This month, Navjot Kour is leading a ground-truthing survey in the outer alluvial plains of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Here, her team is documenting and validating new potential archaeological sites and geomorphological traits that Navjot previously mapped using a combination of historical sources and multi-temporal satellite imagery. In particular, she successfully integrated a…
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We are very glad to welcome Abel Gallego-Valle back to the group, who won our latest postdoctoral call, and will contribute with his expertise to the archaeozoology team at GIAP. He will contribute with his expertise on the research on animal husbandry and archaezoology in the framework of the GIAP projects. In particular, the dental…
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Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher Faidon Moudopoulos has published two new book chapters surrounding the heritage of Zagori (Greece) in the book: Doris, Ph. and Papastratis, P. (eds.) 2023. Youkali, ένα liber amicorum για τον Σταύρο Μουδόπουλο (Youkali, a liber amicorum for Stavros Moudopoulos). Bibliorama. Athens. ISBN 9789609548588. The book is dedicated to Stavros…
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The Catalan Association of Bioarchaeology organizes the VII Oikos Meeting of Bioarchaeology (VII Reunió Oikos de Bioarqueologia), which is conceived as a meeting space to favor the circulation and exchange of knowledge among all people who are interested in bioarchaeological research and the various disciplines that integrate it. The conference takes place on 26-27th May…
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Join us in the last GIAP Seminar of 2023! Jun 15th 18h CET ‘Counting the Cost: Time, Event, and Process in Landscape Archaeology’ Dr. Dan StewartSchool of Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Leicester Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/JoinGIAPseminarsNo registration required. Hosted in Microsoft Teams (no Microsoft/Teams account needed). Abstract: This paper wants to interrogate the…
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MSCA postdoctoral fellow Nazarij Buławka is presenting in ICAANE 13 – International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East, which is taking place in Copenhagen, from 22 to 26 May of 2023. Session 34. Computational Approaches and Remote Sensing Applications in Desertic Areas Water of life: On the ancient irrigation detection and analysis using…
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Today, the archaeozoology team is presenting in the international conference “Ager Mutabilis: Exploitation of the Territory During the Roman Period“, which is taking place in Castell de Calonge, Calonge i Sant Antoni (Baix Empordà, Catalunya) on May 18-19th. Abstracts in Catalan below. Keynote presentationAnimal husbandry during the Roman period in the northeastern peninsula: some examples and…
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Today, Francesc C. Conesa (Beatriu de Pinós postdoctoral researcher) is participating in an invited lecture at the Master in Archaeology at the University of Barcelona (UB). He will teach theoretical and practical case studies in landscape archaeology, ranging from applying historical declassified satellite photographs to using multi-sensor drones in machine-learning workflows. The students will conduct…
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The archaeological study of urban spaces is crucial to understanding the development of cities and towns and preserving their cultural heritage. The chapter “Arqueologia i boom immobiliari: el cas de la Plaça Major de Vila-real” (Archaeology and real estate boom: the case of the Plaça Major of Vila-real) by Sergio Badenes-Placencia, PhD candidate in GIAP…
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Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor at ICAC) is presenting the methodology and preliminary results obtained for the identification of past agricultural strategies from grain shape, in the AEA Virtual Spring Conference (Association for Environmental Archaeology), which is taking place online on 13 May 2023. Extracting meaning from grain shape: a 3D deep learning workflow…
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