I have carried out my research in Spain, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland.

My main areas of interest include:

  • Animal husbandry
  • Social differentiation through diet
  • Biometry
  • Exploitation of birds
  • Taphonomy
  • Worked bone and antler

I also love communicating archaeological research to the general public. I participate in public engagement activities whenever I have the chance, and I am very active in different forms of social media for myself and for the research groups and projects that I am part of.

Research Projects/Collaborations

  • 2015  2017- Postdoctoral fellow funded by the Basque Government at the Department of Geography, prehistory and Archaeology at the University of the Basque Country. 
  • 2014- Postdoctoral Research Affiliate at the AHRC funded project "Changing Scientific and Cultural Perspectives on Human-Chicken Interactions", Dpt. Of Archaeology, U. of Nottingham, United Kingdom.
  • EICAM-Estudo Interdisciplinar sobre Comunidades Alto Medievais - s辿culos V a XI", funded by the Funda巽達o Calouste Gulbenkian, and directed by C. Tente (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). 
  • Desigualdad en los paisajes medievales del norte peninsular: los marcadores arqueol坦gicos, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, directed by J.A. Quir坦s Castillo (U. Pa鱈s Vasco).
  • La g辿nesis del paisaje medieval en el Norte Peninsular: Arqueolog鱈a de las aldeas de los siglos V al XII, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, directed by J.A. Quir坦s Castillo (U. Pa鱈s Vasco).
  • La formaci坦n de los paisajes medievales en el Norte Peninsular y en Europa: Agricultura y Ganader鱈a, los siglos V al XII, funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, directed by J.A. Quir坦s Castillo (U. Pa鱈s Vasco
Grants

