Alfredo González-Ruibal

Contact details

alfredo.gonzalez-ruibal@incipit.csic.es

+34 881 048 206

Role at Incipit

Alfredo González-Ruibal is major participant of the archaeology discipline and minor participant of the anthropology discipline.

Areas of interest

Arqueología del pasado contemporáneo. Arqueología de África. Etnoarqueología. Teoría arqueológica. Arqueología pública.

Posts

Incipit in Africa

With 4 projects in 3 countries, Incipit is one of the main references in Africanist archaeology in Spain.
Sirio Canós-Donnay, Alfredo González-Ruibal, Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez and Andreu Martínez

Projects

Books

An archaeology of the contemporary era, 2nd edition

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2025 Routledge

Archaeology, Heritage, and Reactionary Populism

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2025 Univeristy Press of Florida

Tierra arrasada. Un viaje por la violencia del Paleolítico al siglo XXI

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2023 Crítica

Arqueología del Valle de los Caídos Prospección y excavación en los espacios de vida de los trabajadores y sus familiares

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Xurxo Ayán, Márcia L Hattori, Carlos Marín Suárez, Pablo GutiérrezDeLeón, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Cristina Incio-del-Río and Candela Martínez Barrio
Memoria Democrática. Fosas y Exhumaciones
2021 Ministerio de la Presidencia y Relaciones con las Cortes y Memoria Democrática

The archaeology of the Spanish Civil War

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2020 Routledge

An archaeology of the contemporary era

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2019 Routledge

Arqueología. Una introducción al estudio de la materialidad del pasado.

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author) and Xurxo Ayán
2018 Alianza

An archaeology of resistance. Materiality and time in an African Borderland

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2013 Rowman & Littlefield

Edited books

DIVERSA: arqueoloxía dende o Incipit alén Europa / archaeology from Incipit beyond Europe

Pastor Fábrega-Álvarez, Felipe Criado-Boado, David Barreiro, César Parcero-Oubiña, Cecilia Dal Zovo, Camila Ginaotti-García, A. César González-García and Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
ANAINA, Serie electrónica de monografías didácticas y de divulgación
2017 CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit)

Ethics and the archaeology of violence

Alfredo González-Ruibal (editor)
2016 Springer

Reclaming archaeology. Beyond the tropes of modernity

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2013 Routledge

Book sections

Geographies of undoing

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Undoing Things. How Objects, Bodies and Worlds Come Apart
2025 Routledge

Espacios del deshacer, geografías del abandono.

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Contar el abandono. Paisajes de un mundo en ruinas
2025 Bellaterra

Camino de las ruinas

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
El tiempo de las ruinas
2023 Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana

Long Distance Trade in Somalia, 1st–19th Centuries AD

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History
2023 Oxford University Press

The archaeology of disappearance

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Anthropology of Violent Death: Theoretical Foundations for Forensic Humanitarian Action
2023 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Walking through the Darkest Valley. Heritage and hatred in the era of reactionary populism

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Polarized Pasts: Heritage and Belonging in Times of Political Polarization
2023 Berghahn Books

War near at home. Doing conflict archaeoology

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Archaeology outside the box
2023 UCLA - Cotsen Institute of Archaeology

Long-distance trade in Somalia, 1st-19th centuries AD

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Oxford Research Encyclopaedia in African History
2022 Oxford University Press

El origen de los grupos étnicos de Guinea Ecuatorial

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Tesoros Naturales de Guinea Ecuatorial
2022 Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas : Los Libros de la Catarata

Once objetos de la guerra civil española.

