Next week, Lídia Colominas and Abel Gallego-Valle will be in Australia to present the latest results of the archaeozoology team at GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) in the 14th International Council for Archaeozoology Conference ICAZ2023, which is taking place in Cairns, Australia, from the 8-12 August 2023. Abstracts Searching for a GMM standardised protocol for sheep astragalus. First…
Read more
We are very glad to welcome Abel Gallego-Valle back to the group, who won our latest postdoctoral call, and will contribute with his expertise to the archaeozoology team at GIAP. He will contribute with his expertise on the research on animal husbandry and archaezoology in the framework of the GIAP projects. In particular, the dental…
Read more
Today, the archaeozoology team is presenting in the international conference “Ager Mutabilis: Exploitation of the Territory During the Roman Period“, which is taking place in Castell de Calonge, Calonge i Sant Antoni (Baix Empordà, Catalunya) on May 18-19th. Abstracts in Catalan below. Keynote presentationAnimal husbandry during the Roman period in the northeastern peninsula: some examples and…
Read more
GIAP (ICAC)’s researcher Lídia Colominas is presenting in the forthcoming ‘Caesarea Maritima International Conference MMXXII’ which is taking place in New York from October 23rd to October 26th 2022. It includes presentations on projects related to the Caesarea Maritima site (Israel). Monday, Oct 24 – SESSION 5Archaeozoology of Caesarea: a window to animal husbandry and…
Read more
GIAP-ICAC researchers Abel Gallego-Valle, Lídia Colominas and Josep Maria Palet recently published their latest results in the Journal of Environmental Archaeology (Association for Environmental Archaeology). “From Villae to Early Medieval Communities in Tarraconensis region (northeast of the Iberian Peninsula): Changes and Continuities in Herding Practices” Abstract In recent years, archaeology involved itself in solving one…
Read more
As part of the interuniversity doctoral program in Classical Archeology (URV-ICAC-UAB), we are pleased to invite you to the public reading of the doctoral thesis of GIAP predoctoral researcher Abel Gallego, which has been co-directed by Dr. Lídia Colominas, Ramón i Cajal researcher at the Catalan Institute of Classical Archeology (ICAC), and Dr. Josep Maria…
Read more
GIAP-ICAC researchers Lídia Colominas and Abel Gallego-Valle have recently published a new chapter in the book: Bermejo-Tirado, J. and Grau-Mira, I. (Eds.) 2022. The Archaeology of Peasantry in Roman Spain. De Gruyter. The Archaeology of Peasantry in Roman Spain Abstract: Investigating Livestock Practices in the Countryside of Roman Spain: An Archaeozoological Approach In recent years,…
Read more
On the 1st of March Lídia Colominas joined the permanent staff of ICAC/GIAP with a Ramón y Cajal contract. Dr Colominas is an archaeozoologist, with a particular emphasis on the Mediterranean between the 5th century BC and the 5th century AD. Her work has focused on the development of 4 main research lines: animal husbandry, animal trade,…
Read more
