Last 25th-26th April, the biennial Oikos meeting, the most important congress that assemble all the Catalan bioarchaeology research community, was organized by the Associació Catalana de Bioarqueologia (ACBA) (https://www.bioarqueologia.cat/). This 8th edition was co-organized with GIAP members, and it was conducted at the Function Room of the Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (Tarragona). Dr. Lídia Colominas…
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Carles Naval, student of the MACA Master programme (URV-ICAC-UAB), has joined the archaezoological team of GIAP. He has started his training under the supervision of Dr Lídia Colominas to develop a master’s thesis. It will be focused on the study of animal husbandry at Serrat del Castellar, an Iron Age site located in the core…
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We are pleased to announce the publication of the book “Economía de la Hispania romana. Paisajes de producción y dinámicas comerciales”, to which Dr Lídia Colominas contributes to chapter six, devoted to the production and consumption of animal products. Lídia Colominas, Oriol Olesti. 2024. “Producción y consumo de recursos ganaderos”. In Carreras, C.; Molina, J.;…
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On Wednesday, February 19th, at 12:00 CET, we hosted our speaker, Dr Angela Trentacoste (British School at Rome), who talked to us about “Urban animals: zooarchaeological and isotopic insights into urbanisation.”. Dr Trentacoste talked about the current results of the UrbanHerds project, funded by the Humboldt Foundation, a project that she leads. She showed how…
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We are happy to announce the publication of a new book chapter on animal husbandry during Roman times in the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula, entitled “La ramaderia durant l’època romana al nord‑est peninsular: alguns exemples i reflexions”. This is the first compilation regarding this topic. The book chapter is published in “Bouzas et al.…
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This December, we are glad to welcome 3 new team members to GIAP (ICAC-CERCA): Andrew McLeanMSCA postdoctoral fellow Andrew McLean finished his PhD at Edinburgh last year. His thesis analyzed the economy of the Roman Adriatic with a focus on modeling mobility and movement. He then looked at wine and oil production and patterns of…
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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…
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Ten GIAP (ICAC) researchers participated in ICAC’s celebration of the International day of Women and Girls in Science. ICAC led a multilingual initiative that includes multiple 1-minute-long videos of researchers highlighting women archaeologists who had an impact on them and/or their research. The campaign lasted a few weeks, and this post groups all our participations.…
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We are glad to invite you to the presentation of the new volume on the Roman villa of Els Munts, published by the National Archaeological Museum of Tarragona. The presentation of this publication will be carried out by Dr. Josep Maria Palet, director of the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology, and will take place at…
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We have a new chapter (in Catalan) published in the volume Vil·la Romana dels Munts (Tarraco). Lídia Colominas and Katie Tardio (UNC-Chapel Hill) present the preliminary results of the archaeozoological study of the faunal remains recovered in Els Munts, a Roman villa located 14 kilometers from Tarraco. So far, more than 800 faunal remains that can be dated between the…
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