Category: Dissemination

New book chapter! A window into livestock and the meat diet of the Roman villa of Els Munts

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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Big multi-temporal geospatial data and the large-scale analysis of South Asia’s past landscapes

Today in the afternoon, Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA research professor) is giving a talk in the conference 3rd International Conference on Geology: Emerging Methods & Applications (GEM-2023). Title: ”Big multi-temporal geospatial data and the large-scale analysis of South Asia’s past landscapes”Session: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Earth Science AbstractThe last few years have seen an…
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Looking for a PhD contract? Open calls!

Open calls for PhD contracts of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)! Grants for the Training of University Teachers (Ayudas para la formación de profesorado universitario FPU 2022) Deadline: 15th February Topics: bioarchaeology and palaeoenvironment, geoarchaeology, survey, archaeomorphological analysis and computational approaches, including GIS, remote sensing and machine learning. More info Contact: amayoral@icac.cat / jpalet@icac.cat About the call:…
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Hèctor A. Orengo appointed ICREA Research Professor

The first of December, Hector A. Orengo, previously a Ramón y Cajal researcher at ICAC, joined the centre as an ICREA Research Professor. Co-director of the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) and Research Coordinator of ICAC (due to take up this role in January 2023), Prof. Orengo is the second ICREA Research Professor at ICAC,…
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First 2023 GIAP Seminar! ‘Putting climate at the center of archaeological research: first experiences from the GroundCheck research cluster’

Join us in the first 2023 GIAP Seminar! Jan, 19th 18h CET ‘Putting climate at the center of archaeological research: first experiences from the GroundCheck research cluster’ Prof. Dr. Ferran AntolínGerman Archaeological Institute / IPNA, University of Basel Keywords: human-environment relationships; scale; on-site research; palaeoclimate; politics Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/JoinGIAPseminarsNo registration required. Hosted in Microsoft…
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Vigilant, a project on the historic network of defensive fire beacons in Tenerife

GIAP (ICAC) Researcher Francesc C. Conesa is presenting today in Tenerife (Canary Islands). He will talk about his recent investigations into the historical network of fire beacons on the island of Tenerife. For centuries, the beacon signalling network was the island’s first line of defence against pirates, privateers or Crown enemies. The beacon network was…
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GIAP workshop: Landscape, display and economy at Abdera and Thrace

This Thursday, 24th November 2022, ICAC will be hosting a GIAP workshop in the context of the recently finalised Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship of Dr. Merkouris Georgiadis: “Landscape, display and economy at Abdera and Thrace: using modern archaeological field and lab methods to better understand colonial landscapes (from 3000BC to AD100)“ Date: 24th November 2022. Organisers: ·…
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Revamping the Known: Rethinking Cultural Periodization in the Outer Plains of Jammu and Its Importance in Weaving the Historical Narrative

GIAP (ICAC) researcher Navjot Kour travelled to Thailand to present in the 22nd Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association (IPPA22), which takes place in Chiang Mai on 6-12 November 2022. S58-12 Revamping the Known: Rethinking Cultural Periodization in the Outer Plains of Jammu(Jammu and Kashmir, India) and Its Importance in Weaving the Historical NarrativeNavjot KourCatalan…
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Multitemporal Lidar: A New Workflow for the Detection of Subtle Topographic Features in Dense Forest Areas

ICAC researchers publish a new study in Land, showcasing the potential of multitemporal lidar-derived digital terrain models for the detection of subtle archaeological features under perennial dense forest.  Featured image: Figure 1. Lidar point-cloud.  Lidar-derived digital terrain models (DTMs) have, during the last years, become an essential tool in landscape archaeology (Berganzo-Besga et al. 2021)…
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Religious experience at the temple of Epikourean Apollo in Bassae: Virtual Reality technology in the service of archaeoastronomical research

GIAP (ICAC)’s researcher Efrosyni Boutsikas is travelling to Argentina to present in the Oxford XII Conference (ISAAC) and VIII Inter-American Conference on Cultural Astronomy: “Living Skies”, organised by the International Society of Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy (ISAAC) and the Inter-American Society of Astronomy in Culture (SIAC), which takes place in Buenos Aires from October 31st to…
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