Maite I Garcia-Collado is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in BioArCh at the Department of Archaeology of the University of York. She is a medieval archaeologist interested in biomolecular archaeology and human osteoarchaeology in order to understand historical societies. Her research focuses on the application of stable isotope analyses to investigate agrarian practices, human diets and mobility of humans and animals in historical societies, with an emphasis on the social interpretation of results in terms of social status and personal and collective identities such age, sex, health or religion.
As a part of the MEDGREENREV project, Maite is working on stable isotope analysis as well as compound specific isotope analysis of human, animal and plant samples from Iberia, the Balearic islands and northern Africa. She will use these new data to address the evolution of agrarian practices and human diet along changing religious identities and political rules during the Middle Ages.