Marta Díaz-Zorita Bonilla (Prehistoric Archaeology & Bioarchaeology) has extensive archaeological field work experience on islands in the Mediterranean Sea. Currently, she co-directs a team that examines rituals, social identity, and knowledge transfer of Menorcan islanders during prehistory. Human settlements on the Balearic Islands stem from the Late European Prehistory and the islands, and specifically Menorca, were engaged in connections within the Mediterranean through protohistory and subsequent historical periods. With the excavations she leads on the Biniadrís cave, Díaz-Zorita Bonilla examines one of the four ritual caves found on Menorca, which due to the exceptional preservation of its material culture and the anthropological remains (allowing for bioarchaeological analysis), represents a unique example to reconstruct social identity during the pre- and protohistory of the Western Mediterranean. This sacred natural cave was in continuous use over 700 years (1250-542 cal BC) which makes it feasible to recognize the longue durée of the funerary practices. The mortuary analysis revealed funerary practices inherited from other areas of the Mediterranean as well as the connections through long trade networks of raw material.