ICREA Res. prof. at UB since 2010, and Vice-president of the World Archaeological Congress (2017-2025). Through current and previous positions (Univ.. of Flinders, Australia & Valencia) she explores the ‘Archaeologies’ of rock art from a multidisciplinary approach. Her performance in the field has earned her various academic distinctions: Blaze O'Connor Memorial Award (2013), Honorary appointments at Flinders Univ. (since 2009), Inner Mongolia Rock Art Protection and Research Association, and Rock Art Research Academy (2010), and a PhD Award (2006). She's curated two major exhibitions on rock art: Art Rupestre a la Terra d'Arnhem, Austràlia (Museu de Prehistòria de València 2023-24) (http://mupreva.org/exposiciones/?q=va&id=78) and Art Primer, Artistes de la Prehistòria (MAC-Barcelona, 2020-21; Museu de Lleida 2021-22), awarded the "Youniversal Award" of the 7th Annual Global Fine Art Awards 2021 (https://artprimer.mac.cat/es/) and still touring around Catalonia through arqueoxarxa.
Research interests
My current research projects aim at bridging the gap between scientific and heritage approaches to one of Europe's most extraordinary bodies of rock art, awarded UNESCO World Heritage Status in 1998: Levantine rock art. This research is funded with an ERC CoG (2019-2024). My aim is to achieve an holistic view of this art by combining a multidisciplinary (Archaeology, Heritage Science, IT and Ethnoarchaeology) and a multi-scale approach (from microanalysis to landscape perspectives) to: a. Redefine LRA through new dating techniques and analytical methods to understand the creative process. b. Use this rock art tradition as a proxy to raise new questions of global interest on the evolution of creative thinking and human cognition. c. Define best practices and protocols for open air rock art conservation and management.
Selected publications
- Domingo I, Roman D, Lerma J L, Rodríguez I, Zalbidea Muñoz M A, Vendrell M 2023, 'Multidisciplinary and Integral Approaches to Rock Art as a Strategy for Rock Art Conservation'. In Fernandes A B, Marshall M & Domingo I (eds) Global Perspectives for the Conservation and Management of Open-Air Rock Art Sites. Routledge, London, pp. 55-75.
- Rodríguez I & Domingo I 2023, 'Evaluating Thermal-Hygrometric Dynamics at a Levantine Rock Art Site La Covatina (Vilafranca, Castelló)'. In Fernandes A B, Marshall M & Domingo I (eds) Global Perspectives for the Conservation and Management of Open-Air Rock Art Sites. Routledge, London, pp. 214-233.
- Fernandes AB Marshall M & Domingo I (eds) 2023, Global Perspectives for the Conservation and Management of Open-Air Rock Art Sites. Routledge. Taylor and Francis Group. London.
- Domingo I & Barreda-Uso G 2023, 'Knowledge-building in open-air rock art conservation: sharing the history and experiences with Levantine rock art', Studies in Conservation, 68 (2): 258-282.
- Domingo I, et al. 2023, 'Nuevo hallazgo de arte mueble de estilo Paleolítico en el Noreste peninsular: la plaqueta grabada de les Coves del Fem (Ulldemolins, Tarragona)'. Munibe, Antropologia-Arkeologia, 74, 5-22.
- Bea M, Domingo I, Angás J & Román D 2023, 'Nuevo estudio de los conjuntos rupestres del Barranco de Gibert I y II (Mosqueruela, Teruel) y su contextualización arqueológica en el Maestrazgo'. Saguntum, 55, 69-90.
- Román D, Domingo I, Bergadà M M, Lloveras Ll & Nadal J 2023, 'La Balma del Barranc de la Fontanella (Vilafranca, Castelló) y sus implicaciones en el conocimiento del Mesolítico Geométrico del Mediterráneo ibérico y el Valle del Ebro', Complutum 34, 1, 9-30.
Selected research activities
Exhibition Art rupestre a la Terra d'Arnhem, Austràlia. MUPREVA.