MSCA postdoctoral fellow Nazarij Buławka is presenting in ICAANE 13 – International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, which is taking place in Copenhagen, from 22 to 26 May of 2023. Session 34. Computational Approaches and Remote Sensing Applications in Desertic Areas Water of life: On the ancient irrigation detection and analysis using…
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Today, Francesc C. Conesa (Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher) is participating in an invited lecture at the Master in Archaeology at the University of Barcelona (UB). He will teach theoretical and practical case studies in landscape archaeology, ranging from applying historical declassified satellite photographs to using multi-sensor drones in machine-learning workflows. The students will conduct…
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The archaeological study of urban spaces is crucial to understanding the development of cities and towns and preserving their cultural heritage. The chapter “Arqueologia i boom immobiliari: el cas de la Plaça Major de Vila-real” (Archaeology and real estate boom: the case of the Plaça Major of Vila-real) by Sergio Badenes-Placencia, PhD candidate in GIAP…
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Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor at ICAC) is presenting the methodology and preliminary results obtained for the identification of past agricultural strategies from grain shape, in the AEA Virtual Spring Conference (Association for Environmental Archaeology), which is taking place online on 13 May 2023. Extracting meaning from grain shape: a 3D deep learning workflow…
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MSCA postdoctoral fellow Nazarij Buławka was invited yesterday to present on the “Seminar II: Near East Archaeology” of the “Master’s on Bioarchaeology and/or Eastern Mediterranean and Near Eastern Archaeology” at the Faculty of Archaeology of the University of Warsaw (picture by Miron Bogacki for the University of Warsaw): The application of satellite imagery in the…
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Recent multidisciplinary study in the journal Quaternary International provides new insight into the occupation dynamics of high mountain spaces starting from the Neolithic onwards in the archaeological site of Molleres II. It is the first time that sediment biomarker analyses have been carried out at a Catalan site. Figure 1: Study area location and ortophoto…
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The call for papers for the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, which will take place in Tarragona (Spain) next 24-26th November 2023, is open! Please submit your abstracts here: https://bit.ly/abstractsAEA2023Deadline 31 July 2023 23:59h CET Registration fees: Early bird (deadline 15/09/23) Regular (deadline 31/10/23) AEA member 80 € 100 € Non…
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Last week, part of the team started the fieldwork in the context of the TranScapes and ArqueoTer projects (see below for more information). The team consisted of Arnau Carbonell-Puigventós, Marta Flórez-Santasusanna, Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, Alfredo Mayoral and Josep Maria Palet. The first morning we were in Ullastret, where we met with Gabriel de Prado, director of…
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Alexandra Kriti, PhD candidate at GIAP (ICAC), happily reports on her new grant: “I have recently been awarded the Small Research Grant of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA). Every year, the AEA is offering a small number of grants to fund specific aspects of research projects concerning any area of environmental archaeology. The grant…
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In early April, we participated in an interdisciplinary experimental event in Greece involving burning and the effects of fire on articulated and semi-articulated animal carcasses, pottery and plant remains, which took place in Sokaras village, in Crete, Greece. The experiments took place in the context of the TEFRA project, which investigates the effects of fire on…
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