The Palarq Foundation is a privately owned, non-for-profit organization created with the purpose of financing Spanish Archaeological and Human Paleontology missions outside of Europe. The area of research comprises from the paleontology era to the prehistorical epochs and the historical-monument relevant eras in general.
Project: “The megalithic necropolis of Panoria” – Granada
Institution: University of Granada
Director: Dr. Gonzalo Aranda Jiménez
Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Director: Dr. Oriol Olesti Vila, Dr. Joan Oller Guzmán
Project: “Montvell flint quarries” – Lleida
Institution: Milà i Fontanals Institution, CSIC – Barcelona
Director: Dr. Xavier Terradas Batlle
Project: “Cave of Prado Vargas” – Burgos
Institution: University of Burgos, Human Evolution Museum, CENIEH
Directors: Dr. Marta Navazo Ruiz, Dr. Rodrigo Alonso Mayor, Dr. Alfonso Benito Calvo
Project: “Romaní de Capellades Coat” – Barcelona
Institution: Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES)
Director: Dr. Josep Vallverdú i Poch
Project: “Pinilla del Valle Field” – Madrid
Institution: General Foundation of the University of Alcalá
Directors: Dr. Juan Luis Arsuaga and Dr. Enrique Baquedano
Project: “El Sidrón” – Asturias
Institution: Natural Museum of Natural Sciences- CSIC
Director: Dr. Antonio Rosas
Project: “El Serrat dels Espinyers” – Isona and Conca Dellà, Lleida
Institution: University of Barcelona
Director: Dr. Ignasi Garcés Estallo
Project: “The Camino de Santiago” – Álava and Cantabria
Institution: University of Coruña
Directors: Dr. Aurora Grandal d’Anglade, Dr. Patxi Pérez Ramallo
Project: “Maritime economics and haliotic activities in Baelo Claudia” – Cádiz
Institution: University of Cádiz
Director: Dr. Darío Bernal Casasola
Project: “Cinnabar Project” – Iberian Peninsula
Institution: UNED
Directors: Dr. Carmen Guiral Pelegrín, Dr. Mar Zarzalejos Prieto
Project: “Archeometric characterization of late-ancient ceramics and Islamic era of the Roman city of Pollentia” – Alcúdia, Mallorca
Institution: University of Barcelona
Director: Dr. Miguel Ángel Cau Ontiveros
Project: “Bastida, micromorphological analysis line” – Murcia
Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Directors: Dr. Vicente Lull Santiago, Dr. Rafael Micó Pérez
Project: “Cave of the Teixoneres” – Barcelona
Institution: Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES)
Directors: Florent Rivals, Dr. Jordi Rosell
Project: “Cave of the Dehesilla” – Cádiz
Institution: University of Seville / UNED
Directors: Dr. Daniel García Rivero, Dr. Martí Mas Cornellà
Project: “Study of the old port areas of Empúries” – Girona
Institution: Museum of Archeology of Catalonia-Empúries
Director: Dr. Pere Castanyer Masoliver
Project: Roman-medieval site of Santa María de Abajo – Toledo
Institution: UNED / JCCM
Director: Dr. Virginia García-Entero
Project: “Population and ways of life during the Final Pleistocene and Holocene in the Eastern Pre-Pyrenees” – Eastern Pre-Pyrenees
Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Director: Dr. Rafael Mora Torcal
Institution: Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC)
Director: Dr. Lídia Colominas
Project: “Faunistic and paleoenvironmental context of the Quibas deposit in relation to the lower Pleistocene climate evolution and the first human settlement in Europe” – Murcia
Institution: Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES)
Directors: Dr. Jordi Agustí, Dr. Pedro Piñero
Project: “Dilucidating the action of carnivores in the deposits of the Iberian lower Pleistocene of the Pontón de la Oliva (Madrid), and of Fuente Nueva III and Venta Micena 3 and 4 (Granada)
Institution: Complutense University of Madrid
Director: Dr. José Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros
Project: “Las Huesas archaeological site” – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Institution: The Canary Museum
Director: Dr. Teresa Delgado Darias
Project: “Archeopetrological characterization of the flint tooling of the pre-Magdalenian sites in the center of the Iberian Peninsula: Peña Cabra and Peña Capón” -Guadalajara
Institution: University of Barcelona and University of Alcalá
Directors: Dr. Javier Mangado Llach, Dr. Manuel Alcaraz Castaño
Project: “Site of the Mendralejos: Times and uses of the Peninsular Chalcolithic fossil enclosures” – Madrid
Institution: Institute of History, CSIC
Director: Dr. Pedro Díaz-del-Río
Project: “La Viña Shelter and Llonin Cave” – Asturias
Institution: University of Oviedo
Director: Dr. Marco de la Rasilla Vives
Institution: University of Granada
Directors: Dr. Mario Gutierrez Rodríguez, Dr. Macarena Bustamante Álvarez
Project: “Chronology and molecular diagnosis of sex and kinship of children of the Miralba de la Ribera site” – León
Institution: University of Oviedo
Director: Dr. José Avelino Gutiérrez González
Project: “Goods exchanged and consumed in the formation of the Iberian culture. Analysis of contents in ceramic vessels in Mediterranean mountain landscapes during the 1st millennium BC” – Southeast Peninsular
Institution: CSIC
Director: Dr. Susana González Reyero
Institution: University of A Coruña
