Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World

Ana G. San Martín received her B.A. in Archaeology (2016) and her M.A. in Epistemology of the Natural and Social Sciences (2019) from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Her undergraduate research focused on postcolonial approaches to identity and local communities in Bronze and Iron Age Cyprus. During her master’s, she explored the epistemological role of spatiality and temporality on archaeological theory and methodology.

Her research interests include landscape archaeology, seasonality, mobility, and labor in the broader prehistory of the Mediterranean; and Cypriot and Iberian prehistory in particular, with an emphasis on the second millennium BCE. Her fieldwork experience ranges across the Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Iron Age periods in both Spain and Cyprus, and more recently in Hellenistic Cyprus as well.

Ana’s doctoral research focuses on landscape archaeology and rural labor, seasonal rhythms, and social organization in the Cypriot hinterland during the Bronze Age. Drawing on the concepts of communities of practice, taskscapes, and assemblage theory, she is interested in seeing how interactions among human, animal, and vegetal agents left durable traces on the landscape, shaping patterns of collaboration, movement, and economic resilience over time.