Dr. Julia Olivé Busom

My current research focuses on the application of funerary archaeology and bioarchaeology techniques on the study of multi-faith and multi-cultural societies of the Mongolian Plateau during the Medieval period. My research experience combines field archaeology with osteological, paleopathological and multi-isotopic analysis to reconstruct social dynamics in Iberia and the Balearic Islands, with a focus on Al-Andalus and Mozarab and Mudejar minorities.

This ongoing research on such different areas of the Medieval Muslim world, Iberia and Central Asia, has enabled me to grow a considerable expertise on Medieval Muslim archaeology. Thus, I aim to make significant contributions to the field of Islamic funerary archaeology and the Archaeology of Islam and Central Asia, focusing on burial praxis, dietary patterns and their adaptability to the environment, and migration processes.

08/2023-ongoing: Postdoctoral researcher

• Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences (BoCAS), Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie, Bonn Universität, Germany
• DFG Research Unit 5438 "Urban Impact on the Mongolian Plateau: Interconnections of Urbanism, Economy and Environment" SP 6 (PI Jun.-Prof. Dr. Alice Toso)

 2018-2023: PhD in Archaeology

• Autonomous University of Barcelona.
• Thesis title: “Anthropological and isotopic study of the urban and rural communities of the Upper Frontier of Al-Andalus and the Kingdom of Valencia”.

2016-2017: MSc in Forensic Archaeology and Anthropology

• Cranfield University
• Dissertation title: “Late Medieval Lisbon. Seven individuals from Praça da Figueira”.

2012-2016: BA in Archaeology

• Autonomous University of Barcelona