Outcome

PUBLICATIONS

2025

2025 – Soil Systems, 9(1)
Martínez Cortizas, A., Francos Golan, A. Traore, M. & López-Costas, O. (2025). A Two-Part Harmony: Changes in Peat Molecular Composition in Two Cores from an Ombrotrophic Peatland (Tremoal do Pedrido, Xistral Mountains, NW Spain). In Soil Systems, 9(1). https://doi.org/10.3390/soilsystems9010014

2025 – Spectrochimica Acta – Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Colmenares-Prado, M., Martínez Cortizas, A., Veiga-Rilo, C. & López-Costas, O. (2025). Application of FTIR spectroscopy to infer ante- and post-mortem changes in archaeological human bone. In Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, 330. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.saa.2024.125675

2025 – EarthArXiv
Schillereff, D., Sjöström, J.K. & Chiverell, R. (2025) Microbe-vegetation-nutrient interactions affect long-term carbon accumulation in a northern peatland. In EarthArXiv. Pre-print. http://dx.doi.org/10.31223/X58154

2025 – EGUsphere
Orme, L., Ludlow, F., Langton, N., Sjӧstrӧm, J.K., Kylander, M.K., Murphy, C., Pyne-O’Donnell, S., Turner, J., Li, N., Davies, S.J., Mitchell, F. & Matthews, J.A. (2025) Storminess in North West Europe and volcanic activity during the Holocene. In EGUsphere. Climate of the Past. Pre-print. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2025-3737 

2024

2024 – IntechOpen
Martínez Cortizas, A., López-Costas, O. (2024). A FTIR-ATR study of structure bioapatite from archaeological bone. In IntechOpen (Volume Edited 2024. Beyond Signals – Exploring Revolutionary Fourier Transform Applications). https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.1007941

2024 – Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16(10)
García-Moreno, C. D., Murciano Calles, J. M. & López-Costas, O. (2024). Diet in Augusta Emerita, the Iberian capital that prevailed in Roman to late antiquity transition. In Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16(10). Non-Open access. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-02031-3

2024 – Journal of Archaeological Science 172, 106105
Jones, P Gleeson, O López-Costas, A Martínez-Cortizas, T Mighall, … (2024). Life, death and environment at Lagore Crannog: Parasites, land-use and a royal residence in later prehistoric and early medieval Ireland SE. In Journal of Archaeological Science 172, 106105. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.106105

2024 – Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16(4)
Veiga-Rilo, C., Cortizas, A. M. & López-Costas, O. (2024). Biting into the truth: Connecting oral pathology and stable isotopes through the paradigmatic example of a hyper-specialized marine diet in Medieval Pontevedra (NW Iberia). In Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16(4). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-024-01956-z

Conference presentations​

2025

Bolin Centre for Climate Research – Annual conference for research area 3
Stockholm (Sweden), July 2025
Organized by: Bolin Centre (Stockholm University)
Presentation: “Ongoing projects, early results and introduction to the PollutedPast project”. Oral presentation (Jenny K. Sjöström).

Science-Jam
Stockholm (Sweden), June 2025
Organized by: Department of Geological Sciences (Stockholm University)
Presentation: “Seminar and result presentation about PollutedPast project”. Oral presentation (Jenny K. Sjöström).

International Scientific Meeting. PLVMBVM HISPANIAE. Lead production in Roman Hispania
La Carolina (Jaén) (Spain), 28-29/3/2025
Organized by: Museo de La Carolina, Proyecto Metalla Oretana, ICAC–Univ. de Murcia
Presentation: “Esqueletos y paleoarchivos nos hablan de la contaminación por plomo y mercurio y su relación con la minería romana y otras fuentes de exposición” (Olalla López-Costas).

Kiel Conference 2025
Kiel (Germany), 24-27/3/2025
Organized by: Cluster of Excellence ROOTS and the Collaborative Research Centre 1266 “Scales of Transformation”.
Conference: Session 25: Unlocking the Past. “Session keynote: Archaeological “One Health”, a tale told in isotopes” (Olalla López-Costas).

Formative events: Introduction to Forensic Genetics Course. Advanced Level
Madrid (Spain), 17/3/2025
Organized by: Complutense Research Group in Forensic Genetics and Population Genetics, Faculty of Medicine, Complutense University of Madrid.
Conference: Modulo 1. Recogida de muestras en diferentes escenarios. “Factores de degradación en el enterramiento de dientes y restos óseos” (Olalla López-Costas).

Formative events: Advanced Course in Forensic Anthropology – Universidad de Granada
Granada (Spain), 3-6/3/2025
Organized by: University of Granada.
Conference: “El potencial de los análisis geoquímicos y de isótopos estables en contextos forenses” (Olalla López-Costas).

Training Course in Forensic Anthropology and Odontology. Ed. 2024/25
Madrid (Spain), 20/2/2025
Organized by: University Complutense of Madrid.
Conference: “Stable isotopes in Forensic Anthropology” (Olalla López-Costas)

Conferences of Institute for Archaeology and Cultural Anthropology Bonn University
Bonn (Germany), 10/1/2025
Organized by: BoCAS. Bonn Center For Archaeosciences; Universität Bonn.
Conference: “PollutedPast: Human remains and environmental metal exposure” (Olalla López-Costas).

2024

Formative events: Singular Science. Scientific Dissemination Activity
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 23/11/2024
Presentation: “Arqueoloxía para comprender os problemas ambientais” (Olalla López-Costas, Aranzazu Fernández Quintás & Antonio Martínez Cortizas).
Organized by: CRETUS, CIQUS, CIMUS, CITIUS & IGFAE (Centers associated with Universidade de Santiago de Compostela).

