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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We are proud to share that Dr Patricia Vandorpe, Dr Jessica Feito, Dr Alexandra Livarda and PhD candidate Theoni Baniou participated in the International Work Group for Palaeoethnobotany (IWGP) 2025, that was taking place in Groningen (the Netherlands) from the 21st to the 25th of July, presenting their ongoing research and innovative contributions. Patricia Vandorpe…
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This year’s 8th edition of CientífKs en joc, organised by the ‘Department of Research and Universities of the Generalitat of Catalonia- Generalitat de Catalunya’, has come to an end. On Thursday 29th of May in an emotional day, all schools presented the videogame proposals that created together with a paired female scientist working on the…
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This week, Theoni Baniou and Alexandra Livarda visited the archaeological site of Mas dels Frares at Tarragona to take samples for organic residue and starch analysis in the framework of a new collaboration between the archaeobotany group at GIAP-ICAC and the archaeologists Francesc Rodríguez, Itziar Gutiérrez and Josep Maria Macias (MIRMED group). Dr Rodríguez is…
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In mid-May (12-13), the conference ‘Archaeologies of Waterscapes. Ecology, economy, perception, and memory in changing landscapes’ was celebrated at the Department of History and Cultures at the University of Bologna, Italy. Over two days, it hosted a series of presentations on significant research on the changes in natural and built landscapes within marine, lake or…
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Last 25th-26th April, the biennial Oikos meeting, the most important congress that assemble all the Catalan bioarchaeology research community, was organized by the Associació Catalana de Bioarqueologia (ACBA) (https://www.bioarqueologia.cat/). This 8th edition was co-organized with GIAP members, and it was conducted at the Function Room of the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (Tarragona). Dr. Lídia Colominas…
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