Category: Dissemination

Surveying the Montane Landscapes of Ancient Macedonia

To the fellows based in Oxford, our PhD candidate Giannis Apostolou has been invited to deliver a seminar for the Greek Archaeology Group & Prehistoric and Early Greece Graduate Seminars (GAG-PEGGS) at the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Oxford this Thursday, the 25th of January at 13.00. Giannis’ paper will about ongoing work in…
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Next GIAP Seminar! Insects: silent witnesses of our history

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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New Evidence for Urban Agriculture at Mid-3rd Millenium B.C.E. Tell Brak

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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First GIAP Seminar 2024! ‘Cattle through time: a long-term perspective on cattle husbandry in the Netherlands’

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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Scopes of working in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley Using a Combined Remote Sensing and Geoarchaoelogical Approach

Sayantani Neogi will be in Glasgow tomorrow to present in the 2024 BANEA Annual Meeting, hosted by The University of Glasgow on the 3-5 January 2024. Organised around “Archaeological and heritage practice in Southwest Asia: towards equitable futures”, the conference will foreground archaeology’s role and responsibilities in climate change discourse; the discipline’s colonial inheritances and legacies, and…
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Open call for papers EAA2024! GIAP co-organises 5 sessions

The call for papers for the EAA Annual Meeting is open! The EAA2024 will take place in Rome, Italy, on the 28-31 August 2024. GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) will co-organise 5 sessions: EXTENDED DEADLINE! 8th 12th of February 2024.Submit your papers here: https://submissions.e-a-a.org/eaa2024/ ABSTRACTS: Title: Machine learning methods in archaeological research: new approaches, barriers and standardization Theme:…
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The forgotten battle of the Spanish Civil War: recovering the archaeology of the fight at Turó del Balís 

A new study, led by the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC-CERCA), unveils new details about the battlefield of Turó del Balís, one of the last Republican resistance episodes in Maresme (Catalonia) at the end of the Spanish Civil War, and proposes the preservation of the archaeological site.…
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Open Access! A city against the current: A reconstruction of Holocene sea-level changes and the evolution of coastal landscapes in ancient Abdera (Thrace, Gr.)

New paper unveils the Northern Aegean’s history and geography with unprecedented detail. The study presents the first comprehensive Relative Mean Sea-Level curve for the region, exposing Neolithic drowned landscapes along the coast. Alfredo Mayoral, Ana Ejarque, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Mercourios Georgiadis, Giannis Apostolou, Vincent Gaertner, Constantina Kallintzi, Eurydice Kefalidou, Hèctor Orengo. A city against the current:…
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Limited free access! Food in Ancient China (Elements in the Archaeology of Food)

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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Plants, seeds and fire: an archaeobotany dissemination weekend

This weekend, Alexandra Kriti and Alexandra Livarda will participate in two events, presenting the preliminary results on the experimental pyres, real-life charring experiments that took place in Crete a few months ago, in the context of Kriti’s PhD thesis and the DarkRevisited project. First, Alexandra Kriti presented in a two-day workshop in the context of…
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