Jaime Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez holds a PhD degree from the University of Valencia (2005; Extraordinary PhD Award). He has been Curator at the Museum of Prehistory in Valencia since 2004. His interests focus on the Western Mediterranean during the first millennium BCE, colonial situations, urbanisation processes and the social and material reproduction of Iron Age Iberian communities. He has directed funded projects by national agencies and has been involved in other national and international projects. Currently he conducts research at the Iron Age settlement of La Bastida de les Alcusses (Moixent) and at the necropolis of La Cua II (Llíria). He has been exhibition curator of different displays about Iberian Iron Age archaeology and the editor of the exhibition catalogues. He develops heritage projects in Iron Age sites open to the public in the province of Valencia. He is the editor of the journal Archivo de Prehistoria Levantina and the Series Trabajos Varios del SIP.

References

• Amorós López, I. y Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, J. (2022): De las políticas comensales a las relaciones sociales: cerámicas áticas en La Bastida de les Alcusses (Moixent, Valencia). Archivo Español de Arqueología, 95, e03. doi.org/10.3989/aespa.095.022.03
• Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, J. (2021): Urbanization and social change in southeast Iberia during the Early Iron Age. In Making cities: Economies of production and urbanization in Mediterranean Europe, 1000–500 BC, edited by Margarita Gleba, Beatriz Marín-Aguilera & Bela Dimova, 409-423. doi.org/10.17863/CAM.76153
• Vives-Ferrándiz, J.; Carrión Marco, Y.; Ferrer García, C.; García Borja, P.; López Serrano, D.; Pérez Jordà, G.; Valero Climent, A. (2021): Bancales de la Edad del Hierro en el sureste de la Península Ibérica: El Ramblar (La Font de la Figuera, Valencia). Arqueología y sociedad de los espacios agrarios: en busca de la gente invisible a través de la materialidad del paisaje, edited by V. Mayoral, I. Grau, J. P. Bellón, Anejos de Archivo Español de Arqueología XCI, Madrid: CSIC, 167-184.
• Vives-Ferrándiz, J., Mata Parreño, C. (2020): Iron metallurgy, political economy and social change during the first millennium BC in eastern Iberia. In Iron Metallurgy and the Formation of Complex Societies in the Western Mediterranean (1st Millennium BC), edited by M. C. Belarte, M. C. Rovira, J. Sanmartí, Proceedings of the 8th International Archaeological Meeting of Calafell (2016), Barcelona: Universitat de Barcelona, ICAC (Arqueo Mediterrània 15), 141-160.
• Carrión, Y., Vives-Ferrándiz, J. (2019): Rethinking the perishable: Identifying organic remains in metal objects at the Iron Age site of La Bastida de les Alcusses (Moixent, Spain), Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 27, 101970.
• Vives-Ferrándiz, J. (2018): Trading settlements on eastern Iberia during the Iron Age: between redistributive engagement and political authority, in Trade and Colonization in the Ancient Western Mediterranean: The Emporion, from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period, edited by E. Gailledrat, M. Dietler & R. Plana-Mallart. Montpellier: Presses Universitaires de la Méditerranée, 91–101.
• López Bertran, M., Vives-Ferrándiz, J. (2018): Tiny bodies for intimate worlds. Human figurines in Iberian Iron Age sanctuaries, The tiny and the fragmented. Miniature, broken, or otherwise incomplete objects in the Ancient World, edited by S. R. Martin, S. M. Langin-Hooper, Oxford University Press, 145-169.
• Grau, I., Vives-Ferrándiz, J. (2018): Entre casas y comunidades: formas de organización y relación social en el área oriental de la península Ibérica, Más allá de las casas. Familias, linajes y comunidades de la protohistoria peninsular, edited by A. Rodríguez Díaz, I. Pavón Soldevilla, D. M. Duque Espino, Cáceres: Universidad de Extremadura, 73-109.
• Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, J., Tortajada Comeche, G. y Roldán García, C. (2017): Un disco-coraza de hierro de la Bastida de les Alcusses (Moixent, Valencia). Gladius, XXXVII: 53-68.  doi.org/10.3989/gladius.2017.02
• Vives-Ferrándiz, J., Bonet, H., Carrión, Y., Ferrer, C., Iborra, P., Pérez, G., Quesada, F. y Tortajada, G. (2015). “Ofrendas para una entrada: un depósito ritual en la Puerta Oeste de la Bastida de les Alcusses (Moixent, Valencia)”. Trabajos de Prehistoria, 72 (2), pp. 282-303. doi.org/10.3989/tp.2015.12155
• López Bertran, M., Vives-Ferrándiz Sánchez, J. (2015): Miniatures from domestic contexts in Iron Age Iberia, World Archaeology 47(1), 80-93.
• Vives-Ferrándiz, J. (2014): Mobility, interaction and power in the Iron Age Western Mediterranean, A. B. Knapp, P. van Dommelen (eds.), The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean, Cambridge University Press, 299-315.

Mots clés
Iron Age, Iberia, oppidum, colonial situations, exchange