Today, Dr. Alexandra Livarda is presenting in the Winter Seminars – Discussing Long-Term Analysis, organized by CEIS20 Centro de Estudos Interdisciplinares of the Universidade de Coimbra, with a session on “Street food: feeding the city“, which will take place on March 21 at 4.00pm (GMT – Lisbon). Open registrations, free of charge: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepxa0nlZbCxUOnizJclNHOsRHRpp-7qbM_jr-TiWVPtF7gyA/viewform It will feature Dr. Livarda’s…
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Today afternoon (3:00 PM in the Canary Islands), Dr. Francesc C. Conesa will give an invited lecture on the Indus Civilization and our work in India and Pakistan at the University of La Laguna. Francesc will summarise the main highlights and recent discoveries of the archaeology of the Indus Civilisation to first-year undergraduates of the…
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Rosa Soler, PhD candidate at GIAP under the direction of Dr. Lídia Colominas (ICAC-CERCA) and Dr. Carlos Tornero (UAB), has started her training in isotopes. In the pictures, you can see her drilling sheep teeth to obtain powder samples of enamel for sequential isotope analyses. Her research focuses on the study of livestock management during…
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Dr. Lídia Colominas, Ramón y Cajal researcher at GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) is participating in the new Fundus project, led by the University of Girona and the Archaeological Museum of Banyoles. This project centers around the investigation of the rural world during the Roman period, following a line of research initiated years ago with the publication of…
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Happy International Women’s Day! One more year, we want to celebrate this day by highlighting the 16 fantastic women who are part of our group.For equality of rights and opportunities, let’s keep empowering women! Paloma Aliende Specialised computational archaeology technician Topography, photogrammetry, 3D reconstruction, licensed drone pilot Theoni Baniou ICAC PhD candidate Archaeobotany, network analyses,…
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Today, MSCA postdoctoral fellow Dr. Nazarij Buławka presented in the Tarragona high-school “Pons d’Icart”. The lecture aimed to introduce participants to qanats, sustainable water systems, artificial intelligence in archaeology and to present another point of view of archaeological work, in the context of his MSCA project “UnderTheSands. Ancient irrigation detection and analysis using Advanced remote…
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The Computational Archaeology Laboratory of the Landscape Archaeology Research Group (GIAP), hosted at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC-CERCA) in Tarragona (Catalonia, Spain), is looking for technicians and researchers to further develop its computational research line. The profiles we are looking for should include at least one of the following skills: Knowledge of archaeology is not necessary, we…
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Dr. Valentina Pescini will be attending EU-Potarch’s 1st General Meeting and Conference, as management committee member representing Spain in this COST Action project. The meeting will be held in Prague on 5-7 March, focusing on the cultural heritage and future of non-wood forest byproducts: potash, tar, resin, and charcoal. This event provides members with their…
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Today, postdoctoral researcher Navjot Kour is presenting in the 16th Annual Workshop on South Asian Archaeology, organised by Hartwick College and hosted by the University of Chicago from the 1-3 March 2024. ROOM 2: HERITAGE AND HERITAGE MANAGEMENTMapping Heritage Decline and Conservation in the Riverine Monsoonal Plains of Jammu: Integration of Geospatial Legacy Data, Multi-Source Remote Sensing and…
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March 20th 12h CET “Sustainable hydraulic landscapes in southern Iraq“ Dr. Jaafar JotheriUniversity of Al-Qadisiyah Dr. Louise RayneUniversity of Newcastle Access the webinar here: https://bit.ly/GIAPseminars2024Open event. No registration required. Hosted in Microsoft Teams (no Microsoft/Teams account needed). Abstract: In the arid environment of southern Iraq, irrigation is necessary to facilitate cultivation. Dense networks of intersecting and overlying canal systems…
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