Carlos Aguiar has a degree and a PhD in Agronomic Engineering from the Higher Institute of Agronomy (University of Lisbon). Currently he holds the position of Coordinator Professor of the Polytechnic Institute of Bragança, institution where he teaches the subjects of Botany, Biochemistry and Agronomy. He was President of the Portuguese Society of Pastures and Fodder and vice-president of ALFA-Lusitanian Association of Phytosociology. For more than 30 years he has been dedicating himself to the study of the flora of both mainland Portugal and its islands, especially northeastearn Portugal and Azores archipelago. His research interests also extend from the pasture ecology and herbivory to the vegetation of southwestern Angola, to the tropical agriculture and to the history of Agronomy. He has published more than one hundred papers and book chapters. He is also the author of Teaching Botany Handbook for university education.
Primitiva Bueno Ramírez is Professor of Prehistory at the University of Alcalá (Spain). She is a specialist in Late Prehistory and in the megalithic symbolic world. The results of her work on several dolmens in France, the Orkney Islands and in Germany, alongside of those in Iberian Peninsula, highlighted proposals related to the archaeology of the territory and with archaeometry. Primitiva Bueno contributed to the advancement of knowledge about the megalithic culture in the Southern Plateau, Extremadura, Andalusia and Cantabria (Spain) and in Southern Portugal. She also engaged in research on the origin of Neolithic graphisms, considering the technical, graphic and territorial links with the Palaeolithic. She is the author of more than 300 works, including articles, books and book chapters.
Elisa Guerra Doce is Professor of Prehistory at the University of Valladolid. Her research has focused on the Neolithic and Chalcolithic of Europe, addressing different topics such as the analysis of the consumption of psychoactive substances in European Prehistory, bell beaker phenomenon and salt archaeology, the latter as member of the team that works in the salt lakes of Villafáfila, Zamora (Spain), under the direction of Professor Germán Delibes de Castro. She has authored hundreds of titles in national and international journals and book chapters and has coordinated the edition of collective works, such as the Analysis of the Economic Foundations supporting the Social Supremacy of the Beaker Groups (Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology).
Raquel Vilaça has a PhD from the University of Coimbra (1995), where she is currently a Professor of Archaeology. She teaches and directs courses in Archaeology (graduate and post-graduate level) in the Department of History, European Studies, Archaeology and Arts of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Coimbra (FLUC). Member of the Institute of Archaeology and director of the journal Conimbriga, she is also a researcher at the Research Centre in Archaeology, Arts and Heritage Sciences and an elected member of the Scientific Council of FLUC. Her research focuses on Pre and Protohistoric Archaeology, focusing in particular on the study of the Bronze Age and Iron Age problematics in a holistic perspective. Other scientific topics of interest concern the Archaeology of Settlement; Archaeology of the Mediterranean; Archaeology of the Atlantic World; Archaeology of production; Archaeology of Natural Places; Archaic Technology and Metallurgy; Archaeometry; Processes and Materialities of Death; Ritual and Cultic Expressions.
Pedro Díaz-del-Río holds a degree in Geography and History from the Autonomous University of Madrid (1987) and a PhD in Prehistory and Archaeology from the same university (1999). He was a postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University (Illinois, USA) under the guidance of Timothy K. Earle. Since 2008 he has been part of the Department of Prehistory and Social Processes of the Institute of History (CSIC) (Spain). Díaz-del-Río area of study is Iberian prehistoric collective work, on which he has developed different projects focused on the resolution of specific aspects of the organisation and mobilisation of collective work in different cases studies and periods, from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age. His publications include reflections on the beginning of the production economy in the Iberian Peninsula, the mega-sites and the collective architecture of the 3rd millennium BC, the demography of Iberian Prehistory using radiocarbon series as a proxy, as well as the diet and mobility of human populations in Iberian Late Prehistory from the analysis of Sr, O, C and N isotopes. Since 2019 he is the director of the journal Trabajos de Prehistoria and is a member of the editorial committee of the monographic series Bibliotheca Praehistorica Hispana.
