Tag: archaeological survey

Open Access! Integrating Legacy Survey Data into GIS-based Analysis

Our latest article in Archaeological Prospection is reshaping our understanding of ancient human settlements by revisiting legacy survey data from the Mediterranean region. Archaeological exploration in the region has long relied on surface surveys, some of which were only recorded manually. Now, through innovative computational methods, researchers are breathing new life into these archives. In the Grevena…
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Surveying the Montane Landscapes of Ancient Macedonia

To the fellows based in Oxford, our PhD candidate Giannis Apostolou has been invited to deliver a seminar for the Greek Archaeology Group & Prehistoric and Early Greece Graduate Seminars (GAG-PEGGS) at the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Oxford this Thursday, the 25th of January at 13.00. Giannis’ paper will about ongoing work in…
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Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Research Strategies of Agro-Pastoralism in Upland Regions

SUNY Press publishes a new book, edited by Ramón y Cajal researcher Dr. Arnau Garcia-Molsosa, a result of The Tenth IEMA Visiting Scholar Conference, which counts with contributions by Hèctor A. Orengo, Josep Maria Palet, Merkouris Georgiadis (ICAC), José Alejandro Beltrán Caballero and Ricardo Mar (URV). Garcia-Molsosa, A. (ed.) 2023. Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Research Strategies…
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Fieldwork in Abdera (Greece): unraveling colonisation in the Mediterranean

In the scorching weeks of July, a dedicated team of researchers from GIAP (ICAC-CERCA) embarked on a new fieldwork campaign. Set in the ancient Greek colony of Abdera, nestled within the historical region of Xanthi, Thrace, Greece, the team is conducting a comprehensive archaeological, archeomorphological, and geoarchaeological survey to unravel landscapes of the ancient greek…
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Field Diary: Kicking off the Meranges Campaign!

An international team is conducting a 10-day archaeological campaign in Meranges (Cerdanya, Catalonia), among which we find Coll de Molleres I, the highest Roman site in Catalonia, with the objective of studying its structures, chronology, and the impact of human occupation on the surrounding landscape. Follow all the team updates in our Twitter thread! On…
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Archaeology of the Mountains. Research, Methods, analysis

Researchers Josep M. Palet, Arnau Carbonell, Lídia Colominas, Alfredo Mayoral, and Valentina Pescini, are participating in the second edition of the Archaeology of the Mountains conference. Research, Methods, Analysis, with the presentation: “Landscape Archaeology research in the Eastern Pyrenees (Segre and Ter valleys, NE Iberian Peninsula): settlement and land-use dynamics on a long-term perspective” June…
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Archaeological survey on the alluvial plains of Jammu in north-western India 

This month, Navjot Kour is leading a ground-truthing survey in the outer alluvial plains of the Indian Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir. Here, her team is documenting and validating new potential archaeological sites and geomorphological traits that Navjot previously mapped using a combination of historical sources and multi-temporal satellite imagery.  In particular, she successfully integrated a…
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Strong presence of GIAP (ICAC) in the CAA2023!

One more year, multiple GIAP (ICAC) researchers will be presenting papers and co-organising a session at the CAA2023 (Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology) that will be held from April 3rd to 6th 2023 in Amsterdam (Netherlands). Here’s a list of contributions (click to navigate to the abstracts below) Papers: Sessions: Posters: Abstracts: Convolutional…
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Long-term analysis of colonial relations in Thrace: the archaeological survey at Abdera and Xanthi 2015–2019 

A new article in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences presents the preliminary results of the Archaeological Project at Abdera and Xanthi (APAX), a systematic regional survey applying intensive pedestrian sample collection conducted in Greek Thrace. This new archaeological programme has investigated different landscape settings in the Xanthi area. Different collection strategies were developed to adapt to…
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GIAP participates at the 25th International Conference of the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art… in Barcelona! 

From Monday to Friday this week, GIAP (ICAC)’s ongoing research will be well represented at the European Association for South Asian Archaeology and Art (EASAA), starting today at the Ciutadella Campus of the University Pompeu Fabra at the very heart of Barcelona.  EASAA is one of those must-attend conferences for many of us! It has been organized…
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