Pembroke Center

Ana González San Martín is a PhD candidate at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. She holds a BA in Archaeology and an MA in Epistemology of the Natural and Social Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid. Ana’s research questions long-established ideas about social inequality and exploitative relationships between people and the environment during the Late Prehistory of the Mediterranean region, focusing on the Cypriot Bronze Age (Ca. 2400-1050 BCE). Her dissertation project integrates archaeological and ethnographic evidence with economic and philosophical approaches to labor, action and praxis through the lens of landscape archaeology and GIS analysis. The project addresses how Bronze Age communities organized their labor, time and mobility with other human, plant and animal communities of practice, ultimately highlighting alternative, bottom-up and cooperative approaches to modeling prehistoric economy and society that contribute to current discussions on sustainability, environmental and social justice, and labor rights.