This page is divided by funding agency, organised alfabetically. Projects in each call are organised by date.
Active projects
Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR), Departament de Recerca i Universitats, Generalitat de Catalunya
Ajuts de formació d’Investigdors (FI-DGR)
Landscapes of Greek colonisaton: an integrated archaeological approach of the compared territorial and landscape dynamics around the Ionian colonies of Abdera and Emporion (Thrace, Gr. and Catalunya, Sp.) (2023-current)
PhD thesis: Isabel Mattuzzi. AGAUR, Ajuts de Formació d’Investigadors (FI-DGR)
Computational approaches to the long-term reconstruction of past Thessalian landscapes (01/05/2021 – current)
PhD Thesis: Konstantina Venieri. AGAUR, Ajuts de Formació d’Investigadors (FI-DGR) (2021 FI_B 00989)
Quadriennals
Arqueologia de l’alta muntanya a les capçaleres del Segre – Ter (Cerdanya-Ripollès): territori i paisatge (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2025)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya, ARQ001SOL-157-2022
Arqueologia del paisatge agrari, ocupació del territori i interaccions socioambientals al Baix Ter (Montgrí-Daró) (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2025)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya, CLT009/18/00034
PastMont. Pastoralisme i explotació del medi natural al Montseny occidental en la transició de l’Antiguitat al món Medieval. Recerca arqueològica, transferència de coneixement i proposta de socialització de resultats (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2025)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya, CLT009/22/00036
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España
Contrato para la formación de doctores y profesorado universitario (FPI & FPU)
Pràctiques ramaderes i innovacions zootècniques en època romana al nord-est peninsular a partir d’anàlisis bioquímiques (2023 – current)
PhD Thesis: Rosa Soler. Contrato para la formación de doctores FPI, Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Proyectos I+D. Generación del Conocimiento
DarkAegean. The agricultural economy of the Aegean Dark Ages through machine learning-powered 3D cereal grain morphometrics (01/09/2023 – 31/08/2026)
Proyectos I+D. Generación del Conocimiento. Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2022-139907NB-I00)
TranScapes. Transported Mediterranean Landscape: Integrated and diachronic study of socio-environmental interactions and changes in the occupation of the environment on both sides of the Mediterranean (01/09/2022 / 31/08/2025)
Proyectos I+D. Generación del Conocimiento. Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2021-127064NB-I00)
Ramón y Cajal
Innovative approaches to surface archaeological record for historical landscape analysis (01/01/23 – 31/12/27)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (RYC2021-034341-I)
Transeant. Landscape of transhumance: Environmental archaeology research between Eastern Pyrenees (Spain) and Maritime Alps (Italy) (01/12/2022 – 30/11/2027)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (RYC-2021-034621-I)
Roman expansion and acculturations at both sides of the Mediterranean: searching for patterns, rates and singularities through archaeozoology (01/03/2021 – 28/02/2026)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (RYC-2019-026732-I)
Social archaeobotany: from the emergence of agriculture to historic urban societies (28/06/2019 – 27/6/2024)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (RYC-2017-22105)
European Commission (EC), European Union
Interreg SUDOE
Cultur-Monts: Valorización de los Paisajes Culturales de montaña: un recurso de desarrollo territorial sostenible (01/01/2024 – 31/12/2026)
Interreg SUDOE, European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (S1/4.6/E0050)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
SIGNATURE: Mapping endangered cultural soilscapes in post-conflict regions through Big Earth Observation Data, artificial intelligence and geoarchaeological signatures. (01/08/2023 – 30/07/2025)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101067100)
PlantNetGem: Exploring the process of urbanisation in the Roman provinces of Germania through the study of food plant commerce (01/10/2022-09/09/2025)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101063192)
NetFoodIt: Networking food plant imports in Roman Italy (01/12/2022-30/11/2024),
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101065142)
Other public projects
Exploring Roman tastes: an archaeobotanical and network analysis approach to the investigation of food plant access, commerce and social identities (01/12/2021 – current)
PhD thesis by Theoni Baniou. PhD grants of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, ICAC-CERCA (CIN21 26.59)
Feeding the Gap: A modern experimental cultivation project towards the creation of new tools that explore past agriculture (15/03/2021 – current)
PhD Thesis. Alexandra Kriti. Supervised by Dr. Alexandra Livarda (ICAC), and Dr. Elisa Ninou (Associate Professor from the International Hellenic University, Department of Agriculture in Thessaloniki, Greece)
Past Projects (from 2017)
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Automated detection and monitoring of endangered archaeological sites at global scales using Big Earth Data, cloud-computing workflows and Artificial Intelligence. (01/04/2022 – 31/03/2025)
AGAUR, Beatriu de Pinós (2020 BP 00203)
Heritage under young forests: recording and interpreting the cultureal heritage underneath the afforested Zagori (NW Greece) (01/01/2023 – 31/12/2024)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (FJC2021-047943-I)
Off the beaten track: the diffusion of Imperial economic influence to inland regions in Antiquity (01/01/2023 – 31/12/2024)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (FJC2021-047729-I)
