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: Universidad de 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: Universidad de Burgos, Museo de la Evolución Humana, 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: Universidad de Alcalá
Directors: Dr. Juan Luis Arsuaga and Dr. Enrique Baquedano

Project: “El Sidrón” – Asturias
Institution: Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid- CSIC
Director: Dr. Antonio Rosas

Project: “El Serrat dels Espinyers” – Isona and Conca Dellà, Lleida
Institution: Universitat de Barcelona
Director: Dr. Ignasi Garcés Estallo

Project: “The Camino de Santiago” – Álava and Cantabria
Institution: Universidade da 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: Universitat de 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: Universidad de Sevilla / UNED
Directors: Dr. Daniel García Rivero, Dr. Martí Mas Cornellà

Project: “Study of the old port areas of Empúries” – Girona
Institution: MAC-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: Catalan Institute of Human Paleoecology and Social Evolution (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: Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Director: Dr. José Yravedra Sainz de los Terreros

Project: “Las Huesas archaeological site” – Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Institution: El Museo Canario
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: Universidad de Barcelona y Universidad de 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: Instituto de Historia- CSIC
Director: Dr. Pedro Díaz-del-Río

Project: “La Viña Shelter and Llonín Cave” – Asturias
Institution: Universidad se Oviedo
Director: Dr. Marco de la Rasilla Vives

Institution: Universidad de 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: Universidad de 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: Universidade da Coruña
Director: Dr. Jorge Sanjurjo Sanchez

Project: “Analysis of the origin of lithic artifacts from Cueva de la Cocina” – Dos Aguas, València
Institution: Universitat de València
Directors: Dr. Oreto García Puchol, Dr. Agustín Pastor, Dr. Mirco Ramacciotti

Project: “Dating population transitions in Sopeña” – Asturias
Institution: Museo Arqueológico Regional, Universidade da Coruña
Directors: Dr. Ana C. Pinto Llona, Dr. Aurora Grandal d’Anglade

Project: “Dolmen de El Pendón” – Reinoso, Burgos
Institution: Universidad de Valladolid
Director: Dr. Manuel A. Rojo Guerra

Project: “The Chronology of Prehistory in the NE Peninsula”
Institution: Universitat de 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: Universidad de Sevilla, 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: Universidade de 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: Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria (Universidad de Cantabria-Gobierno de Cantabria-Santander)
Director: Dr. Pablo Arias Cabal

Institution: Universidad de Murcia
Director: Dr. Sebastián F. Ramallo Asensio

Project: “Archaeological site of Guarrazar in Guadamur” – Toledo
Institution: Universidad Complutense de 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: Universitat de Barcelona
Director: Dr. Alessandra Pecci

Project: “El Pendo Cave” – Cantabria
Institution: : Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria (IIIPC) – Universidad de Cantabria
Director: Dr. Edgard Camarós

Project: “Punta Azul Oilfield” – El Hierro, Islas Canarias
Institution: Universidad de 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: Universidad de 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 Universitat de Barcelona
Director: Dr. Maria Saña Seguí

Project: “Archaeometric characterization of Dolia Romanas in the Northeast of Hispania Citerior-Tarraconensis- Northeast of the Peninsula
Institution: Universitat de Barcelona
Director: Dr. Verònica Martínez Ferreras

Project:” Minferri” – Juneda, Lleida
Institution: Universitat de Lleida
Director: Dr. Natàlia Alonso Martínez

Project: “Scientific Study of Sumptuary Clothing in Perforated Beads at Tholos de Montelirio” – Sevilla
Institution: Universitat de Sevilla
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: Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
Directors: Dr. Pilar Prieto Martínez, Dr. Antonio Martínez Cortizas
