Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez

Información de contacto

jorge.detorres-rodriguez@incipit.csic.es

Rol en el centro

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez es participante principal de la especialidad de arqueología. Anteriormente ha sido investigador colaborador del Incipit.

Áreas de interés

Arqueología, arqueología africana, cuerno de África, arte rupestre africano, GIS, estadística

Reseña biográfica

Jorge de Torres Rodríguez es doctor en Prehistoria por la UCM. Tiene una amplia experiencia como arqueólogo de campo en África (Marruecos, Etiopía, Mozambique, Sudán y Somalilandia). Desde el año 2015 es miembro del equipo de trabajo del proyecto arqueológico en Somalilandia y es coautor de todas las publicaciones derivadas de dicho proyecto. Recientemente ha conseguido una Starting Grant del European Research Council para estudiar el surgimiento de estados medievales en el Cuerno de África

Piezas

El Incipit en África

Con 4 proyectos en 3 países, el Incipit es uno de los principales referentes de la arqueología africana en nuestro país.
Sirio Canós-Donnay, Alfredo González-Ruibal, Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez y Andreu Martínez

Proyectos

Secciones de libro

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

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

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 y Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
NETWORKED SPACES. The spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean.Proceedings of the IX Red Sea Conference
2022 MOM Éditions

The medieval archaeology of Somaliland

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
2022 Oxford Encyclopaedia of Archaeology.

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

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

The Archaeology of the medieval trade networks in Western Somaliland

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
NETWORKED SPACES. The spatiality of networks in the Red Sea and Western Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the IX Red Sea Conference
2022 MOM Éditions

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 (autor), Adolfo Fernández Fernández y Alfredo González-Ruibal
Proceedings of the IX Red Sea Conference
2021

The Archaeology of the medieval trade networks in Western Somaliland

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
Red Sea IX Conference proceedings
2021

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

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

Artículos

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

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor), Jorge Rouco-Collazo, Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Carolina Cornax-Gómez y 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 y Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
2025

Gone with the wind. Urbanization and deurbanization processes in the medieval Muslim Horn of Africa: the case of Handoga (Djibouti)

Jorge Rouco-Collazo y Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
World Archaeology
2025

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

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

The Virtual Horn: estrategias digitales para la documentación y difusión de la arqueología del Cuerno de África

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor), Manuel-Antonio Franco-Fernandez, Pablo Aparicio Resco y Jorge Rouco-Collazo
Cuadernos de Prehistoria y Arqueología de la Universidad de Granada
2024

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

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

Urban mosques in the Horn of Africa during the medieval period

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

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

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

Of Names and Sites: Toponomy and Archaeology in Somaliland

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
StateHorn project blog
2022

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

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

StateHorn: a (pandemic) year’s account

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
StateHorn project blog
2021

Asia in the Horn. The Indian Ocean trade in Somaliland

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

Characterization of Glass, Shell, and Fishbone Beads on Ibo Island (Northern Mozambique) in the Context of the Indian Ocean Trade

Víctor Manuel Fernández Martínez, Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor), María Luisa Ruíz-Gálvez, Manuel García Heras, Fernando Agua y María Ángeles Villegas
2021

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

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

Quirimbas islands (Northern Mozambique) and the Swahili gold trade

María Luisa Ruíz-Gálvez, Alicia Perea Caveda, Carolina Gutiérrez, Hilario Madiquida, Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor), Víctor Manuel Fernández Martínez y Cezar Mahumane
Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
2021

The StateHorn Project: Authority, Legitimacy and Social Diversity in the Horn of Africa (11th-16th centuries)

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
The Bulleting of the International Association for the Study of Arabia
2021

Built on diversity: Statehood in Medieval Somaliland (12th-16th centuries AD)

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
Jornadas de Arqueología en el Exterior. Víctor M. Fernández Martínez, arqueólogo africanista.. Anejos de Nailos. Estudios Interdisciplinares de Arqueología
2020 APIAA. Asociación de Profesionales Independientes de la Arqueología de Asturias

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

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

(Re-)Investigating (indigenous) cult at Musawwarates-Sufra (Sudan): Excavations and mapping at the Apedemak Temple and in adjacent areas during the 2018-2019 field season

Cornelia Kleinitz, Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor) y Pedro Rodríguez Simón
Nyame Akuma
2019 Society of Africanist Archaeologists

Against All Odds: The History of Archaeological Research in Somaliland and Somalia

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
Northeast African Studies
2019 Michigan State University

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

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

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

Alfredo González-Ruibal y Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
World Archaeology
2018 Taylor & Francis

Documentos de resultados

Archaeological survey at the Gebiley región (October 2024)

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

Handoga. Informe de la campaña 2023

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

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

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

Handoga. Report of the 2024 campaign

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

Producciones audiovisuales

StateHorn. An ERC Project. Archaeology in the Horn of Africa

Rubén Vuelta-Santín y Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez (autor)
2024

Recursos web

Jorge DeTorres-Rodríguez

Científico Titular

IP ERC Starting Grant StateHorn