Great news for GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) in the 2023 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call from the European Union. We were awarded 4 new postdoctoral fellows to join us, one of which is Faidon Moudopoulos, who we celebrate will be able to extend his stay with us for another 2 years! The computational team will expand on mountain environments, pastoralism…
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The experimental cultivations in Thermi, at the facilities of Hellenic Agricultural Organization-DEMETER, near Thessaloniki (Greece), have started again! This time, in the framework of the new I+D project ‘DarkAegean’ led by Dr Alexandra Livarda in collaboration with the agronomers Dr Ioannis Mylonas (Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic Resources) and Dr Elisa Ninou (International Hellenic…
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Join us in the second GIAP Seminar of 2024! Open event, no registration required. February 15th 22nd 12h CET ‘Insects: silent witnesses of our history’ Prof. Stefano VaninDISTA – University of Genoa, Italy; IAS-CNR Genoa, Italy Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/GIAPseminars2024Open event. No registration required. Hosted in Microsoft Teams (no Microsoft/Teams account needed). Abstract: Archaeoentomology is a…
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An excavation at Tell Brak, Syria, reveals charred cereals from the Early Bronze Age. A new study, led by the University of Oxford in collaboration with the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC-CERCA) and the University of Michigan, offers insights into farming strategies, trade dynamics, and water management in this ancient urban center. Diffey C,…
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Good news to start the year! The resolution of the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spanish Government) granted our new R&D project: DarkAegean. The agricultural economy of the Aegean Dark Ages through machine learning-powered 3D cereal grain morphometrics (01/09/2023 – 31/08/2026)Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2022-139907NB-I00) The DarkAegean project, led by Ramón y Cajal researcher Alexandra Livarda, explores the innovative hypothesis…
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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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