Faculty at School of Humanities and Social Sciences

Marco Madella

Marco Madella

Visiting Professor


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My key interest is in the agricultural and socio-economic development of the Indus Valley Civilization of South Asia. I am generally interested in the transition to farming in different ecological settings and I have also been working on remote sensing for heritage.

Ph.D. (Archaeology) University of Cambridge

MSc (Botany) State University of Milan

BSc (Botany) State University of Milan

2014

ICREA Research Professor in Environmental Archaeology, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Department of Humanities, Barcelona, Spain 2006 ? 2013

ICREA Research Professor, Instituci?n Mil? y Fontanals , Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain 2004 ? 2006

Director of Studies (Archaeology and Anthropology), St Edmund?s College, University of Cambridge (UK)

Affiliated Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge (UK)

2020 ? 2021 Foundation PALARQ. ModAgrO - Modeling the Agricultural Origins and Urbanism in South Asia (excavations grant)

2020 INQUA International Focus Group. Holocene Global Landuse (HoLa)

2019 ? 2022 Moving MarketPlaces (MMP): Following the Everyday Production of Inclusive Public Spaces. HERA Programme - Public Spaces: Culture and Integration in Europe.

2019 ? 2021 EU Marie Curie Actions ? Scientist in charge. Two-years post-doc contract: Examining Pan-Neotropical Diasporas (EXPAND)

2018 ? 2020 EU Marie Curie Actions ? Scientist in charge. Two-years post-doc contract: Dung as Construction Material During the Emergence of Animal Domestication: A Multi-Proxy Approach (MapDung)

2018 ? 2019 Foundation PALARQ. ModAgrO - Modeling the Agricultural Origins and Urbanism in South Asia (excavations grant)

2017 ? 2020 AGAUR (Catalan Research Agency) Grups de Recerca Reconeguts i Finan?ats per la Generalitat de Catalunya (Quality Research Group). CaSEs Culture and Socio-Ecological Dynamics

2018 INQUA International Focus Group. Holocene Global Landuse (HoLa)

2016 ? 2018 EU Marie Curie Actions ? Scientist in charge. Two-years post-doc contract: The Early Peopling of Amazonia and the Beginning of Plant Domestication (EppAm)

2017 INQUA International Focus Group. Holocene Global Landuse (HoLa)

2017 PAGES funding for LandCover6K: European land-use at 6000 BP, May 22-23 2018, Barcelona. Whitehouse, N.J. (PI), Antolin, F. (Co-I), Madella, M. (Co-I)

2015 ? 2017 BBVA Foundation ? Inaccessible and endangered archaeological landscapes: Earth Observation and 3D technologies for the protection and preservation of cultural heritage (PaisArque)