nireEHU ALVARO ARRIZABALAGA VALBUENA
- Knowledge area
- Prehistory
- Department
- Geography, Prehistory and Archeology
- Centre
- Faculty of Arts
- Electronic mail
- alvaro.arrizabalaga@ehu.eus
Graduate (1988) in Geography and History, Master in Archaeological, Historical and Artistic Heritage (1992) and PhD in History (1995) in the University of the Basque Country. Since 1995, lecturer of Prehistory (Full Professor since 2018). He has been academic secretary of the Department of Geography, Prehistory and Archeology, Vice-Dean of Students, Quality and Teaching of the Faculty of Arts, Deputy Director of the first Master and Doctorate School and, since 2017, Director of Research Support in the Vice-Presidency for Research in the University of the Basque Country.
His main line of research refers to the reconstruction of the life of Paleolithic hunter-gatherers in the Cantabrian region (Spain). He has published 8 books, 32 book chapters, and more than 100 research articles in indexed journals on these topics. Since 2007, he is the editor-in-chief of the journal Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia, of the S.C. Aranzadi, which has reached the SCOPUS index during the period. Since 1985, he has directed or co-directed nearly 100 excavation seasons in Gipuzkoa, Bizkaia, Araba and Asturias.
He has carried out research stays at the Universities of Bordeaux, Cambridge and Cologne, and the Max Planck Institute in Leipzig. To date, he has directed thirteen doctoral theses, eleven of them with international mention. He has participated in 32 research projects, in more than half of which he has been principal investigator. He has contributed to almost 100 papers and communications in