Tag: Aegean arcaheology

Investigating the landscape history in the territories of the Ancient Greek colony of Abdera and its Thracian neighbours. MEDLANDS project completed the 2026 fieldwork campaigns.

This July and September, an international multi-disciplinary team lead by researchers from GIAP-ICAC, the Ephoria for Antiquities of Xanthi, the Universities of Athens and Crete and ISEM-Montpellier, has conducted archaeological and palaeoenvironmental research around ancient Abdera in the province of Xanthi (East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece), under MEDLANDS and DIPAX projects. The coordinated effort focused…
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Reading Pergamon’s Past Through Ancient Plant Remains: a new collaboration between GIAP/ICAC and DAI Istanbul

In the end of September and the first weeks of this October, Dr Alexandra Livarda, Dr Jessica Feito and Ms Marina Daniel, members of the ICAC archaeobotany team, visited the archaeological site of Pergamon, located in the modern town of Bergama, Turkey. Their visit marked the beginning of a new collaboration between the GIAP/ICAC archaeobotany…
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Ancient Plants, New Partnerships: Archaeobotanical Research on the island of Lesvos, Greece

Marina Daniel has recently returned from an extended research stay on the island of Lesvos as part of her newly launched doctoral project at ICAC-URV, that started in May under the supervision of Dr Alexandra Livarda and Professor Joaquín Ruiz de Arbulo Bayona. Her PhD investigates the agricultural economies of the prehistoric Aegean through archaeobotanical…
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