Raúl Aranda González

Biography

"Graduate in History of Art from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2008), with the specialty of Archeology at the University of Pisa (Italy). He obtained the Advanced Studies Diploma from the UNED (2012) with the research work ""A contribution to the study of the ceramic productions of the Visigothic era: analysis of the ceramic assembly of the plot R3 of the Vega Baja de Toledo."" His field of study is the material culture and artistic productions of late antiquity and the Middle Ages in the peninsular interior. He has participated in numerous research projects for entities such as La Junta de Castilla-La Mancha, UNED and the Università degli Studi di Roma ""La Sapienza"". He has also worked on different archaeological interventions in sites such as Complutum (Alcalá de Henares, Madrid), Calatrava la Vieja (Carrión de Calatrava, Ciudad Real), La Vega Baja (Toledo) and the villages of Carranque (Toledo) and "" El Casale ""(Piazza Armerina, Italy). Between the years 2012 and 2016 he has worked as a researcher and teacher at the institution Caminos del Románico (Madrid). He is currently a predoctoral researcher at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology. The doctoral thesis that is being developed is entitled ""Exploitation, uses and diffusion of the limestone of Espejón during Late Antiquity and the High Middle Ages in the Iberian Peninsula"" and is led by Dr. Pilar Lapuente Mercadal (UniZar-ICAC) and Virginia García -Internet (UNED). He is part of the ARPA research team (Arqueometry and Artistic Productions) of the ICAC and the R & D & I project funded by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness entitled ""Exploitation, use and dissemination of the limestone of Espejón en Hispania romana y Tardoantigua "", directed by Virginia García-Entero (UNED), which includes researchers from the ICAC and other institutions, both national and foreign. He also collaborates with the members of the Archaeometric Studies Unit (UEA) of the ICAC"

Research Interest

High Middle Ages, Late Antiquity, Artistic Productions, Villae