Prominent representation of GIAP in the 30th EAA Annual Meeting!

Tomorrow will start the 30th EAA Annual Meeting that will take place in Rome (Italy) from the 28-31st of August. The Annual Meeting themes incorporate the diversity of EAA and the multidimensionality of archaeological practice, including archaeological interpretation, heritage management and politics of the past and present.

GIAP has 11 contributions to the conference and leading four of the sessions:

Sessions:

Valentina Pescini is co-organizer of Session 482: ‘Past Is Not Past’. Environmental Effects of Past Land Use on Present Resources Ecology. Environmental Archaeology between Research and Application

Federica Riso, Alexandra Livarda and Patricia Vandorpe are co-organizers of session 598: The Archaeobotany of the cities and urban landscapes

Faidon Moudopolous-Athanasiou is co-organizer of session 669: Ottoman-era/historical Archaeology: materials and methods in context

Alexandra Kriti is co-organizer of session 1009: Beyond the lens: Contemporary methods and interdisciplinary synergies in Archaeology

Presentations:

Session 390: Modelling connections: new methodologies to understand human mobility, route networks and land use

Mclean, Andrew – Šprem, Katarina: CONNECTIVITY, ROAD NETWORKS AND THE RURAL ECONOMY OF ROMAN ISTRIA

Session 463: Methods of analysing subsistence resources, landscape management and exploitation practices between the bronze Age and Iron Age

– Messana, Chiara- Tornero, Carlos – Colominas, Lídia: BEYOND GRAZING: A MULTI-ISOTOPE APPROACH TO INVESTIGATE SHEEP FEEDING STRATEGIES IN THE IRON AGE IBERIAN PENINSULA (3RD C. BC)

Session 505: Ethnographies of makers and making: traditional craft and technology in contemporary societies:  

Moudopoulos-Athanasiou, Faidon: MILK WITHOUT HONEY: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL ETHNOGRAPHY OF LIME ACROSS THE ALBANIAN-GREEK BORDER AND THE EARLY MODERN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE

Session 598: The Archaeobotany of the cities and urban landscapes

Baniou, Theoni – Livarda, Alexandra – Vandorpe, Patricia – Romaní, Núria: DIGGING IN THE WELLS: FOOD AND TRADE RELATIONS IN ROMAN GUISSONA

Riso, FedericaLivarda, Alexandra: AN ARCHAEOBOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF URBAN FOOD PRACTICES THROUGH TIME IN ROMAN ITALY

Vandorpe, Patricia – Livarda, Alexandra: FOOD PLANTS AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS IN THE URBAN SETTLEMENTS OF THE NORTHERN ROMAN PROVINCES

Session 745: Remote sensing of the changing mediterranean, middle east and north Africa region

Bulawka, Nazarij – Orengo, Hector: UNDER THE SANDS: INVESTIGATING ANCIENT IRRIGATION LANDSCAPES IN ARID CLIMATES THROUGH REMOTE SENSING AND DEEP LEARNING METHODS

Neogi, Sayantani – Conesa, Francesc – Orengo, Hector: POST-CONFLICT LANDSCAPES IN EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN: GEOARCHAEOLOGICAL AND AUTOMATED REMOTE SENSING MAPPING OF VULNERABLE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOILSCAPES IN THE LEBANESE BEKKA VALLEY

Session 904: Mobility, movement and interaction in the ancient world: new avenues of interpretation.

Strolin, Laura – Evin, Allowen- Petrucci, Gabriella- Colominas, Lídia: INVESTIGATING ANIMAL MOBILITY IN THE ROMAN WORLD. A GEOMETRIC MORPHOMETRIC STUDY OF FAUNAL REMAINS FROM NORTH-EASTERN IBERIAN AND ITALIAN PENINSULAS.

Session 1082: “The archaeology of EU-Potarch: the production of Potash, Tar, Resin and charcoal in the Archaeological record”

Pescini, Valentina – Gabellieri, Nicola: INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH ON CHARCOAL KILN SITES IN MONTIERI (TUSCANY-ITALY): ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS AND WOODMANSHIP PRACTICES BETWEEN 18TH-20TH CENTURY

Session 1009: Beyond the lens: Contemporary methods and interdisciplinary synergies in Archaeology

Kriti, Alexandra – Livarda, Alexandra – Orengo, Hector – Mylonas, Ioannis – Ninou, Elissavet: LAB-INDUCED HEATING OF GREEK BARLEY (H.VULGARE) LANDRACES; A SET OF EXPERIMENTAL METHODS TO EXPLORE PAST AGRICULTURAL PRACTICES