Lluís Lloveras
Researcher JIN/MINECO
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-6949-8298
Scopus: 22958488700
Email: lluislloveras@ub.edu
Short biography
Since 2021 I am a JIN-MINECO-Researcher at the University of Barcelona after being awarded with a project Retos de Investigación 2021 (PID2020-118194RJ-I00). My fields of expertise are in Zooarchaeology and Taphonomy. I started my training in the Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia in Lisbon in 2002. Later, I completed my DEA and PhD in Archaeology at the University of Barcelona funded by FCT. During my postdoctoral stage, I got different fellowships and contracts including: Marie Curie Actions ITHACA, Beatriu de Pinós, Marie Curie Cofund and Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación. I have conducted my research in different research institutions such as University of Leicester (UK), University of Barcelona, University of Lleida and Instituto Portugues de Arqueologia. I have also worked as Professor Associat at University of Barcelona for 6 years, and at the Department of Animal Science of the University of Lleida for 1 year.
Research interests
My research is multidisciplinary and includes different lines focused to answering current questions in the fields of archaeology and history contributing to a better understanding of human populations from prehistoric and historical periods. The main goal of my research is to get better insights into human past populations focusing on: a) the study of diet and subsistence activities; b) the procurement of animal foods; b) the study of past animal hunting and animal husbandry economies; c) the analysis of animal remains as palaeoenvironmental indicators; and d) examining the role of animals in past societies beyond serving as food. In addition to classical archaeozoological methods and taphonomic analysis, I have also applied new methodologies such as geometric morphometrics or isotopic analysis, and explored other innovative areas of study such as animal palaeopathological or forensic taphonomic analyses.
Selected publications
- Lloveras Ll., Rissech, C., Davis, S., Parés-Casanova, P.M. 2022. Morphological Differences between Sheep and Goat Calcanea Using Two-Dimensional Geometric Morphometrics. Animals 12, 2945. https://doi.org/10.3390/ani12212945
- Lloveras Ll., Cruells J., Castellano-Tresserra A., Riera S., Nadal J. 2022. Monastic meals: The role of birds in the diet of the Poor Clares at the Monastery of Santa Maria de Pedralbes (Barcelona, Spain) from medieval to modern periods (14th-19th centuries AD). International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. https://doi.org/10.1002/oa.3173
- Rufí I., Lloveras Ll., Soler J., Soler N. 2021. Subsistence practices in western Mediterranean Europe during the Final Gravettian. Zooarchaeological and taphonomic analysis of faunal remains from level D of Arbreda Cave (Serinyà, NE Iberian Peninsula). Journal of Quaternary Science 36: 467-487.
- Lloveras Ll., Nadal J., Fullola, J.M. 2020. Distinguishing the taphonomic signature of wolves from humans and other predators on small prey assemblages. Scientific Reports 10. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64716-8
- Lloveras Ll., Rissech C., Nadal J., Fullola JM. (Editors). 2016. What bones tell us. El que ens expliquen els ossos. Monografies 12. SERP, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona.
Selected projects
- 2021-2024: Monastic life inferences from bones: diet, health, economy and society in Barcelona monasteries (14th–19th c.) from an archaeological perspective (MonBones). Principal researcher: Lluís Lloveras. Funding Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Amount granted: 145,200 €. Ref: PID2020-118194RJ-I00.
- 2018-2020: Las sociedades humanas y su interacción con el entorno en el NE peninsular desde el Pleistoceno superior hasta inicios del Holoceno. Principal researcher: Josep M. Fullola Pericot (University of Barcelona Funding Institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación. Amount granted: 78,650 €. Ref: HAR2017-86509.