Executive Editor

International Journal of Student Research in Archaeology

Gonzalo Linares Matás

Oxford University (UK)

Gonzalo Linares Matás is the founder and Executive Editor of the International Journal of Student Research in Archaeology. He is a second-year undergraduate pursuing a BA in Archaeology & Anthropology at St. Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. He is particularly interested in archaeological theory and practice, the socio-political contexts of heritage interpretation, and the role of representations of the past in processes of identity formation. He is also interested in human interaction both in the recent and distant past (sociocultural interaction, colonisation, resistance, conflict resolution, environmental management) from a historical and anthropological perspective.

He has published in a number of international undergraduate journals, such as The Historian (University of Exeter), Trowel (University College, Dublin) and Dig It (Flinders University, Australia).

Gonzalo's undergraduate dissertation will focus on the experimental and use-wear analysis of Palaeolithic bone remains, which may turn out to be the oldest bone tools so far discovered in Europe. He has undertaken fieldwork in Murcia, Spain (sites of Cueva Negra, Sima de las Palomas, La Almoloya), England (Dorchester) and Greece (Knossos Gypsades, Crete).

He is the former President of the Oxford University Archaeological Society, Coordinator of the IV OUAS National Undergraduate Conference (March 2016), and he is member of the Murcian Association for the study of Paleoanthropology and the Quaternary, as well as Environment & Ethics Representative for St. Hugh’s College Junior Common Room.

He has also been the Founder and Community Manager of the Twitter account @QHistoria (15.7k followers) since May 2012, specialising in news, events, and commemorations about art, literature, history and archaeology.

E-mail: gonzalo.linaresmatas@st-hughs.ox.ac.uk

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