XVI Reunión Científica de la Asociación Española de Antropología y Odontología Forense
Sevilla (Spain), 15-16/11/2024
Organized by: Asociación Española de Antropología y Odontología Forense
Technical session: “Archaeometry applied to forensic contexts” (Olalla López-Costas).
Technical session: “Soil and Sediment Geochemistry applied to forensic contexts” (Antonio Martínez Cortizas).
Member of the scientific committee (Olalla López-Costas).

Seminarios Misión Biológica de Galicia – CSIC
Pontevedra (Spain), 11/10/2024
Organized by: Asociación Española de Antropología y Odontología Forense
Conference: “Vidas tóxicas: metales, esqueletos y arqueología” (Olalla López-Costas).

XXIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Antropología Física (SEAF)
Alcalá de Henares – Madrid, 4-6/09/2024
Organized by: Sociedad Española de Antropología Física (SEAF) y la Universidad de Alcalá de Henares
Presentation: “Podrán los antropólogos físicos excavar y estudiar esqueletos humanos” (Olalla López-Costas).
Moderator: Thematic session “Skeletal Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology” (Olalla López-Costas).
Member of the scientific committee (Olalla López-Costas).

Seminario: El cuerpo humano entre la antigüedad y el barroco: Ciencia, Arte y Pensamiento.
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 4-6/09/2024
Organized by: USC, iHUS, SINCRISIS
Presentation: “Paradojas de la salud a través del cuerpo “eterno”: seremos dientes y huesos” (Olalla López-Costas)
Presentation: “El cuerpo enfermo y la vulnerabilidad / Las distintas etapas de la vida” (Clara Veiga Rilo).
Presentation: “La vulnerabilidad de los cuerpos más allá de la muerte: ¿Son los esqueletos infantiles más susceptibles a la degradación que los adultos?” (Marta Colmenares Prado)

30th Annual Meeting of EAA 2024 / European Meeting of Archaeologist
Roma – Italia, 28-31/08/2024
Organized by: European Association of Archaelogists (EAA).
Presentation: “Session 931: “Exploring potentiality of stable isotopes and elemental composition for aiding in the identification of Brigadiers killed in the Spanish Civil War” (Olalla López-Costas, Antonio Martínez Cortizas & María Benito Sánchez).

30th Annual Meeting of EAA 2024 / European Meeting of Archaeologist
Roma – Italia, 28-31/08/2024
Organized by: European Association of Archaelogists (EAA).
Coordination of Session 931: Stable isotopes + Elements in forensic (Olalla López- Costas).

Informative events: Space Science of Scientific Dissemination of FBSP.
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 29/06/2024
Presentation: “Presentación das actividades do Proxecto PollutedPast e do Grupo Ecopast” (Olalla López-Costas, Aranzazu Fernández Quintás & Mohamed Traoré).
Organized by: Asociación Cultural Barrio de San Pedro – CIF G7014981.

Informative events: Festival Pint of Science España
Santiago de Compostela (Spain), 13-15/05/2024
Presentation: “Un pasado tóxico” (Olalla López-Costas).
Organized by: Pint of Science Santiago.

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (ICMS)
Kalamazoo, Michigan (EEUU), 9–11/05/2024
Organized by: Western Michigan University
Session organizer (Olalla López-Costas).

Informative events: Conferences: Past, present and future of a cereal in extinction: small corn.
Castro de Rey – Lugo (Spain), 16/03/2024
Presentation: “Rastrexando o millo miúdo na dieta do Noroeste” (Olalla López-Costas).
Organized by: Subdirección Xeral de Arquivos e Nuseos, Museo do Castro de Viladonga.

Informative events: Conferences: XVII Barbanza Archaeological Meeting.
Boiro (Spain), 24/02/2024
Presentation: “Adro Vello” (Olalla López-Costas & other authors).
Organized by: Casa da Cultura Ramón Martínez López (Centro Arqueológico do Barbanza).

OTHER PUBLICATIONS RELATED TO THE PROJECT​

2025

2025 – Quaternary Science Reviews
Guiter, F., Guédron, S., Perrot, V., Brisset, E., Bureau, S., Renedo, M., Campillo, S., Belkacem, D., de Beaulieu, J.-L., Desplanque, C. & Martínez-Cortizas, A. (2025). From lake to bog: A 15 kyr record of interplay between landscape changes and mercury accumulation (Réserve Naturelle du Luitel, 1250 m a. s. l., western Alps). In Quaternary Science Reviews, 349. Non-open access. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.109088

2025 – Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 1-32
Veiga-Rilo, C. & López-Costas, O. (2025). Childhood scars in adult remains: bioarcheological approaches to early life in medieval Galicia using dental enamel hypoplasia. In Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies, 1-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2025.2499802

2024

2024 – Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 57
Olivé-Busom, J. & López-Costas, O. (2024). The upper Frontier of Al-Andalus: Dietary practises in Medieval Catalonia (Northeast Iberia). In Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 57. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.JASREP.2024.104628

2024 – Frontier Studies in Soil Science. Springer International Publishing
Martínez Cortizas, A., Traoré, M., López-Costas, O., Sjöström, J. K. & Kylander, M. E. (2024). Beyond the Obvious: Exploring Peat Vibrational Spectroscopy (FTIR-ATR) Data Using Principal Components Analysis on Transposed Data Matrix (tPCA), Store Mosse Bog (Sweden). In Núñez-Delgado, A. (eds) Frontier Studies in Soil Science (pp. 217-247). Cham: Springer International Publishing. Non-Open access. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50503-4_11