GIAP has been developing multidispliciplinary research lines (in bold) since 2004. Some of these lines have been developed through different individually funded projects (in italics) and have evolved into large framework programmes.
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Active projects
Archaeozoology
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)
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)
AI approaches to the detection, identification and mapping of archaeological sites and remains
AI4Archaeology: deep learning algorithms for the automated detection of sites in Aragón and Extremadura (01/01/2023-01/01/2024)
Endesa (Enel Green Power España SL)
Advancing the development of automated intensive archaeological survey: application to case studies from Greece (01/07/2020 – 30/06/2023)
PhD grants (FI), AGAUR, Generalitat de Catalunya
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)
Automated machine learning applications in landscape archaeology (01/04/2020 – 31/03/2023)
Juan de la Cierva, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (IJC2018-038319-I)
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)
MAPHSA: Mapping the Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage of South America (01/01/2023-31/12/2025)
Arcadia Fund
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).
STAR-AGESS: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Ritual an Ancient Greek Experience of Sacred Spaces (01/09/2022 – 29/02/2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Research Area (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101026674)
TrackSherd. Towards an automated archaeological surface survey (02/01/2020 – 01/01/2023)
Beatriu de Pinós MSCA Co-fund project (2018 BP 00208)
UnderTheSands. Ancient irrigation detection and analysis using Advanced remote sensing methods (05/09/2022 – 04/09/2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Research Area (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101062705)
Geoarchaeology
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)
Mediterranean landscapes
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)
Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PID2020-127064NB-I00)
Long time, no see: land reclamation and the cultural record of central-western plain of Thessaly (2014-2024)
Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) Research Grants
Palaikastro, Phase IV (2012-2023)
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
Mountain landscapes
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
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)
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
Transeant. Landscape of transhumance: Environmental archaeology research between Eastern Pyrenees (Spain) and Maritime Alps (Italy) (01/12/2022 – 30/11/2025)
Ramón y Cajal, Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) (RYC-2021-034621-I)
Shedding light on the ‘Dark’ side of the Aegean
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)
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, European Research Area (H2020-MSCA-IF-2020-101024917)
Feeding the Gap: A modern experimental cultivation project towards the creation of new tools that explore past agriculture (15/03/2021 – 15/03/2015)
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)
South-Asian Archaeology
Holocene socio-environmental relationships in the Indus Valley (2020-2023)
Leverhulme Research Project Grant, RPG-2019-392
Kachchh Archaeological Project: trade, pastoralism and the origins of the Indus Civilisation (01/01/2021 – 31/12/2023)
Palarq Foundation, Subvenciones 2020
MAHSA: Mapping Archaeological Heritage Sites in Asia (01/10/2020 – 30/09/2023)
Funded by Arcadia Fund
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)
Urbanisation, commerce and foodways in the Roman world
Exploring Roman tastes: an archaeobotanical and network analysis approach to the investigation of food plant access, commerce and social identities (01/12/2021 – 30/11/2025)
PhD grants of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (CIN21 26.59)
NetFoodIt: Networking food plant imports in Roman Italy (01/12/2022-30/11/2024)
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Research Area (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101065142)
PlantNetGem: Exploring the process of urbanisation in the Roman provinces of Germania through the study of food plant commerce
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, European Research Area (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-101063192)
Collaborations
El territori de Cessetània occidental al primer mil·lenni aC: del bronze final a la romanització (01/01/2022 – 31/12/2025)
Projecte Quadriennal. Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT009/22/00012.
Led by Carme Belarte & Joan Canela (ICAC)
VIGILANT. Arqueología de los espacios de vigilancia y atalayas en el noreste de Tenerife (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Directed by: Francesc C. Conesa (GIAP-ICAC) and Jared Carballo (ULL)
A collaboration project between GIAP-ICAC; University of La Laguna (ULL); Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Archivo Provincial de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
51/2021, Dirección General de Patrimonio Cultural del Gobierno de Canarias.
Methone (Pieria, Greece)
Directed by Matthaios Bessios (ΚΖ΄ ΕΠΚΑ), Athena Athanasiadou (EAP) , Konstantinos Noulas (EAP), Prof. John Papadopoulos (UCLA) and Prof. Sarah Morris (UCLA).
Collaboration project between the Ephorate of Antiquities of Pieria (EAP) and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
Lefkandi (Euboea, Greece)
Directed by Prof. Irene Lemos (University of Oxford, UK) under the auspices of the British School at Athens
Knossos, Little Palace North (Crete, Greece)
Directed by Dr Eleni Hatzaki (University of Cincinnati, USA) under the auspices of the British School at Athens
Cova des Pas (Mallorca, Spain)
Directed by Dr Manuel Antonio Calvo Trias (Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain)
Ministerio, Proyecto I+D (HAR2015-67211-P)
Winter Rain, Summer Rain. Adaptation, Climate Change, Resilience and the Indus Civilisation, TwoRains (India/Pakistan)
Directed by Dr Cameron A. Petrie (University of Cambridge, UK)
ERC-CoG-2014 648609
Past projects (2014 onwards)
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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
L’Alt Congost entre l’Antiguitat Tardana i l’Alta Edat Mitjana: Recerca arqueològica, transferència de coneixement i proposta de socialització de resultats (2018-2021)
Projecte Quadriennal. Generalitat de Catalunya. CLT009/18/00096
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
