Dr Theoni Baniou, currently conducting postdoctoral research at the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC-CERCA), has made great advances on the application of Organic Residue Analysis (ORA) to investigate foodways and plant exploitation in the Late Antique site of València la Vella (Riba-roja de Túria). Dr Baniou in collaboration with the archaeologists of the site has…
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From July 3 to 10, Dr. Lídia Colominas was in southern Tuscany (Italy) collaborating on the Marzuolo Archeological Project (MAP). There, Dr. Colominas analysed the faunal remains of Podere Marzuolo site (ca. 2 ha), a rural craft centre that was occupied between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD. The project directors, Astrid…
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Lídia Colominas and Rosa Soler participated this week in the “5th Roman Period Working Group Meeting International Council for Archaeozoology”, that took place in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) from the 30th of June until the 3rd of July. The conference provided an excellent forum to share results, concerns and…
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A new paper has been published on The Holocene titled “Long-term environmental dynamics and agro-sylvo-pastoral practices in the SW Alps (Italy): Interdisciplinary perspectives from Monte Mongioie”. High-resolution, multi-proxy research is presented, combining pedoanthracology, palynology, archaeobotany, archaeoentomology, malacology, biomolecular analysis, soil micromorphology, and chemistry with radiocarbon dating and historical ecology observations. This evidence has been cross-checked…
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Lídia Colominas and Rosa Soler participated last week in the XIII Fundus: Jornades sobre el món rural d’època romana. “Res pecuaria: la ramaderia en el món rural d’època romana” (Instituts > XIII FUNDUS Jornades sobre el món rural d’època romana (18-19 juny), that took place in the Museu Arqueològic de Banyoles (Banyoles, Catalonia) the 18th…
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We are pleased to announce that the book “Roman Rural Archaeology: Society, Economy and Culture” has been published, both the digital and the hardback version (https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/roman-rural-archaeology/46E7F36223477BE6C5611883E35AC40F#fndtn-contents). Dr Lídia Colominas has participated in this collaborative book with the writing of chapter 16 entitled “Roman Livestock Husbandry: The Importance of the Countryside”. This chapter explains the place…
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We are pleased to announce the third presentation in our 2025-2026 seminar series: “Herds Across Mountains: Long-Term Pastoral Practices in the Western Alps” We are especially delighted to welcome Juliette Knockaert, Research Engineer CNRS, ArchAM, UMR 8096 CNRS/ Université Paris 1 – Panthéon-Sorbonne. The presentation will take place on Friday, June 5, at 12 p.m.…
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RADICI conference – June 3-4 (online) RADICI is an online conference dedicated to archaeobotany in Italy, conceived as an opportunity for exchange and discussion among scholars working in this field of research.The programme brings together contributions addressing some of the discipline’s main thematic areas: the reconstruction of past environments, through the study of botanical evidence…
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We are pleased to announce that Dr Lídia Colominas has been awarded the grant “Ayudas para Incentivar la Consolidación Investigadora. 2025 (CNS2025-165247)”. With this two-years grant, she will develop the project “PASTORA: Alimentando a los domésticos y a los salvajes: estudio de los sistemas de alimentación de los animales en la Iberia romana a través…
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We are pleased to announce the second presentation in our 2025-2026 seminar series. We are especially delighted to welcome Roberta Cevasco, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo (Bra, Cuneo, Italy). The presentation will take place on Tuesday, May 5, at 12 p.m. (CET) and will be online. Access the…
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