Policarp Hortolà i Gómez

POLICARP HORTOLÀ I GÓMEZ

General Information

• Investigador / Researcher: Hortolà i Gómez, Policarp
• Àrea de coneixement / Knowledge area: Prehistòria
• Categoria / Category: Investigador Ordinari
• Grup de Recerca / Research group: IPHES-CERCA
• Departament / Department: Història i Història de l'Art
• Telèfon / Telephone: 977943003
• E-mail: policarp.hortola@urv.cat
• Pàgina web: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Policarp-Hortola-2

He qualified as a biologist (BSc plus MSc) at the University of Barcelona (UB). Later on, he pursued a doctoral program on the sedimentary record and paleoenvironmental evolution at the Stratigraphy & Palaeontology Department of UB. Then, he was granted a pre-doctorate fellowship to conduct research at the Prehistory Area of Rovira i Virgili University (URV). He earned his PhD degree from URV with a thesis on the morphology of mammalian erythrocytes in bloodstains on lithic raw materials of interest to prehistoric technology. His field of expertise is the scanning electron microscopy of bloodstains (haemotaphonomy). In addition to his main activity as a researcher, he has taught courses on Human Paleoecology, Molecular Archaeology, and Epistemology and Theory of Knowledge in Archaeology. He currently teaches courses on Genetics and Epistemology of Evolution in the Degree in Anthropology and Human Evolution (URV-UOC interuniversity degree).

Latest publications:

• Hortolà, P. (2023). Epistemología de la evolución. Una introducción a sus bases científico-filosóficas. Sant Vicent del Raspeig (Alacant): Editorial Club Universitario. ISBN 978-84-125454-9-4.
• Carbonell, E; Hortolà, P. (2022). How do we humans evolve? In (J. Bertranpetit & J. Peretó, eds.) Illuminating human evolution: 150 years after Darwin, pp. 151-158. Londres [etc.]: Springer Nature. ISBN 978-981-19-3245-8.
• Hortolà, P. (2020). Microscopic imaging of human bloodstains: testing the potential of a confocal laser scanning microscope as an alternative to SEMs. Micron 130C, article 102821 (4 pp.).
• Hortolà, P. (2020). The underlying emotional background of Quaternary palaeontology: nostalgia and Ubi sunt in a postdictive science. Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 26 (2), pp. 139-147.
• Carbonell, E; Hortolà, P. (2020). From past unaware hominization to future conscious humanization: social evolution in retrospect and prospect. In (L. Grinin & A. Korotayev, eds.) Evolution. Evolutionary Aspects: Stars, Primates, and Religion, pp. 32-54. Volgograd (Rússia): Uchitel Publishing House. ISBN 978-5-7057-5944-6.
• Hortolà, P. (2020). From thermodynamics to biology: a critical approach to 'intelligent design' hypothesis. Social Evolution and History 19 (2), pp. 3-19.
• Hortolà, P. (2019). A multilingual Romance-language lexicon for manufactured objects. Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 25 (1), pp. 197-210.
• Hortolà, P. (2018). Human bloodstains on New Guinea bone daggers: a guiding SEM study using ratite bird bone. In (T. Crowley & A. Mills, eds.) Weapons, culture and the anthropology museum, pp.109-118. Newcastle upon Tyne (UK): Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-0375-5.
• Hortolà, P. (2018). Experimental artefacts in research on prehistoric and aboriginal technology: a standardised terminology and registry code based on alpha-taxonomy and the chaîne opératoire. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 10 (1), pp. 31-40.
• Carbonell, E; Hortolà, P. (2018). Selección natural, técnica y cultural en el porvenir de nuestra especie. Información Filosófica (Roma) 15 (26), pp. 39-43.
• Hortolà, P. (2018). Disseny intel·ligent: una aproximació històrica i crítica. Podall (Montblanc) 6-7, pp. 388-394.
• Carbonell, E; Hortolà, P. (2018). Teoria, «veritat» i realitat en les construccions científiques. Podall (Montblanc) 6-7, pp. 379-387.
• Hortolà, P. (2017). From antiquities to memorabilia: a standardised terminology for ancestral artefacts according to manufacture date. Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica 23 (2), pp. 213-225.
• Hortolà, P. (2017). Biomoléculas antiguas. Una introducción a la arqueología molecular. Sant Vicent del Raspeig (Alacant): Editorial Club Universitario. ISBN 978-84-16704-99-6.
• Hortolà, P. (2016). Conceptualising 'fossiliferous deposit' against 'palaeontological deposit': some semantic (and epistemological) considerations. Historical Biology, vol. 28 (6), pp. 858-860.
• Hortolà, P. (2016). Human bloodstains on bone artefacts: an SEM intra- and inter-sample comparative study using ratite bird tibiotarsus. Micron, vol. 90, pp. 108-113.