Director: Dr. Jorge Sanjurjo Sanchez
Project: “Analysis of the origin of lithic artifacts from Cueva de la Cocina” – Dos Aguas, València
Institution: University of Valencia
Directors: Dr. Oreto García Puchol, Dr. Agustín Pastor, Dr. Mirco Ramacciotti
Project: “Dating population transitions in Sopeña” – Asturias
Institution: Regional Archaeological Museum, University of Coruña
Directors: Dr. Ana C. Pinto Llona, Dr. Aurora Grandal d’Anglade
Project: “Dolmen de El Pendón” – Reinoso, Burgos
Institution: University of Valladolid
Director: Dr. Manuel A. Rojo Guerra
Project: “The Chronology of Prehistory in the NE Peninsula”
Institution: University of Barcelona, SERP
Director: Dr. Josep Mª Fullola i Pericot
Project: Palaeoenvironmental evolution and prehistoric settlement in the basins of the Francolí, Gaià, Siurana and Camp de Tarragona rivers – Tarragona
Institution: Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES)
Director: Dr. Josep Maria Vergès Bosch
Project: “Prehistory and transhumance in the Alt Ripollès”
Institution: Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (IPHES)
Directors: Dr. Carlos Tornero, Dr. Eudald Carbonell
Project: “Baelo Claudia Forum” – Cádiz
Institution: University of Seville, Casa de Velázquez, La Rochelle University, University of Lille
Directors: Dr. Oliva Rodríguez Gutiérrez, Dr. Laurent Brassous, Dr. Xavier Deru
Project: “Alén do bosque, bosques en la Edad de Bronce del Noroeste de Iberia”- Cantabria
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Director: Dr. María Martín Seijo
Project: “La Draga”- Banyoles, Girona
Institution: Museu Arqueològic Comarcal de Banyoles, Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya,
Institució Milà i Fontanals-CSIC, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Director: Dr. Raquel Piqué
Project: “La Garma” – Cantabria
Institution: International Institute of Prehistoric Research of Cantabria (University of Cantabria-Government of Cantabria-Santander)
Director: Dr. Pablo Arias Cabal
Project: “Carthago Nova from its coastal environment. Paleotopography and environmental evolution of the Central Sector of the Iberian Southeast: Population and production dynamics”- Murcia
Institution: University of Murcia
Director: Dr. Sebastián F. Ramallo Asensio
Project: “Archaeological site of Guarrazar in Guadamur” – Toledo
Institution: Complutense University of Madrid
Directors: Dr. Rafael Fort González, Dr. Margarita San Andrés
Project: “Archaeometric characterization of the sets of materials of mineral origin in two contexts of recent Prehistory in the Northeast of the Peninsula” – Northeast of the Peninsula
Institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Director: Dr. Miquel Molist Montaña
Project: “Wine production and consumption. A journey between chemistry and archaeology in the western Mediterranean” – Barcelona
Institution: University of Barcelona
Director: Dr. Alessandra Pecci
Project: “El Pendo Cave” – Cantabria
Institution: International Institute for Prehistoric Research of Cantabria (IIIPC) – University of Cantabria
Director: Dr. Edgard Camarós
Project: “Punta Azul Oilfield” – El Hierro, Canary Islands
Institution: University of La Laguna
Directors: Dr. Alejandra C. Ordoñez, Dr. Rosa Fregel Lorenzo
Project: “Ideology, ritual and social practices in the Biniadrís cave of Baix”- Alaior, Menorca
Institution: University of Granada
Directors: Dr. Auxilio Moreno Onorato, Dr. Eva Alarcón García, Dr. Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla
Project: “Carrying out archaeozoological, biogeochemical and biomechanical analyses of Neolithic fauna remains” – Iberian Peninsula
Autonomous University of Barcelona
Director: Dr. Maria Saña Seguí
Project: “Archaeometric characterization of Dolia Romanas in the Northeast of Hispania Citerior-Tarraconensis- Northeast of the Peninsula
Institution: University of Barcelona
Director: Dr. Verònica Martínez Ferreras
Project:” Minferri” – Juneda, Lleida
Institution: University of Lleida
Director: Dr. Natàlia Alonso Martínez
Project: “Scientific Study of Sumptuary Clothing in Perforated Beads at Tholos de Montelirio” – Seville
Institution: University of Seville
Director: Dr. Leonardo García Sanjuán
Project: “Recent Prehistory of the Vinalopó Valley and Bajo Segura through its ceramics”- Alacant
Institution: Universitat d’Alacant
Director: Dr. Miguel del Pino Curbelo
Project: “Severed heads in the Iberian Oppidum of Puig Castellar: Women, men and young victims of violence” – Barcelona
Institution: Unitat d’Antropologia Biològica-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Museu Arqueològic de Catalunya-Barcelona (MAC)
Directors: Dr. M. Eulàlia Subirà, Dr. Carme Rovira Hortalà
Project: Genetics and diet of prehistoric communities in the massif of Garraf, North Barcelona
Institution: Milà i Fontanals Institution, CSIC – Barcelona
Director: Dr. Juan Francisco Gibaja Bao
Project: “Project of physical-chemical analysis of organic samples in the ceramics of the M4 of Guidoiro Areoso” – Pontevedra
Institution: University of Santiago de Compostela
Directors: Dr. Pilar Prieto Martínez, Dr. Antonio Martínez Cortizas
