David González-Álvarez Email & Phone Number

Dr. González-Álvarez is a Ramón y Cajal fellow (RYC2021-034313-I) at the INCIPIT-CSIC, where he leads research on landscape archaeology. His research explores the long-term biographies of cultural landscapes in rural environs, combining archaeological, palaeoenvironmental, and ethnographic datasets.His PhD (2016) received the highest honours and the 2015-2016 Doctoral Extraordinary Award at the UCM, where he obtained a FPU fellowship (AP2008-00390 August 2009-July 2013). His postdoctoral career began with a contract funded by the Galician Science & Innovation Agency (IN606B-2016/007 June 2016-March 2019) that allowed him to spend 2 years as Visiting Fellow at Durham University. Later he obtained a JdC-Formación postdoctoral contract (FJCI-2017-33731 April 2019-April 2021) followed by a JdC-Incorporación postdoctoral contract (IJC2019-040603-I May 2021-December 2022) postdoctoral contract and at the INCIPIT-CSIC. He is an archaeologist with a strong leadership background both in academic and commercial-led field projects: supervising excavations, coordinating interdisciplinary research teams, and managing public outreach programs. Besides being a team member in several projects related to Landscape Archaeology, Late Prehistory, and Public Archaeology, the candidate shows independence in leading his own field projects in NW Spain since 2016. These investigations aim to understand the cultural and social processes underpinning the formation of rural landscapes, paying attention to the anthropization of mountainous areas in Late Prehistory, the social landscapes of Iron Age communities, and the expansion of the Roman state in NW Iberia. These projects bolster the potential of archaeology to inform policy-making on tourism, heritage, and land-use management, challenging the nature/culture divide in public perceptions about landscapes. The candidate obtained funding from diverse institutions, setting up an emerging research team with MA and PhD students. At the Incipit he contributes to the research line Interdisciplinary Cultural Heritage Studies, particularly on the theme of Landscape Archaeology and Cultural Landscapes.+info: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-9321

Listed skills include Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Public Archaeology, Landscape Archaeology, and 6 others.