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Pedro Henríquez Valido

@gorgojito.bsky.social

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PhD. Archaeoentomology in funerary and food storage contexts. Taphonomy and insects.

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Pedro Henríquez Valido @gorgojito.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

New Home #UniversidaddeAlcalá

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Pedro Henríquez Valido @gorgojito.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I create this image with IA to wish you… Happy New Year!!

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Pedro Henríquez Valido @gorgojito.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

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Insects in the far West: Burial practices on El Hierro Island (Canary Islands, Spain; ca. 6th-11th centuries) reconstructed via funerary archaeoentomology

The Canary Islands were first settled by North African groups in the first millennium CE and, after a few centuries of interconnections with the mainl…

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Pedro Henríquez Valido @gorgojito.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The title of this work is: Insects in the far West: Burial practices on El Hierro Island (Canary Islands, Spain; ca. 6th-11th centuries) reconstructed via funerary archaeoentomology, and was made in collaboration with @jonsantana.bsky.social

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Pedro Henríquez Valido @gorgojito.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

(...) and not in the sun as assumed by some narrative sources after the Castilian conquest in the 15th century. Other species associated with the first phases of the faunal succession would point in the same direction.

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Pedro Henríquez Valido @gorgojito.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Most of these insect remains belong to the first waves of cadaveric decomposition, with Chrysomya albiceps standing out. These data could indicate that the decomposition of the bodies took place inside the cave (...)

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Pedro Henríquez Valido @gorgojito.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In this paper we analysed the insects associated with a multiple burial cave on El Hierro (Canary Islands, Spain), on the southwestern edge of the Palearctic Region. This cave was used by the Bimbape population between the 6th and 11th centuries BC to deposit their dead.

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Pedro Henríquez Valido @gorgojito.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

New Paper out 🚨🚨Can archaeoentomology help to understand funerary practices in the past? Can archaeology serve as an indicator of the species decomposing a corpse in different bioclimatic regions prior to early modern globalization? @ulpgc.es @pacea.bsky.social

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