Grants and Fellowships

  • 2018&稼恢壊沿;&稼恢壊沿;永姻艶壊艶稼岳-&稼恢壊沿;Marie Skodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at the Integrative Pr辰historische und Naturwissenschaftliche Arch辰ologie (IPNA) at the University of Basel (Switzerland), with the project: Supplying ancient empires and medieval economies: Changes in animal husbandry between the Late Roman period and the Early Middle Ages in the Rhine Valley ZooRoMed
  • 2015- Postdoctoral fellow funded by the Basque Government at the Dpt. de Geograf鱈a, Prehistoria y Arqueolog鱈a at the U. Pa鱈s Vasco, Spain.
  • October 2014- Runner-up award of the IX Premio de Historia Agraria given by the SEHA (Spanish Society for Agrarian History), in October 2014. This paper is an extract of the PhD thesis.
  • 01/09/2007 31/08/2011- Formaci坦n del Personal Investigador doctoral fellowship funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, Dpt. de Geograf鱈a, Prehistoria y Arqueolog鱈a at the U. Pa鱈s Vasco, Spain.
  • 01/06/2007 30/06/2007- Personal Investigador en Formaci坦n doctoral fellowship funded by the University of the Basque Country, Dpt. de Geograf鱈a, Prehistoria y Arqueolog鱈a at the U. Pa鱈s Vasco, Spain.
  • 01/01/2006 30/06/2006- Undergraduate collaboration fellowship, funded by the Basque Government, Departamento de Geograf鱈a, Prehistoria y Arqueolog鱈a at the U. Pa鱈s Vasco, Spain
Professional activities and memberships
  • 2016&稼恢壊沿;&稼恢壊沿;永姻艶壊艶稼岳-&稼恢壊沿;Member of the SPMA (Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology)
  • 2011  Present- Member of the EAA (European Association of Archaeologists)
  • 2008 Present- Member of the ICAZ (International Council for Archaeozoology)
  • 2008 Present- Member of Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi 
Selected Publications
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., Quir坦s Castillo, J.A., 2020. Arqueolog鱈a de la Edad Moderna en el Pa鱈s Vasco y su entorno. Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • Quir坦s Castillo, J.A., Grau-Sologestoa, I., 2020. "Arqueolog鱈a de la Edad Moderna en el Pa鱈s Vasco. Una arqueolog鱈a en construcci坦n, un patrimonio en expansi坦n", in Grau-Sologestoa, I. and Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. (eds.) Arqueolog鱈a de la Edad Moderna en el Pa鱈s Vasco y su entorno, pp. 1-22. Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., 2020. "Livestock size change and animal husbandry between the Late Middle Ages and the Modern Era in the Basque Country and its surroundings", in Grau-Sologestoa, I. and Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. (eds.) Arqueolog鱈a de la Edad Moderna en el Pa鱈s Vasco y su entorno, pp. 140-164. Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., 2019. Comprendre la gestion des d辿chets et les proc辿d辿s de formation de leurs sites de traitement au sein des communaut辿s rurales m辿di辿vales : quelques r辿flexions fond辿es sur des donn辿es arch辿ozoologiques du Nord de la P辿ninsule Ib辿rique, in Conesa, M. & Poirier, N. (eds.), Fumiers ! Ordures ! Gestion et usage des d辿chets dans les campagnes de lOccident m辿di辿val et moderne, Flaran XXXVIII, Toulouse: Presses Universitaires du Midi, pp. 191-210.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., 2019. Estudio de los materiales faun鱈sticos (mam鱈feros y aves) y de la industria 坦sea del yacimiento de Zornoztegi, in Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. (ed.), Arqueolog鱈a de una comunidad campesina medieval: Zornoztegi (lava), Documentos de Arqueolog鱈a Medieval 13, Bilbao: UPV/EHU, pp. 377-400.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., Albarella, U. 2019. The long sixteenth century: a key period of animal husbandry change in England, Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11:2781-2803.
  • Ricci, P., Garc鱈a-Collado, M.I., Narbarte Hern叩ndez, J., Grau Sologestoa, I., Quir坦s Castillo, J.A., Lubritto, C. 2018. Chronological characterization of Medieval Villages in Northern Iberia: A multi-integrated approach, The European Physical Journal Plus 133, p. 375.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2018. Pots, chicken and building deposits: the archaeology of folk and official religion during the High Middle Ages in the Basque Country, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 49, 8-18.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., Garc鱈a-Garc鱈a, M. 2018. Zooarqueolog鱈a y Edad Media en la pen鱈nsula ib辿rica, in Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. (ed.) Treinta A単os de Arqueolog鱈a Medieval en Espa単a. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 341-364.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. 2017. Peasant economy in Late Roman Alava: Zooarchaeology of Zornoztegi. Archaeofauna 26, pp. 87-102.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2017. "Socio-economic status and religious identity in medieval Iberia: the zooarchaeological evidence", Environmental Archaeology 22 (2), pp. 189-199.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2017. "La ganader鱈a en el Pa鱈s Vasco entre los siglos VI y X: evidencia zooarqueol坦gica", in Villar Ma単as, S., Garc鱈a Garc鱈a M. (eds.) Ganader鱈a y Arqueolog鱈a Medieval, Granada: Alhulia, pp. 57-71.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2016. Faunal remains and social inequality in the Basque Country during the Early Middle Ages, in Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. (ed.), Social complexity in early medieval rural communities. The north-western Iberia archaeological record during the Early Middle Ages. Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 47-58.
