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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Today, GIAP (ICAC)’s PhD candidate Arnau Carbonell is presenting in the ‘II Congress of transhumance and livestock roads‘ (II Congrés de Transhumància i Camins Ramaders), on the the 2nd axis ‘Transhumance: ancestral activity and territorial development tool’: Retracing the steps of transhumance in antiquity: high mountain archeology in the Puigpedrós massif and in the Duran…
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A new study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science shows that it is possible to automate the detection and classification of phytoliths with a high-level of accuracy, up to a species level. This method has the potential to allow the development of much larger analytical datasets in a fraction of the time than was…
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