We are pleased to announce the second presentation in our 2025-2026 seminar series. We are especially delighted to welcome Roberta Cevasco, Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo (Bra, Cuneo, Italy). The presentation will take place on Tuesday, May 5, at 12 p.m. (CET) and will be online. Access the…
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Registration is now open for students and researchers interested in participating in the Archaeological and Geoarchaeological fieldwork that will take place in the region of Xanthi (Greece) during July and September 2026. The campaigns are part of the MEDLANDS project. Participants will join a multi-disciplinary team investigating the long-term History of Mediterranean landscapes and participate…
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GIAP member Arnau Garcia-Molsosa participated in the 50th Edition of the International Mediterranean Survey Workshop that took place at the University of Leuven (Belgium) the 26th and 27th of March 2026. Representing MEDLANDS team, Dr. Garcia-Molsosa presented the paper: Fieldwalking and integrated Remote Sensing approaches in the context of a multi-disciplinary and multi-scale landscape Archaeology…
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We are pleased to announce an open call for a 4-year fully funded PhD position in Mediterranean Holocene Paleoenvironments at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) and the Institute of Evolutionary Sciences of Montpellier (ISEM). The successful candidate will join the MEDLANDS project to reconstruct Holocene landscapes in coastal Thrace, Greece, through a multi-proxy palaeoecological approach—including pollen, non-pollen palynomorphs (NPPs), and…
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This September, GIAP-ICAC researchers have carried out archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research campaigns in the territory of the ancient cities of Klazomenai (Turkey) and Abdera (Greece). These works are part of the MEDLANDS project (PID2024-159127NB-I00). This research aims to compare and characterize the anthropic impact and the evolution of the landscape in the territory of a…
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Last 6th septembre 2025, Dr Valentina Pescini has organized the I Paessagi della Transumanza: ricerche di Archeologia Ambientale sul Monte Mongione, that took place in Ormea (Italy), region of Ligurian/Maritime Alps. The goal was to present the current results of Transeant, a project lead by Dr Pescini, that is is been conducted in this region…
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Last week, the GIAP team participates in the first paleoenvironmental survey campaign of the PALEODELTA project. The aim of this work is to investigate the changes in the morphology of the mouth of the Ebro between Prehistory and the Middle Ages. PALEODELTA is a project funded by the Ministry of Science (PID2023-147021NB-I00.pdf) coordinated by researchers…
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We are glad to announce that the next GIAP seminar will be conducted next 24th April between 12 pm – 1pm CEST (UTC+2). This new GIAP seminar will be conducted by Dr Margarita Fernández Mier, Full Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oviedo (Spain). Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/3G7kt3M Open event. No registration…
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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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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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