Dr Maria Fontanals-Coll
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Biography
Maria is a Biologist and Physical Anthropologist, with a passionate interest in understanding all the processes that influenced the subsistence patterns and the way of life of ancient communities. Especially the dietary revolution occurred with the adoption of farming practices during the Mesolithic – Neolithic transition.
She joined BioArCh as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postodctoral fellow to conduct the project “NEOMEDIS: Neolithic Mediterranean diet through stable isotope analysis”, with Prof Oliver Craig and Dr André Carlo Colonese as supervisors.
Having graduated with a BSc degree in Biology from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2009, focusing on Animal Biology, she went on to study for an MSc degree in Human Biology, run jointly between the Universitat de Barcelona and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She completed her MSc dissertation on the palaeodietary reconstruction of the Mesolithic groups of the Portuguese Sado Valley through Carbon and Nitrogen stable isotope analysis (δ13C and δ15N), in 2011.
Maria completed a PhD in Biodiversity (specialty in Biological Anthropology) at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona in 2015, on the subsistence patterns of the Neolithic communities from the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, using δ13C and δ15N analysis as the main technique of study.
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