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
La guerra civil española en cien objetos, imágenes y lugares
2022 Galaxia Gutenberg

New evidence of long-distance trade in Somaliland in Antiquity: Imported materials from the 2018-2019 field seasons at Xiis (Heis), first to third centuries AD”

Adolfo Fernández Fernández, Alfredo González-Ruibal (author) and Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez
NETWORKED SPACES. The spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean.Proceedings of the IX Red Sea Conference
2022 MOM Éditions

Towns in a sea of nomads: territory and trade in Central Somaliland during the Medieval period

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Candela Martínez Barrio and Pablo GutiérrezDeLeón
Shaping Cultural Landscapes. Connecting Agriculture, Crafts, Construction, Transport, and Resilience Strategies
2022 Sidestone Press

Decolonizing the future: Folk art environments and the temporality of heritage

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Cultural heritage and the future
2021 Routledge

Memory and Redemption: Lessons from a Peasant Ecology

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Heritage Ecologies
2021 Routledge

New evidence of long-distance trade in Somaliland in Antiquity: Imported materials from the 2018-2019 field seasons at Xiis (Heis), first to third centuries AD

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Adolfo Fernández Fernández and Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Proceedings of the IX Red Sea Conference
2021

Towns in a sea of nomads. Territory and trade in medieval Somaliland

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Candela Martínez Barrio and Pablo GutiérrezDeLeón
Proceedings of the 25th EAA conference
2021

Challenge L: Mobilized memories: deployments of the past in the present and the future (Ferrándiz F, Mate R, Zamora JA, Sánchez Cuervo A, Santesmases MJ, López-Ocón L, González-Ruibal A, Tomé P, Hristova M, Baer A, Carps S, Erll A)

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
CSIC SCIENTIFIC CHALLENGES: TOWARDS 2030. White Paper 1: New foundations for a sustainable global society
2021

Desaparición social y arqueología

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
La desaparición social. Límites y posibilidades de una herramienta para entender vidas que no cuentan
2021 Universidad del País Vasco

No pasaron: arqueología de la Batalla de Madrid

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez and Pedro Rodríguez Simón
Arqueología de la Guerra Civil y la Dictadura Española La historia NO escrita
2020 BAR Publishing

Redistribuir lo sensible. Sobre el régimen estético de la arqueología

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Post-Arcadia ¿Qué arte para qué naturaleza?
2020 CENDEAC

Colonies, missions, violence and trade. Historical Archaeology in Northeast Africa

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology
2020 Routledge

Colonies, missions, violence and trade: The historical archaeology of NE Africa

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
The Routledge Handbook of Global Historical Archaeology
2020 Routledge

Object Worlds

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age
2020 Bloomsbury

Object Worlds

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
A Cultural History of Objects in the Modern Age, Volume 6
2020 Bloomsbury

What remains? On material nostalgia

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
After Discourse. Things, Affects, Ethics
2020 Routledge

Ruins of the South

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2017

The Virtues of Oblivion: Africa and the People without Antiquarianism.

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2017

An Archaeology of Predation

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

L'archéologie de la violence en Espagne (1936-1975).

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Beyond the mass grave. Producing and remembering landscapes of memory in Francoist Spain

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Colonial Encounters in Spanish Equatorial Africa (Eighteenth ? Twentieth centuries)

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Heritage and Violence

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Land of amnesia. Power, predation and heritage in Central Africa

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

The Prison of Carabanchel (Madrid, Spain): A Life Story

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Articles

Rise of the Nomad Kings—Pastoral Polities in the Horn of Africa (A . D . 650–1000)

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Álvaro Falquina-Aparicio, Candela Martínez Barrio, Pedro Rodríguez Simón, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Laura Muñoz-Encinar, Adrián De La Torre García and Antonio Rodríguez Hidalgo
Journal of Field Archaeology
2025 Routledge

Traditions of Equality: The Archaeology of Egalitarianism and Egalitarian Behavior in Sub-Saharan Africa (First and Second Millennium CE).

