Author: GIAP team

Strengthening ties: new horizons for the computational team’s joint efforts with the Computer Vision Center (CVC-UAB)

The computational team at GIAP (ICAC) has been enjoying a fruitful long-term collaboration with the Computer Vision Center (CVC) of the Autonomous University of Catalonia (UAB), which has contributed to our projects with their expertise and state-of-the-art computational equipment.  These past weeks, Prof. Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research professor at ICAC) and Dr. Felipe Lumbreras…
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Happy International Women’s Day!

Happy International Women’s Day! We want to celebrate this day by presenting the 15 fantastic women who are part of our group: Paloma Aliende Specialised technician Topography, photogrammetry, 3D reconstruction, licensed drone pilot Theoni Baniou ICAC PhD candidate Archaeobotany, network analyses, food plant access, commerce, social identities Efrosyni Boutsikas Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow Advanced 3D…
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Consolidation of the remains of the pre-Romanesque church of Sant Julià de Valldaneu

The consolidation work of the remains of the pre-Romanesque church of Sant Julià de Valldaneu (Sant Martí de Centelles, Osona) has recently been completed, the identification and study of which has been carried out by researchers from the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) from the Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology (ICAC) in collaboration with the…
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Computational archaeology thesis defence: Iban Berganzo-Besga

As part of the interuniversity doctoral program in Classical Archeology (URV-ICAC-UAB), we are pleased to invite you to the public reading of the doctoral thesis of GIAP researcher Iban Berganzo-Besga, which has been co-directed by Prof. Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor at ICAC) and Felipe Lumbreras (Computer Vision Center of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, CVC-UAB): “New…
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Towards a cognitive understanding of Greek ritual: Digital reconstructions of sanctuaries in space and time

Dr. Efrosyni Boutsikas (MSCA researcher at ICAC & senior lecturer at University of Kent) is presenting in the Greek Archaeology Group & Prehistoric and Early Greece Graduate Seminar (GAG-PEGGS), organised by the School of Archaeology of the University of Oxford. The seminar series is focused on all aspects of Greek archaeology, spanning from prehistory and…
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Next GIAP Seminar! ‘Counting the Cost: Time, Event, and Process in Landscape Archaeology’

PLEASE READ! LATEST NEWS: By request of Dr. Stewart, the seminar has been postponed in support of the ongoing strikes in UK over pay, pensions & conditions. We want to offer our solidarity and support to our UK colleagues in fighting against a system that relies on low pay and the rampant use of insecure…
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Open call for researcher in Archaeozoology

The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology opens a call for a full-time researcher in Archaeozoology, linked to the GIAP research group. The ICAC looks for a researcher to manage the scientific-technical activities in the field of archaeozoology of the GIAP’s lines of research in Archaeozoology, with the following functions: For this purpose, and according to…
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Territory and economy in the oppidum of la Carència (Torís)

Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor at ICAC) is participating in the event “Contestans and Edetans facing romanisation” (Jornades d’estudi contestans i edetans davant de la romanització), which take place on February 24 and 25 at the Xàtiva Museum (Casa de la Enseñanza) and on February 26 in Cullera. Territory and economy in the oppidum…
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GIAP researchers lead a new bioarchaeology subject at the new MACA Master’s Degree! 

For the first time, bioarchaeology has a dedicated subject a Master’s degree in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). The subject, which started this week, is led by Lídia Colominas and Alexandra Livarda, both Ramón y Cajal researchers at GIAP (ICAC).  The subject is included in the new Master’s degree “Applied Classical Archaeology. Research and Transfer (MACA)”, organised by…
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MSCA results are out! A new postdoctoral fellow and a secondment for GIAP

Great news for GIAP (ICAC) in the last Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call from the European Union! The computational team will expand with a new project that aims at reconstructing the Roman transport network, and we are glad that our colleagues in Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution – Montpellier (ISEM UMR 5554), were awarded an…
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