Marcos Llobera

Marcos Llobera serves as Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Washington, based in Denny Hall room M242. His academic profile integrates archaeological theory with advanced computational methodologies, focusing on landscape analysis through Geographic Information Systems and data science techniques. Contact is available via mllobera@uw.edu with supplementary resources on his professional website.

Dr. Llobera's research program pioneers computational frameworks for investigating past landscapes, examining how societies constructed perceptual, ritual, and socio-economic relationships with their environments. His methodology emphasizes GIS-driven spatial analysis of landscape transformation, particularly in Mediterranean contexts like the Balearic Islands, while incorporating interpretative archaeological approaches to decode symbolic dimensions of place. This work manifests in courses such as Archaeological GIS and Exploring Graffiti: Combining Landscape Archaeology and Data Science across undergraduate and graduate levels.

His scholarly output reveals consistent thematic focus on Mediterranean island archaeology and computational landscape analysis, exemplified by the 2015 co-authored study of prehistoric communities in northeastern Mallorca. This research demonstrates his signature approach of merging field recording with spatial modeling to trace long-term cultural landscape evolution, though current publication activity appears concentrated in pedagogical and project-based outputs like the LEIAp initiative.

No scientific awards, fellowships, or medals were documented in available materials.

Dr. Llobera has mentored doctoral candidates including:

• Rodrigo Solinis Casparius (Dissertation: "The Role of Road Networks in Social Definition and Integration: Angamuco, Michoacan (250-1530 CE)", 2019)

His research is institutionally supported through the Landscape, Encounters and Identity project (LEIAp) as evidenced by the 2020 Mallorca fieldwork report, though specific grant mechanisms and funding bodies remain unspecified in public documentation.

He leads the Landscape, Encounters and Identity project (LEIAp), conducting computational landscape archaeology research in the Western Mediterranean. This initiative employs integrated field recording techniques and spatial analysis to investigate human-landscape interactions across temporal scales on Mallorca, with particular attention to ritual pathways and settlement patterns. The project operates through interdisciplinary collaboration between UW's Anthropology Department and Balearic archaeological institutions, maintaining active field operations as recently as 2020.