Carolina Cornax-Gómez

Relationship to Incipit

Carolina Cornax-Gómez was member and invited researcher of Incipit.

Projects

StateHorn

Pathways to Statehood: Authority, legitimacy and Social Diversity in the Horn of Africa (11th-16th centuries)

Edited books

New solutions for old problems: astronomical technologies applied to the study of the archaeological site of Xiis (Somaliland).

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author)
Nuevas aproximaciones a las realidades africanas y sus diásporas
2023 Universidad de Valladolid

Book sections

Meeting Ground: Mosques in the Horn of Africa During the Medieval Period

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez and Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author)
RASSEGNA DI STUDI ETIOPICI
2023 Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo Università di Napoli L’Orientale

Articles

The Medieval Occupation of the Gebiley Region: Documenting the Archaeology of Central Somaliland

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Jorge Rouco-Collazo, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author) and Adrián De La Torre García
Nyame Akuma
2026

From cairns to graves: funerary transformations in medieval sedentary communities in the Islamic Horn of Africa

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author) and Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez
Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
2025

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

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

Other African Archaeologies of the Red Sea: The medieval city of Handoga (Djibouti)

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author)
Periferias: desde los márgenes de la arqueología. Colección Petracos
2023 Instituto Universitario de Investigación en Arqueología, Patrimonio Histórico (INAPH) y Publicacions Universitat d’Alacant

The Medieval site of Dameraqad (Somaliland)

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author)
Nyame Akuma
2023

Urban mosques in the Horn of Africa during the medieval period

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author) and Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Mediterranée
2023

The Guiding Sky: Funerary Orientations and Nomadic Movements in Somaliland during Antiquity

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author), A. César González-García and Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez
Journal of Skyscape Archaeology
2022 Equinox

Digging the sky: astronomy, archaeology and the nomads of Somaliland. StateHorn project blog

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author)
2021

Results documents

Archaeological survey at the Gebiley región (October 2024)

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Jorge Rouco-Collazo, Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author), Mario Llorente-García and Adrián De La Torre García
2025

Handoga. Informe de la campaña 2023

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Valeria Franco-Salvi, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Jorge Rouco-Collazo, Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author) and Mario Llorente-García
2025

Archaeological survey at the Aw Bare and Harawo woredas (Somali Regional State, Ethiopia)

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Jorge Rouco-Collazo, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Valeria Franco-Salvi, Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author) and Mario Llorente-García
2024

Handoga. Report of the 2024 campaign

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Jorge Rouco-Collazo, Valeria Franco-Salvi, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez and Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author)
2024

Audio/video productions

Charlando con... Carolina CORNAX-GÓMEZ, investigadora predoctoral del programa GAIN de la Xunta Galicia en el Incipit, CSIC.

Leticia Tobalina-Pulido, Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author) and Rubén Vuelta-Santín
2023

De nenas a investigadoras, ciencia en feminino no INCIPIT. Vídeo completo

Rubén Vuelta-Santín, Yolanda Seoane-Veiga, Sonia García-Rodríguez, Valeria Franco-Salvi, Carolina Cornax-Gómez (collaborator), Laura Muñoz-Encinar, Leticia Tobalina-Pulido, Sirio Canós-Donnay, Andrea Rodríguez-Antón, Noemí Silva-Sánchez, Márcia L Hattori and Daniela Reggio
2023

De nenas a investigadoras, ciencia en feminino no INCIPIT. Vídeo corto promocional

Rubén Vuelta-Santín, Yolanda Seoane-Veiga, Sonia García-Rodríguez, Valeria Franco-Salvi, Carolina Cornax-Gómez (collaborator), Laura Muñoz-Encinar, Leticia Tobalina-Pulido, Sirio Canós-Donnay, Andrea Rodríguez-Antón, Noemí Silva-Sánchez, Márcia L Hattori and Daniela Reggio
2023

Master's theses

APROXIMACIÓN A LA INFLUENCIA DE LOS SUCESOS Y CUERPOS CELESTES EN LOS MONUMENTOS FUNERARIOS PREISLÁMICOS DE SOMALILANDIA A TRAVÉS DE LOS CASOS DE ESTUDIO DE XIIS Y GUGUX.

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (author), Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez and A. César González-García
2020 Universidad de Santiago de Compostela

Master's courses

Postgraduate courses

Curso Tecnologías aplicadas al Patrimonio Cultural UNED

Online. Spain
2024-2025

Archaeology and Heritage of Africa

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (organiser)
2023

Curso Tecnologías Digitales de Documentación Geométrica y Representación del Patrimonio, IX Edición. Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit-CSIC).

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (organiser)
2023

II Curso de Historias de Guerra y Paz. Entre la Guerra Colonial y las Resistencias: Causas, desarrollo y consecuencias.

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (organiser)
2021

Independent courses

Unearthing Traces of European Conflicts: Materiality, Memory, & Technology [TRACTS]

Santiago de Compostela. Spain
2023

Jornada de formación en manejo de sistemas de estación total y topografía. Instituto de Ciencias del Patrimonio (Incipit-CSIC)

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (organiser)
2023

Conferences

The story the dead tell about the living: An archaeological study about the medieval funerary practices of the Horn of Africa.

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (organiser)
2024

XIth Red Sea Conference: From Local to Global – The Role of Local Communities throughout the Red Sea History

Barcelona. Spain
2024

III Congreso Jóvenes Investigadores/as sobre África (CIJIA)

Granada. Spain
2023

XIV Jornadas de Jovens em Investigação Arqueológica

Lisboa. Portugal
2023

29th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA)

Belfast. Irlanda
2023

26th Biennial Meeting of teh Society of Africanist Archaeologist (SAfA)

Houston, Texas. United States
2023

16th Conference of the Panafrican Archaeological Association

Stone Town, Zanzibar. Tanzania, United Republic Of
2022

Beyond Sultanates: Muslim Narratives in the Medieval Horn of Africa

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez and Carolina Cornax-Gómez (presenter)
2022

Red Sea Project X Conference

Rethymno, Creta. Grecia
2022

NEW SOLUTIONS FOR OLD PROBLEMS: ASTRONOMICAL TECHNOLOGIES APPLIED TO THE STUDY OF THE archaeological site of XIIS (SOMALILAND).

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (presenter)
2021

Mini-conferences

Festas do Barrio de San Pedro 2025

Santiago de Compostela. Spain
2025

11F. Día internacional de la mujer y la niña en la ciencia 2023

A Coruña, Santiago de Compostela, Ortigueira. Spain
From 2023

XIII Jornadas de Jóvenes en Investigación Arqueológica (JIA)

Alicante. Spain
2022

Workshops

Taller de presentaciones en público

Santiago de Compostela. Spain
2024

Formación Psicoemocional Proyecto #BIEM CSIC 360

Montgat (Barcelona). Spain
2023-2024

Taller de Escritura Académica

Santiago de Compostela. Spain
2022-2023

Roundtables

Seminario de Investigación Incipit

Santiago de Compostela. Spain
2025

Talks

“11F: Mujeres en Arqueología”

Carolina Cornax-Gómez (organiser)
2024

Groups of talks

Hayaan Heritage Forum Online

Hargeisa. Somalia
2025

Expouniversitas: Forum de Innovación e Investigación Universitaria. Universidade de Vigo

Vigo. Spain
From 2021