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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Carles Naval, student of the MACA Master programme (URV-ICAC-UAB), has joined the archaezoological team of GIAP. He has started his training under the supervision of Dr Lídia Colominas to develop a master’s thesis. It will be focused on the study of animal husbandry at Serrat del Castellar, an Iron Age site located in the core…
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Last Monday, the 28th of April, the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology hosted the workshop “Foodways and trade in the Roman provinces of Germania: an interdisciplinary approach”, led by post-doctoral researcher Dr Patricia Vandorpe as part of her MSCA project PlantNetGem. Specialists from different disciplines (archaeozoology, archaeobotany, anthracology and ceramology) and from across Europe were…
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Last week, the GIAP team participates in the first paleoenvironmental survey campaign of the PALEODELTA project. The aim of this work is to investigate the changes in the morphology of the mouth of the Ebro between Prehistory and the Middle Ages. PALEODELTA is a project funded by the Ministry of Science (PID2023-147021NB-I00.pdf) coordinated by researchers…
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