Maria Mercè Bergadà Zapata
Associate professor
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3637-7793
ID Researcher: AAF-3715-2021
Scopus: 8116637300
Email: bergada@ub.edu
Short biography
Doctorate in Geography and History, section: Prehistory and Ancient History from the University of Barcelona in 1996. For her doctorate she obtained the Mention of European Doctor (1996), the Extraordinary Doctorate Award (1997) and the Claustre Award Doctors (1999).
Research interests
- Geoarchaeology, microstratigraphy and paleoenvironment in Paleolithic, Epipaleolithic and Neolithic records.
- Geoarchaeological characterization of animal housing in caves and shelters.
- Micromorphological characterization of anthropogenic sediments: structures, pavements and other elements of domestic architecture.
- Biogenic sedimentation in karst archaeological records.
Selected publications
- Mateu, M.; Bergadà, M. M.; Armada, X.L.; Rafel, N. (2019). Micromorphology of the Early Iron Age semi-cemented floors:El Calvari del Molar (Tarragona, NE Spain) as case study. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 23, pp. 746 – 762 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.11.028 . ISSN: 2352-409X
- Carbonell, J.; Bergadà, M. M.; Francès, J.; Guardia, M., (2020). El hipogeo del Carrer París (Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona): estudio micromorfológico de un depósito funerario del Neolítico final y Calcolítico Campaniforme. Zephyrus, 85, pp. 15 – 36 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0514-7336
- Bergadà, M.M.;Oms, F.X. (2021). Pastoral practices, bedding and fodder during the Early Neolithic through micromorphology at Cova Colomera (Southeastern Pre-Pyrenees, Iberia). Open Archaeology(7), pp. 1258 – 1273 . https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0183 . ISSN: 2300-6560
- Bergadà, M. M., Poch, R.M., Cervelló, J.M. (2015). On the presence of gypsum in the archaeological burial site of Cova des Pas (Menorca, western Mediterranean). Journal of Archaeological Science, 53, pp. 472 – 481 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2014.11.002 . ISSN: 0305-4403
- Merce Bergada, M.; Cervello, Josep M.; Edo, Manel; Cebria, Artur; Xavier Oms, F.; Martinez, Pablo; Antolin, Ferran; Ignacio Morales, Juan; Pedro, Mireia (2018). Chronostratigraphy in karst records from the Epipaleolithic to the Mid/Early Neolithic (c. 13.0-6.0 cal ka BP) in the Catalan Coastal Ranges of NE Iberia: environmental changes, sedimentary processes and human activity. Quaternary Science Reviews, 184, pp. 26 – 46 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.008 . ISSN: 0277-3791
Selected projects
- Síntesis del Paleolítico medio y superior en Valencia y Murcia. Aspectos cronológ¡cos, paleoambientales, económcos y culturales . 2018 – 2021 . Ref.HAR2017-85153-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Valentin Villaverde Bonilla
- Las sociedades humanas y su interacción con el entorno en el NE peninsular desde el Pleistocieno superior hasta inicios del Holoceno . 2018 – 2020 . Ref.HAR2017-86509-P . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Jose Maria Fullola Pericot; Maria Pilar Garcia-Arguelles Andreu
- S.E.R.P (Seminari d’Estudis i Recerques Prehistòriques) . 2017 – 2021 . Ref.2017SGR11 . Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Jose Maria Fullola Pericot
- El poblament finipaleolític a la conca del riu Montsant (Priorat, Tarragona) . 2018 – 2021 . Ref.CLT009/18/00001 . Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya . PI: Maria Pilar Garcia-Arguelles Andreu; Jordi Nadal Lorenzo
- Transicions culturals durant el Pleistocè superior i l’Holocè al litoral – Prelitoral central de Catalunya – . 2018 – 2021 . Ref.CLT009/18/00024 . Departament de Cultura de la Generalitat de Catalunya . PI: Jose Maria Fullola Pericot