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Consolidation of the remains of the pre-Romanesque church of Sant Julià de Valldaneu

The consolidation work of the remains of the pre-Romanesque church of Sant Julià de Valldaneu (Sant Martí de Centelles, Osona) has recently been completed, the identification and study of which has been carried out by researchers from the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) from the Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology (ICAC) in collaboration with the…
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Computational archaeology thesis defence: Iban Berganzo-Besga

As part of the interuniversity doctoral program in Classical Archeology (URV-ICAC-UAB), we are pleased to invite you to the public reading of the doctoral thesis of GIAP researcher Iban Berganzo-Besga, which has been co-directed by Prof. Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor at ICAC) and Felipe Lumbreras (Computer Vision Center of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, CVC-UAB): “New…
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Open call for researcher in Archaeozoology

The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology opens a call for a full-time researcher in Archaeozoology, linked to the GIAP research group. The ICAC looks for a researcher to manage the scientific-technical activities in the field of archaeozoology of the GIAP’s lines of research in Archaeozoology, with the following functions: For this purpose, and according to…
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GIAP researchers lead a new bioarchaeology subject at the new MACA Master’s Degree! 

For the first time, bioarchaeology has a dedicated subject a Master’s degree in the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). The subject, which started this week, is led by Lídia Colominas and Alexandra Livarda, both Ramón y Cajal researchers at GIAP (ICAC).  The subject is included in the new Master’s degree “Applied Classical Archaeology. Research and Transfer (MACA)”, organised by…
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MSCA results are out! A new postdoctoral fellow and a secondment for GIAP

Great news for GIAP (ICAC) in the last Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) call from the European Union! The computational team will expand with a new project that aims at reconstructing the Roman transport network, and we are glad that our colleagues in Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution – Montpellier (ISEM UMR 5554), were awarded an…
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Work with us! Two new positions for GIAP

Two new senior technician job offers have recently opened for GIAP: You may find all the information on how to apply on ICAC’s open calls page:https://icac.cat/en/who-are-we/work-at-the-icac/open-calls/

Happy International day of Women and Girls in Science!

Ten GIAP (ICAC) researchers participated in ICAC’s celebration of the International day of Women and Girls in Science. ICAC led a multilingual initiative that includes multiple 1-minute-long videos of researchers highlighting women archaeologists who had an impact on them and/or their research. The campaign lasted a few weeks, and this post groups all our participations.…
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The computational team welcomes a new researcher for 6 months!

We welcome PhD candidate Alessia Brucato, from the University Bari Aldo Moro – Department of Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica and the Instituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale (ISPC) of the Consiglio Nazionale delle Richerche (CNR), who will be staying with us for 6 months to train on the application of the computational methods developed in GIAP…
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Postdoc call open! Juan de la Cierva contracts

Open call for postdoctoral positions! We are looking for a postdoc to work with the team of our I+D+i project “TranScapes: Transported Mediterranean landscapes: diachronic integrated study of socio-environmental interactions and land-use changes at both sides of the Mediterranean“. Please contact Josep Maria Palet (jpalet@icac.cat) & Alfredo Mayoral (amayoral@icac.cat) if you’re interested. We look forward…
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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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