Author: Hector A. Orengo

Archaeology at Sheffield facing closure

Yesterday night we heard some very disturbing news about the possible closure of the Department of Archaeology at Sheffield. This morning we started receiving messages through all types of private and social media platforms coming from all sectors of or related to our discipline. One particular message needs to be reproduced here: “In a meeting…
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Emerging Investigator Award 2019 for GIAP members

Hector A. Orengo (writing this post) and Arnau Garcia-Molsosa were awarded the Emerging Investigator Award 2019 by the Journal of Archaeological Science and the Society for Archaeological Sciences for our paper paper “A brave new world for archaeological survey: Automated machine learning-based potsherd detection using high-resolution drone imagery” The panel commended the visionary combination of…
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GIAP opens the period for the pre-selection of Marie Skłodowska-Curie proposals

GIAP will be open until mid-july to eaccept candidatures for Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) postdoctoral positions. Available supervisors include: Francesc C. Conesa for topics related to landscape archaeology, computational archaeology, remote sensing, GIS and machine learning. fconesa@icac.cat Arnau Garcia-Molsosa for topics related to landscape archaeology, landscape history, survey, computational archaeology, remote sensing, GIS and machine learning.…
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Call for papers for the new ArcheoLogica Data journal

ArcheoLogica Data is a new annual Open Access journal by the MAPPA Lab at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge of the University of Pisa. ArcheoLogica Data aims at publishing original contributions in the form of long (30k-50k characters) or short (7500 characters) papers linked to a dataset. The main difference between ArcheoLogica…
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1st TIR-FOR symposium: call for papers

The call for abstracts for the TIR-FOR (Tabula Imperii Romani – Forma Orbis Romani) symposium is now open. As mapping, computational and web-based technologies advance, the TIR-FOR project (one of the longest-running international archaeological projects) is dedicating its first ever symposium to digital cartography and how it interacts with current research on settlement, territory and…
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BBVA Foundation grant for DIASur!

Despite the global pandemic and the confinement of the population, the members of the committee in charge of evaluating the BBVA Foundation Grants for Research Teams in Digital Humanities met virtually yesterday to select 5 projects out of the 81 proposals received in all fields related to digital humanities. GIAP was lucky enough to get…
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Meeting virtually

GIAP team members did their first general virtual meeting last Friday. The meeting focused on the organisation and workings of our new project management platform. There were a few technical problems related to the configuration of the internet browser of two members that did not allow them to intervene. They could still listen to the…
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Working from home

During the next weeks we will be populating GIAP’s website. With the measures against the expansion of the Coronavirus (ICAC asked us to work from home) some of us will have some extra time to do so while others -like myself- will have the children at home for two weeks at least.

Hello World!

GIAP launches its new website today. During the following weeks we will be updating content… Stay tuned!