Consuelo Mata Parreño
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Consuelo Mata Parreño | |
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| Born | 1954 Castelló de la Plana, Castelló, Spain |
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| Discipline | Archaeology |
| Sub-discipline | Iberian settlement Iberian ceramics Iberian flora and fauna |
| Institutions | University of Valencia |
Consuelo Mata Parreño (Universitat de Vamència) is a Spanish Teacher who specialises in Iberian material culture. She is currently the head teacher of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Valencia.[1]
Mata, along with Helena Bonet Rosado and Joan Bernabeu Auban, published early work on the organisation of Iberian polities in the Valencian Community, arguing for hierarchical relationships between oppida in region.[2]
Mata and Bonet also published a typology of Iberian fine (class A) and coarse (class B) pottery, which is widely used by Iberian archaeologists.[3]
Mata led excavations at the Iberian site of Kelin, on the outskirts of modern Caudete de las Fuentes, and field surveys of the surrounding Requena-Utiel region.[4] The site of Kelin continues to be presented through public education events, particular 'open door' days.[5][6]
Mata and Bonet led the excavation of Puntal dels Llops, a small Iberian hilltop fort near modern Olocau.[7]
In recent years, Mata and colleagues have published on the actual and symbolic uses of plant and animal products in Iberian life.[8] This project has created online databases of the many types of evidence for these uses.[9]
