Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Ana G. San Martín received her B.A. (2016) in Archaeology and her M.A. (2019) in Epistemology of Natural and Social Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her undergraduate research was centred on the political and decolonial approaches to identity and local communities in Cypriot Bronze and Iron Ages, and during her Master's, she focused on the cognitive and epistemological role of spatial and temporal metaphors in the development of archaeological theory and methodology.

Her research interests include landscape archaeology, seasonality, mobility and labor in the Mediterranean; temporality; feminist and gender archaeology; and more broadly, the prehistory of the Mediterranean, with special attention to the Bronze Age in a comparative perspective. Her fieldwork experience ranges from the Chalcolithic, Bronze and Iron Age periods in both Spain and Cyprus, and more recently, Hellenistic Cyprus as well.

Ana's doctoral research focuses on landscapes of rural labour, seasonality and social complexity during the second millennium BC, with a particular focus on the environmental interpolation between communities of practice (human, animal and vegetal) and the traceability of their different types of action on the physical landscape of the Cypriot hinterland. Through the lens of communities of practice, assemblage theory and taskscapes, she is interested in seeing how these changes in cultural and social strategies articulate notions of collaboration, mobility, temporality and social memory through their material traces on the ground.