Author: GIAP team

Work with us! Two new positions for GIAP

Two new senior technician job offers have recently opened for GIAP: You may find all the information on how to apply on ICAC’s open calls page:https://icac.cat/en/who-are-we/work-at-the-icac/open-calls/

Happy International day of Women and Girls in Science!

Ten GIAP (ICAC) researchers participated in ICAC’s celebration of the International day of Women and Girls in Science. ICAC led a multilingual initiative that includes multiple 1-minute-long videos of researchers highlighting women archaeologists who had an impact on them and/or their research. The campaign lasted a few weeks, and this post groups all our participations.…
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The Roman villa of Els Munts (Tarraco): presentation of the new volume published by the MNAT

We are glad to invite you to the presentation of the new volume on the Roman villa of Els Munts, published by the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona. The presentation of this publication will be carried out by Dr. Josep Maria Palet, director of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, and will take place at…
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The computational team welcomes a new researcher for 6 months!

We welcome PhD candidate Alessia Brucato, from the University Bari Aldo Moro – Department of Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica and the Instituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR), who will be staying with us for 6 months to train on the application of the computational methods developed in GIAP…
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Call for contributions! Special issue: ‘Natural Resource Exploitation in Mountain Environments: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches’

Call for contributions to the Special Issue in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology entitled: Natural Resource Exploitation in Mountain Environments: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 28th of June 2023 Extended to 30th September 2023 (previous expression of interest to the guest editors is expected, see emails below).  Mountain researches of the last five…
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AgriExp, a new workflow for the automated detection of heritage at risk by recent expansion of agricultural lands

New research led by GIAP members develops an algorithm for the rapid mapping and almost-real-time monitoring of threats and potential site damage by agricultural expansion and encroachment. A new research article published in Remote Sensing presents an integrated workflow that combines Big Earth Data and spatial analysis in Google Earth Engine to provide an efficient…
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Altafulla (Catalonia): past, present and future of a historic territory

As part of the 2023 Conference Series of the Centre d’estudis d’Altafulla “Altafulla (Catalonia): past, present and future of a historic territory” (Altafulla: passat, present i futur d’un territori històric), Maria Jesús Ortega, associated researcher of GIAP, will give the conference “The historical landscape of Altafulla” (El paisatge històric d’Altafulla), today, Friday January 27, at…
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Strong presence of the archaeobotany team in the 2nd Meeting of the Archaeobotany in Greece Group!

Today marks the start of the 2nd Meeting of the Archaeobotany in Greece Group (MAGG), an international conference which is taking place in 26-27 January 2023 at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Three GIAP (ICAC) archaobotanists are giving talks on the 27th January, presenting the main results of our ongoing projects: Titles and abstracts: Modern Experimental Cultivations…
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(IN)VISIBLE: the Bibliography on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Zagori

Dr. Faidon Moudopoulos edited the digital bibliography ‘(IN)VISIBLE: the Bibliography on the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Zagori‘ (in Greek), the last deliverable of the project that marks its end.  The project aimed at investigating the intangible cultural heritage of Zagori (Greece) through the historical archives of the local communities. It used as a case study…
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Next GIAP Seminar! ‘The plants of Serdica during the Antiquity: preliminary archaeobotanical and anthracological data’

Join us in the second 2023 GIAP Seminar! Feb 23rd, 18h CET ‘The plants of Serdica (Sofia, Bulgaria) during the Antiquity (2nd c. AD – 6th c. AD): preliminary archaeobotanical and anthracological data’ Dr. Mila Andonova-KatsarskiDivision of Palaeobotany and Palynology of the Institute of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) Keywords: Archaeobotany, anthracology,…
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