We are glad to announce a new incorporation to the GIAP Archaeozoology team. Diana Álvarez Abrio joined us this September under the supervision of Lídia Colominas. About Diana Diana Álvarez is a PhD candidate in Archaeology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and a Master’s degree in Archaeology…
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This fieldwork campaign is part of a multi-disciplinary and international project that will allow to compare the landscapes and socio-environmental histories of the Ancient Greek colony of Abdera and its mother city Klazomenai. GIAP-ICAC members Alfredo Mayoral, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa and Isabel Mattuzzi, collaborate with the Klazomenai Excavations and Survey (www.klasp.net), directed by Prof.Dr. Yaşar E.…
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Dr Najarij Bulawka, along with Dr Hèctor A. Orengo and Dr Iban Berganzo-Besga, have published a new open access paper on the application of deep learning in the study of qanats in arid environments. The paper is published in the journal “Journal of Archaeological Science”: Buławka, Nazarij, Hector A. Orengo, and Iban Berganzo-Besga. 2024. ‘Deep…
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The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC-CERCA) has signed a new collaboration agreement with the Palarq Foundation in order to develop the project “Seasonal feeding habits of cattle in the Iron Age site of Mas Castellar de Pontós (Girona, Catalonia)”. With duration of one year, the project will be led by Dra. Lídia Colominas (director…
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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…
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Monday 29th of July Ekta Gupta was in Baroda (India) presenting her research at the Lecture Series 1 of the Department of Geography of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Her talk ‘Connecting the dots: remote sensing and GIS at the Geography-Archaeology interface” focused on: – Examine the spatial context of historical events through the…
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Dr. Ekta Gupta has published a new open access paper on the application of remote sensing in the study of Bronze Age water networks in India. The paper is published in the journal “Journal of Maritime Archaeology”. Abstract: The Bronze Age Harappan Civilisation thrived between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE in the northwestern part of…
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Theoni Baniou, GIAP-ICAC PhD candidate (supervised by Dr Alexandra Livarda and Dr Núria Romani), finished in June her academic stay in Porto (Portugal). Theoni spent the last 1.5 months working with Dr João Tereso and his team at the BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, and the MHNC –…
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Find out more about our geoarchaeological research in the upland region of Grevena, Western Macedonia (Greece), addressing the interplay between Holocene landscape evolution and settlement dynamics, drawing new evidence from the alluvial history of the Xerolakkos stream. This work, led by our PhD candidate Giannis Apostolou is part of his dissertation that uses integrated remote-sensing…
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This week two papers investigating Roman foodways in the western provinces of the Roman Empire, in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula, led by GIAP PhD candidate Theoni Baniou (supervised by Drs Alexandra Livarda and Núria Romaní Sala) have been published GOLD OPEN ACCESS. The first paper, published in the journal of Archaeological and…
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