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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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 publication of our new article just out in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. “When luxury comes to an end: Animal production and consumption in the late Roman occupation of the aristocratic residence of Els Munts (Tarragona, Catalonia)” Abstract: The end of the 3rd century AD in the Western Roman…
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From January 29 to February 6, Dr. Lídia Colominas was in Egypt collaborating on the Sikait project. There, Dr. Colominas was analyzing a faunal assemblage from the late antiquity, associated with a temple. It was a very enriching experience, full of gazelles, spectacular landscapes and very good company! We would be happy to continue collaborating…
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Lídia Colominas participated last week in the “XV Seminario Internacional de Mosaicos Romanos. Una experiencia paleogastronómica en el mundo romano” (https://www.uc3m.es/instituto-cultura-tecnologia/XV-Seminario-Internacional-Mosaicos-Romanos), that took place in the Carlos III University (Getafe, Spain) the 10th and 11st of December. The seminar, organized by Dra. Luz Neira and Dr. Noé Conejo, provided an excellent forum to share results,…
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A new volume of the series ‘Elements in the Archaeology of Food’, published by the Cambridge University Press is now out and free Open Access for 2 weeks until the 15th of December! You can download it here The new title, authored by Prof. Monica Smith, ‘How Urbanism Changes Foodways’ provides an alternative reading of the 6,000-year history of…
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We are pleased to announce the collaboration of Lídia Colominas on an archaeozoological paper in the prestigious journal “Science”. The paper, titled “The emergence and diversification of dog morphology” lead by Allowen Evin (Institute of Evolutionary Science-Montpellier) and Carly Ameen (University of Exeter) is the result of the collaborative effort of more than 40 researchers…
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A new paper on Archaeozoology has been published in the Journal “Virulence”. The paper, titled “Detection of Clostridium sporogenes in a Roman-era cattle mass grave at Vilauba” by, Myburgh, D. A., da Silva, N. A., Haller-Caskie, M., Colominas, L., Castanyer, P., Frigola, J.,Tremoleda, J., Hölzel, C., Unterweger, D., Nebel, A and Krause-Kyora, B, presents a…
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Lídia Colominas participated in the 11th ICAZ-AGP Working Group Meeting (https://sites.google.com/palaeome.org/11th-icaz-apgm-dk/home), that took place in Copenhagen (Denmark) from the 14th to the 17th of October. The meeting once again provided an excellent forum to share results, concerns and ideas about archaeozoology, genetics, morphometrics and proteomics. She presented a talk, together with Daniel Anton Myburgh, Ben…
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