Category: Mediterranean Archaeology

3RD MEETING OF THE ARCHAEOBOTANY IN GREECE GROUP (MAGG)

On Friday 8th of November 2024 the 3rd meeting of archaeobotanists working in Greece was celebrated, hosted by C. Pagnoux (MNHN/AASPE) & G. Tsartsidou (Wiener Laboratory, ASCSA/Ephorate of Palaeoanthropology-Speleology, Hellenic Ministry of culture). The meeting once again provided an excellent forum to share results, concerns and ideas, while forging research relationships across the field. The…
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MSCA NetFoodIt Workshop celebration: Roman Foodways in Italy

The MSCA NetFoodIt ‘Networking food plant imports in Roman Italy’, run by fellow Dr Federica Riso and supervisors Dr Alexandra Livarda and Prof Hector Orengo, is coming soon to its end. To celebrate its closing and share our results Dr Riso organised an one-day workshop on “Roman Foodways in Italy” that brought together a fantastic…
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The call for papers for the CAA 2025 is open!

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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Research stay-collaboration between the GIAP archaeobotany team & ISEM, University of Montpellier

Theoni Baniou, GIAP-ICAC PhD candidate, has started on the 1st of September a two-month research stay in Montpellier (France) where she is working with Dr Laurent Bouby, group member of the Dynamics of biodiversity, anthropoecology Research Group at the Institute of Evolutionary Science of Montpellier (ISEM), University of Montpellier. Dr Bouby and the ISEM team…
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New PhD student in Archaeozoology!

We are glad to announce a new incorporation to the GIAP Archaeozoology team. Diana Álvarez Abrio joined us this September under the supervision of Lídia Colominas. About Diana Diana Álvarez is a PhD candidate in Archaeology at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona). She holds a Bachelor’s degree in History and a Master’s degree in Archaeology…
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Palaeoenvironmental research starts in the Ancient city of Klazomenai with the participation of members of ICAC

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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Seasonal feeding habits of cattle in the Iron Age site of Mas Castellar de Pontós (Girona, Catalonia)

The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC-CERCA) has signed a new collaboration agreement with the Palarq Foundation in order to develop the project “Seasonal feeding habits of cattle in the Iron Age site of Mas Castellar de Pontós (Girona, Catalonia)”. With duration of one year, the project will be led by Dra. Lídia Colominas (director…
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Prominent representation of GIAP in the 30th EAA Annual Meeting!

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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Archaeobotanical collaboration between GIAP-ICAC and BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, MHNC-UP – our stay in Portugal!

Theoni Baniou, GIAP-ICAC PhD candidate (supervised by Dr Alexandra Livarda and Dr Núria Romani), finished in June her academic stay in Porto (Portugal). Theoni spent the last 1.5 months working with Dr João Tereso and his team at the BIOPOLIS-CIBIO, the Research Centre in Biodiversity and Genetic Resources, University of Porto, and the MHNC –…
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Two New Open Access publications on archaeobotany and organic residue analysis applied to Roman material

This week two papers investigating Roman foodways in the western provinces of the Roman Empire, in the eastern part of the Iberian Peninsula, led by GIAP PhD candidate Theoni Baniou (supervised by Drs Alexandra Livarda and Núria Romaní Sala) have been published GOLD OPEN ACCESS. The first paper, published in the journal of Archaeological and…
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