Alejandro Garés-Molero
I am La Caixa Foundation doctoral fellow in Classical Archaeology at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, with the Ph.D. dissertation “Late Attic Black-Figure Pottery in the Western Mediterranean: Productions, Trade and Consumption”.
Research lines: Athenian ceramic industry (potters and mass-production), Western Mediterranean trade (ports, shipwrecks and maritime routes) and Identities in Iron-Age Iberian Peninsula.
My work is supported by a short but intense research career, publishing in specialized journals and monographs, and registering active participation in two international competitive projects: “El Sec Wreck Re-Excavation Project” (INA Texas – Universitat de València) and “QartLand” (MINECO: PID2022-139214NB-I00).
I have conducted research stays at La Sapienza Università di Roma (2025), at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2024) and at La Universitat de València (2023), where I have worked closely with multidisciplinary teams specialized in ancient Mediterranean trade.
At the same time, I enjoy teaching Greek Art and Archaeology at the Facultad de FIlosofía y Letras (UAM) as a lecturer assistant. There, I try to employ 3D and new technologies as main didactic tools.
Supervisors: Carmen Sánchez (UAM), Agustín A Diez Castillo (UV), and José Pérez Ballester (UV)
Research lines: Athenian ceramic industry (potters and mass-production), Western Mediterranean trade (ports, shipwrecks and maritime routes) and Identities in Iron-Age Iberian Peninsula.
My work is supported by a short but intense research career, publishing in specialized journals and monographs, and registering active participation in two international competitive projects: “El Sec Wreck Re-Excavation Project” (INA Texas – Universitat de València) and “QartLand” (MINECO: PID2022-139214NB-I00).
I have conducted research stays at La Sapienza Università di Roma (2025), at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (2024) and at La Universitat de València (2023), where I have worked closely with multidisciplinary teams specialized in ancient Mediterranean trade.
At the same time, I enjoy teaching Greek Art and Archaeology at the Facultad de FIlosofía y Letras (UAM) as a lecturer assistant. There, I try to employ 3D and new technologies as main didactic tools.
Supervisors: Carmen Sánchez (UAM), Agustín A Diez Castillo (UV), and José Pérez Ballester (UV)
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in Greek pottery across the Mediterranean region. It primarily
focuses on distribution mechanisms and trade dynamics at a large
scale through a series of case studies and synthetic papers, including
previously unpublished material. Contributors aim to identify
the routes taken by Greek ceramics across the Mediterranean
Sea to distant lands and to consider how they were subsequently
redistributed. Commercial contexts (ports, shipwrecks and
warehouses) are studied with a view to elucidating the dynamics,
organization, and main drivers of the pottery trade. Case studies
cover a diverse range of ceramic types and geographical contexts,
from the Iberian Peninsula to Thrace.
For more info, see: https://doi.org/10.30861/9781407362373
Papers & Book Chapters by Alejandro Garés-Molero
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This paper studies the presence of Attic black-figure vases in the southeastern area of the Iberian Peninsula. We focus on the productive characterisation of the material under study, offering insights into the definition of workshops and datings. At the same time, an analysis of the Mediterranean and regional trade dynamics in which these products are framed is carried out. These tell us about a Phoenician-Punic supply and the importance of local enterprises, which facilitated the import of Attic pottery into the territory. We also study the deposition contexts of vases, which allow us to identify a diacritical use of these imports by the Iberian elites of the 6th and 5th centuries BCE to elaborate aristocratic discourses.
Las cerámicas griegas e itálicas de La Fonteta corresponden a unos documentos arqueológicos del máximo interés para la arqueología de la provincia de Alicante, de la Protohistoria de la península ibérica y de la colonización del Mediterráneo occidental. Un interés que no reside únicamente en los vasos en sí, sino también en lo que indica su repertorio, sus formas y su adopción diacrítica por parte de los fenicios de La Fonteta. Una combinación que dibuja un comportamiento comercial, cultural y social complejo cuyo estudio requiere de un esfuerzo metodológico y de la colaboración entre especialistas de muy amplio espectro, que parte de la correcta identificación de cada uno de los testimonios materiales estudiados y su comparación con los grupos tipológicos en Grecia o Italia para, seguidamente, caracterizar el conjunto y compararlo con los repertorios de importaciones griegas e itálicas en otros emporios o ciudades fenicias del Mediterráneo occidental.
En este trabajo nos proponemos reconstruir la vida social que las últimas series de figuras negras tuvieron en contextos peninsulares. Estudiamos sus itinerarios, así como sus posibles dinámicas de consumo. Incidimos en la interacción física con los vasos y sus imágenes, que interpretamos en relación a sus contextos de hallazgo. De esta manera, intentamos reconstruir las lecturas y usos –reales y simbólicos– que íberos y griegos pudieron dar a las figuras negras tardías. El mundo ibérico otorga a estos vasos usos específicos: el aspecto arcaizante, a la par que ambiguo, de sus figuras los integra en la construcción discursos sociales e identitarios. En Empúries, en cambio, las figuras negras tardías se consumen siguiendo modelos griegos, pero con ciertas características propias.
Imparted Lectures, Courses and Workshops by Alejandro Garés-Molero
Scientific Sessions by Alejandro Garés-Molero
The session is sponsored by El Sec Shipwreck Re-excavation Project (Universitat de València).
Conference Presentations by Alejandro Garés-Molero
The complete process of production, commercialization and consumption in the West of these ceramics is studied. To this end, we characterize the Haimonian series, contrasting established attributions on artistic grounds with the archeological record of its production center, Athens. In this way, we identify production groups and phases. Secondly, we analyze the vase-trading process itself, establishing supply routes and areas. For this purpose, we follow series distribution in western territories and consider both relevant archeological contexts (i.e. coetaneous shipwrecks) and pan-Mediterranean trade dynamics. The reception process is also considered, as we distinguish consumption patterns and demand indexes of Haimonian series, shapes and iconographies among different cultural –and commercial– areas.
The exposed study has revealed significant results that will be presented in this paper: 1) the vases of the Haimon workshop were traded in serial groups as they tended to be conjunctly used in western territories; 2) There existed a demand for specific shapes depending on reception areas (market-driven production hypothesis); 3) local buyers showed a particular interest in Haimonian figural programs, using them to construct various social and identity discourses.
En esta contribución nos proponemos reconstruir la vida social que las últimas series áticas de figuras negras tuvieron en contextos peninsulares. Estudiamos los itinerarios que siguieron estas series, su distribución en los espacios sociales, así como sus posibles dinámicas de consumo. Incidimos en la interacción física con los vasos, especialmente con sus imágenes, que interpretamos en relación a sus contextos de hallazgo. De esta manera, intentamos reconstruir las lecturas y usos –reales y simbólicos– que íberos y emporitanos pudieron dar a las series de figuras negras tardías. El mundo ibérico otorga a estos vasos usos específicos: el aspecto ambiguo pero arcaizante de sus figuras contribuye a que sean estas series, y no otras, las que se utilicen en determinados casos para construir discursos sociales e identitarios. En Empúries, las figuras negras tardías se consumen siguiendo modelos griegos. Pese a ello, observamos ciertas tendencias de uso (ej. predilección por ciertas formas e iconografías, y consumo en lotes) que no se registran en otras colonias como Marseille.