Category: Landscape archaeology

Research, outreach and training activities conducted by Dr Gupta in India

Over the last month, Dr Ekta Gupta has conducted research, outreach, and training activities in India related to her field of expertise and ongoing research projects. Activity 1: Title: A New Lens on Past Landscapes: Insights from Geospatial Analysis for Historical and Archaeological Research On Friday, 28th of February, Dr Ekta Gupta was in Sonipat (India)…
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Call for abstracts: “Tracing Back Historical Land-Use and its Legacies: Common Insights and Perspectives of Landscape Archaeology and Historical Landscape Ecology”

On 2nd-5th September 2025, the “European Landscape Ecology Congress. Landscape Perspective in a Rapidly Changing World (IALE 2025)” will be hosted at the Faculty of Natural Sciences of Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. Dr Valentina Pescini is co-organizing the Session 2C, “Tracing Back Historical Land-Use and its Legacies: Common Insights and Perspectives of Landscape Archaeology and Historical…
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ONLINE PRESENTATION  OF THE CURRENT CASE STUDIES IN THE EASTERN PYREENES LEAD BY THE GIAP TEAM

On Saturday 22nd February 2025, Dr Josep Maria Palet has led an oral presentation during the International online seminar «Determinisms and cultural geographies? A micropolitical approach to archaeology of mountain landscapes». Under the title “Cultural landscapes and livestock activities on a long-term perspective in high mountain environments in the Eastern Pyrenees (Segre and Ter valleys,…
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New paper publication: «Tracing the history of a Mediterranean terraced landscape: interdisciplinary research in the Cinque Terre coastal region (NW Italy).»

A new paper in landscape archaeology has been published in the Journal Quaternary International. The paper titled «Tracing the history of a Mediterranean terraced landscape: interdisciplinary research in the Cinque Terre coastal region (NW Italy)» by Pescini, V., Panetta, A., Menozzi, B.I., Montanari, C. discusses the latest results of the “5 Terre Environmental Resource Archaeology…
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Transhumance, Cross-Border Movement, and Historical-Environmental Heritage

On 25th February, Dr Valentina Pescini and Dr Diego Moreno will conduct the seminar “Transhumance, Cross-Border Movement, and Historical-Environmental Heritage”. The seminar will be focused on transhumance, a traditional practice of seasonal pastoral migration, which has long influenced Mediterranean landscapes, shaping territorial structures, cultural exchanges, and ecological systems. Dr Pescini will share the current aims…
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GIAP seminar series. Urban animals: zooarchaeological and isotopic insights into urbanisation”.

On Wednesday, February 19th, at 12:00 CET, we hosted our speaker, Dr Angela Trentacoste (British School at Rome), who talked to us about “Urban animals: zooarchaeological and isotopic insights into urbanisation.”. Dr Trentacoste talked about the current results of the UrbanHerds project, funded by the Humboldt Foundation, a project that she leads. She showed how…
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A new open-access article by the Archaezoology team of the GIAP-ICAC sheds light on feeding strategies in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula 

We are glad to announce the publication of a new open access paper on animal husbandry and feeding strategies in the Iron Age Iberian Peninsula. This study provides first order information about this topic using a multi-isotope analysis. The paper is published in the journal “Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences”. Dr Chiara Messana, Dr Carlos Tornero,…
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Urban Geoarchaeology

We are pleased to announce the publication of the first book dedicated to Urban Geoarchaeology, to which Alfredo Mayoral contributes the first chapter! Alfr­edo Mayoral, Jean-François Berger, Jean-Luc Peiry, Paul Ledger, Yannick Miras. 2024. “Geoarchaeological analysis of pedosedimentary archives from site-environment interfaces: reconstructing palaeoenvironmental impacts of protohistoric settlements and towns at Corent (France)”, In Q.…
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The application of satellite imagery in the landscape archaeology in the Near East: detection of qanat irrigation systems using AI

Tuesday 12 of November, at 13:15 a.m., Dr Nazarij Bulawka, Dr Héctor A. Orengo and Dr Iban Berganzo will offer a lecture on the application of satellite imagery in the landscape archaeology in the Near East to detect qanat irrigation systems using AI. This talk is part of the Seminar “Near East Archaeology” of the…
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A new open-access article by GIAP-ICAC members sheds light on the long-term evolution of settlement and sociopolitical dynamics in ancient Macedonia

We are happy to announce the publication of findings from a new regional archaeological survey in Land! Led by Giannis Apostolou, a PhD candidate of the GIAP-ICAC, this study investigates the evolution of human settlement in Grevena (NW Greece) from the Neolithic to the Late Roman periods, integrating geospatial analyses with multi-disciplinary surveying strategies. Giannis…
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