Category: Mountain archaeology

Call for papers! Ager Mutabilis: Exploitation of the Territory During the Roman Period

The call for applications and registration is open for the international conference “Ager Mutabilis: Exploitation of the Territory During the Roman Period“, which will take place in Castell de Calonge, Calonge i Sant Antoni (Baix Empordà, Catalunya) on May 18-19th. “The call for applications is aimed at researchers who work in the area of exploitation…
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Call for contributions! Special issue: ‘Natural Resource Exploitation in Mountain Environments: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches’

Call for contributions to the Special Issue in Frontiers in Environmental Archaeology entitled: Natural Resource Exploitation in Mountain Environments: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches Deadline for submission of manuscripts: 28th of June 2023 Extended to 30th September 2023 (previous expression of interest to the guest editors is expected, see emails below).  Mountain researches of the last five…
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2 newcomers and an upgrade!

This month, we welcomed 2 new postdoctoral researchers, Drs. Laura Strolin and Faidon Moudopoulos, and we celebrate that Dr. Arnau Garcia-Molsosa started his Ramón y Cajal fellowship with GIAP, after finishing his Beatriu de Pinós-Marie Curie cofund project (also in GIAP, from 2020-2022). Dr. Arnau Garcia-Molsosa Dr. Garcia completed his PhD on the Archaeology of…
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Retracing the steps of transhumance in antiquity: high mountain archeology

Today, GIAP (ICAC)’s PhD candidate Arnau Carbonell is presenting in the ‘II Congress of transhumance and livestock roads‘ (II Congrés de Transhumància i Camins Ramaders), on the the 2nd axis ‘Transhumance: ancestral activity and territorial development tool’: Retracing the steps of transhumance in antiquity: high mountain archeology in the Puigpedrós massif and in the Duran…
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Archaeological weekend at the nature reserve of the headwaters of the Ter & Freser rivers

On September 17th and 18th 2022 we celebrate an archaeological weekend in the headwaters of the Ter i and Freser’s Natural Park. A unique opportunity to explore archaeological remains of Núria Valley by the hand one of the major experts of the area: Josep Maria Palet (mountain archaeology, ICAC’s director and GIAP’s co-director). Starting with…
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Centuriated Landscapes in Italy and the Iberian Peninsula

Josep Maria Palet Martínez and Maria Jesús Ortega will be presenting today in the workshop: ‘Centuriated Landscapes in Italy and the Iberian Peninsula‘, organised by the Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome and University of Groningen , and sponsored by the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds. The workshop is hosted at the KNIR in Rome on 28th and 29th…
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Archaeological survey in a high-mountain environment: livestock settlements, land-use and landscape dynamics

GIAP (ICAC) PhD candidate Arnau Carbonell-Puigventós travelled to Madrid the past days to attend the XIV Ancient Archaeology Doctoral Workshop, organised by the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI) and the École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques (Casa de Velázquez). The workshop was a series of presentations on topics related to climate change, palaeoenvironment and archaeology, where the…
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The highest Roman site discovered so far in Catalonia: GIAP plans new archaeological works at Coll de Molleres

ICAC’s archaeological surveys in the area (carried out since 2018) raised the possibility of a military settlement at an altitude of 2,500 m. Meranges City Council and the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) have reached an agreement to reactivate this summer the archaeological works at Coll de Molleres site (Cerdanya), the highest Roman site discovered so…
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Bringing heritage education and mediation to the Pyrenees: ArqueoPirenaia, a new FECYT knowledge transfer project

The 2022 FECYT call for knowledge transfer projects has awarded a grant to a proposal by GIAP (ICAC), to boost the high mountain cultural landscape in the Núria Valley (Eastern Pyrenees). Featured: general view of the Font Negra archaeological site. Photo: ICAC. The project ‘ArqueoPirenaia. Social transfer, didactics and mediation of heritage in a high…
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Rome and the Pyrenees. The formation of cultural landscapes in high mountain areas

ACADEMIA MARGINALIS is a project promoted by the professors of the Department of Art History of the University of Barcelona Juan Miguel Muñoz Corbalán and Núria Torras Benezet that consists of a series of conferences, presentations and social gatherings that will take place from February to May of 2022. You can check out the full…
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