This October Dr Chiara Messana has joined the archaeozoology team at GIAP-ICAC as part of the project “PASTORA – Feeding the docile and the wild: a study of animal feeding systems in the Roman Iberia through Archaeozoology and Biogeochemistry”, under the supervision of Dr Lídia Colominas. As part of the project, she will investigate the…
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During six months and finishing in summer 2026, Stefania Christou conducted an Erasmus+ traineeship at the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC-CERCA) as a visiting student from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Throughout her stay, she received practical training in archaeobotanical and biomolecular methods commonly applied to archaeological research, supervised by Dr Alexandra Livarda and…
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This September Dr. Matteo Bormetti has joined the archaeozoology team at GIAP-ICAC embarking on a new Juan de la Cierva project titled “Mapping Responses to Roman Imperialism in Animal Husbandry”. Matteo will be working under the supervision of Dr Lídia Colominas and Dr Arnau Garcia to investigate the adaptive strategies employed by culturally and ecologically…
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This July, Dr Charlotte Diffey spent two weeks at the site of Kaymakҫı in Western Türkiye processing archaeobotanical samples as part of the Kaymakҫı Archaeological Project (KAP) in collaboration with Koҫ University, Istanbul. The site itself is a Middle and Late Bronze Age fortified citadel, located on the western shore of Lake Marmara. In recent…
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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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