Join us in the first GIAP Seminar of 2024! Open event, no registration required. January 18th 12h CET ‘Cattle through time: a long-term perspective on cattle husbandry in the Netherlands’ Dr. Maaike GrootFreie Universität Berlin Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/GIAPseminars2024Open event. No registration required. Hosted in Microsoft Teams (no Microsoft/Teams account needed). Abstract: From the Neolithic, cattle…
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Dr. Lídia Colominas was recently interviewed and highlighted in the RECERCAT newsletter to delve deeper into one of our latest articles from 2023, which showcased that Iron Age communities in Catalonia practiced seasonal altitudinal movements. The study, featured in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology, was a collaboration between IPHES-CERCA, ICAC-CERCA, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Cardiff University and the…
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The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC-CERCA. Catalonia) invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeomalacology and Palaeomalacology. The postdoc will join the GIAP team and its projects on Greek and Roman colonisations in Catalonia and Greece, studying marine and freshwater shells from archaeological sites and sedimentary cores from coastal lagoons. For candidatures and further information,…
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This December, we are glad to welcome 3 new team members to GIAP (ICAC-CERCA): Andrew McLeanMSCA postdoctoral fellow Andrew McLean finished his PhD at Edinburgh last year. His thesis analyzed the economy of the Roman Adriatic with a focus on modeling mobility and movement. He then looked at wine and oil production and patterns of…
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DOWNLOAD NOW! Get a FREE download of the book until the 18th of December: Food in Ancient China (cambridge.org) The series “Elements in the Archaeology of Food”, published by Cambridge University Press, has published its first volume! Jaffe, Y. (2023). Food in Ancient China (Elements in the Archaeology of Food). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. December 2023. ISSN…
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A study led by IPHES-CERCA featured in the journal Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology demonstrates that Iberian communities in Catalonia practiced seasonal altitudinal movements. The biogeochemical analysis of different stable isotopes applied to a set of sheep teeth from four Catalan archaeological sites has allowed researchers to confirm that, between the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, the agricultural…
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Ramón y Cajal researcher Lídia Colominas and postdoctoral researcher Abel Gallego-Valle, in collaboration with researchers from CSIC, IPHES and UAB, have published a new paper in the Archaeological Anthropology journal: Colominas, L., Portillo, M., Morera, J. et al. Livestock management at the Late Iron Age site of Baltarga (eastern Pyrenees): an integrated bio-geoarchaeological approach. Archaeol Anthropol Sci 15, 159…
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The preliminary programme of the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA2023Tgn) has been published in the conference’s website: Preliminary programme Registrations will remain open until the 31st October 23:59h CET at this link: https://bit.ly/RegistrationAEA2023 Check all the information about the conference, social events, how to reach Tarragona, accommodation, and more in the…
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Yesterday started the 29th EAA Annual Meeting, which is taking place in Belfast (Ireland) from the 30th of August to the 2nd of September. This year’s themes incorporate the diversity and multidimensionality of archaeological practice, including archaeological interpretation, heritage management and politics of the past and present. GIAP (ICAC) has 12 contributions to the conference,…
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Next week, Lídia Colominas and Abel Gallego-Valle will be in Australia to present the latest results of the archaeozoology team at GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) in the 14th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference ICAZ2023, which is taking place in Cairns, Australia, from the 8-12 August 2023. Abstracts Searching for a GMM standardised protocol for sheep astragalus. First…
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