Octavio Torres Gomariz
ERAAUB
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0002-1933-5551
Email: octavio.torres@ub.edu
Short biography
PhD in Archaeology, his research focuses on the daily life of the Balearic protohistoric society from the study of their dwellings, from a materialistic and feminist perspective, paying attention to the relationships of these groups with contemporary Phoenician-Punic Mediterranean communities. He has co-directed archaeological excavations in Alicante and Menorca as part of university research teams and has worked as a freelance archaeologist and museum educator. He is currently a didactics and content development technician at Galipat Servizos Culturais S.L., and a substitute professor at the University of Barcelona. He is part of the Menorca Archaeological Project developed in the village of Torre d’en Galmés (Alaior) by the University of Boston and is a member of other I+D+o projects linked to ongoing archaeological projects in Cataluña and Castilla y León.
Research interests
Household Archaeology, Mediterranean Protohistory, Phoenician-Punic archaeology, Balearic Islands, gender studies, didactics of archaeology.
Selected publications
- Carballo Pérez, J., Torres Gomariz, O. (2020) Voces femeninas en cuerpos aislado. Lecturas de género en la Osteoarqueología de la Protohistoria de Canarias y Baleares. ArkeoGazte, 10: 69-88.
- Torres Gomariz, O., Pérez-Juez Gil, A. (coord) (2024) Cercles, l’hàbitat protohistòric de l’illa de Menorca. Publicaciones de la Universidad de Alicante.
- Torres Gomariz, O. (2022) Protohistoric Majorca and Minorca on the Punic Outskirts: Approaching Balearic Colonial Dialectic through Domestic Spaces. Rivista di studi fenici, 50.
- Torres Gomariz, O. (2022) Architecture to explore interactions in the Protohistoric Mediterranean: an approach to punic architectural culture as a case of study. Tabona: revista de prehistoria y arqueología, 22: 151-174.
- Torres Gomariz, O., de Nicolás Mascaró, J. (2020) La Casa de l”aeroport. Una vivienda paradigmática de la Menorca protohistórica y romana (ss. IV A.N.E. – II N.E.), Cuadernos de Prehistoria de la Universidad de Granada, 30: 459-478.