Carlos Fernández González MA PCIfA

Project Officer

Carlos graduated from the University of Valladolid in Spain in 1999, including one year of studying as an Erasmus student at University College of Galway in the Republic of Ireland. During this time, he participated as a volunteer in several archaeological projects in different countries including France, Brazil, Spain and Portugal.

Carlos started working in commercial archaeology while completing his MA in Latin American Archaeology and Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid (2004). He experienced the boom in commercial archaeology in Spain during the period of the building rush (2000-2008) and excavated a number of important sites in different historical cities and regions of Spain (Toledo, Madrid, Valencia, Málaga, Granada, the Basque Country, Galicia). During this period he was also in charge of running fieldwalk surveys, watching briefs, evaluations and excavation projects, as well as preparing Desk-Based Assessments. He has worked in commercial archaeology in other European countries such as Portugal (2011-2012), on the River Sabor dam construction project, and since 2014 in three different companies in the UK. Carlos joined AOC in September 2020, after a short period of working for the Museum of Natural History in Oxford. 

Carlos has carried out ethnoarchaeogical fieldwork among indigenous communities in Brazil to research their lithic material culture and has published some of the results of his research in academic journals in Spain and the US. 

Select Bibliography

(Article in the press) “Discovery of a bronze Roman coin from the period of Emperor Tiberius in a field walk archaeological survey in Zújar, Granada”. In the Annual Archaeological Review of Andalusia, 2009, Sevilla.

2016, “The Chaîne Opératoire of the flint axes of the Myky indigenous tribe (Mato Grosso, Brazil)”. In Lithic Technology Volume 41, Number 3: 181-193

2007 “The Phenomenon of the Nomad lifestyle.” Introduction to: Nómades by M. Valcarcel Cabo, Published by Fundación Caixa Galicia, La Coruña: 9-15.

Et al., 2005, “Archaeological interventions in Respalacios church and medieval graveyard in Villordún, Cantabria.” In Sautuola NºXI - Review of the Institute of Prehistory-Archaeology, Santander: 293-334.

2000, “On the lack of communication between archaeology and society: the role of experimental archaeology.” In Nivel Cero N° 8, Santander: 107-116.