Tag: bioarchaeology

Open call for researcher in Archaeozoology

The Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology opens a call for a full-time researcher in Archaeozoology, linked to the GIAP research group. The ICAC looks for a researcher to manage the scientific-technical activities in the field of archaeozoology of the GIAP’s lines of research in Archaeozoology, with the following functions: For this purpose, and according to…
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The samples from Guissona and Puig Castellar arrived safe and sound at ICAC!

Núria Romaní (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and David Castellana (Museu de Guissona) recently paid us a visit to bring all the soil samples from the summer campaigns from Guissona (Catalonia). This year, we will also study samples from the Roman fortification of Puig Castellar. Featured image. Left to right: David Castellana (Museu de Guissona), Núria Romani (UAB), Alexandra…
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2 new members and an upgrade! Meet our new technician and postdoc

This month, GIAP (ICAC) welcomed Darío Herranz (lab technician) and Federica Riso (MSCA postdoctoral fellow), and we celebrate Valentina Pescini‘s upgrade as Ramón y Cajal researcher! Valentina Pescini 2 years after she joined GIAP as a Juan de la Cierva researcher, Valentina now joins GIAP again as a Ramón y Cajal researcher, to continue her…
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GIAP expands the team on Remote Sensing and Archaeobotany!

This month, GIAP (ICAC) welcomed two new postdoctoral researchers to the team! We are very glad to present Patricia Vandorpe and Pangambam Sendash Singh, who will be working with us until 2024: Patricia Vandorpe Dr. Vandorpe completed her PhD in 2010 at the University of Basel (Switzerland), where she has since worked as a research…
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“Food and culture: stories of the past” – a review of 2 new publications

This year the ‘archaeology of food’ field has been enriched by several new publications. Dr Alexandra Livarda, co-editor with Dr Katheryn Twiss (Stony Brook University, New York) of the Elements Series ‘Archaeology of Food’ (Cambridge University Press), was invited to review two of these: Robyn E. Cutright. 2021. The story of food in the human past: how what we ate made us…
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The group keeps growing bigger and better!

We are celebrating a new GIAP member and three new drone licenses in the team! With the increasing non-technical workload on all researchers’ shoulders, it is becoming increasingly necessary to rely on specialised support personnel. Aspects such as grant proposals, project and team management, as well as communication and dissemination, are all essential aspects to…
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Mediterranean polyculture revisited: new insights into the prehistory of Crete

Figure 1. Part of the environmental team at the flotation station 2021 started with the publication of the third paper of the bioarchaeology-palaeoenvironment-landscape team of the PALAP research project (Palaikastro Phase 4. Urbanisation in Bronze Age Crete: between palace and landscape at Palaikastro). The project (2012-5) involved: Excavation of part of the Bronze Age (Minoan)…
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Valentina Pescini & Toby Wilkinson join GIAP!

We keep growing! This week, on the 1st of December, Valentina Pescini and Toby C. Wilkinson joined the GIAP research team. Valentina as a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral researcher and Toby as a Marie Skłodowska Curie Research Fellow. Here is a little bit of information on our new members and their projects on transhumant pastoralism in…
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