Dr. Paloma Vidal-Matutano received her BA (2011), MA (2012), and PhD (2016) from the University of Valencia, Spain. Since 2017, she has carried out several postdoctoral stays in Spain, France and Switzerland in the framework of different regional (APOSTD), national (Juan de la Cierva-Formación and Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación) and European (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions) postdoctoral fellowships.

Her research is focused on the analysis of plant macroremains (charcoal and wood) from arcaheological sites. She combines the analysis of firewood gathering strategies among hunter-gatherer groups from different geographic contexts (Spain, Italy, Montenegro, Armenia, Morocco) with archaeobotanical analyses (charcoal and desiccated wood) from Prehispanic contexts of the Canary Islands. My interest in obtaining meaningful data regarding wood acquisition strategies has guided my research towards implementing experimental methods and the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS).

Research interests: Palaeolithic Archaeology, Archaeobotany, Wood, Charcoal, Palaeoenvironment, Palaeoclimate, Palaeoeconomy, Experimentation, Taphonomy, Wood technology, GIS.