THE NECROPOLIS EXCAVATION >Staff

Fernando Contreras Rodrigo. (Lleida, Spain 1967). Director of the excavations at Sanitja and of the Ecomuseum de Cap de Cavalleria since 1997. President of the association “Sa Nitja. Gestión del Patrimonio Mediterráneo” founded in 1993. He obtained the Prize Fundació “la Caixa” in 1992: “Revalorització Ciutats Romanes de Catalunya i Illes Balears”. FPI U.A.B. Internship 1991-95. His research fields are: Romanization in Minorca; Archaeological software; Cultural management; Museum development for the heritage of Sanitja and the Cap de Cavalleria. Director of the excavations in Mago (Pla Mirall, 2000-2002), Iamo (Correos, 1999), and Sanisera (Prospection 1993-1995, Excavation 1996-1998). His projects involving Minorca’s cultural heritage include: Defense Tower in Fornells (CIM – 1996), Ecomuseum de Cap de Cavalleria (Leader II – 1997), Cavalleria Lighthouse (Futures – 1998).

Georgina Pacheco Revilla (San José, Costa Rica, 1983). Co-director of the excavations at the necropolis of Sanisera. She received her Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Archaeology from the University of Costa Rica. She also got a Master's degree in Physical Anthropology from the University of Madrid (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). She is researcher in the field of dental pathologies found in Late Roman and Visigothic populations from the Alcalá de Henares area. She has participated in excavations and inhumations in Costa Rica and Spain. She has also published and participated in congresses focused on Physical Anthropology. She is currently profesor of several courses related to her specialty on Biological and Physical Anthropology at the University of Costa Rica. Moreover, she also works as a Forensic anthropologist for the Judicial Investigations Organism, Organismo de Investigación Judicial (OIJ), of Costa Rica in the identification of individuals.

Carmen Olivares (Badajoz, Spain, 1977). Co-director of the excavation of the excavations at the necropolis of Sanisera organized by the Cape of Cavalleria Ecomuseum. She is a biologist specialized in Biodemography of Human Populations. Carmen graduated from the University of Barcelona and in 2001 received a scholarship to collaborate with the department of Palaeontology of the University of Extremadura. Since then, she has participated, as a palaeontologist, in numerous archaeological and paleontological excavations for different private companies. Carmen has worked in Myocene and Pleistocene locations and in several Palaeolithic cave sites; she has directed several salvage excavations and has carried out evaluations of paleontological impact for construction projects.

Maggie Ziriax (San Antonio, TX 1986): Studied at the University of Edinburgh  gaining an MA Archaeology (Hons) and an Msc in Human Osteoarchaeology. She is currently working on a DPhil in Archaeological Science at the University of Oxford, focusing on population mobility as determined by isotope analysis, utilizing samples from the population at the Necropolis at Sanisera. She has previously worked on the Adriatic project in Romania, and on the excavation at St. Saviours Church run by the York Archaeological Trust. She has also been a lab assistant for the Westray Project at the University of Edinburgh.

Lana Johnson. (Red Bluff, California, USA, 1980). Secretary and Treasurer of the association “Sa Nitja. Gestión del Patrimonio Mediterráneo” and of the Ecomuseum of the Cape of Cavalleria. B.A. in psychology (Phi Beta Kappa), University of California Santa Cruz, 2004. Course coordinator, student adviser and translator for the archaeological field school.