Category: Bioarchaeology

Cultivating Knowledge: Deciphering the Seeds of the Past to Plant the Future

(Català a continuació) Would you like to be an archaeobotanist for a day? Join us this Sunday afternoon at the “Festa de la Ciència 2023” in Barcelona! Cultivating Knowledge: Deciphering the Seeds of the Past to Plant the FutureDid you know that from something as small as a seed, we can learn what our ancestors…
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The archaeozoology team gets bigger!

We are very glad to welcome Abel Gallego-Valle back to the group, who won our latest postdoctoral call, and will contribute with his expertise to the archaeozoology team at GIAP. He will contribute with his expertise on the research on animal husbandry and archaezoology in the framework of the GIAP projects. In particular, the dental…
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The bioarchaeology team presents in the VII Oikos Meeting of Bioarchaeology

The Catalan Association of Bioarchaeology organizes the VII Oikos Meeting of Bioarchaeology (VII Reunió Oikos de Bioarqueologia), which is conceived as a meeting space to favor the circulation and exchange of knowledge among all people who are interested in bioarchaeological research and the various disciplines that integrate it. The conference takes place on 26-27th May…
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The archaeozoology team presents at the international conference ‘Ager Mutabilis’

Today, the archaeozoology team is presenting in the international conference “Ager Mutabilis: Exploitation of the Territory During the Roman Period“, which is taking place in Castell de Calonge, Calonge i Sant Antoni (Baix Empordà, Catalunya) on May 18-19th. Abstracts in Catalan below. Keynote presentationAnimal husbandry during the Roman period in the northeastern peninsula: some examples and…
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Extracting meaning from grain shape: a 3D deep learning workflow

Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor at ICAC) is presenting the methodology and preliminary results obtained for the identification of past agricultural strategies from grain shape, in the AEA Virtual Spring Conference (Association for Environmental Archaeology), which is taking place online on 13 May 2023. Extracting meaning from grain shape: a 3D deep learning workflow…
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Call for papers! 43rd Conference of the Environmental Archaeology Association

The call for papers for the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, which will take place in Tarragona (Spain) next 24-26th November 2023, is open! Please submit your abstracts here: https://bit.ly/abstractsAEA2023Deadline 31 July 2023 23:59h CET  Registration fees:    Early bird (deadline 15/09/23)  Regular (deadline 31/10/23)  AEA member  80 € 100 € Non…
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Alexandra Kriti awarded AEA Small Research Grant!

Alexandra Kriti, PhD candidate at GIAP (ICAC), happily reports on her new grant: “I have recently been awarded the Small Research Grant of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA). Every year, the AEA is offering a small number of grants to fund specific aspects of research projects concerning any area of environmental archaeology. The grant…
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Experimental archaeology in Crete: fire, bones, pots and plants

In early April, we participated in an interdisciplinary experimental event in Greece involving burning and the effects of fire on articulated and semi-articulated animal carcasses, pottery and plant remains, which took place in Sokaras village, in Crete, Greece. The experiments took place in the context of the TEFRA project, which investigates the effects of fire on…
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The Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA) comes to Tarragona! 

Members of the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) are coordinating the 43rd edition of the The Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA), which will be held in Tarragona (Spain) on 24–26 November 2023.  Registration will open soon – Watch out for news on the conference page!  The conference will start…
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New paper! Reproductive patterns and livestock management in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula (3rd c. BC)

Lídia Colominas (Ramón y Cajal researcher at ICAC) has published a new open access paper in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, in collaboration with Chiara Messana and Carlos Tornero, researchers at Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Messana, C., Tornero, C. & Colominas, L.…
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