Submit an abstract to the session we are co-organising in LAC2024! The conference will take place in Alcalá de Henares (Madrid, Spain) on the 10-14th of June 2024. Deadline extended to 1st March. Submit your abstracts here: https://lac2024.com/call-for-abstracts/ Bridging historical landscape ecology and landscape archaeology: common questions and challenges in a rapidly changing world A…
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We are thrilled to announce the exciting addition of GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) to the the AccessCat Network to work on accessibility in archaeology. The AccessCat Network (Catalonia’s Accessibility Innovation Network: Media, Education, and Culture) is an initiative of the Generalitat de Catalunya aimed at promoting accessibility to information and communication, bridging the gap between the research world and…
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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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4500 years ago, the Kachchh region in present-day north-western India played an essential role in the development of the Bronze Age Indus Civilization, as attested by the many well-known Indus mounds and citadels that have been documented in the area. However, little was known about the earlier phases that led to the full integration of…
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The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC-CERCA. Catalonia) invites applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Archaeomalacology and Palaeomalacology. The postdoc will join the GIAP team and its projects on Greek and Roman colonisations in Catalonia and Greece, studying marine and freshwater shells from archaeological sites and sedimentary cores from coastal lagoons. For candidatures and further information,…
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This December, we are glad to welcome 3 new team members to GIAP (ICAC-CERCA): Andrew McLeanMSCA postdoctoral fellow Andrew McLean finished his PhD at Edinburgh last year. His thesis analyzed the economy of the Roman Adriatic with a focus on modeling mobility and movement. He then looked at wine and oil production and patterns of…
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We are excited to announce our partnership with Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) in the context of the project ‘Mapping the Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage of South America‘ (MAPHSA), lead by the UPF in collaboration with 7 international institutions, and funded by Arcadia Fund: The archaeological heritage of South America is facing increasing threats due to the…
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Last August, the research group welcomed Dr. Sayantani Neogi, who will be with us for the next two years to work on her MSCA-IF project SIGNATURE (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101067100). Sayantani completed her PhD in Geoarchaeology at the University of Cambridge (2014) while working on Indus archaeological contexts. Primarily trained as a geomorphologist, she has a long-standing interest in…
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On October 3rd, the first meeting of the Management Committee for the ongoing COST Action CA22155, “Network for forest by-products charcoal, resin, tar, potash (EU-PoTaRCh),” took place. During the committee meeting, representatives from 26 European countries selected the Grant Holder Institution, which is the Poznan University of Life Sciences. Currently, the Action unites 130 members from…
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The preliminary programme of the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA2023Tgn) has been published in the conference’s website: Preliminary programme Registrations will remain open until the 31st October 23:59h CET at this link: https://bit.ly/RegistrationAEA2023 Check all the information about the conference, social events, how to reach Tarragona, accommodation, and more in the…
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