We are pleased to announce the publication of our new article just out in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. “When luxury comes to an end: Animal production and consumption in the late Roman occupation of the aristocratic residence of Els Munts (Tarragona, Catalonia)” Abstract: The end of the 3rd century AD in the Western Roman…
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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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From January 29 to February 6, Dr. Lídia Colominas was in Egypt collaborating on the Sikait project. There, Dr. Colominas was analyzing a faunal assemblage from the late antiquity, associated with a temple. It was a very enriching experience, full of gazelles, spectacular landscapes and very good company! We would be happy to continue collaborating…
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Two recently published papers shed new light on the agricultural practices, foodways, and plant management strategies of Roman Iesso, one of the few sites in the Iberian Peninsula with exceptional, waterlogged, preservation of plant remains, opening up new windows into Roman economy and tastes. The first paper, published in Environmental Archaeology by Theoni Baniou, Núria Romaní Sala, Patricia…
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On the 3rd of December, PhD candidate Theoni Baniou had her final examination of her PhD thesis. Supervised by Dr Alexandra Livarda (GIAP/ICAC) and Dr Núria Romaní Sala (UAB), her work entitled: ‘Exploring Roman tastes: An interdisciplinary approach, using archaeobotany, organic residue analysis and GMM to reconstruct dietary habits in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula’…
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We are pleased to announce the publication of our new article just out in Environmental Archaeology: “Agricultural Management and Culinary Culture in the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Aegean: Archaeobotanical and Stable Isotope Insights from Region I, Xeropolis, Lefkandi” Focusing on one of the largest non-palatial settlements in the central Aegean, the site at…
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Between the 6th and 9th of November of 2025 the Iberian Peninsula Archaeobotanical meeting took place at The German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Berlin, organised by Dr Ferran Antolín and his team. GIAP members, Dr Alexandra Livarda and PhD candidate Theoni Baniou participated in the conference to share the advances of their work. Alexandra Livarda and her colleagues Hèctor…
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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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We are pleased to announce the publication of the book “Economía de la Hispania romana. Paisajes de producción y dinámicas comerciales”, to which Dr Lídia Colominas contributes to chapter six, devoted to the production and consumption of animal products. Lídia Colominas, Oriol Olesti. 2024. “Producción y consumo de recursos ganaderos”. In Carreras, C.; Molina, J.;…
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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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