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
2025 Springer

Locus amoenus, locus terribilis. El campamento de prisioneros del Prado de la Zarza (Guadalajara), 1938-1939

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author) and Alejandro González-Trejo
Ebre 38
2025

Landscapes of Memory and Power: The Archaeology of a Forgotten Kingdom in Ethiopia

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
African Archaeological Review
2024 Springer

"The medieval town of Handoga (Djibouti). A report of the 2021 field season. "

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Candela Martínez Barrio, Pablo GutiérrezDeLeón, Carolina Cornax-Gómez and Álvaro Minguito Palomares
Journal of Global Archaeology
2023

Gernika, Ucrania y la extrema derecha española

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Diario Público
2022

Excavating Europe’s last fascist monument: The Valley of the Fallen (Spain)

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Journal of Social archaeology
2022

¿Hubo crímenes franquistas después de Franco?

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Diario Público
2022

El siglo XX regresa a lomos de un tanque

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Diario Público
2022

El Valle de los Caídos: lo que cuenta la arqueología de los presos y sus familias

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Diario Público
2022

Gestas de la historia de España

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Diario Público
2022

Las grandes fosas de la Guerra Civil no están las cunetas

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Diario Público
2022

Making and unmaking the state in the Horn of Africa: A deep-time perspective

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Geoforum
2022 Elsevier

Nomads trading with empires: Intercultural trade in ancient Somaliland in the first to seventh centuries CE

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Candela Martínez Barrio, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Adolfo Fernández Fernández, Pablo GutiérrezDeLeón and Ahmed Dualeh Jama
American Journal of Archaeology
2022

Asia in the Horn. The Indian Ocean trade in Somaliland

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Candela Martínez Barrio and Pablo GutiérrezDeLeón
Archaeological Research in Asia
2021

Nomads trading with empires. Intercultural trade in ancient Somaliland (1st-7th c. AD)

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Candela Martínez Barrio, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Adolfo Fernández Fernández, Pablo GutiérrezDeLeón and Ahmed Dualeh Jama
American Journal of Archaeology
2021

Subaltern assemblages. The archaeology of marginal places and identities

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
World Archaeology
2021

The cosmopolitan borderland: Western Ethiopia c. AD 600-1800

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Antiquity
2021

Twenty years of forensic archaeology and anthropology of the Spanish Civil War (1936–1939) and Francoist Regime

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Nicolas Grant, Laura Muñoz-Encinar, Francisco Etxeberría, Lourdes Herrasti and Jordi Ramos
Forensic Science International: Synergy
2021 Elsevier

El secuestro de la Historia

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Público
2021

Reviewing Christopher Witmore’s Old Lands: A Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese (London: Routledge, 2020)

Christopher Witmore, William Caraher, Alfredo González-Ruibal (author) and Johana Hanink
2021

Arqueología de la Desaparición

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Papeles del CEIC, International Journal on Collective Identity Research
2020

Cuánto tarda una sociedad en irse al garete y montarse una cultura post-apocalíptica

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Xataka
2020

Somalilandia, arqueología en el desierto del Cuerno de África

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
National Geographic Historia
2020 National Geographic

Un estudio científico de las fosas de la Guerra Civil: quiénes y cómo fueron asesinados

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
The Conversation
2020

The 2020 field season at the medieval settlement of Fardowsa (Somaliland)

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Pablo GutiérrezDeLeón, Candela Martínez Barrio, Álvaro Minguito Palomares and Ahmed Dualeh Jama
Nyame Akuma
2020 Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Visual Archaeologies: Editorial Introduction.

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Journal of Contemporary Archaeology
2020 Equinox Press

War between neighbours: the archaeology of internal conflict and civil war

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
World Archaeology
2020 Taylor & Francis

Ethical Issues in Indigenous Archaeology: Problems with Difference and Collaboration

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Canadian Journal of Bioethics
2019

The Dats’ in: historical experience and cultural identity of an undocumented indigenous group of the Sudanese-Ethiopian borderland

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Journal of Eastern African Studies
2019 Taylor & Francis

War between neighbours: The archaeology of internal conflict and civil war

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
world Archaeology
2019

Excavation of a 1st century AD tomb in Heis (Somaliland): evincing long-distance trade contacts

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez and Ahmed Dualeh Jama
Nyame Akuma
2019 Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Against reactionary populism: towards a new public archaeology

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Pablo Alonso-González and Felipe Criado-Boado
Antiquity
2018 Cambridge University Press

Beyond the anthropocene: defining the age of destruction

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Norwegian Archaeological Review
2018 Taylor & Francis

Ethics of Archaeology

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
Annual Review of Anthropology
2018

The fair and the sanctuary: gathering places in a nomadic landscape (Somaliland, 1000–1850 AD).

