Tomorrow, Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor at ICAC), will be presenting in the workshop “Geomatics Methodologies in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Research“, organised by the Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo (UIMP), on the 14th and 15th September 2023. Check the programme here Current advances in geospatial analysis for archaeology and Cultural Heritage This presentation will…
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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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A new breakthrough publication presents two algorithms for the large-scale automatic detection and instance segmentation of potential archaeological mounds on historical maps, resulting in the detection of nearly 6,000 mound features across an expansive area of 470,500 square kilometers. This remarkable achievement represents the most extensive application of such an approach to date and offers unprecedented…
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In the scorching weeks of July, a dedicated team of researchers from GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) embarked on a new fieldwork campaign. Set in the ancient Greek colony of Abdera, nestled within the historical region of Xanthi, Thrace, Greece, the team is conducting a comprehensive archaeological, archeomorphological, and geoarchaeological survey to unravel landscapes of the ancient greek…
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Today, postdocs Francesc C. Conesa and Navjot Kour are in Rome presenting at the XXI Congress of the International union for Quaternary Research ”Time for Change”. The conference is taking place from the 14th to the 21st July 2023 at the Sapienza University of Rome, in Italy. Computational approaches to map Cultural Heritage at risk…
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In a new groundbreaking study, multiple computational methods are integrated for the first time in a single research to map historical hydrological networks and identify new archaeological sites in the Indus River basin, achieving unprecedented detail. Alluvial floodplains have played a significant role in the development and transformation of urban agrarian-based societies. The interaction between human…
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What an extraordinary year it has been for the GIAP Seminar series in 2023! As we bid farewell to this year’s series, let’s take a moment to reminisce about the incredible talks that we were able to enjoy. Although this chapter has concluded, the GIAP team is already hard at work, preparing another remarkable line-up…
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From the 10th of May to the 10th of June, Giannis Apostolou and Konstantina Venieri visited the region of Karditsa, in Western Thessaly, Greece, and completed their third field campaign in the area. Their study is carried out in the context of the ongoing PhD thesis of the latter, “Computational approaches to the long-term reconstruction…
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Researchers Josep M. Palet, Arnau Carbonell, Lídia Colominas, Alfredo Mayoral, and Valentina Pescini, are participating in the second edition of the Archaeology of the Mountains conference. Research, Methods, Analysis, with the presentation: “Landscape Archaeology research in the Eastern Pyrenees (Segre and Ter valleys, NE Iberian Peninsula): settlement and land-use dynamics on a long-term perspective” June…
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This month, Navjot Kour is leading a ground-truthing survey in the outer alluvial plains of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Here, her team is documenting and validating new potential archaeological sites and geomorphological traits that Navjot previously mapped using a combination of historical sources and multi-temporal satellite imagery. In particular, she successfully integrated a…
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