We have a new chapter (in Catalan) published in the volume Vil·la Romana dels Munts (Tarraco). Lídia Colominas and Katie Tardio (UNC-Chapel Hill) present the preliminary results of the archaeozoological study of the faunal remains recovered in Els Munts, a Roman villa located 14 kilometers from Tarraco. So far, more than 800 faunal remains that can be dated between the…
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This month, we welcomed 2 new postdoctoral researchers, Drs. Laura Strolin and Faidon Moudopoulos, and we celebrate that Dr. Arnau Garcia-Molsosa started his Ramón y Cajal fellowship with GIAP, after finishing his Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie cofund project (also in GIAP, from 2020-2022). Dr. Arnau Garcia-Molsosa Dr. Garcia completed his PhD on the Archaeology of…
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This month, GIAP (ICAC) welcomed Darío Herranz (lab technician) and Federica Riso (MSCA postdoctoral fellow), and we celebrate Valentina Pescini‘s upgrade as Ramón y Cajal researcher! Valentina Pescini 2 years after she joined GIAP as a Juan de la Cierva researcher, Valentina now joins GIAP again as a Ramón y Cajal researcher, to continue her…
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GIAP (ICAC)’s researcher Lídia Colominas is presenting in the forthcoming ‘Caesarea Maritima International Conference MMXXII’ which is taking place in New York from October 23rd to October 26th 2022. It includes presentations on projects related to the Caesarea Maritima site (Israel). Monday, Oct 24 – SESSION 5Archaeozoology of Caesarea: a window to animal husbandry and…
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Open call at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology with three positions as technologists and one position as a technician, to work in different units of the Institute, within the framework of the Investigo program. The Investigo program (Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca) aims to fund programs for hiring of young people (under 30…
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GIAP (ICAC) researcher Abel Gallego-Valle is presenting in the 1st ICAZ Medieval Period Working Group, which is taking place in Bergen (Norway) on 28 & 29 September 2022. 28/09/22 Session 1: Southern Europe “What to do to quench your sheep: the use of dental microwear to study feeding management systems in the NE Tarraconensis during…
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Researchers reconstruct the composition of funerary meals in a necropolis from the Western fringe of the Roman Empire, and discover more information about the rituals that accompanied the deceased to the otherworld. The study, published in PLOS ONE, compares biomolecular, anthropological and archaeozoological data from the Roman necropolis of Vila de Madrid (Barcelona, Catalonia). The team discovered…
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New article in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, led by GIAP (ICAC) researcher Lídia Colominas in collaboration with Oriol Olesti (Departament de Ciències de l’Antiguitat i de l’Edat Mitjana. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain), Jordi Guàrdia (Professional Archaeologist, Spain) and Karin Harzbecher (Institut d’Estudis del Próxim Orient Antic, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain). Access…
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After a few months in GIAP (ICAC), Mar and Rosa will say farewell to the archaeozoology team this July. Supervised by Lídia Colominas, she introduced them to the laboratory practices and methodologies in archaeozoology. Mar Jornet is a master’s degree student at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC), focusing on Ancient Mediterranean. She joined us in the context of…
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Dr. Lídia Colominas and Anna Montemayor (Àbac S.L.) reconstructing the skull. Do you remember the paper “What Happened in That Pit? An Archaeozoological and GIS Approach to Study an Accumulation of Animal Carcasses at the Roman Villa of Vilauba (Catalonia)” published by Dr. Lídia Colominas (GIAP-ICAC) and the team of Museu de Banyoles on July 2021? In…
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