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., Albarella, U., Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. 2016. Urban medieval and post-medieval zooarchaeology in the Basque Country: meat supply and consumption, Quaternary International 399, pp. 1-12.
  • Jervis, B., Broderick, L., Grau-Sologestoa, I. (Eds) 2016. Objects, Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe, Turnhout: Brepols. ISBN: 978-2-503-55503-4.
  • Jervis, B., Broderick, L. and Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2016. Introduction: everyday life in Medieval Europe, in Jervis, B., Broderick, L., Grau-Sologestoa, I. (Eds), Objects, Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe, Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 1-15
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2015. Livestock management in Spain from Roman times to the post-medieval period: biometrical analysis of cattle, sheep/goat and pig, Journal of Archaeological Science 54, pp. 123-13
  • Quir坦s Castillo, J.A., Garc鱈a Collado, M.I., Ricci, P., Grau-Sologestoa, I. and Lubritto, C. 2015. "A Bayesian approach to reconstruct occupational sequence of Northern Iberia Medieval villages", 1st International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology, Benevento, pp. 259-264
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., 2015. The Zooarchaeology of Medieval Alava in its Iberian Context, BAR International Series. ISBN: 9781407314457
  • Jervis, B., Broderick, L. and Grau-Sologestoa, I. (Eds) 2015. Objects, Environment, and Everyday Life in Medieval Europe, Brepols: Turnhout. ISBN: 978-2-503-55503-4
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., 2014. "La econom鱈a campesina a la luz del registro zooarqueol坦gico: la ganader鱈a medieval de la Pen鱈nsula Ib辿rica". Took the runner-up award of the IX Premio de Historia Agraria given by the SEHA (Spanish Society for Agrarian History), in October 2014
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2014. Waste management at early medieval rural sites in northern Spain: taphonomic issues for interpreting faunal remains", Quaternary International 330, pp. 97-108
  • Sirignano, C., Grau-Sologestoa, I., Ricci, P., Garc鱈a-Collado, M.I., Altieri, S., Quir坦s Castillo, J.A., Lubritto, C., 2014. Animal husbandry during Early and High Middle Ages in the Basque Country (Spain), Quaternary International 346, pp. 138-148
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. & Valenzuela-Lamas, S. 2014: "Zooarchaeology today-Spain", ICAZ Newsletter 15 (1), spring 2014, pp. 5-6
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2014. "Informe zooarqueol坦gico de las termas de Arcaya", in Loza Lengaran, R., Loza Iriarte, M. & Niso Lorenzo, J., Las termas romanas de Arcaya / Suestatium (Arkaia. Vitoria-Gasteiz), Memoria de las intervenciones arqueol坦gicas en Otazibarra (1976-1982), Memorias de yacimientos alaveses 13, Vitoria-Gasteiz: Diputaci坦n Foral de lava, pp. 398-403
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2013. El registro faun鱈stico de los asentamientos rurales altomedievales, en Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. (ed.), El poblamiento rural de 辿poca visigoda en Hispania. Arqueolog鱈a del campesinado en el interior peninsular, Documentos de Arqueolog鱈a Medieval 6, Bilbao
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2013. Zooarqueolog鱈a de las aldeas y villas vascas: actividad ganadera en la Edad Media, Debates de Arqueolog鱈a Medieval
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2012. Estudio zooarqueol坦gico: los restos de mam鱈feros y aves, en Quir坦s Castillo, J.A. (dir.), Arqueolog鱈a del campesinado medieval: la aldea de Zaballa, Documentos de Arqueolog鱈a Medieval 3, Bilbao: Universidad del Pa鱈s Vasco, pp. 419-452
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2012. 多El zooarque坦logo, una especie en v鱈as de extinci坦n? Los estudios de fauna en la universidad y en las empresas de Arqueolog鱈a, en las actas de las IV Jornadas de J坦venes en Investigaci坦n Arqueol坦gica JIA 2011, celebradas en la Universidad de Algarve (Faro, Portugal), en mayo de 2011, pp. 299-304
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I., Hern叩ndez Beloqui, B. and Sopelana Salcedo, I. 2012. Muestreo bioarqueol坦gico para un equipo interdisciplinar, en Castro Correa, A. et al. (ed.), Estudiar el pasado: aspectos metodol坦gicos de la investigaci坦n en Ciencias de la Antig端edad y de la Edad Media, Proceedings of the First Postgraduate Conference on Studies of Antiquity and Middle Ages, U. Aut嘆noma de Barcelona, 26-28th October 2010, BAR International Series, pp. 181-188
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2012. Agriculture and ironwork in the Middle Ages: new evidence of bone anvils in Spain, Munibe Atropolog鱈a-Arqueolog鱈a 63, pp. 305-319
  • Grau-Sologestoa, I. 2009. Ganader鱈a en la Alta Edad Media. Estudio comparativo de los yacimientos alaveses de Zornoztegi, Zaballa y Salvatierra-Agurain, en Munibe Atropolog鱈a-Arqueolog鱈a, 60, pp. 253-280.

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