Last week MSCA postdoctoral fellows Jessica Feito and Patricia Vandorpe travelled to France to present their research, as part of the larger project ‘Urbanisation, commerce and foodways in the Roman world’ directed by Dr. Alexandra Livarda and Prof. Hector Orengo. They participated in the XVe Rencontres d’Archéobotanique de Langue Française held in Paimpont in Bretagne from the 18th to the 21st of…
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We are pleased to announce the collaboration of Lídia Colominas on an archaeozoological paper in the prestigious journal “Science”. The paper, titled “The emergence and diversification of dog morphology” lead by Allowen Evin (Institute of Evolutionary Science-Montpellier) and Carly Ameen (University of Exeter) is the result of the collaborative effort of more than 40 researchers…
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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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A new paper on Archaeozoology has been published in the Journal “Virulence”. The paper, titled “Detection of Clostridium sporogenes in a Roman-era cattle mass grave at Vilauba” by, Myburgh, D. A., da Silva, N. A., Haller-Caskie, M., Colominas, L., Castanyer, P., Frigola, J.,Tremoleda, J., Hölzel, C., Unterweger, D., Nebel, A and Krause-Kyora, B, presents a…
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Third webinar organized by the International Society of Gastronomic Sciences and Studies (ISGSS) in collaboration with the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica Date: Wednesday, November 12th, 2025 Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM CET Building on the work of the ISGSS Working Group “Foodways and Foodscapes Through Time: Linking Ecology, History, and Archaeology”, this webinar delves…
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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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Lídia Colominas participated in the 11th ICAZ-AGP Working Group Meeting (https://sites.google.com/palaeome.org/11th-icaz-apgm-dk/home), that took place in Copenhagen (Denmark) from the 14th to the 17th of October. The meeting once again provided an excellent forum to share results, concerns and ideas about archaeozoology, genetics, morphometrics and proteomics. She presented a talk, together with Daniel Anton Myburgh, Ben…
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Last 6th septembre 2025, Dr Valentina Pescini has organized the I Paessagi della Transumanza: ricerche di Archeologia Ambientale sul Monte Mongione, that took place in Ormea (Italy), region of Ligurian/Maritime Alps. The goal was to present the current results of Transeant, a project lead by Dr Pescini, that is is been conducted in this region…
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PhD candidate Rosa Soler is participating in the 11th International Society for Biomolecular Archaeology Meeting (@isba11_turin), that is taking place in Turin (Italy) from the 26th to the 29th of August. She is presenting her poster titled “Optimising sheep reproductive strategies in roman Iberia: The case study of the villa of Els Tolegassos (Catalonia)” which…
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