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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Open call for postdoctoral positions! We are looking for a postdoc to work with the team of our I+D+i project “TranScapes: Transported Mediterranean landscapes: diachronic integrated study of socio-environmental interactions and land-use changes at both sides of the Mediterranean“. Please contact Josep Maria Palet (jpalet@icac.cat) & Alfredo Mayoral (amayoral@icac.cat) if you’re interested. We look forward…
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Open calls for PhD contracts of the Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)! Grants for the Training of University Teachers (Ayudas para la formación de profesorado universitario FPU 2022) Deadline: 15th February Topics: bioarchaeology and palaeoenvironment, geoarchaeology, survey, archaeomorphological analysis and computational approaches, including GIS, remote sensing and machine learning. More info Contact: amayoral@icac.cat / jpalet@icac.cat About the call:…
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This month, GIAP (ICAC) welcomed Darío Herranz (lab technician) and Federica Riso (MSCA postdoctoral fellow), and we celebrate Valentina Pescini‘s upgrade as Ramón y Cajal researcher! Valentina Pescini 2 years after she joined GIAP as a Juan de la Cierva researcher, Valentina now joins GIAP again as a Ramón y Cajal researcher, to continue her…
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GIAP (ICAC) researcher Alfredo Mayoral will present in the Landscape Archaeology Conference 2022 (LAC2022), which is taking place from 10th to 15th September 2022: Session nº06 How does the Waterscape Influences, Affects and Infers the Human Community’s Development, Evolution, Vulnerabilities, and Resilience over Time?9.05 GMT (11.05 CEST) Title Waterscapes of Greek Colonization: A Geoarchaeological Approach to Socio-Environmental Interaction…
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The 2022 international meeting of the EAA (European Association of Archaeologists) is being held from 31 Aug to 3 Sept in Budapest. Among several other ICAC contributions, GIAP (ICAC) researcher Alfredo Mayoral co-leads session #230 with André-Marie Dendievel (Univ. Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, ENTPE, CNRS, UMR 5023 LEHNA). September 1st 2022, 14.00-18.00h CETSession…
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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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Figure by Jordi Montaner. GIAP-ICAC researchers Dr. Josep Maria Palet and Dr. Hèctor A. Orengo recently published, in The Holocene, the latest results on the coastal hinterland of Emporion–Emporiae (NE, Iberia). A collaboration with: Ana Ejarque1, 2, Ramon Julià3, Pere Castanyer4 & Santiago Riera31ISEM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, IRD, France2GEOLAB, CNRS, Université Clermont Auvergne, France3Seminary of Prehistoric Studies and Research,…
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We are pleased to invite you to contribute to the session #230 in the 2022 international meeting of the EAA (European Association of Archaeologists) that will be held from 31 Aug to 3 Sept in Budapest. This session is entitled: “Sediment and soil archives to decipher human-environment interactions in wetland landscapes from the Neolithic to…
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Figure 1. The Gergovie plateau from the ancient Sarliève Marsh, nowadays drained. Image by Alfredo Mayoral. A new study in the Sarliève marsh, recently published in Quaternary Science Reviews, redraws the interaction between volcanos, climate, paleoenvironments and prehistoric societies during the Holocene in the Limagne plain (central France). The Sarliève marsh is an ancient lake, nowadays…
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