This July and September, an international multi-disciplinary team lead by researchers from GIAP-ICAC, the Ephoria for Antiquities of Xanthi, the Universities of Athens and Crete and ISEM-Montpellier, has conducted archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research around ancient Abdera in the province of Xanthi (East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece), under MEDLANDS and DIPAX projects. The coordinated effort focused…
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In the end of September and the first weeks of this October, Dr Alexandra Livarda, Dr Jessica Feito and Ms Marina Daniel, members of the ICAC archaeobotany team, visited the archaeological site of Pergamon, located in the modern town of Bergama, Turkey. Their visit marked the beginning of a new collaboration between the GIAP/ICAC archaeobotany…
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During six months and finishing in summer 2026, Stefania Christou conducted an Erasmus+ traineeship at the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC-CERCA) as a visiting student from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece). Throughout her stay, she received practical training in archaeobotanical and biomolecular methods commonly applied to archaeological research, supervised by Dr Alexandra Livarda and…
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This July the BSA’s ‘Supplementary Volumes’ series published a new volume by Carl Knappett, Alexandra Livarda and Nicoletta Momigliano that brought together the results of their PALAP Palaikastro landscape and excavation project in the east of Crete. The book presents the results of excavations at the settlement, landscape survey and palaeoenvironmental analysis, revealing long-term agropastoral subsistence strategies…
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Dr Theoni Baniou, currently conducting postdoctoral research at the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC-CERCA), has made great advances on the application of Organic Residue Analysis (ORA) to investigate foodways and plant exploitation in the Late Antique site of València la Vella (Riba-roja de Túria). Dr Baniou in collaboration with the archaeologists of the site has…
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Marina Daniel has recently returned from an extended research stay on the island of Lesvos as part of her newly launched doctoral project at ICAC-URV, that started in May under the supervision of Dr Alexandra Livarda and Professor Joaquín Ruiz de Arbulo Bayona. Her PhD investigates the agricultural economies of the prehistoric Aegean through archaeobotanical…
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From July 3 to 10, Dr. Lídia Colominas was in southern Tuscany (Italy) collaborating on the Marzuolo Archeological Project (MAP). There, Dr. Colominas analysed the faunal remains of Podere Marzuolo site (ca. 2 ha), a rural craft centre that was occupied between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD. The project directors, Astrid…
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This June-July Dr Alexandra Livarda visited the archaeological site of Akrotiri at Santorini, Greece, to start a new research collaboration with Dr Anaya Sarpaki, the head archaeobotanist of this important site. Akrotiri was a Bronze Age town, buried under the ashes of the volcanic eruption that led to the destruction of this busy and prosperous…
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Our MSCA post-doctoral fellow, Dr Jessie Feito, went for another year to Pompeii with the Casa della Regina Carolina Excavations (University of Bologna, Cornell University, Harvard University). Jessie does the archaeobotany for the project, using archaeobotanical macroremains (e.g., seeds, fruits) to explore plant use within the house and plant-human interactions in one of the largest…
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Charlotte Diffey, our Beatriu de Pinós fellow and member of ICAC’s archaeobotany team, had a really busy month travelling at the east of the Mediterranean! Charlotte started with a visit in Istanbul where she co-ran the Environmental Archaeology Workshop at ANAMED on the 16th – 17th of May funded by Koҫ University. Several graduate students from Koҫ…
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