MSCA postdoctoral fellow Nazarij Buławka was invited yesterday to present on the “Seminar II: Near East Archaeology” of the “Master’s on Bioarchaeology and/or Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology” at the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (picture by Miron Bogacki for the University of Warsaw): The application of satellite imagery in the…
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Recent multidisciplinary study in the journal Quaternary International provides new insight into the occupation dynamics of high mountain spaces starting from the Neolithic onwards in the archaeological site of Molleres II. It is the first time that sediment biomarker analyses have been carried out at a Catalan site. Figure 1: Study area location and ortophoto…
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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, 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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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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Join us in the second-to-last GIAP Seminar of 2023! May 18th, 18h CET ‘The impact of the Syrian conflict on archaeological sites in Al-Hasakah and Daraa provinces’ Amal Al KassemARCO Research Center Keywords: Remote Sensing imagery, Field visit, damaged archaeological sites, conflict, Syria Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/JoinGIAPseminarsNo registration required. Hosted in Microsoft Teams (no Microsoft/Teams…
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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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Two ICAC PhD researchers are organizing a session at the XIV JIA Conference on Archaeological Research (JIA), which will be held in Lisbon next September. The proposal presented for these Conferences is the intersection between the troubled period in which we currently live – climate change, migration, conflicts, and natural or anthropogenic phenomena – with…
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GIAP (ICAC) travelled to Greece to survey three sanctuaries in order to create digital reconstructions in the context of the STAR-AGESS MSCA project. A few weeks ago, Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor), Efrosyni Boutsikas (MSCA fellow), and Paloma Aliende (Research technician) stayed in Greece to carry out the STAR-AGESS project fieldwork (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101026674). We surveyed…
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“Toquem Pedra” is coming back! Don’t miss the opening programme of the 2023 season. It will take place on Monday, April 17, from 10 a.m. CET, live (in Catalan/Spanish). It features Giannis Apostolou, PhD candidate in GIAP (ICAC), as the first guest of the 2023 season. He will talk about his experience as an international…
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