This weekend, Rambla Prim in Barcelona has been buzzing with families and researchers at the 16th Science Festival. We participated in the event with a workshop on cereal cultivation and sustainable food, where children and their families interacted with large-scale reproductions of ancient cereal seeds and performed tasks of sample identification and classification. The activity was very well received, with the participation of about thirty people, including 15 children and their families. The workshop led to the discovery of Archaeobotany: a discipline that is not widely known in the popular imagination of Archaeology but is essential for understanding key aspects of past societies‘ daily life; such as food, agricultural practices, and trade routes. In the introductory phase of the workshop, we compared some of the most consumed cereals today with the wide variety of cereal species that existed in the prehistoric Mediterranean area. Using various graphic and plastic materials (a poster, reproductions of charred seeds, and images on paper), our researchers explained the most relevant aspects of their research methodology. Furthermore, the researchers explained the key aspects of the current research methodology in archaeobotany. They emphasized the collaboration with ancient seed banks (agrogenetics), our experimental cultivations in the Institute of Plant Breeding and Genetic…
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You can now register for the 43rd Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology, which will take place in Tarragona from 24-26 November 2023, hosted by the ICAC. The title for the conference is Telling Environmental Archaeology Stories, with which we aim to explore the contributions of environmental archaeology in creating history and how our research has helped…
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(Català a continuació) Would you like to be an archaeobotanist for a day? Join us this Sunday afternoon at the “Festa de la Ciència 2023” in Barcelona! Cultivating Knowledge: Deciphering the Seeds of the Past to Plant the FutureDid you know that from something as small as a seed, we can learn what our ancestors…
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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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