Join us in the second-to-last GIAP Seminar of 2023! May 18th, 18h CET ‘The impact of the Syrian conflict on archaeological sites in Al-Hasakah and Daraa provinces’ Amal Al KassemARCO Research Center Keywords: Remote Sensing imagery, Field visit, damaged archaeological sites, conflict, Syria Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/JoinGIAPseminarsNo registration required. Hosted in Microsoft Teams (no Microsoft/Teams…
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Members of the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP) of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) are coordinating the 43rd edition of the The Conference of the Association for Environmental Archaeology (AEA), which will be held in Tarragona (Spain) on 24–26 November 2023. Registration will open soon – Watch out for news on the conference page! The conference will start…
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Two ICAC PhD researchers are organizing a session at the XIV JIA Conference on Archaeological Research (JIA), which will be held in Lisbon next September. The proposal presented for these Conferences is the intersection between the troubled period in which we currently live – climate change, migration, conflicts, and natural or anthropogenic phenomena – with…
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GIAP (ICAC) travelled to Greece to survey three sanctuaries in order to create digital reconstructions in the context of the STAR-AGESS MSCA project. A few weeks ago, Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA Research Professor), Efrosyni Boutsikas (MSCA fellow), and Paloma Aliende (Research technician) stayed in Greece to carry out the STAR-AGESS project fieldwork (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101026674). We surveyed…
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“Toquem Pedra” is coming back! Don’t miss the opening programme of the 2023 season. It will take place on Monday, April 17, from 10 a.m. CET, live (in Catalan/Spanish). It features Giannis Apostolou, PhD candidate in GIAP (ICAC), as the first guest of the 2023 season. He will talk about his experience as an international…
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Lídia Colominas (Ramón y Cajal researcher at ICAC) has published a new open access paper in the journal Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, in collaboration with Chiara Messana and Carlos Tornero, researchers at Institut Català de Paleoecologia Humana i Evolució Social (IPHES-CERCA) from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV). Messana, C., Tornero, C. & Colominas, L.…
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One more year, multiple GIAP (ICAC) researchers will be presenting papers and co-organising a session at the CAA2023 (Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) that will be held from April 3rd to 6th 2023 in Amsterdam (Netherlands). Here’s a list of contributions (click to navigate to the abstracts below) Papers: Sessions: Posters: Abstracts: Convolutional…
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PhD candidate Alexandra Kriti and Dr. Alexandra Livarda will participate in the TEFRA project’s event “Experimental approaches in archaeology: The funerary practice of cremation” (01-02/04/23), contributing to the experimental pyres through the lens of archaeobotany. More specifically, they will conduct experimental charring of contemporary grown cereals. Their aim is to investigate the impact of charring on the morphological characteristics of fresh cereal…
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The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology opens a call for a full-time researcher in Computational Archaeology, linked to the GIAP research group, to: More information at: Working at the ICAC/Open CallsCall (017.141) (in Catalan)Deadline for applications ends on April 11th, 2023, at 23.59 h. According to the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) of the European Commission, ICAC follows the…
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On the 30th of March, Prof. Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA research professor at ICAC) will be in the British School at Athens, delivering the keynote lecture for the workshop “Mapping the Past, Plotting the Future. GIS in Archaeology. Maturity & Implementation“, organised by the Laboratory of Archaeological GIS (AeGIS Athena) of the Athena Research Center…
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