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author) and Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez
World Archaeology
2018 Taylor & Francis

A Christian Frontier: Archaeological survey of a religious landscape in Metema, NW Ethiopia (ca. 1400-1800).

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2017

Bulhar: a colonial town in Somaliland. Results from the 2017 field season.

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2017

Exploring long distance trade in Somaliland (AD 1000?1900): preliminary results from the 2015-2016 field seasons

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2017

In Sudan's eastern borderland. Frontier societies in the Qwara lowlands (500-1850 AD).

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2017

House Societies in the Ancient Mediterranean (2000?500 BC)

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Prospección arqueológica y etnoarqueológica de Metema y Qwara

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Archaeology and the Time of Modernity

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Ethnoarchaeology or simply archaeology?

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

The Iron Age in West Central Africa: Radiocarbon dates from Corisco Island (Equatorial Guinea).

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Results documents

Recuperación de la memoria de las víctimas civiles de los bombardeos aéreos de Madrid. Estudio arqueológico sobre los restos de las viviendas obreras destruidas por las bombas en la plaza del fotógrafo Robert Capa.

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author), Álvaro Falquina-Aparicio and Candela Martínez Barrio
2023

Sondeos arqueológicos en los restos de la Guerra Civil en la Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid. Campaña de 2017. Informe preliminar

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2018

Arqueología de la Guerra Civil en el Valle del Tajuña (Guadalajara). Campaña de 2014. Memoria científica

Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2016

Audio/video productions

The Incipit-CSIC project in Somaliland, 2017 field season

Rubén Vuelta-Santín and Alfredo González-Ruibal (author)
2017

PhD theses

Arqueología del Desarraigo: Una aproximación histórico-arqueológica a la despoblación y el abandono del medio rural, Hontanillas (Guadalajara, España), c. 1950-2020.

Rafael Millán-Pascual, Felipe Criado-Boado and Alfredo González-Ruibal (supervisor)
2024 Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea

An archaeology of necropolitics: Omission, disappearance and legacies of dictatorship in Brazil

Márcia L Hattori and Alfredo González-Ruibal (supervisor)
2022 UPV-Universidad del País Vasco

Etnoarqueología de la arquitectura en las comunidades nilosaharianas de la frontera etíope-sudanesa.

Álvaro Falquina-Aparicio and Alfredo González-Ruibal (supervisor)
2018 Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Paisagens em mudança na transição entre a Idade do Ferro e época romana no Alto Tâmega e Cávado

João Fonte, César Parcero-Oubiña, Alfredo González-Ruibal (supervisor) and Maria de Conceição Lopes
2016 Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

Master's theses

Las fosas del Franquismo en Galicia: estado de la cuestión y propuesta de actuación

Fátima Rodríguez-Porto, Alfredo González-Ruibal (supervisor) and Pau Sureda
2022 Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Undergraduate courses

Contemporary Archaeology, Stanford University

Stanford. United States
From 2021

Master's courses

Máster d'Estudis Avançats en Arqueologia, Universitat de Barcelona

Barcelona. Spain
2018

Máster en Arqueología de la Universidad de Chile

Santiago de Chile. Chile
2016

Postgraduate courses

Archéologie Moderne et Contemporaine

Bruselas. Bélgica
2019

Programa de Pós-Graduaçao em Antropologia

Belo Horizonte. Brasil
2015

Conferences

30th Annual Meeting EAA 2024

Roma. Spain
2024

Archaeological sensitivity conference

Paris. France
2021

Society of Africanist Archaeologists (SAfA) 2021 Conference

Online. United Kingdom
2021

Theoretical Archaeology Group (TAG)

