Eduardo Herrera-Malatesta
I am a landscape archaeologist and a GIS specialist, with experience working with international teams in different research contexts. My research focus is in the creation and transformation of landscape in different cultures, particularly in context of cultural conflict. I study this by exploring human and environment relations through the use of spatial statistics and GIS, with a strong theoretical base on anthropology, archaeology, cartography, and landscape theories. I am a highly organise and efficient person, and rarely miss a deadline. I like to be part of dynamic teams interest in constant challenges and ground breaking ideas!
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De acuerdo a las opiniones de historiadores y especialistas, a lo largo de este libro se utiliza el topónimo Haytí para referirse al nombre que los indígenas le dieron a la isla, y La Española para referirse al topónimo dado por los españoles (ver capítulo 1).
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De acuerdo a las opiniones de historiadores y especialistas, a lo largo de este libro se utiliza el topónimo Haytí para referirse al nombre que los indígenas le dieron a la isla, y La Española para referirse al topónimo dado por los españoles (ver capítulo 1).
The recent development of affordable, small, camera-mounted UAS, has made it possible to record these sites by photogrammetric means. The resulting ortho-photos and the DEM analysis complement the archaeological finds of the site of El Manantial; in the Montecristi province. They highlight the slight changes in soil patterns and topography, and reveal the existence of levelled mounds. The tech-nique shows great potential for fast and precise recording of archaeological sites in difficult terrain. Digital reconstruction could provide answers how a village was spatially structured and organized at its time of occupation. In addition, the tech-nique provides an opportunity to map and measure more recent changes to the landscape, caused by excavations, illegal looting or ploughing.
This dataset was created was collected during fieldwork campaigns between 2014 and 2015 in the coastal area of the Montecristi province in current northwestern Dominican Republic. Fieldwork consisted of a regional survey, material culture registry and collection, test pit excavation, and procuring and processing relevant environmental variables. The archaeological data consists of a record of 102 archaeological sites, the material culture associated with them (lithic, shell and coral objects, shell mollusk species), and the relation between the site location and a set of relevant environmental variables used for statistical analysis.This reseach was carried out as part of European Research Council under the European Union’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) NEXUS1492, ERC grant agreement no 319209.
One of the key areas to approach the mayor research problem is the northern coast of the Hispaniola island. For this subproject, the specific area selected to observe this issues was the coast of the Montecristi Province, which is located in northwestern Dominica Republic, between the Puerto Plata Province and Haiti. There are three mayor reasons to have chosen this area: 1) because this area is poorly know archaeologically; 2) it is just in the middle of the La Navidad fort and La Isabela city; 3) it was the original area selected by Columbus to build La Isabela city. This archaeological and historical context provide to this area an interesting background to observe the first moments of the conquest and colonization period and possibly to find evidences of these first colonial encounters and their landscape contestation.
As part of this objective, different field survey methodologies had been applied in the Montecristi coast to identify Amerindian settlements. By using the archaeological sites registered during this methodologies, the fieldworks from 2013-2014 and a set of environmental variables a predictive model was calculated to aid Amerindian sites location. This paper will present a) the context for the research problem, b) the descriptive process for the calculation of the models, c) the results and its validation with both statistical techniques and the new field data collected in 2015.
interpretations that doesn’t have a explicit and solid connection with the material evidence. In this paper it is presented the initial results of the research I’m carrying out about this subject.
This session brings together researchers whose clear political and theoretical perspectives have led them to explore how conflict laden contexts shape and reshape landscapes during different historical eras around the world.
With this session, we would like to explore from concrete case studies the many possible ways of interpreting and using the landscape concept. For this session, we are particularly interested in:
how landscapes are being transformed through designed creation, powerful appropriation, and contestation, such as in early colonial contexts;
the roles and meanings of boundaries, borders, and walls in the regulation of movement and “belonging”
the conceptualization of landscape (in the minds of people) as “moveable” instead of spatially fixed
We encourage theoretical debates on these issues but emphasize that presentations preferably include cases studies in which the theories and methods are explicitly articulated.