This July the BSA’s ‘Supplementary Volumes’ series published a new volume by Carl Knappett, Alexandra Livarda and Nicoletta Momigliano that brought together the results of their PALAP Palaikastro landscape and excavation project in the east of Crete. The book presents the results of excavations at the settlement, landscape survey and palaeoenvironmental analysis, revealing long-term agropastoral subsistence strategies…
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This September Dr. Matteo Bormetti has joined the archaeozoology team at GIAP-ICAC embarking on a new Juan de la Cierva project titled “Mapping Responses to Roman Imperialism in Animal Husbandry”. Matteo will be working under the supervision of Dr Lídia Colominas and Dr Arnau Garcia to investigate the adaptive strategies employed by culturally and ecologically…
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This July, Dr Charlotte Diffey spent two weeks at the site of Kaymakҫı in Western Türkiye processing archaeobotanical samples as part of the Kaymakҫı Archaeological Project (KAP) in collaboration with Koҫ University, Istanbul. The site itself is a Middle and Late Bronze Age fortified citadel, located on the western shore of Lake Marmara. In recent…
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Dr Theoni Baniou, currently conducting postdoctoral research at the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC-CERCA), has made great advances on the application of Organic Residue Analysis (ORA) to investigate foodways and plant exploitation in the Late Antique site of València la Vella (Riba-roja de Túria). Dr Baniou in collaboration with the archaeologists of the site has…
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Marina Daniel has recently returned from an extended research stay on the island of Lesvos as part of her newly launched doctoral project at ICAC-URV, that started in May under the supervision of Dr Alexandra Livarda and Professor Joaquín Ruiz de Arbulo Bayona. Her PhD investigates the agricultural economies of the prehistoric Aegean through archaeobotanical…
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From July 3 to 10, Dr. Lídia Colominas was in southern Tuscany (Italy) collaborating on the Marzuolo Archeological Project (MAP). There, Dr. Colominas analysed the faunal remains of Podere Marzuolo site (ca. 2 ha), a rural craft centre that was occupied between the 1st century BC and the 3rd century AD. The project directors, Astrid…
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Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow Dr Jessie Feito (‘FoodMod-RGB: Modelling food plant trade in the Roman provinces of Gaul and Britannia’ [HORIZON-MSCA-2023-PF-01]) recently returned from working in the University of Barcelona, Department of Biology isotope lab with Professor Jose Luis Aarus Ortega, Maria Dolors Serret Molins, and Joel Segarra Torruella. She spent a few weeks processing samples from the Roman site…
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This June-July Dr Alexandra Livarda visited the archaeological site of Akrotiri at Santorini, Greece, to start a new research collaboration with Dr Anaya Sarpaki, the head archaeobotanist of this important site. Akrotiri was a Bronze Age town, buried under the ashes of the volcanic eruption that led to the destruction of this busy and prosperous…
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Our MSCA post-doctoral fellow, Dr Jessie Feito, went for another year to Pompeii with the Casa della Regina Carolina Excavations (University of Bologna, Cornell University, Harvard University). Jessie does the archaeobotany for the project, using archaeobotanical macroremains (e.g., seeds, fruits) to explore plant use within the house and plant-human interactions in one of the largest…
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Lídia Colominas and Rosa Soler participated this week in the “5th Roman Period Working Group Meeting International Council for Archaeozoology”, that took place in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) from the 30th of June until the 3rd of July. The conference provided an excellent forum to share results, concerns and…
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