Between the 6th and 9th of November of 2025 the Iberian Peninsula Archaeobotanical meeting took place at The German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, organised by Dr Ferran Antolín and his team. GIAP members, Dr Alexandra Livarda and PhD candidate Theoni Baniou participated in the conference to share the advances of their work.
Alexandra Livarda and her colleagues Hèctor A. Orengo, Javier Esmoris, Iban Berganzo-Besga, Felipe Lumbreras, Paloma Aliende and Michael Wallace presented the paper:
Using cereal grain shape to infer agriculture in the past: introducing a new method based on 3D scanning, morphometrics and Artificial Intelligence
Theoni Baniou presented the following paper:
Dietary Practices of Roman Populations through an Interdisciplinary Approach
offering to the community part of the final results of their project with the introduction of a new workflow that allows the differentiation of landraces, 2 row and 6 row barley, as well the provenance of the growing area, with particularly high accuracy.
The meeting was an excellently organised event where the Iberian community of archaeobotanists (working on plant macro-remains) shared their research in a friendly environment. A laboratory session was also particularly useful and provided a much-needed forum to discuss seeds and collectively try to identify those challenging ones.
in which she outlined the final results of her thesis, offering new insights into Roman foodways, trade and the development of horticulture and viticulture.
We very much enjoyed our stay there and we thank Ferran and his team for their brilliant hospitality!
