MitarbeiterInnen
Dr. Monica Alonso-Eguiluz
Microarchaeological Laboratory
Interests
- Microarchaeology
- Phytoliths
- Mineralogy
- Pastoralism and human management of vegetal resources
- Impact of fire on phytoliths and other biogenic microremains
- Integration of phytoliths in soil thin sections and bulk samples
Studies
until 2021
PhD in Archaeology, University of Basque Country
2010-2011
Master Quaternary, environment and human fingerprint, University of Basque Country
2004-2008
Bachelor in History, University of Basque Country
Positions
2026
University Assistant (Postdoc) at the Microarchaeological Laboratory, University of Innsbruck, Austria
2022-2026
Postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussels, Belgium
2018
Promotion an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Arbeit: "Beyond the Ecstasy of Copper. Crafting Dwellers in Early Bronze Age Oman")
2021-2022
Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Barcelona, Spain
Publications
Banerjea, R., Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Morandi, L. F., Ros, J., Vrydaghs, L., Devos, Y., Larrieu, M., Losilla, N., Bertelli, I., Ribechini, E., Medina Cuesta, A., García García, M., Melero García, F., García Contreras, G. & Pluskowski, A., 2025. Livestock husbandry in Islamic Cártama, Málaga, Spain: the micro and bioarchaeology of an open-air Fumier sequence. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 17, 31 p. 236.
Brown, A. G., Pears, B., Cucchiaro, S., Tarolli, P., Lang, A., Zhao, P., Walsh, K., van Ost, K., Albert, R., Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Vokotopoulos, L., Tsartsidou, G., Molinari, A., Stagno, A., Ghislandi, S., Wei, W., & Fallu, D. (2025). The Geoarchaeology of Agricultural Terraces in Europe: Construction, Resilience and Implications for Sediment Delivery. Geoarchaeology, 40(2).
Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Lo Russo, S., Vrydaghs, L., Tribel, P., Bontempi, G., Schenkel, A., Celis, D., Nys, K., & Devos, Y. (2025). Two methods, two views: Integrating phytoliths in thin sections and bulk samples on the urban Dark Earths from the DIVA-site (Antwerp, Belgium). PLOS ONE, 20(3), e0320122.
Fallu, D., Lang, A., Snape, L., Albert, R.M., Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Cucchiaro, S., Straffelini, E., & Brown, A. (2024). The geoarchaeology of construction, use, and management of an agricultural terrace. In Martin Carver, Alessandra Molinari, & Paola Orecchioni (Eds.), Castronovo di Sicilia. Ricerche di storia e archeologia 2014-2021 (pp. 193–203). 40 Biblioteca di Archeologia Medievale.
Vrydaghs, L., Hodson, M. J., Ham-Meert, A. van, Alonso-Eguiluz, M., & Devos, Y. (2024). Under What Conditions do the Inflorescence Bract Phytoliths of Oat [Avena sativa (L.)] Become Autofluorescent? Environmental Archaeology, 1–16.
Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Toffolo, M. B., White, C. E., Asouti, E., Boaretto, E., Nilsson, L., Stutz, A., & Albert, R. M. (2024). The Early Upper Palaeolithic deposit of Mughr el-Hamamah (Jordan): Archaeobotanical taphonomy and site formation processes. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 55(February).
Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Albert, R. M., Vergès, J. M., & Fernández-Eraso, J. (2024). New insights into shepherds’ activities: Multi-proxy approach applied to fumier deposits from the north of Iberian Peninsula. Quaternary International, 683–684(June), 145–161.
Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Albert, R. M., Vergès, J. M., & Kadowaki, S. (2024). Shepherds and animal husbandry, origins, and development: New theoretical and methodological approaches (Editorial). Quaternary International, 683–684, 1–3.
Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Albert, R. M., Vergès, J. M., eds. (2024). Shepherds and animal husbandry, origins, and development: New theoretical and methodological approaches. Special Issue. Quaternary International, 683–684.
Brown, A. G., Fallu, D., Cucchiaro, S., Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Albert, R. M., Walsh, K., Pears, B. R., Scaife, R., Langdon, C., Tarolli, P., Cockroft, D., Snape, L., Lang, A., Ascough, P., Zhao, P., Van Oost, K., & Waddington, C. (2023). Early to Middle Bronze Age agricultural terraces in north-east England: morphology, dating and cultural implications. Antiquity, August 2022, 1–19.
Alonso-Eguiluz, M. & Albert, R.M. (2021). Procesos postdeposicionales y actividades antrópicas en la cueva de Arenaza I (Galdames, Vizcaya). Una aproximación desde la Microarqueología. In: Fernández-Eraso (ed.): La cueva de Arenaza I (Galdames, Vizcaya). KOBIE.
Daura, J., Sanz, M., Oms, F. X., Pedro, M., Martínez, P., Mendiela, S., Oliva Poveda, M., Gibaja, J. F., Mozota, M., Alonso-Eguíluz, M., Albert, R. M., Allué, E., Bañuls-Cardona, S., López-García, J. M., Santos Arévalo, F. J., & Fullola, J. M. (2019). Deciphering Neolithic activities from a Cardial burial site (Cova Bonica) on the western Mediterranean coast. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23, pp. 324-347.
Fernández-Eraso, J., Pérez-Díaz, S., Ruiz-Alonso, M., Alonso-Eguiluz, M., García-Rojas, M., Sánchez, A., Tarriño-Vinagre, A., Camarero, C., García-Martínez de Lagrán, Í., Arévalo-Muñoz, E. & Polo-Díaz, A. (2017). Rediles y pastores en la Prehistoria Reciente de Rioja Alavesa. En: Fernández-Eraso, Javier; Mujika, José Antonio & Arrizabalaga, Álvaro (coords.): Miscelánea en homenaje a Lydia Zapata Peña (1965-2015). Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibersitatea, pp. 397-426.
Alonso-Eguíluz, M., Fernández-Eraso, J. & Albert, R.M. (2017). The first herds in the upper Ebro basin at Los Husos II (Álava, Spain): Microarchaeology applied to fumier deposits. Vegetation History and Archaeobotany, 26, pp. 143-157.
Polo-Díaz, A., Alonso-Eguiluz, M., Ruiz-Alonso, M., Pérez, S., Mujika, J.A., Albert, R.M. & Fernández-Eraso, J. (2016). Management of residues and natural resources at San Cristóbal rock-shelter: contribution to the characterization of chalcolithic agropastoral groups in the Iberian Península. Quaternary International, 414, pp. 202-225.
Alonso-Eguíluz, M. (2012). Estudio de los fitolitos en conjuntos de la Prehistoria reciente de la Sierra de Cantabria. El caso de los niveles de redil de San Cristóbal (Laguardia, Álava). CKQ, 2, pp. 3–14.