The conference will take place in Athens, Greece, on the 5-9 May 2024. GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) will co-organise 5 sessions: Deadline: 29 October 2024. Submit your papers here: https://2025.caaconference.org/call-for-papers/ S20: “Scaling Heights”: Unveiling Mountainous Landscapes Through Interdisciplinary Survey Strategies, Quantitative Modelling and Computational Methods Session Organisers: Andriana-Maria Xenaki, University of Cambridge Giannis Apostolou, Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP)/…
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Pau Canuda, along with Dr Alfredo Mayoral and Dr Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, have published a new open access paper on the reconstruction of palaeogeography and landscapes around the ancient Greek colony of Abdera. The paper is published in the journal “European Journal of Remote Sensing”. Canuda, P.; Mayoral, A.; Garcia-Molsosa, A. 2024. Reconstructing palaeogeography and landscapes…
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New Scientist magazine (Elsevier), has echoed our latest work on the application of deep learning in the study of qanats in arid environments: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2448049-cold-war-spy-satellites-and-ai-detect-ancient-underground-aqueducts/ The paper, authored by Nazarij Buławka (MSCA postdoctoral researcher), Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor) and Iban Berganzo-Besga (Postdoctoral researcher at Ramsey Lab), is published in the journal “Journal of Archaeological…
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This fieldwork campaign is part of a multi-disciplinary and international project that will allow to compare the landscapes and socio-environmental histories of the Ancient Greek colony of Abdera and its mother city Klazomenai. GIAP-ICAC members Alfredo Mayoral, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa and Isabel Mattuzzi, collaborate with the Klazomenai Excavations and Survey (www.klasp.net), directed by Prof.Dr. Yaşar E.…
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Tomorrow will start the 30th EAA Annual Meeting that will take place in Rome (Italy) from the 28-31st of August. The Annual Meeting themes incorporate the diversity of EAA and the multidimensionality of archaeological practice, including archaeological interpretation, heritage management and politics of the past and present. GIAP has 11 contributions to the conference and…
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Monday 29th of July Ekta Gupta was in Baroda (India) presenting her research at the Lecture Series 1 of the Department of Geography of the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda. Her talk ‘Connecting the dots: remote sensing and GIS at the Geography-Archaeology interface” focused on: – Examine the spatial context of historical events through the…
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Dr. Ekta Gupta has published a new open access paper on the application of remote sensing in the study of Bronze Age water networks in India. The paper is published in the journal “Journal of Maritime Archaeology”. Abstract: The Bronze Age Harappan Civilisation thrived between 2600 BCE and 1900 BCE in the northwestern part of…
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We are glad to announce that we got a new postdoc grant in the preliminary resolution of the 2023 call Juan de la Cierva call (Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades)! Dr. Sònia Carbonell Pastor will join us at the end of the year and will be supervised by Hèctor A. Orengo. About Sònia Her…
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We are glad to announce our participation in a new COST Action project, which created a network of archaeologists and computer scientists to develop a shared understanding of AI applications in archaeology. The project, a COST Action called “Managing Artificial Intelligence in Archaeology (MAIA)” (CA23141), gathers scientists from 8 countries, and is led by the…
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Find out more about our geoarchaeological research in the upland region of Grevena, Western Macedonia (Greece), addressing the interplay between Holocene landscape evolution and settlement dynamics, drawing new evidence from the alluvial history of the Xerolakkos stream. This work, led by our PhD candidate Giannis Apostolou is part of his dissertation that uses integrated remote-sensing…
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