Londres. United Kingdom
2019

Red Sea 9 - Networked Spaces. The spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean

Lyon. France
2019

Colloque Archeoéthique, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art (INHA)

París. France
2018

5th Landscape Archaeology Conference (LAC 2018)

Newcastle/Durham. United Kingdom
2018

24th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Barcelona. Spain
2018

2018 Roman Archaeology Conference / 28th Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference

Edinburgh. United Kingdom
2018

XVIII Congresso da Sociedade de Arqueologia Brasileira

Goiania. Brasil
2015

XVIII Congresso da Sociedade de Arqueologia Brasileira

Goiania. Brasil
2015

Symosium Antiquarianismss across the Atlantic

Providence. United States
2015

Mini-conferences

imagen Documentos programa ARKEOLOGI MUSEOA (Bilbao): ENCUENTROS ARQUEOLÓGICOS "La arqueología de la guerra"

Bilbao. Spain
2023

Paisajes del Abandono

Bilbao. Spain
2023

Medieval Archaeology in the Horn of Africa. Exeter University

Exeter. United Kingdom
2021

Nuevas Desapariciones, Nuevos Espacios

Bilbao. Spain
2019

Life of Crops: Towards an Investigative Memorialization

Austria. Austria
2019

Archaeological Perspectives on the Anthropocene

Toronto. Canadá
2019

Archaeology in the XXI century

Moscú. Rusia
2019

Arqueología y Guerra Civil

Valencia. Spain
2019

La Casa de Campo. Un Patrimonio Histórico Singular de Madrid

Madrid. Spain
2016

Arqueología de la Guerra Civil

Toledo. Spain
2016

Workshops

Heritage and Authoritarianism, 19th Cambridge Heritage Symposium

Cambridge. United Kingdom
2018

Philosophy, archaeology and community perspectives: finding new ground

Konstanz. Germany
2018

Temporal Frontiers and the Excessivity of Time in Africa, British Institute in Eastern Africa (BIDEA)

Nairobi. Kenya
2018

Roundtables

Archaeology, resistance and civil society

Heidelberg. Germany
2019

Talks

UNA Europa Online Lectures - PhD Workshop "Heritage Hybridisations: Concepts, Scales and Spaces"

París y Online. France
2021

An archaeology of refugees in precolonial Africa. The case of the Horn

Alfredo González-Ruibal (presenter)
2021

“El expolio de los sitios de la Guerra Civil”

Alfredo González-Ruibal (presenter)
2021

Conferencia invitada en las universidades de York y Trent

Toronto. Canadá
2018

Conferencia invitada en la Universidad de Paris X-Nanterre

París. Spain
2018

Ciclo de conferencias La arqueología española en el exterior

madrid. Spain
2016-2017

Conferencia en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Madrid. Spain
2016

Conferencia invitada en Universidad de Chile

Santiago de Chile. Chile
2016

Groups of talks

Seminario Rastros y Rostros de la Violencia

Madrid. Spain
2016

African Peoples and Pasts Seminar Series 2015-16

Londres. United Kingdom
2015

Nuevos materialismos

Vitoria-Gasteiz. Spain
2015

Foro Cultura y Sociedad. Debate con grupos de reflexión

Madrid. Spain
2015

The Archaeology of Contemporary Violence

Konstanz. Germany
2015

Spanish Civil War Digital Initiative/Virtual Museum

Warwick. United Kingdom
2015

Material and Visual Worlds Speaker Series

Binghamton. United States
2015

Penn Anthropology Colloquium

Pennsylvania. United States
2015

Kick-off artists’ residencies NEARCH. Jan van Eyck Academie

Maastricht. Netherlands
2015

Exhibitions

DIVERSA: Arqueoloxía dende o Incipit alén Europa

Santiago de Compostela, Pontevedra, Cambados, Lalín, Vilagarcía. Spain
2014-2015

Others

Centre of African Studies Seminar - Cambridge

Cambridge. United Kingdom
2016

Alfredo González-Ruibal

Associate Professor