Paula García Bustos
PhD Student
ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0003-1205-2089
Email: paulagarciabustos@ub.edu
Short biography
Graduate in History (2018) and Master of Advanced Studies and Research in History, specialising in Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology (2019) at the University of Salamanca.
She has training and experience in photogrammetric restitution applied to Palaeolithic parietal art and has collaborated in several research teams.
Currently, she is part of the ERC Cog LArcHer project team as Predoctoral Researcher in the PhD programme Society and Culture in the Department of History and Archaeology and member of the SERP at the University of Barcelona. Her line of research focuses on the study of the visual narratives of Levantine rock art as a referent in order to raise new questions of global interest on the evolution of creative thought and human cognition.
Research interests
Levantine rock art
Paleolithic rock art
Visual narratives
Traceological analysis
3D Methods applied to parietal Palaeolithic engravings
Morphometrics applied to parietal Palaeolithic engravings
Selected publications
- García-Bustos, M., Rivero, O., García Bustos, P. and Mateo-Pellitero, A. M. (2023). From the cave to the virtual museum: accessibility and democratisation of Franco-Cantabrian Palaeolithic art. Virtual Archaeology Review, 14(28), 54–64. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2023.17684
- Rivero, O., Salazar, S., Mateo-Pellitero, A. M., Bustos, P. G., Garate, D. and Rios-Garaizar, J. (2022). To be or not to be: reassessing the origins of portable art in the Cantabrian Region (Northern Spain). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14, 1-29. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-021-01488-w
- García Bustos, P. (2019). Aplicación de la microfotogrametría para el estudio de la traceología del grabado. El caso de la Cueva de Atxurra (Vizcaya). In Sociedades prehistóricas y manifestaciones artísticas: Imágenes, nuevas propuestas e interpretaciones. INAPH, Colección Petracos 271-274. ISBN 978-84-1302-054-9.
Selected projects
- 2022 – present: Member of LArcHer project: Breaking barriers between Science and Heritage approaches to Levantine Rock Art through Archaeology, Heritage Science and IT. ERC Consolidator Grant 2019-2024. University of Barcelona.
- 2019 – 2022: Member of Laboratorio de Tecnología Prehistórica. Universidad de Salamanca.
- 03/2021 – 07/2021: “Paleoart-3D: Regreso al pasado” project. III Convocatoria de ayudas a la divulgación científica, tecnológica e innovadora de la Unidad de Cultura Científica y de la Innovación de la Universidad de Salamanca.
- 07/2021 – 12/2021: 3D printing technician in private company through Fundación General de la Universidad de Salamanca.
- 11/2020 – 12/2020: Technical research support staff for research tasks. Aprendizaje y desarrollo de las capacidades artísticas en los HAM: un enfoque pluridisciplinar (HAR2017-877739-P). Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades.
Selected excavations
- 2018: Cerro de San Vicente site (Castilla y León, Spain).
- 2018 – 2022: Domingo García site (Castilla y León, Spain).
- 2019 – 2022: Atxurra and Aitzbitarte cave (País Vasco, Spain).
- 2019 – 2022: Hornos de la Peña cave (Cantabria, Spain).
- 2021 – 2022: El Pindal cave (Asturias, Spain).