Landscape Geoarchaeology: Applications in Mediterranean Landscapes of Greece, Spain and France (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2024)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (IJC2020-045609-I)
UnderTheSands. Ancient irrigation detection and analysis using Advanced remote sensing methods (05/09/2022 – 04/09/2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon Europe (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101062705)
Advancing the development of automated intensive archaeological survey: application to case studies from Greece (01/07/2020 – 2024)
PhD thesis: Giannis Apostolou. AGAUR, Ajuts de Formació d’Investigadors (FI-DGR) (2020 FI_B 01013)
RIVERINE: Mapping archaeological mounds and long-term socio-ecological transformations in riverine monsoonal plains (2022 – 2024)
Proyectos de Colaboración Internacional, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PCI2021-122026-2B)
Estructuració del territori i dinàmiques d’ocupació dels espais altimontans pirinencs orientals. Un estudi arqueomorfològic entre la plana de la Cerdanya i l’alta muntanya (01/09/2020 – 31/08/2024)
PhD Thesis: Arnau Carbonell-Puigventós. Contrato para la formación de doctores FPI, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PRE2019-088420)
STAR-AGESS: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Ritual an Ancient Greek Experience of Sacred Spaces (01/09/2022 – 29/02/2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101026674)
Holocene socio-environmental relationships in the Indus Valley (2020-2023)
Leverhulme Research Project Grant, RPG-2019-392
AI4Archaeology: deep learning algorithms for the automated detection of sites in Aragón and Extremadura (01/01/2023-01/01/2024)
Enel Green Power España SL
Palaikastro, Phase IV (2012-2023)
Co-PIs. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the British School at Athens, INSTAP & private donors
Re-contextualising the Neolithisation of Greece: Establishing a reliable chronology of the Early Neolithic site Plateia Magoula, Prodromos, western Thessaly, central Greece (2017-2024)
Natural Environment Research Council, UK
Long time, no see: land reclamation and the cultural record of central-western plain of Thessaly (2014-2024)
Partners. Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Research Grants
Kachchh Archaeological Project: trade, pastoralism and the origins of the Indus Civilisation (01/01/2021 – 31/12/2023)
Palarq Foundation, Subvenciones 2020
DarkSeeds: A new explanatory paradigm for the agricultural economies of the Aegean Late Bronze and Early Iron Age using Machine Learning-aided 3D morphometrics and stable isotope analyses (2022 – 2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, Horizon 2020 (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101024917)
Arqueopirenaia. Transferencia social, didáctica y mediación del patrimonio en un paisaje cultural de alta montaña (Valle de Núria, Pirineos Orientales)(01/07/2022 – 30/09/2023)
FECYT, Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FT-21-17298)
DarkRevisited. The Aegean ‘Dark Ages’ revisited: a novel approach to old debates on agricultural economy and food culture (01/06/2020 – 31/05/2023)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2019-107605GB-I00)
Automated machine learning applications in landscape archaeology (01/04/2020 – 31/03/2023)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (IJC2018-038319-I)
New Computational Methods for Automated Large-Scale Archaeological Site Detection (26/10/2018 – 13/01/2023)
PhD Thesis. Iban Berganzo-Besga. Supervised by Hèctor A. Orengo (ICREA-ICAC) & Felipe Lumbreras (CVC-UAB).
TrackSherd. Towards an automated archaeological surface survey (02/01/2020 – 01/01/2023)
Beatriu de Pinós MSCA Co-fund project (2018 BP 00208)
Transeant. Landscape of transhumance: Environmental archaeology research between Eastern Pyrenees (Spain) and Maritime Alps (Italy) (01/12/2020 – 30/11/2022)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (FJC2019-040406-I)
YARNSCAPE. Ecological Economies of Ancient Textiles (2020-2022)
European Research Area H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 840892
DIASur. Prospección arqueológica inteligente sobre plataforma dron / Drone-based Intelligent Archaeological Survey (2020-2022)
Ayudas Fundación BBVA a Equipos de Investigación Científica
Archaeozoology of Caesarea Maritima: Animal Interactions in an Imperial Port City on the Mediterranean (2020-2021)
The Caesarea Maritima Project, New York University Tel-Aviv.
TransMed. Transported Landscapes of Greek Mediterranean Colonisation (2019-2022)
European Research Area H2020-MSCA-IF-2018, 839650
The Roman conquest of Tunisia: an archaeozoological approach (2019-2021)
Erasmus+, International Doctorate in Quaternary and Prehistory
TransLands. Transported Mediterranean landscapes: an integrated analysis of long-term land-use dynamics at both sides of the Mediterranean (2019-2021)
Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities, PGC2018-093734-B-I00
Arqueologia dels paisatges culturals de muntanya a les capçaleres del Ter i del Segre (Ripollès-Cerdanya) (2018-2021)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT009/18/00101
Espais agraris i ocupació del territori a la plana de l’Empordà: arqueologia d’un paisatge cultural (2018-2021)
Projecte Quadriennal, Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT009/18/00097
L’Alt Congost entre l’Antiguitat Tardana i l’Alta Edat Mitjana: Recerca arqueològica, transferència de coneixement i proposta de socialització de resultats(01/01/2018 – 31/12/2021)
Projecte Quadriennal. Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT009/18/00096
Paisatges culturals de l’Alt Congost. Recerca arqueològica, transferència de coneixement i proposta de socialització dels resultats (01/01/2014 – 31/12/2017)
Projecte Quadriennal. Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT2014/100955
